Posts by Disillusioned JW

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Which WT book (or booklet) has illustrations of prehistoric animals?

by Disillusioned JW in

i remember that i once saw a wt book (or maybe a booklet) which in depicting one or two of the creative days of genesis had illustrations depicting now extinct prehistoric animals.

which publication was that?

i think the illustrations were of a 1950s or 1960s style.. update: i found it.

Disillusioned JW

You are right, it was in chapter 4 on pages 57 and 60 - not in chapter 3.

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Copies of WT CDs

by CeriseRose in

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if this post is not appropriate for this forum, the mods can remove it.. i have cd copies of the wt library 1999 (qty: 1), and burned copies of the wt library 2001 (qty: 2).

i have no interest in them.

i doubt most people here do either.

Disillusioned JW

Is there any product like the "Watchtower Bookshelf CD" currently available? Did the Watchtower shut down that product? I can't seem to find it online.

Which older books are in the WT's official CD-ROM Library of 2001 that are not on the one of 1999? I have the 1995 and 1999 WT Library CD-ROMs but not any newer ones.

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Which WT book (or booklet) has illustrations of prehistoric animals?

by Disillusioned JW in

i remember that i once saw a wt book (or maybe a booklet) which in depicting one or two of the creative days of genesis had illustrations depicting now extinct prehistoric animals.

which publication was that?

i think the illustrations were of a 1950s or 1960s style.. update: i found it.

You are right! The inside front end sheet of the Paradise Lost book shows a dinosaur and the inside front cover shows a an aquatic dinosaur-like reptile (a plesiosaur?) and flying reptile (a pterosaur?)

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WT Using Symbolic Interpretation to Twist Scriptures

by Sea Breeze in

does anyone know of examples where the watchtower used symbolic interpretation to twist the plain meaning of scripture?the only one that comes to my mind right now is in rev.

"then i heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of israel".. .

here, the wt would have us believe that the number of those sealed are literally 144k; but supposedly "israel" symbolically represents anointed jw's.

Disillusioned JW

Even in the SCI-FI TV show called "Stargate SG-1" one character told a Prior of the Ori that he (the Prior) twisted and acted against the meaning of a passage of the scriptures of the Ori.

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Which WT book (or booklet) has illustrations of prehistoric animals?

by Disillusioned JW in

i remember that i once saw a wt book (or maybe a booklet) which in depicting one or two of the creative days of genesis had illustrations depicting now extinct prehistoric animals.

which publication was that?

i think the illustrations were of a 1950s or 1960s style.. update: i found it.

Disillusioned JW

Yes the Green covered Bibles (the 1961, 1963, and 1970 edition regular size ones) have a dinosaur on the inside front cover, as do the black softcover and maroon softcover Bibles (including leather ones) revised in 1961 and 1970.

Not all dinosaurs are extinct. Scientists now classify birds as avian dinosaurs.

And, the Bible says Noah brought birds onto the ark, thus according to Bible (when combined with modern evolutionary paleontology) says Noah preserved some dinosaurs. Ha ha.

In a sense young Earth creationists are right when they say that dinosaurs walked among people, since birds walk among people today and scientists now say birds are avian dinosaurs.

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Which WT book (or booklet) has illustrations of prehistoric animals?

by Disillusioned JW in

i remember that i once saw a wt book (or maybe a booklet) which in depicting one or two of the creative days of genesis had illustrations depicting now extinct prehistoric animals.

which publication was that?

i think the illustrations were of a 1950s or 1960s style.. update: i found it.

Disillusioned JW

I remember that I once saw a WT book (or maybe a booklet) which in depicting one or two of the creative days of Genesis had illustrations depicting now extinct prehistoric animals. Which publication was that? I think the illustrations were of a 1950s or 1960s style.

Update: I found it. It is the book from 1953 called New Heavens And A New Earth, in chapter 3.

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What WT Children's Book Were You Studied With As A Child?

by Sea Breeze in

my mom studied with me in the paradise book before i went to kindergarten.

i remember the book vividly.

it creeped me out as a kid.

Disillusioned JW

The 1952 revision of the "Let God Be True" book corrected the 1946 edition in regards to saying that some copies of the Septuagint did have the Hebrew consonants of the divine name. That book also said that the Christian NT writers wrote the name in their books of the NT.

Regarding the Walter Martin's quotes of WT literature, when quoting from the NWT in many cases he might have been quoting from the 1961 revision or a later revision.

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What WT Children's Book Were You Studied With As A Child?

by Sea Breeze in

my mom studied with me in the paradise book before i went to kindergarten.

i remember the book vividly.

it creeped me out as a kid.

Disillusioned JW

Regarding the "Let God Be True" book of 1946 and its revision of 1952, they can both be accessed online from http://www.strictlygenteel.co.uk/later.html .

Regarding the edition of the "Let God Be True" book from 1946, I noticed that it said the name Jehovah ("by itself") was NOT in the Christian Greek Scriptures - and NOT in the Greek Septuagint. Yes it says that. Notice what chapter II says on page 23 (as transcribed at http://www.strictlygenteel.co.uk/letgodbetrue/godbetrue2.html ).

"The writers of the Greek Christian Scriptures used that Septuagint Version and they quoted its Greek text which omitted the literal name of Almighty God; which partly explains why the name does not occur by itself in the Christian Greek Scriptures."

By the way, when Walter Martin's book called The KINGDOM Of The CULTS quotes from WT literature it appears to do so almost only from ones copyright prior to the year 1954. The first edition of Walter's book was copyright in 1965 (three years before the Truth book was released). Many of Walter's quotes are from the WT's "The Truth Shall Make You Free" and "Let God Be True" books. In the "Limited paperback edition--February 1996" I noticed only one quote from the Truth book.

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What WT Children's Book Were You Studied With As A Child?

by Sea Breeze in

my mom studied with me in the paradise book before i went to kindergarten.

i remember the book vividly.

it creeped me out as a kid.

Disillusioned JW

The Questions From Readers June 15, 1952 is interesting since just six years later the WT released the book called From Paradise Lost To Paradise Regained. Interestingly the "To The Reader" section of that book does not describe the book as a book primarily for children (though to me it is such a book), but rather as a book for those who know nothing about the Bible, even for ones who have never seen a Bible. It says regarding such ones the following.

"They do not know what God himself said and did. That is why this book has to be very simple and plain when it tells you about these people of long ago and about the good things that God has done and has promised.

The simple language of this book is not because you are not a full-grown man or woman or do not have a mind old enough to understand hard things. But now you have something new to learn; ... So you must get to know these things little by little."

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What WT Children's Book Were You Studied With As A Child?

by Sea Breeze in

my mom studied with me in the paradise book before i went to kindergarten.

i remember the book vividly.

it creeped me out as a kid.

Disillusioned JW

It is a bit ironic that a WT study book can be abbreviated as LGBT. Ain't it? When I see LGBT I think 'lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender', since that is the common meaning of LGBT today.

Speaking of sexuality, why do so many ads on this site about the morally conservative JW religion show photographs of scantily clad highly alluring sexy young women? It is very distracting (at least for me).