Sherlock Holmes predicted WWII - I saw it in a film

by kepler 5 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  kepler

  It was either "Hound of the Baskervilles" or "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" where Sherlock himself, played by Basil Rathbone, after wrapping up the case with Dr. Watson and friends turned to the audience in the theater and urged them to fight on against the threat that menaced Europe, the Empire and the Blessed Isles alluding to Hitler and Mussolini.

  Since Sherlock Holmes lived in Victorian times this must have been a revelation from God.

  No doubt about it. There is no other way that this could have happened. And Sherlock Holmes wrote the story himself.

  We studied Sherlock Holmes short stories attributed to Arthur Conan Doyle in English class. English is our sacred mother tongue and it's ancient.

  God spoke in that tongue in the King James Version of the Bible which all the disciples carried with them everywhere and every land.

  It is also the ancient language of King Arthur's court and the Knights of the Round Table. They discovered the Holy Grail.

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  Ucantnome

  i dont remember reading it. i will have to get my book out.
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  Phizzy

  The Basil Rathbone film was probably made in the early part of WW2 ?? which would explain the propaganda, I doubt it's in the original story.

  But I quite like the idea, kepler, of being Holmes's Witnesses, or somesuch, the Baker Street Irregulars will spin in their graves !
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  keyser soze

  Are you sure it wasn't Basil, the mouse that lived in a hole in Sherlock's wall?
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  CaptainSchmideo

  Starting in 1942, the Rathbone/Bruce Holmes movies were set in contemporary London (and Washington, and Canada), where the ever vigilant Holmes solved mysteries and plots formed against the Allies. "The Voice of Terror", "The Secet Weapon", and such like were made to inspire the Home Front, with Holmes representing the best in British values and stalwartness.
  
  But, in the official canon of Holmes stories, Holmes was involved in activities just prior to World War I, but never predicted WW II.
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  kepler

  Well, now that others have had their say and business is as usual on other topics, I would like to give my rebuttal to several claims or efforts to debunk Sherlock Holmes' writing and prophetic work.

  The fact that Sherlock Holmes made his prophetic statements on film is merely a difference in medium ( vs. printed word on paper). Sherlock Holmes foresaw the great conflict of the 1940s and warned against it, urging the Anglo-American alliance to soldier on to the end. It's quite clear.

  What other possible explanation could there be for such a document but a direct message from God via his prophet to the faithful of this age?