When I was researching the Watchtowers history, I stumbled across MANY strange and disturbing things! Here are some.. what have you found? Scans would be great for those still deciding and researching.
Sincerely,
Lady Liberty
STRANGE.. WT beliefs most JWs don't know about!!! From Jehovah & Jesus???
by Lady Liberty 24 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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Lady Liberty
CHECK THIS STATEMENT OUT!!!
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fullofdoubtnow
Hi Lady Liberty,
The jws believed that jehovahs throne was in the pleiades for many years:
Pleiades - Jehovah’s Throne
From 1881 until 1953 the Watchtower believed that Jehovah resided at the center of the universe on the star Alcyone in the cluster known as Pleiades. And they new this because the Great Pyramid in Egypt pointed this out.
There's quite a bit of info about it in quotes, at this link:
http://www.quotes-watchtower.co.uk/god_s_throne_-_pleiades.html
They abandoned it in 1953
Watchtower 1953 November 15 p.703 Questions from Readers
Questions from Readers
• What is meant by 'binding the sweet influences of the Pleiades' or 'loosing the bands of Orion' or 'bringing forth Mazzaroth in his seasons' or 'guiding Arcturus with his sons,' as mentioned at Job 38:31, 32?-W. S., New York.
Some attribute striking qualities to these constellations or star groups and on the basis of such they then offer private interpretations of Job 38:31, 32 that amaze their hearers. Their views are not always sound from the standpoint of astronomy, and when viewed Scripturally they are completely without foundation. Why? Because we do not know which stars or groups of stars are being referred to in these verses. The names Pleiades, Orion and Arcturus are not the names given in the Bible. Some translations make Mazzaroth refer to the signs of the Zodiac. English translators have merely adopted these pagan names given to constellations or star groups and have inserted them in their translations in the place of the original names that appear in the Hebrew Scriptures, namely, Kimah, Kesil, Mazzaroth and 'Ayish. To just what stars or star groups these names refer we do not know today. Hence it is useless to indulge in unprofitable speculations. Incidentally, Pleiades can no longer be considered the center of the universe and it would be unwise for us to try to fix God's throne as being at a particular spot in the universe. Were we to think of the Pleiades as his throne we might improperly view with special veneration that cluster of stars.-Deut. 4:19; 2 Chron. 2:6; 6:18.
That last sentence reads as if they were worried some of their followers might giving the Pleiades more worship than they gave the wts, so it's no wonder they changed it.
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Lady Liberty
More about PLEIADES....
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becca1
Welcome to "bizzaro world".
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daystar
Makes one wonder what JWs from 75-100 years from now might think about the blood issue, etc.
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Hellrider
LoL. I love the:
1) ...star Alcycione in the Pleiades is where the eternal, lofty throne of Jehovah is (brought kind of a Star Trek-vibe to the religion, that is lost today, pluss it shows how naive and pathetic a notion of God the jws have), and...
2) All the pyramid-stuff. The "pyramid inch" is the coolest thing about Russels pyramid-things. Russel wanted to "prove" that the lengths of certain passages (halls/ corridors) inside the great pyramid, in inches, corresponded to one of his particular Bible-calculations (some number of years). The only problem is, the inches in the corridors in the pyramid did not correspond to Russels Biblical math-puzzle. So what did Russel do then? Throw out his hypothesis, and realize that there was no "divine plan of the ages" with the great pyramid standing as a "prophet in stone"? Nope. Je just changed the length of an inch. That is, he redefined the length of an inch (made it longer, I think), to make it fir his Bible calculations. Oh dear, what a genius.
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Sunspot
Well....hey wait a minute, guys!
Despite sounding like the fools they ARE and have proven themselves to BE.....they DID spell everything correctly!
Annie