In the 80's the mormon/LDS church did a big campaign on backmasking and Procter and Gamble products, the P and J products had a wizard with a moon next to it on their lables at one time, this was considered very bad. Anyone ever hear about this and what does the wizard and moon mean anyways or what did it mean. The mormons advised, members not to buy these products, at least the members in UT.
2007-10-01 15:11:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
backmasking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backmasked_messages
2007-10-01 15:13:42 · update #1
Thats just silly. Not Mormons, try Amway.
Update: In March 2007, Procter & Gamble was awarded $19 million in its lawsuit against four Amway distributors for disseminating rumors tying the company to Satanism.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/procter_gamble.htm
2007-10-01 15:29:35 · answer #1 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I heard of the Procter and Gaamble product wizard and moon story. It was proven to be a urban legend. It had nothing to do with Mormons.
2007-10-02 17:44:42 · answer #2 · answered by J T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol
the faith promoting rumors of the eighties.
A lot came out about subliminal messages and back-masking and whatnot in the eighties and several people fell victim to concentrating on this silliness -- but what I remember is the general authorities telling members and leaders to not worry about such things and focus on the gospel of Jesus Christ and the rest will work itself out.
This is where the phrase came from that "many members are caught up in the thick of thin things" -- (like YA R&S)
I heard someything about P&G but don't remember what it was about.
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2007-10-02 07:30:14 · answer #3 · answered by Dionysus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't remember the church doing any sort of thing against back masking (I know what that is, BTW). Or about Proctor and Gamble. It was the evangelicals that were all up in arms over this.
Like Shakespeare said, much ado about nothing.
2007-10-01 16:28:50 · answer #4 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That would be news to me. As someone else pointed out, it was Amway who called the symbol Satanic.
Come to think of it, many Utah Mormons were connected to Amway in the 1980s...
2007-10-01 16:25:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Backmasking is solely an audio recording term. I remember the subliminal message you're talking about though. For some weird reason (I personally always thought the Mormons were, ahem, out there---they did have a prophet who translated plates through a hat after all) they thought a little celestial pattern was eeeeeevil.
2007-10-01 15:20:19 · answer #6 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Why would the moon be bad if that's what they use to represent the terrestrial kingdom?
Yeah...I don't think they did this. Atleast not the church itself...
2007-10-01 15:22:35 · answer #7 · answered by Love Yahoo!!! is a prince 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
never heard any such thing... and i lived in and out of Utah during the 80's
2007-10-01 16:03:30 · answer #8 · answered by strplng warrior mom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋