Pistoff said:
The '94 Awake is saying it is a conscience matter; the video straight up says that 'magic' makes Jehovah sad. They should say angry, because God kills those who make him angry, like Adam and Eve.
If you read the Awake, the take away is it is a conscience matter, neither black nor white.
The video has no such nuance; it is wrong to practice magic and having a magic toy makes God 'sad'. No allowance that it may be an allegory for good vs evil. Like Adam and Eve sin kind of wrong, make God 'sad' kind of wrong. NO nuance. So KS stop with the waffling and apologizing for the flip flops of the WT.
Supernatural-based "magic toys" have ALWAYS been forbidden in JW World, like magic is forbidden in the Bible (look up Deuteronomy prohibiting magic), considered as the work of Satan. Surely you got that? In JW eschatology, magic toys DO make YWHW "unhappy" just as they always have. Not new. That was the point of the snake in the video: Satan at work, tempting Caleb.
WT '94 was referring to toys that contain "magical elements", which indicates that a FRACTION or PERCENTAGE of a character's persona relies on magic, eg Luke Skywalker has some magical occult elements ("use the force, Luke!") so is that toy allowed or not? Luke is a conscience matter, in the "grey area" (no magic explicitly stated, AFAIK).
Look up the word 'wizard' sometime, though, and you'll see the definition of wizard is "practitioner of magic": pure and simple. Maybe they should've left the word "warrior" out, calling him "Sparlock the Wizard", as it seems some are confused by 'warrior'. Regardless, Caleb says he's a practitioner of magic ("use your magic cape, Sparlock!"), Caleb answered yes to the "magic" question. Case closed: Sparlock uses magic, as no spit, Sparlock: he's intentionally designed by WTBTS to be the epitome of a "magic toy". They couldn't have made it ANY more blatant.
Now, if you cannot understand the difference between toys that contain "magic elements" (eg Star Wars 'Luke Skywalker') vs ones that are specifically created to depict the EPITOME of clear-cut, full-throttle magic, with "magical element" set to a max = 100%, then don't blame me. YOU don't get it.
YOU didn't read the article carefully enough, just as most everyone else didn't catch the subtleties of what the article was actually saying. Maybe JWs are actually becoming dumber nowadays, as many JWs apparently are dying over the blood issue, not understanding the "blood fraction" concept. Oh well: that's natural selection in action for you.
UC said:
One elder I knew only allowed his kids to own Disney movies. The shelf was lined with em, including Snow White and Cinderella. Bed Knobs and Broomsticks, however was forbidden.
Yeah, I know of an elder who's a BIG Disney fan, and I suspect this is where it's good to be an elder, making the interpretations.
The "Disney: where the Magic Begins!" claim will likely be easily dismissed by saying that it refers more to the magic created via illusion (eg illusionists like Penn and Teller, who openly admit there's no "magic" to "magic") and magic of the animators, and not relying on supernatural or occult magic.