How much has the Watchtower changed since 1982 or 1983?

by Irish Rose 2 Replies latest jw friends

  • Irish Rose
    Irish Rose

    The reason I'm asking is because I have a friend who was disfellowshipped on one of those two years, I forget which. He disagreed with them, and that's the reason for it.

    Anyways I got to thinking how much has the Watchtower changed since that time period. I left it back in 2001, and never went back. I was talking about some of the things that the Watchtower use to teach when I was going, and he had never heard of some of the catch terms that the Watchtower loves to use. I know that there are many things that they use to teach, that are now an embarrasment to them, that they no longer teach. Back in the early 1980's mom was inactive, and I was quite young so I don't know of everything they talked about back then. Yet on the same hand, there are things that they taught, when I was going, it's not taught now. I hoping I'm not confusing anyone with what I'm trying to say.

  • lfcviking
    lfcviking

    i think the most significant change since then was the 'generation' teaching in 1995. but you should be aware of that if you left only in 2001. there are probably other things aswell but the org tries to be quiet about previous teachings like you say they are now only an embarrasment to them

  • steve2
    steve2

    A major change I've noticed is the dumbing down of the message (which was already a bit simplistic anyway).

    I still remember the "weighty' topics covered in the Watchtower magazine in the 1960s: page after page after page of laborious "reasoning" on Biblical chronology, for example; or torturous articles applying aspects of the Hebrew Scriptures to modern-day settings. Real headache inducing stuff.

    Nowadays, the content in the Watchtower is once-over-lightly.

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