Oh very clever! This is a very well timed article considering we are coming up to the 100th anniversary of the 1914 prophecy and the generation that would "by no means pass away"
Paragraph 11 has just about put the kybosh on a carefully thought out discussion I have been planning to have with my JW family and friends about failed prophecies and the false promises made to us through the pages of the WT during the last century. I was planning to ask them to cast their minds back to the 1960s when we were encouraged to leave school and pioneer because studying for a career would be a waste of time as the end was so close due to the 1914 prophecy. I would go on to ask them honesty how we would have felt back then if someone had told us that in the year 1913 we would still be here in this system, many of us at pension age, the 1914 generation having long since passed away. Back in the 1960s, to even think about the system lasting longer than 1975 would demonstrate a complete lack of faith! I was then going to ask them if they can honestly say now, in light of everything that has happened (or failed to happen) they have never had doubts and wondered why they are continuing to chase that carrot on the end of a stick.
Now, thanks to this cunning article, they will already be mentally primed and ready to reject any such discussion from the outset to protect themselves from "becoming enraged against Jehovah".
I don't think it will be worth even attempting such a discussion now.
I am looking forward to reading blondie's comments on this week's WT study.
