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"Overlapping generation" explanation - TRANSCRIBED EXTRACT from Friday's talk (DC 2011-12)
by AnnOMaly 149 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Diest
When Jesus was talking about a generation....I bet he was talking about the fall of Jerusalem. He said that around 31 CE and by 70CE bam it was destroyed....looks like our 40 year generation is over by now....
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RagingBull
THIS GENERATION...as said by Jesus himself, couldn't mean the literal Generation that was living during his time?? It could not have meant that the things that were to occur would lead up to the great tribulation as in the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.?? that isn't even a thought to the WTBTS huh? wow. No one knows when the END will come...so why do they keep trying to pinpoint when it will come instead of just focusing on LIFE and living as good christians??? why does everything have to be about "these last days" and preaching...and placing magazines and starting BIBLE studies using BOOKS/AIDs to help with it?
Imagine if witnesses used ONLY the bible to study...
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
And the "overlapping generation" isn't the only overlapping BS that Teaching served on Friday. The anointed have overlapped all the way back to Jesus.
The first part in the Friday PM session, something about "Questions", asked whether there were always some anointed on earth. Answer: "Yes, it would seem so." Using Matt. 28:20 about the wheat and the weeds, some wheat was always present. Who? Some who loved truth, including Russell cronies and even mentioned Isaac Newton among the possible anointed (Newton predicted that they end would not come before 2060). And we'll probably get to know all their names after the big A.
Really? Why don't we know their names now? And why don't we get to know the names of the hundreds of thousands of martyrs from the first centuries that died before the "catholic apostacy" but didn't get included in the 144,000 limits? If there have been generation after generation of anointed alive on earth, why doesn't WT admit that the 144,000 and 1914 is a load of crap?
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Simon Morley
It is even a bigger stretch when you consider to overlap with King Freddie you have to been annointed for almost 20 years. Consider GJ at 55 he was anointed on or before he was 35 approx. Given that there was still some old timers around, why did they not get the nod???
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DeathSentry
The dubs are being baffled with bulls hit!
Breaks my heart but is so true. I think after 1995, membership, activity, etc dropped off..so then they came up with the initial overlapping theory in 2010; but even with that, it would be out of most of the 2nd group's lifetime, so of course, time to inject urgency once again. Man this is exhausting..settle on something and stick with it or don't say anything about it at all..this constant flip flopping must be killing the rank and file.
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Ding
Typical Watchtower.
Title a Talk, "How We Know God's Kingdom Will Come Soon".
The real title should be, "Buying Ourselves Another 50 Years: After That, It's Someone Else's Problem."
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Knowsnothing
I haven't finished listening to the sound file yet, but so far three observations that really stick out:
1. The speaker oh so conveniently extrapolates tsunamis, earthquakes, and tornados (the tornados because they are fresh in people's memory and garner more of an emotional response) as fulfillments of the prophecy of the 4 horsemen of the apocolypse, in quintessential Watchtower fashion. Where in the hell is the connection between natural disasters and the horseman of Death in Revelation??? The scripture talks about death resulting from famine, war, and plague. There is not even the faintest suggestion within the scripture to indicate that it might refer to natural disasters. They're really grasping at straws here.
They've already been going on this "line of evidence" for a couple of years.
2. The first geriatric interviewee says that he thought the days of his youth were the last days, as if he were making a contrary-to-fact claim. The Watchtower still teaches that all years since 1914 comprise the "last days". Therefore, he unwittingly refuted Watchtower doctrine in front of thousands of attentive JW drones. His testimony was an actual admission to the fact that what he thought were the last days have since been found to have not really been the last days afterall! Shortly after this, the speaker tried to interject with another question, almost as if he were trying to redirect attention from the interviewee's comment.
HAHAHA. And yet, the public sits there in awe.
3. The second interviewee (the woman), commented that such terrible things were never seen in her generation. She clearly makes a distinction between the generation to which she belonged, and the generation of today. It's those pesky rules of semantics weaseling their way even into district convention interview parts! If only the rules of the English language didn't get in the way of the Governing Body's spirit-directed doctrine.
Oh, pesky English! What art thou evil machinations!
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BluesBrother
If the J W faithful caught these headlines, then I suppose that they would read them as meaning those adults living now and also those children whose lives overlap with them???
90,000 centenarians within a generation, ONS says
Britain will have nearly 90,000 people over the age of 100 by 2034, according to the Office for National Statistics, the equivalent of a town the size of Basingstoke.
The Telegraph - today
Solve childhood obesity within a generation, new fed report proposes
Wallet Pop May 12 2010
The Church of England could die out within a generation’.
I don't think so ! They know what a generation is. They are just so blind that if the G B say it - then it must be true, even if it contradicts the evidence of their eyes and ears
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Anne Marie 1925
As long as they keep swallowing it, they'll keep shoveling it...