Nathan Knorr pulled the same teflon shield out when confronted with his telling couples to not have children in this 'system of things' because the end was so close in 1942.
1975 And The Life Everlasting Book.
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Phizzy
But they continued to use the "wrong premises" i.e that 607BCE was the date of Jerusalems destruction, that 1914 was when Jesus began to reign in Heaven
etc etc and they still do.
A poor attempt at an apology accompanied by arch hypocrisy.
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exwhyzee
The 6000 years is marked so only showing Armageddon was hoped for but not taught as definite or doctrine.
It may not have been a formal doctrine but they did state way back in 1966 that the "trumpets would be sounded within our own generation proclaiming liberty to earths inhabitants." Anyone, no matter what age, hearing a statement like that would naturally conclude that they would be included in the generation being spoken of.