JWs and date setting - Quote from the UK's Sun Newspaper - 2nd Sept 2008

by passwordprotected 9 Replies latest jw friends

  • passwordprotected
    passwordprotected

    Column in 2nd Sept 2008 issue of The Sun (tacky-ish UK red top tabloid newpaper) by the excellent Bill Leckie.

    Writing about doomsday prophets, he states the following;

    Quote;

    Cults, telly evangelists, random nutjobs, they all make death their life's work. The head of the Moonies comes out round about once a decade and announces the date when we'll all go phut.

    The Jehovah's Witnesses told us we were doomed in...wait for it...1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925 and 1975.

    End Quote.

    Let's hope a few JWs read this and start thinking.

  • wozadummy
    wozadummy

    Nice observation by the SUN bringing forth a bit of "new light" for the world

  • wobble
    wobble

    Dear Passwordprotected,

    Thanks for the quote,but how did you get past page 3 of "The Sun" ?

    love

    Wobble

  • Tired of the Hypocrisy
    Tired of the Hypocrisy
  • changeling
    changeling

    As true as the statement was, I feel most JW's will disregard it as a lie or apostate mumbo-jumbo. They may even see it as persecution and re-inforce their "knowledge" that the end is near.

    changeling :)

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    anyone know when the 2009 Memorial will be (date)?

    Thanks

  • Devilsnok
    Devilsnok

    The Jehovah's Witnesses told us we were doomed in...wait for it...1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925 and 1975.End Quote.

    Let's hope a few JWs read this and start thinking.
    Yeah but we've all been there, the typical reaction from an active dub when faced with that fact is to think " oh it was just a few brothers who thought ahead of themselves and got it wrong" Thats the official line and dubs don't think further than that.

  • besty
    besty
    The first Watchtower was not printed till 1879. So that takes care for the first two

    Not so quick - according to the Proclaimers book beginning on Pg 631 the section entitled Were Their Expectations Correct?:

    "Calculations based on this cycle of years led to the conclusion that perhaps a greater Jubilee for all the earth had begun in the autumn of 1874, that evidently the Lord had returned in that year and was invisibly present, and that "the times of restitution of all things" had arrived. - Acts 3:19-21, KJ"

    It goes on to describe the thinking behind 1878 as being a year of significance including the impressive arithmetic to deduce from Jeremiah 16:18 that the same 1,845 years from Jacob's death to 33CE being replicated from 33CE to 1878.

    You gotta hand that one to them...

    Note that the Proclaimers book is a heavily sanitised version of their history - for the full flavour of what they were actually saying you would need to refer to the original publications.

    I couldn't find anything about 1910 - http://poddy1.blogspot.com/ might help in your research efforts

  • digderidoo
    digderidoo

    "Don't believe everything you read in The Sun", would be their response.

    Paul

  • besty
    besty

    "Don't believe everything you read in The Sun", would be their response.

    Paul

    All you gotta do is remember p631 - Proclaimers book. Something like:

    "There's at least two full pages in the Proclaimers book acknowledging inaccurate date prophecies that were later proven false."

    That sentence has embedded suggestions, obedience to authority, vague references etc - all techniques that a mind-control group likes to deploy on its members :-)

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