Thanks for reproducing this QFR. I haven't read one of these bullshit essays in a long time. By the way, when did the bridegroom consumate the marriage with these five virgins? Of course, this would make them "former virgins". All this OT and NT virgin stuff is so similar to the male focused Islamic misogyny that subtly thrives in the Borg today.
September 1st 2007 QFR re FDS
by AlphaOmega 54 Replies latest watchtower bible
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M.J.
No one mentioned the fact of how history shows the WTS has been anything BUT discreet.
The WTS message always has been characterized by self-praise, grandstanding, chest-beating, and boasting about insight. This article is yet another example of how they are not discreet.
"Self-praise is no recommendation."
--early 19th century proverb.
"Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
A stranger, and not your own lips."
--Proverbs 27:2
"Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool than for him."
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moshe
1914 was mentioned! The date still lives! I wonder, if a graph was made showing how many thime the date 1914 appears in the WT what kind of a graph it would look like?
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Mary
I wonder, if a graph was made showing how many thime the date 1914 appears in the WT what kind of a graph it would look like?
Well I'm too tired to do a graph, but according to the 2006 CD-ROM, the year "1914" is mentioned:
Insight book 11 times
Index 242 times
Watchtower 3,382 times
Awake! 619 times
Kingdom Ministry 91 times
Books 1,119 times
Yearbook 231 times
Brochures 81 times
Booklets 76 times
Tracts 11 times
Of course, the CD Rom WT only goes back to 1950 and the Awake only goes back to 1970. So the approximately 4,500 - 5,000 times it's mentioned on this, is probably only 1/10th of all the references in the literature before and after.
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M.J.
No time to graph either but here's the frequency of 1914 in the WT magazine for the past 34 years:
2006: ?? (I have the 05 cd)
2005: 18
2004: 52
2003: 14
2002: 13
2001: 23
2000: 20
1999: 17
1998: 40
1997: 50
1996: 37
1995: 32
1994: 62
1993: 54
1992: 87
1991: 49
1990: 65
1989: 45
1988: 51
1987: 62
1986: 73
1985: 81
1984: 178
1983: 143
1983: 77
1981: 64
1980: 57
1979: 72
1978: 69
1977: 21
1976: 33
1975: 60
1974: 80
1973: 58