Did you ever REALLY believe anything special happened at Cedar Point Ohio in 1922?

by Sapphy 41 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  bonnzo

  cedar point does have some good roller coasters! i do believe that!
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  wobble

  This was one thing I loudly proclaimed as nonsense for years when I was in, the funny thing was that no Elder ever told me to keep those thoughts to myself, and no person ever tried to defend the nonsense.

  I think you will be hard pressed to find a Witness who really believes it, some accept it, feeling that there must be some proof that is not being presented, but deep down they know it is trash and will be dropped eventually .
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  jookbeard

  certainly some things happened; a deranged lunatic spouting off about biblical prophecy that he had no idea in which he was speaking about
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  Broken Promises

  I believed it at the time.
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  Sapphy

  Just looking over an old thread. It's amazing to me that hardly any of us actually believed the teaching that the trumpet blasts were fulfilled, or at least started in 1922 - 1929. But there we were, all 4 times the revelation book was studied, answering up as if we believed! It's amazing what peer pressure can do to us.

  I've learned from this now, and I'm not afraid anymore to say 'sorry I don't understand' or even 'I disagree'. Shame it took me so long!
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  AlphaMan

  Laughable that the Watchtower had us believing John when writing Revelation was actually seeing Cedar Point Jehovah Witness conventions.

  Does anybody know what these cult loons believe nowadays about this?
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  slimboyfat

  Yeah I believed it! The watchtower said it so it must be right!

  You lot were always unbelieving heathen so it seems.
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  DesirousOfChange

  I really really tried to believe it.

  I convinced myself that the Cedar Point conventions really were a strike against "organized religion".

  Looking back, isn't it obvious that they were nothing?

  Anyone who attended, is dead.

  Anyone on the outside who took note of them (clergy or politicians or whoever), is dead.

  JWs today couldn't even tell you what the "message" of the trumpets was. Most wouldn't know anything about Cedar Point being "special".

  Expect "New Lite" on the trumpets any time now.

  Doc
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  slimboyfat

  These prophecies serve to underline just how much the Watchtower Society, for the better part of a century, was Fred Franz's baby. These "great events" occurred early in his life and evidently made an impression on him. So much so he was determined to fit them into the vague prophecies of Daniel and Revelation and grant them cosmic significance. It has no meaning for any JW alive now, but they cling onto such crap because there's no one imaginative enough at the top to come up with anything to replace it.
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  Phizzy

  I never went along with it, it was patently preposterous. I remember too another claim by Rutherford, or it might have been later than him, but talking about his time, it said that some event, maybe the release from Prison ? was "Like a Hammer Blow to the Churches of Christendom",

  I remember laughing at the time I read that, and saying to any JW who would listen "Like a hammer blow ? the Churches of Christendom didn't even notice that the Bible Students existed !".

  I told an Elder just after I left for good, that I thought the whole Cedar Point Ohio thing was crap, he just nodded, and made no attempt to change my mind.

  This sort of nonsense, expanded somewhat, was the main stuff taught at the Gilead School, just look back at the threads by "Awakened at Gilead", and you will see that Lance woke up , right there at Gilead School, because it was all so very, very silly.

  I beat him to it, but did not finally wake up for ages. I still believed that Jehovah had an interest in the Org, because it bore his name, despite the obvious nonsense they spouted.

  What a blind fool I was.