Watchtower Gem of the (Golden) Ages.

by avengers 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  OldSoul

  Eugenics, the foundational building block of "superior/inferior race" thinking. Ugh!
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  VM44

  That was in a 1921 issue of The Golden Age? I might have that on CD. I will check tonight, and if I have it will try to post the whole article the quote came from. --VM44
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  Amazing1914

  Gumby,

  The article should have continued with...."And a man who's nose is beet red, with veins bulging out of it from drinking to much frickin vodka, shouldn't ever be president of the Watchtower Society".

  AMEN !!!

  Btw: I got your PM, but I have been out of my office. I will PM you shortly with some info.

  Jim W.
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  avengers

  LOL Hilarious, but is that seriously a real quote from a magazine?

  The quote is very real. It was Jehovah's Spirit which inspired these God-fearing men to utter such wise truths.
  They still had J's Spirit in those days. lol. Andy
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  VM44

  Here is the complete article. My first impression after a first reading is ...."Is this a New Age article?" --VM44

  The Golden Age for January 19, 1921,
  A Journal of Fact Hope and Conviction

  page 224

  Color & Character (thr)

  Yellow Orange Red Violet Blue Green Black

  Color and Physiognomy

  Individuality is polarized in the face.
  Emotional, mental, moral, and physical states
  of being are unfailingly mirrored there. Not
  only are the passing emotions pictured on this
  sensitive screen, but the four basic principles
  of all intelligent and morally responsible life
  have permanent citadels on the visage of man
  -in perfect man a veritable uninvadable te-
  trarchy.

  The eyes, "the windows of the soul," are the
  most delicately responsive centers of perception
  -inquiring, inviting, retiring, inciting. If there
  is "nobody home" inside there will be no lights
  at the windows. No one has lived very long who
  does not know the power of a single glance to
  ravish the senses of a whole roomful of people.
  Yellow is the color of wisdom, and yellow in the
  normal coloring of the eye has from time im-
  memorial been recognized as indicative of sagac-
  ity, astuteness, acumen. As a matter of course,
  there are no wholly yellow eyes, but it will be
  borne in mind that yellow is one of the principal
  constitutents of brown and hazel. Furthermore,
  it is often observed in a gray eye that yellowish
  rays emanate as from the pupil toward the cir-
  cumference of the iris.

  

  A "blue nose" is a symbol of
  austerity, with perhaps a prud-
  ish tinge. Both of these quali-
  ities are but perversions of jus-
  tice - lines of conduct wherein
  conscience predominates over
  common sense. The size of the
  nose, as also the size of the
  eyes, is not without signifi-
  cance. The small-nose man
  cannot have a judicial mind, whatever his other
  excellencies may be. And a man whose nose
  upturns can no more be expected to administer
  justice than a pug dog can be expected to act as
  a shepherd.

  "Ruby lips" need no introduction as the
  stronghold of love, the fortress of sensuous per-
  ception. Their covering merges from the epi-
  dermal tissue of the outer body to the epithelial
  lining of the inner organism; and on this rosy
  frontier more of the world's history than is
  suspected has been fraught. The thick lip is
  the sensual lip; the large mouth is the generous
  mouth. The small mouth knows no love.

  Now comes the black ear! What maternal
  solicitude has been directed to its eradication,
  and here it is justifying its existence as the base
  of power. It occupies a position about equally
  distant from the three other poles. But what-
  ever its color, its size and position and setting
  are certainly indicative of force. The orifice of
  the ear in the fully balanced man is said to be
  in the geometric center of the profile head.