by cabasilas 7 Replies latest watchtower bible
Does anyone have a list of the differences between the 1968 and 1981 editions of the book "The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life"? My recollection is that the changes in the 1981 edition were in relation to statements that could have been associated with 1975...as, for example, citations from the book "Famine--1975."
Does anyone have an exact list?
I am not sure if this helps, but the only other revision I can think of in the two editions of the "Truth" book is this quote from former US Secretary of State, Dean Acherson:
"Back in 1960, a former United States Secretary of State, Dean Acherson declared that our time is "a period of unequaled instability,unequaled violence" And he warned: "I know enough of what is going on to assure you that, in fifteen years from today this world is going to be too dangerous to live in" "
[This is a quote from the original 1968 edition, pg 9. It does'nt take an Einstein to work out that 15 years from 1960 falls smack into 1975 - The BIG YEAR for the WTS "profits"]
The revised edition published in 1981, edited this obviously embarrasing quote to read as follows:
"As reported back in 1960, a former United States Secretary of State, Dean Acherson declared that our time is '' a period of unequaled instability, unequaled violence'' Based on what he knew was then going on in the world it was his conclusion that soon '' this world is going to be too dangerous to live in '' Pg 9
Cheers
Thanks! The other one I've found so far is on pages 88-89 which quotes the book "Famine--1975!." The quote: "By 1975 civil disorder, anarchy, military dictatorships, runaway inflation, transportation breakdowns and chaotic unrest will be the order of the day in many of the hungry nations" was removed and replaced with a 1980 quote from the London Times on famine.
Anyone know of any other revisions between the two editions?
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Does any one have scans of the quotes in the two editions above? I would love to see it.
Sorry.... I dont have a scanner....I'm a computer moron anyway and would probably start WW 3 by pressing a wrong damn button or something [or even transfer my non-existant bank account to some deposit in the Bahamas].
But I know just the [super]man for the job: Altlantis !!
Maybe if we holler LOUD enough he'll hear us and oblige. What that guy has on scan is simply unbelievable.
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This isn't in the truth book, but was said by JWs at the around the same time.
"When the price of bread becomes a dollar a loaf, it will have become too expensive to live!
Anyone remember that being said?
--VM44
Someone did an analysis of the Truth book. Might have been David Reed. Did ya check his web site and book catalog? Did ya check Freeminds.org? That book had some re-writes.
