Fred Franz

by d 35 Replies latest jw friends

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  d

  For all those here who who saw and may have met Fred Franz.What would he say about Global warming, Facebook Twitter, the Death of Mitcahel Jackson since Mitchael was a Witness.What would he say about Lady Gaga, Justin Biber, Usher and Emeniem.How do you think he would have reacted to the events of 9/11 and bible prophecy.Would he see it as true signs of the end.

  So the overall question How would Fred Franz respond to the 21 st century with it's advanved technolgy and war on terrorism and the economic crisis that this country (The U.S) is facing.Please tell us your thoughts.
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  Farkel

  d,

  Grow up.

  Farkel
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  Leolaia

  In the 1920s Fred Franz told kids that they would grow up in a paradise earth.

  In the 1940s Fred Franz expected WWII to lead right into Armageddon.

  In the 1960s Fred Franz thought Armageddon was just a few years away at most.

  In the 1980s Fred Franz still taught that Armageddon would come before the generation born in 1914 passes away.

  In the year 2000, Fred Franz was dead.

  Who cares what the man would think of Lady Gaga.
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  Bungi Bill

  If he were still alive today, and honest with himself (both conditions impossible for F.W. Franz to meet!), he would have to admit that he was wrong, wrong, wrong - and furthermore, that he #%&*ed up th elives of millions of people in the process.

  However, being the deluded bloody fool that he always was, he would no doubt invent one more escape clause to "explain" it all:

  - i.e. a refinement on the time lapse between Adam's creation and that of Eve.

  Leolaia sum sit up best - "Who cares."

  I certainly don't!

  Bill.
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  Nathan Natas

  Fred Franz was (in)famous for his poor taste in clothing.

  Not surprising, since much of it was beef.
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  3Mozzies

  At least he made the cover of TV Guide ....

  3Mozzies
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  streets76

  Yeah, I once saw that photo of him wearing the red shirt and the red tie, and thought to myself, "That's the guy I was taking life-lessons from for so many years?"
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  d

  I think Good old Freddie would the War on Terror as true signs of the times.He would faint at seeing the 9/11 attacks and try to pinpoint it bible prophecy.He probably would see lady Gaga as the prostitute of babylon the great.He would see the crisis we are having in the middle east as true signs that Armageddon can only be a few years.I say personally all that is going on with the economic crisis and th war and global warming hw would be too giddy with excitement as seeing it all as bible prophecy.You have to remember that in the 1960's they were saying 1975 was going to be the end.That convinced many people because at that time you had the cold war, The Vietnamwar, Antiwar protests, Civil rights movement.In other countries were fighting for indenpence.I was reading one time for my class how in the 1960's Algeria was having some civil conflict.Many of the Countries in Africa were having civil instability and many still are.Now if Fred Franz were alive today with what happend in Haiti with the earthquake, the earthquake in Chile, and the BP oil spill over the summer.Fred would try tieing it into prophecy and saying the world only a few more years.Give me a break.I think he would still be giving dates of when the world would end.
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  Ding

  This present system that had such a short time left has outlasted them all -- Chuck, Joe, Nate, Fred, Ted -- and the list keeps growing.
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  Terry

  What Fred Franz did he did better than anybody else.

  He was like Fred Astaire and the dance. He did it with panache.

  Fred Franz (a purported candidate for Rhodes Scholar, i.e. NOT a Rhodes Scholar, a candidate) flexed academic muscles and impressed others

  with his intelligence.

  We can all agree the Bible is a damned boring book and impenetrable in its "messege" (pssst pssst: there is no messege)....But--Fred Franz

  could SEE INTO IT and PULL OUT OF IT (either the Bible or his ass) amazing things that excited people who really dig End of the World scenarios!

  Franz could also write seemngly deep books with titles that went on for half an hour such as "Babylon the Great has Fallen--God's Kingdom Rules!"

  Further...

  Franz made his crackpottery shine with a high lustre because he discovered the same trick as Pastor Russell: namely, if you create charts with actual historic dates on them people start believing you KNOW what you are talking about!

  Dates are real enough---so, why shouldn't applying a date to something make it real, too? You see.

  Franz became the tribe's shaman (the tribe of JW's).

  He could roll bones and poke buffalo livers with the best of them and never come up short on IDEAS FOR SPOOKY occurances in the near future that could scare the bejezzus out of you and ACTIVATE your urge to go house to house warning others!

  Ancient monarchs like to keep a court jester around to amuse them with wild antics. Watchtower Presidents liked to keep around a court seer with wild antics to do the same. Fred Franz was that man!

  You'd honestly think the very last straw would be the false date of 6,000 years of "human existence" ending in 1975 would have ended Fred Franz's career and his reputation---but, it didn't!

  For one thing, what the hell does that even mean to anybody??? SIX THOUSAND YEARS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE? Says who? Not scientists!!

  Franz caused the Watchtower to devote all its important time, publishing schedule and kingdom hall preaching activity to HIS CRACKPOT SCHEME

  which he ballyhoo'd as "A SIGNIFICANT DATE!"

  Okay--if it was so damned significant----why doesn't the Watchtower ever mention it anymore the way they harp on 607 b.c. or 1914 c.e.????

  Franz was delusional---no matter how smart he was.

  He went to night school so that he could figure out how to translate Hebrew and Greek into the NEW WORLD TRANSLATION. He was singularly uneducated for that very purpose! But, he put his nose to the grindstone and the little green one dollar bible popped from his womb like it was the most important contribution to mankind since the flush-toilet!

  This is a religion of D0-IT-YOURSELF bootstrap self-educated crackpot good old boys and Franz was the King of that world!