Nothing new under the sun...
"It's later than you think" is much older than 1968. That was the title of a talk give by Knorr in 1949 and some JW's speculated that the Guy Lombardo song that came out the same year was poking fun at the Witnesses.
Does WT do this on purpose or are they just out of ideas? 2012 Special Talk
by OnTheWayOut 55 Replies latest jw friends
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Yan Bibiyan
"If you can't assure me that the teaching will never change, then there is the possibilty that it is not true; yet if I proclaim that the teaching is not true, I will be disfellowshipped for 'apostasy' and/or
'causing divisions'. Can you explain to me why unity (really, conformity, but let's throw them a bone) is more important than truth?"
Um, duh, because the light is getting brighter..
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Quarterback
Though I was young in 1968, I would have placed that Awake article.
That was the year Martin Luther King was killed.
Pierre Trudeau became the Prime Minister of Canada
The Beatles announced the creation of Apple records
Robert F Kenedy was shot
Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman to the Revolutionary Council of Iraq, through a Coup d'etat.
Hawaii 5-0, and 60 Minutes debuts on TV
Birth of Canadian Singers, Sarah McLachlin, and Celine Dion.
But non of this will be mentioned of course in the Special talk.
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tiki
Remember the year when it was all about how we're all going to starve, fig tree fail to blossom, no fruit be on the vine...and there was that special talk "Happy though Hungry"? Well, my elder father had that talk and it popped up a few times later on. As Solomon wisely noted "there is nothing new under the sun". Anyway, some of those PT outlines were so overused it got to the point where I'd be leafing to the next scripture before the speaker even mentioned it. So much for intellectual stimulation.
So...no surprise that the October 8 Awake from 1968 has resurfaced. Plus, even if things have to get by the septarchy, given their age, a certain level of dementia and memory loss is quite likely. But, surely the factoids erroneously presented will be updated.....
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Gayle
They can't be independent thinkers ever, can't think outside "the box," therefore, can't "create" any new progressive realistic, workable thoughts. They have lost it. They are "stuck."
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frankiespeakin
I think the Governing Body should all be privately Psychoanalyzed, face their shadow and balance some of the tension of opposites,,I'm mean I'm sure some neurosis much be causing them problems to live in this one sided delusional view of their importance as God official Spokesperson to the world for so long.