Quiz: What do these have in common?

by Simon 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  DannyBear

  The Internet.
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  zerubberballz

  Hi Closer,

  Think back to Russels time. You were there weren't ya? American Captain what's his face "discovered" the North Pole and the Norwegian Armageddonson conquered the South Pole. These were huge front page news and on everyones lips. Do you think Russell would overlook thier propaganda value? I can immagine him now "Man has finally taken control of even the remotest parts of Gods sovereign earth"

  Barbed wire .. the taming of the wild lands in preparation for the wilderness destroying bible students to make the deserts blossom as the rose? Submarines, man finally conquering the seas, skyscrapers men trying to reach God himself like the tower builders of babel ... etc... etc... Oh how fun to be a Pastor Russell in those days .. just print any old rubbish and sell it as gospel. lol

  unclebruce
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  closer2fine

  *shaking my head* what a load of crap.

  closer
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  Focus

  Here, let us give it a twist!

  Simon wrote:
  

  This will test you knowledge of WT history ... what do all the following items have in common:

  Adding Machines
  Aeroplanes
  Aluminum
  Artificial Dyes
  Automobiles
  Barbed Wire
  Bicycles
  Darkest Africa
  Electric Railways
  Escalators
  Dynamite
  Motion Pictures
  North Pole
  Panama Canal
  Railway Signals
  South Pole
  Submarines
  Sky Scrapers
  Subways
  Telephones
  Typewriters
  Vacuum Cleaners

  Well, I am going to add to this list. And all but three of my additions are genuinely items from the same Watchtower list that Simon used.

  Antiseptic surgery
  Automatic couplers
  Carborundum
  Cash registers
  Celluloid
  Correspondence schools
  Cream separators
  Disk ploughs
  Divine Plan of the Ages
  Electric welding
  Exclusive grape diet
  Fireless cookers
  Gas engines
  Harvesting machines
  Illuminating gas
  Induction motors
  Linotypes
  Match machines
  Millennial restitution wheat
  Monotypes
  Pasteurization
  Radio disease killer
  Roentgen rays
  Shoe sewing machines
  Smokeless powder
  Radium
  Sky scrapers
  Talking machines
  Wireless telegraphy

  Can you point out which are the three fake entries?

  As almost all the responses so far have been floundering, I shall helpfully add that Rev. 18:1; Ezek. 43:2; John 1:9; Matt. 25:31; Titus 2:13 provide the clues as to what all the items (all of which have been discovered since 1874, a date with great Biblical significance, and before 1918) in the two genuine lists have in common.

  "For here lies wisdom..."

  --
  Focus
  (The Finnish Musketry Class)
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  chappy

  The Plan, the Wheat and the Schools.
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  Focus

  chappy wrote:
  

  The Plan, the Wheat and the Schools.

  Only 1 of the above 3 is fake. Guess again, please.

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  Focus
  (Thanks for your help in http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=18769&site=3 ! Class)
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  battman

  What about the huge threat from the
  disgusting, pus filled, vile "vaccinations" ?

  hahahahahahaha

  battman
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  Eric

  I just don't get the reasoning.

  Closer2fine,

  This is a good thing for you, as ratcheting up the end time prophecy is all about irrational hysteria, and has no basis in reason.

  Eric
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  Simon

  No one has got it exactly right:

  According to the WTS / Rutherford in "The Harp of God" published in 1921, they are all unmistakable proof that Jesus had already arrived in 1874.

  I'm going for the 'grape diet' one as a product of our time and not 70 years ago. Wireless telegraphy? Did they have mobile phones back then? LOL
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  Focus

  Simon wrote:
  

  No one has got it exactly right

  W H A C K ! ! !

  On the contrary - I got it absolutely right.

  While YOU, SIMON GOT IT WRONG.

  The items FIRST appeared in a Watchtower publication here:

  REVELATION 18
  THE FALL OF ECCLESIASTICISM

  Revelation 18:1
  (And) after these things.- As another view of the Harvest epoch.
  I saw another angel.- Messenger, the Messenger of the Covenant, the Lord Jesus.- Mal. 3:1; 10:1; 14:1.
  Come down from Heaven.- In 1874. Sea Rev. 3:14.
  Having great power.- 'All power in Heaven and in earth.'- Matt. 28:18.
  And the earth was lightened.- See Mal. 4:2; Rev. 7:2.
  With His glory.- Some of the glories of the New Day, all discovered since 1874, are adding machines, aeroplanes, aluminum, antiseptic surgery, artificial dyes, automatic couplers, automobiles, barbed wire, bicycles, carborundum, cash registers, celluloid, correspondence schools, cream separators, Darkest Africa, disk ploughs, Divine Plan of the Ages, dynamite, electric railways, electric welding, escalators, fireless cookers, gas engines, harvesting machines, illuminating gas, induction motors, linotypes, match machines, monotypes, motion pictures, North Pole, Panama Canal, Pasteurization, railway signals, Roentgen rays, shoe sewing machines, smokeless powder, South Pole, submarines, radium, sky scrapers, subways, talking machines, telephones, typewriters, vacuum cleaners and wireless telegraphy.- Ezek. 43:2; John 1:9; Matt. 25:31; Titus 2:13.

  and the passage is from 1917, 4 years before your one (which is simply a partial transcription in 1921). Or, didn't You Know that the WT routinely plagiarizes itself? Russell counted on 3-5 usages of almost exactly the same text!

  The passage I quoted is from:
  THE FINISHED MYSTERY,
  STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES
  'The Path of the Just is as the Shining Light, Which Shineth More and More Unto the Perfect Day.'
  Series VII
  COPYRIGHT 1917
  PEOPLES PULPIT ASSOCIATION BROOKLYN, N.Y., U.S.A.

  The PPA was a sister company to the WTBTS, and the two had common ownership.

  Surely my sig "(The Finnish Musketry Class)" was a sufficient clue?

  History teachers should check their facts first!

  P.S. You are wrong about one of "the Grape Diet and the Wireless Telegraphy" too.

  --
  Focus
  (WHACK!! Class)