For JWs: Ducking the Hard Questions (page 2)

rhett

Much as the prediction that WWII would end I will now make some predictions that will shake the world with their amzing insight. You may all join my cult after reading them.

The Diamond Backs will beat the Yankees in this year's world series.
I will eat a bowl of oatmeal at breakfast.
The US will start bombing Afghanistan. Eventually, we will stop.
The mailman will bring me a gift from a friend in Austria that my wife will sign for because I'm in the bathroom.

Amazingly enough, all of those things did in fact happen. Yea is me, for I am great.

I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven.

Farkel

Nathan,

: think that what was being overlooked here, as Alan F points out in the above post, is that the WTS has kept us all informed of the latest events in the invisible spirit realm, a realm to which mere mortal reporters have no access.

You just fired off a little light bulb in my head, Nathan!

Why is it that the society ALWAYS gets RIGHT their prophecies involving invisible, non-provable, non-refutable spirit-realm? I mean, no one alive has even seen the spirit realm, doesn't know what it is like, doesn't know what it does or doesn't do, and doesn't even know it EXISTS or not, but the society ALWAYS gets right EVERY ONE OF THEIR PROPHECIES involving that realm. Or so they say!

On the other hand, what about prophecies that involve actual REALITY, visible, discernable, touchable, seeable, feelable things. You know, prophecies that can actually be tested and VERIFIED by every human on this planet? How have they done there?

100% FAILURE,

that's what.

Imagine that. Why is that?

Farkel

"I didn't mean what I meant."

Room 215

Hi Yo Yo,

My buddy Faark says ``100 percent failure.'' He's quite right, of course. For my apologist friends out there who want us to giVe Knorr the benefit of the doubt re his 1942 ``prediction'' about a postwar U.N., I say ``EVEN A BUSTED CLOCK IS RIGHT TWICE A DAY!''

NeonMadman

One example is a talk that Nathan Knorr gave in 1942. He talked about Revelation. Although the world was involved in WWII, he said that a period of peace would soon come. He also talked about the United Nations, before it even existed.

As others have already noted in this thread, the concept of the United Nations had already been advanced prior to Knorr's talk, so there was no great prediction there; the tide of the war had turned, and it was obvious that it would end within the forseeable future and that some mechanism for maintaining the peace would be needed.

What was notable about Knorr's talk ("Peace - Can It Last") is that it marked a clear reversal of the Society's previous understanding that World War II would escalate right into Armageddon - another false prophecy that Knorr was intelligent enough to see wasn't going to happen.

Tom
"The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure; to live it you had to explode." ---Bob Dylan

For JWs: Ducking the Hard Questions

rhett

Farkel

100% FAILURE,

Room 215

NeonMadman

gambler

rhett

cynicus

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