1. Charles Taze Russell was not a Jehovah's Witness (because Judge Rutherford had not invented the term as yet); he was a 2nd Adventist (wannabe).
2. Adventists were hung up on one idea that they could not let go of no matter how many times they were proved wrong: End Times date-setting.
3.Pastor Russell threw every gimmick he could cobble together into creating a personal theology for sale using books and magazines through his publishing house. Dispensation charts, Pyramidology, claims of inside information (FDS bullshit) created a fanbase of customers.
4. The eventual prediction for the End of the World was 1914 since Jesus had already returned. From 1879 to 1914 Russell worked this non-stop.
5. The 1914 date was problematic. Russell decided to use the outbreak of WWI as a "beginning of the end" save to avoid being refuted outright.
6. The strategy to hold on to 1914 was necessary due to 35+ years of emphasis and guarantees. Fudging the "little while longer" would buy time.
7.The death of Russell created a power vacuum which Judge Rutherford seized opportunistically. This was like taking over a failing business which still had plenty of customers. The Judge needed a way to hold on, pump up the volume and wean customers away from disgust over another failed date!
This began as SERIES OF SPACKLED OVER excuses, explanations, double-talk, flip-flops and lies continuously changing, distorting and transforming the MEANING of 1914.
Telling a lie long enough creates a familiar new perception!
Eventually, the Watchtower publications went along the lines of "assuming" 1914 was the BEGINNING of the pangs of distress all along! (Rather than the final battle of Armageddon as Russell had taught.)
Sweeping previous teachings under the rug, Jesus' arrival (invisible parousia) was brazenly pulled forward to bolster and prop up the new lie.
The best hope of maintaining the suspense and tension which was badly needed to replace the "hope" that 1914 once offered was to create
a special FICTION about the GENERATION that would not pass away UNTIL.......the battle of Aramgeddon.
The Watchtower Society kept pretending they had a foolproof COUNTDOWN CLOCK by pointing to the dwindling number of survivors on earth from 1914.
As all Adventist failures end in a Great Disappointment, the only way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat was to tamper with the Countdown Clock over and over again!
What has pulled the Jehovah's Witness bacon out of the fire again and again wore vanishling thin in persuasive power to explain the unexplainable.
Enough NEW converts have replaced OLD members as a majority of totally CLUELESS Kingdom Hall atendees. They are totally UNaware of the "generation" problems over the years and the tampering, fingerprints, scene of the crimes clues of the Governing Body crimes!
Like a murderer returning to the scene of the crime, the Governing Body has hidden their malfeasance, changed the scene and challenged anybody who dares say different!
With the violent threat of DEATH at Armageddon for anybody who accuses them of bald-faced prevarications the MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE boast and promise has been buried in a shallow grave!
Only those of us who once smiled at householders with the feckless promise of deliverance "soon", or, who flawlessly laid out the generations Countdown Clock to our bible studies actually know how many thousands (if not millions) of us were shafted by the promise makers who are inveterate promise breakers.
