by God_Delusion 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
"Soon" is necessary to keep the field service and meeting attendance fervor going.
Who's going to put in extra hours if the end is more than a decade or two away, let alone more than 100 years?
Given the organization's overuse of "soon," I marvel at how many JWs are sure the end is imminent whenever there's an earthquake or war or threat of war somewhere.
It's one thing to get fooled into buying the Brooklyn Bridge.
It's something else again to buy it a dozen times.
Ding
"... But which is really practical: preparing yourself for a position in this world that will soon pass away? ..." - Awake! 22 May 1969, page 15, "What Future for the Young"
[Edited to add:]
Conclusion: soon = at least 40+ years!
Bonnie_Clyde (quoting 15 December 1974 issue of The Watchtower):
The first-century usage of the term translated “immediately” (Greek, euthéos) was different from our use of the English word today.
That makes no sense at all. If the word doesn't mean "immediately", it would have been translated as a different word. Morons.
:The Jehovah's Witness Definition of the Word "Soon"
"Any time now, but never as-planned."
Farkel
They also have their own definition is "very few years" ;)
CHEAP WIRELESS PHONES COMING
GOVERNMENT red-tape permitting, the Marconi wireless experts expect in a very few years, at most, to see wireless telephone systems making long-distance conversation' possible to any part of the world at nominal cost.
Source: The Golden Age, October 1, 1919
