1975 was approaching and for years the Society demanded the belief that God instructed these men of Bethel to declare 1975 as the date for the end. They talked about it in conventions. They supported it in many of their publications. During this campaign to get followers, money, and money followers, the Organization encouraged their people to sell their homes, quit their jobs, sell off all of their personal belongings to pick up the NWT and start door knocking for free.
And many did this. But at the end of 1975, September I recall, they started pointing fingers at the Rank and File. They started pointing fingers at the writers of the publications. Though they "failed" to tell their followers that these articles needed to be approved by the Governing Body before release, and that prior to 1971(2), the President of the Organization was the only member of the heirarchy that could pass doctrine.
The typical Witness was told to diregard the past or risk disfellowshipping. They were then told lies that this rain of 1975 propaganda the Society churned out for years never happened and the typical Witness fell in line and believed it. Trying to get a Witness to accept the fact the Society screwed over many of their own with a promise they couldn't keep has been impossible. They say it never happened and that the Governing Body would never do that. One reason being that it's against scripture to promise tomorrow. Another reason because it's a horrible thing to do to people who trust you.
But now, there is that pesky article in the June 15th, 2012 Study Edition of the Watchtower that talks about dropping the useless idea of lucrative employment and higher education to pick up pioneering for the Society for free. I know on here it's been referenced in their casual, unending bashing of higher education, but I don't know how often it's been viewed in this manner:
Exactly what they did in 1975, they are doing now. "Drop a future in this unclean world because the end of this system is imminent." Higher education and secular employment "have no lasting future" because the end is that close. Many of the Witnesses who read this June Study garbage will do what many did in 1975 (in some cases, what their parents and/or grandparents did in 1975) and in a decade, they'll deny that the Society ever made this asinine claim this year, just like they've been doing for the last 30+ years.
But we are in April of 2012. The June Study is still accessible on the site www.jw.org and this is a striking point for the debate. The Society is making the claim NOW. The documentation and the context are being provided by the Watchtower Society NOW. I took to Yahoo Answers with this premise, challenging any Jehovah's Witness to argue the validity.
The listing is here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnqCyAmoZsgRtIoLdCEcx0_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20120407130232AAkVzlb (you don't have to read it. But I'd appreciate any edit points to build at it's foundation.) You'll notice I've had no takers.
They've given us the hatchet to bury in their skulls. An "apostate" arguing point that cannot be brushed off as a lie. The Watchtower has the "lie" available to the world to critique. This point cannot be brushed off as a distorted document by the "filth" of the world. The Watchtower's server makes it nearly impossible to access and alter. This is one of those few, wonderful opportunities for Satan's Army to rip the world of perception away from the mindless numbskullery produced in a Kingdom Hall.
A starting point. An ending point.
War in a bottle.
What do you think?
