Given current statistics with regards to attrition in the JW ranks, it becomes appearant that we are seeing the unfolding of the early 20th century with regards to the teachings of the JW's late 19th century. With fewer and fewer old timers hanging on, and the influx of young or newbies, it is becoming quite clear that these newcomers ~5 maybe even ten years in... have no clue about the foundations of 1914, 1919 inspection, etc or the failed attempts of end of days, ie 1975, etc. I believe this is what the GB are banking on!!! Only those stubborn ex-jw's will have the light on the light... however this will not phase the rank and file as these will be apostate thinkings and words with no basis. The WBTS is purposely dumping anything pre-1990's / 2000 to their benefit. They want ignorance. Funny thing is within the next ten years, no one will know anything about the JW's through the 19th and 20th century except for what the GB want them to know. Its actually quite genius...
In the next ten years the JW "history" will only extend back to 2000
by sinis 13 Replies latest jw friends
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NomadSoul
Good post. I think this is very likely.
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baltar447
Yet the 1914 chronology is still taught, although briefly mentioned, in the Knowledge book.
They need a brand new even more dumbed-down study book.
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steve2
Why limit this fascinating topic to the hapless and slumber-prone JWs? The topic stirs up the more general issue about ever-ready religious expectations on the end and the crop of unsurprising disappointments when the end doesn't come.
And here's the crunch: disappointments about the world not ending only affect those who live through it. Successive generations don't give a tinker's cuss about the disappointment of dead believers.
So, if you didn't actually live through the disappointment of 1914, 1925 and more recently 1975 it just doesn't figure much in your consciousness at all. Why should it? Humans are egotisically caught up in their convictions that the time we live in is "special", so expectations about the end are stupidly elastic not because people themselves are stupid but because all the disappointed ones die off as the decades whiz by. Humans are addicted to thinking, "Now is the time the world will end. It's sooooooo very close".
Religious leaders stroke the egotism of their dopey flocks and once again we're caught up in believing the end will occur in our lifetime. Baa humbug. Some of us have the delayed intelligence to get out of bed when the bloody alarm goes off and we manage to awaken from this ego-driven stupidity. We wear our disappointment like a splendid armour for a while - e.g., I am so disappointed the end didn't come, sniff, sniff - and then with vthe blast of full sunlight, we shed the armour. We finally realize that "the end" is a dazzling, ego-stroking figment of slumber and accept the only end we will face is when we individually die while the world keeps going.
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Satanus
Makes sense. It's what they did at the turn of the century and again in and around the 30's and 40's. They NEED a turnover.
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InterestedOne
On the JW-only JWTalk discussion forum, I noticed that JW's laugh at people who bring up the past. They consider the past of the JW organization to be relatively unimportant compared to the present. I think they are somehow taught to think this way. When I met with a CO, he said the past is not as important as the "latest information."
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Morbidzbaby
Baltar~ Yet the 1914 chronology is still taught, although briefly mentioned, in the Knowledge book. They need a brand new even more dumbed-down study book.
Oh, the Knowledge book has been "old light" for years! It's onto, yes you called it correctly, an even more dumbed-down book :
There's also a "noo light" version of the United in Worship book, but it's called Worship the Only True God... and in a lot of places, it's word-for-word the UIW book, but with slight changes.
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baltar447
haha! Morbiz, you got me. Man, I must have had a senior moment (>35 group now).
Although what's interesting is the occurances of 1914 in the books:
Bible Teach: 16
Kmnowledge: 5
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Haulin Oats
It'll happen. When the vintage physical publications become rare as hen's teeth, the sheep will only have the CD-ROM to feed off of. JW kids will be even more lazy and won't want to dig that deep for the real truth. Pretty soon, the JW website will be the portal to the internet for ALL of their followers; think "watchtower.google.com". Cleaned up and safe from the apostate thinking, the portal will only allow good wholesome information. Remember that Yellow pages catchline? "Let your elders do the thinking".
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Joliette
So true.
