Awake Vacuity, Stretched Fonts and "Pointed Counsel"

by metatron 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  I just breezed thru the latest Awake and you've got to be kidding! You'll recall that this rag was supposed to have a renewed emphasis on the

  Bible since it got cut back. ("Free Delicacies From the Forest", " Toothache - a History of Agony"!).

  I've also noticed how the Kingdom Ministry loves to change fonts and stretch w-o-r-d-s across the page as filler.

  In conclusion, I rather doubt that you'll be seeing any dramatic change in the new "Kool-Aid" Watchtower. They've got little to talk about as it

  is.

  metatron
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  purplesofa

  If you tell them it is new,

  they will believe it
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  Arthur

  Remember: the Awake article is targeted to a much larger audience than just the Witnesses. If all they wrote about were prophecies of Daniel and Revelation commentary; few people would even want it. But if there is a warm, fuzzy, feel good article on Pandas, or the history of violin making; more people will show interest. The Awake is designed to serve as a segue into the Watchtower magazine which is designed to be more Biblically instructional.

  As far as the new JW-only version of the WT, I have no doubt that it will contain manipulative thought-control, guilt-inducing rhetoric, sophisticated coercion, and calls for robotic allegiance to the organization that the public version won't. The public version of the WT will be a sales / recruitment tool. The JW-only version of the WT will be a mallet to hammer people into submission and conformity.
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  metatron

  After you pack a 32 page Watchtower with two study articles, you have about 6 pages of text to fill. So, the supposed pointed counsel

  will be stuffed into secondary articles that not even GB members bother to read! You can't make the Watchtower study any more pointed

  because it's still a public meeting. In fact, you can't make much of anything more pointed because this stuff is going to be spilled all over the

  internet, anyway.

  They are running out of ideas and money. Praise the Lord!

  metatron
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  BizzyBee

  Stretched Fonts

  And if you've ever had your font stretched...you know pain!
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  jaguarbass

  They've got little to talk about as it

  is.

  They could always come up with new dates for the end of the world.
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  stillajwexelder

  alle ---- luuuu - ya