Here is how you play the Pyramid Inch game.
Step One: Understand how legitimate measurements came to be invented:
In ancient times the easiest way to measure things was to use the most convenient "tools" available that anybody could afford to own: your OWN BODY PARTS!
We all have something at the end of our leg we call a FOOT.
We have the length from our elbow to the tip of our middle finger. (Cubit)
The distance between your nose and and outstretched arm to tip of finger would be a yard.
From smaller increments we could use the width of our own thumb. (inch)
That's how it works. It was called a RULE OF THUMB for this reason.
You would standardize these measurements by taking the King's body parts and using HIS proprietary measurements and making them the fixed STANDARD by which all other things would conform.
That is why the measuring stick is called A RULER. (King=Ruler, Duh!)
Now, back to the Pyramid Inch....
Step Two: Examine how silly correlations can be stretched into useless "standards" of measurement
Example:
The length of a year is 365.25636 days.
Now ask yourself a stupid question: "What corresponding measurement can we find between the length of one side of the Great Pyramid and the length of a year?"
(25.0265 inches) x (365.25636 days) is approximately the length of one side of the pyramid. Wow!
Can we find another instance of this same increment? We may have to get nitty gritty to do so!
The polar radius of the earth is approximately 3949.89 mi. One ten-millionth of that is apparently 25.0265 inches. Wow! There it is again!
We have just invented a new increment of measurement. Let's call it THE PYRAMID INCH!
Impressed?
There you have it! Did you miss it?
Sure you did--because it is incredibly simple-minded nonsense!
THE ENTIRE PREMISE of measuring the Pyramid and projecting "MEANING" comes from that process of "Discovery".
Let's do it again!
Does it take your breath away? It should!!
First of all, how often do you measure accurately within one ten-millionth of anything? The radius of the Earth is.........approximate!
Ancient man had no way of knowing the radius of the Earth. Christopher Colombus thought he could sail to India, remember, because the circumference of the earth was....miscalculated!
Consequently, by taking what we have approximated TODAY and extrapolating it BACKWARDS through time we are "impressed" by something that never happened!
Namely, that ancient builders:
1.Had a unit of measurement accurate within one-ten millionth of an inch.
2.Had knowledge of the earth's radius
3.Had the physical means to trim sandstone with one ten-millionth of that inch.
4.Erected a stone edifice whose SOLE INTENTION was to inform Charles Taze Russell that his Divine Plan of the Ages had the correct time alignment with history!!!
Naturally, all of this appears quite possible when you drag the hand of God himself into it!!
In for a penny/ in for a pound. Accept the premise and you are bound to accept the conclusions based on the faulty premise!
Where does this leave us?
Here is the entire purpose of this post:
Basing a belief system on a contrived tool of measurement relies on a sense of proof that only "appears" plausible if you don't investigate it or take the time and trouble to reason your way through it. We can scoff and laugh and mock and ridicule this system of measurement today because it has been solidly debunked. Back before WWI it sent chills and thrills through certain "spiritual minded" people, however!
It was a false idea. It was a stupid teaching. It had the appearance of science and none of the reality of practical thinking.
That same kind of false reasoning and false proof is further evidenced in the teachings of the Watchtower Society.
Call it "another kind of Pyramid inch".
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society uses the date 1914 as proof that Jesus has returned invisibly. The source of their "proof" is another kind of Pyramid Inch.
How does it work?
C.T.Russell predicted Armageddon would end the Gentile times in 1914 using the Pyramid measurements and an equally tortured scheme of cherry picking disconnected scriptures.
Armageddon did NOT come!
World War I arrived.
Nobody could see any arrival of Jesus either!
Here is where the crazed mind goes to work inventing...twisting..interpreting..
Rather than admit to being wrong, Russell stretched the facts TO FIT the situation.
WWI=End of Gentile Times
Nobody saw Jesus arrive=Invisible rule from heaven!
The End=the beginning of the End
And that, ladies and gentlement is called THE TRUTH!!
If it weren't so tragically dishonest it would be laughable clumsy and block-headed!
YET--this "other kind of Pyramid Inch" is actually something very very important.
It is the CENTRAL DOCTRINE of Jehovah's Witnesses.
What if--like the Pyramid measurments--it is simply wrong and stupid??
Here is what we can conclude:
1.The Gentile Times did not end in 1914
2.Jesus did not return to begin ruling in the midst of his enemies
3.Having NOT returned, Jesus did not inspect all religions and choose the mess of contradictory misfits J.F.Rutherford had assembled to replace Russell.
4.There IS NO faithful and discreet slave channeling Jehovah's "truth".
INSTEAD: all of that bad arithmetic wasted people's time arguing and "proving" fake happenings and chasing imagined co-incidences while calling it TRUE RELIGION!
People lived and died BELIEVING completely fabricated opinions and interpretations!
And, last but not least, Jehovah's Witnesses have had their collective head's up their innumerate assess for at least 100 years!
And that, dear friends, is how you play the Pyramid Inch game!!
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