WTF.... JW Official Website...1914 glossed over...GT in 1975 NOTHING!!!!!!!

by Alpaca 11 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Alpaca

  WTF

  I nosed around on the JW Official Website for over an hour just to see how they were handling some of the dates that are/were central to their understanding of Bible chronology.

  There was absolutely no significant connection made between 1914 and our current time period being the purported last days.

  And, even if they did shoot themselves in foot with the 1975 debacle, presumably the 6,000 year anniversary of Adam's creation, which would have been marked in 1975, would still be a significant date in the Witness timeline that would help to bracket the last days.

  The JW website's internal search mechanism brought up articles mentioning 1975 only in the context of general interest articles about animals, current events, and other "fluff" articles.

  The LYING BASTARDS have completely buried anything and everything that would incur culpability.

  Without 1914 and the generation that "would not pass away," they are citing evidence for the last days that is so flimsy, I don't see how they can sustain any significant growth or keep young ones from bolting once they are old enough. Their "solid" evidence is the same old recycled crap about wars, earthquakes, famines, selfish people....yatta, yatta, yatta... that could apply to any time in history.

  I hope we are seeing the beginning of the end for the BORG. The old timers, who have lived through all of this "new light" backtracking and double talk, have to be mulling over their doubts as the BORG's explanation of time and events becomes increasingly convoluted.

  Just had to vent. They have stolen the meaning from so many lives........

  Alex
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  Homerovah the Almighty

  Its true Alpaca their marketing strategy is starting to unravel itself as time progresses, people young and old are starting to realize the jig is up.

  The amount of information that is readily available on the net and elsewhere is making people rethink what they are being spoon fed.

  The apparent lies and misconceptions of this publishing house are being revealed and exposed , something the boys in Brooklyn never

  thought they would ever have to deal with pre-Internet, yes we are living in an age of information.
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  Pahpa

  Alpaca

  This has been the strategy of the leaders of the Watchtower Society from earliest times. It started with Russell's predictions that were altered as the dates came close or closer to the fulfillment time. Rutherford revamped the whole dating system of Russell. And he threw in some of his own predictions (Ex. the return of the "ancient worthies) that failed. These too were glossed over as we entered the Knorr era.

  However, it is to be noted that each disappointment or change caused some to leave the organization. And this also continues today as confirmed by those on this forum. I admit that it is hard for me to understand why more don't question the obvious. But many are held by fear of losing their loved ones in the organization. But I do know that many of the "old timers" in the organization no longer have the zeal and enthusiasm they once had.

  Pahpa
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  DanTheMan

  The Watchtower movement has become utterly vacuous and irrelevant. All they have left to promote their brand is the moderateness and cleanliness of the membership. Hence the recent brochure instructing people in *detail* how to dress when they visit headquarters, a brochure that even people who were involved with this organization for decades can't believe is real, but it's real. They have nothing.
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  R.Crusoe

  Whats the betting that their next decade will see mainly growth in places absent internet access and where their schpiel is unresearcheable?

  They will find whatever haven on Earth these millions are being born in and preferably zones with an up and coming economy!
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  Homerovah the Almighty

  Possibly people are starting to see the deviousness of it all , an organization built on fear, exploitation and coercion is bound to eventually collapse.

  You might say the information age is bringing forth meat in due season.
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  kurtbethel

  I recommend saving any article of interest before it slides down the memory hole.
  
  Recently I found one about the "classless" society in which they implied that within the Watchtower it is a classless society. I asked my study conductor about this, how they can claim to be a classless society while teaching in the Revelation Climax book and elsewhere about a John class and annointed class and an earthly class of second class Christians.
  
  He tried to suggest it meant there are no social classes and no one is treated special. I let that slide and said that members of the public viewing the web site will think one thing about the Watchtower, but only after deeper study will find out that the teaching is different than what they were first told. I said that was a deceptive bait-and-switch tactic.
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  burningbridges

  The 1914 topic is the main reason why i left the "truth". (aka "bull****) It started my search into deeper topics that were always "glossed over", like the belief that 1914 was supported and predicted by russel and his measurments on the pyramids (which of course was called Satanic later by the societies next President) When I had the elders over to my house and I was showing them their own older books from the 1920's, 30's ext all having different versions of the latest "light" (and all so deeply supported and explained with scriptural backing of course!) one elder even accused me of falsifying the literature or that the individual whom i purchased it from off of ebay was an apostate that had changed it. It was ridiculous!!! Needless to say, I am sooooo glad I'm gone! I look forward to 2014 to see what they say then, but by then it prob will have been so swept under the rug, it will likely only get a footnote mention in the "study" edition.
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  garybuss

  Witnesses I know don't need any rational "reason" to be Witnesses. They like being Witnesses. They are told: "Follow the Governing Body to pick fruit and pet a lion.", and they accept that as "good enough". The Society doesn't go for reasonable or factual, they go for customer satisfaction.
  
  Obviously they have the right formula with their paying customer base pushing seven million. If I were going to start a publishing business I'd copy them. They take no delivery on a promise to the bank every week. I'd say that's pretty darn good marketing. Not one person has ever been paid what they were promised and they still keep going to work for the Society. Ask your local human resources department in any multi million dollar business if they can beat that.
  
  Take absolutely nothing and turn it into a billion bucks a year! That's some creativity at work! In one word . . . "unbelievable"!
  
  
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  Alpaca

  Gary,

  It's true... what a great scheme to feed a self-perpetuating propaganda machine.

  What's curious about the arrangement, is how the successive heirs to the lifestyle of cream at the top, are chosen or work their way into positions of power and influence. It almost suggests that there is some secret organization within the Borg that calls the shots on who the priveleged few are going to be.

  Let's face it, if someone or a married couple reaches the point where the man is a member of the GB or even the eschelon just below them, they are set for life in a cushy job with no financial worries, loads of perks, and no reason to dissent about anything.

  Thanks for the comments.

  Alex