134 years ago

by Splash 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Splash

  As 2014 draws to a close, I looked to see what important things happened in history.
  Looking to 1880, these things all made the news for good reason:

  Jan 27th - Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
  Mar 10th - Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
  Mar 31st - 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, IN)
  Apr 24th - Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England & Wales is founded in Oxford, England
  Jun 1st - 1st pay telephone installed
  Jun 16th - Salvation Army forms in London
  Jun 24th - First performance of "O Canada," the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
  Jul 19th - SF Public Library starts lending books
  Aug 2nd - British Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  Sept - Zion's Watch Tower page 2 tells us that deliverance is very nigh at hand
  Sep 6th - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval
  Nov 2nd - James A Garfield (R) elected 20th US President
  Nov 11th - Australian Bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol

  Helps put things into context.

  Splash
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  Phizzy

  I told two Elders that called on me, to Google 607B.C ,and then return and tell me from authorative, trustworthy sources what happened in that year.

  Of course they never came back, if they actually Googled it, and if they didn't get sidetracked by all the XJW's saying what crap WT/JW's version of history was,( which is what I hoped LOL), they would have realised that 607 was , strangely, The Year That Nothing Happened.

  Ah, it's good to do a little research, and put things in context.
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  Apognophos

  I had a similar thought recently: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/285166/1/Lets-celebrate-2014-by-looking-back-at-C-T-Russells-era
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  sir82

  Zion's Watch Tower page 2 tells us that deliverance is very nigh at hand

  I love this.

  134 years of God's kingdom will be here "Soon"!

  I dunno, if I'm hungry, and I ask my wife when we eat, and she says "soon", I hope I don't have to wait 134 years.....
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  bennyk

  More "deliverance at hand" nonsense: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/118225/1/Continually-pounding-the-Deliverance-at-Hand-drum

  (Shamelessly plugging old thread)
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  kaik

  Or try 144 years ago when Ch. T. Russell started his crazy religious movement:

  • Germany was about to be unified, completed in January 1871
  • Ecumenical Council declared the infallibility of the Pope, Taze seen it as sign of Devil
  • Paris sieged by Prussians
  • Reconstruction Era in USA

  Most of the adustls in 1870 were dead by 1914 considering life expectancy was 48.