The Watchtower Writers Blame the Rank-and-File For Failed Prophecy, Why so Evil the Writers/

by SanLuisObispoTruthSeeker 30 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  SanLuisObispoTruthSeeker

  Who is to blame Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Bible Students believing the End was coming in 1914? I’ve been reading lots of older magazines and they are so different from Today’s Watchtower! The current writers from the Organization blame everyone except themselves for “Failed Expectations”, “Failed Prophecy”, "Financial Ruin and dependance on the Goverment "Old Age Social Security and Medicaid" on their Rank-and-File members. Why, they claim our brothers and sisters were “over-zealous” or “desirous of this Wicked System to end”. I read their literature and that’s not the truth, the writers from Bethel were boldly asserting that “if you don’t believe the End is coming, you’re going to get smashed because you don’t have the ink-horn’s mark!” Did the Writers at Bethel know they were lying when revising Watchtower’s history or just kept their mouth shut to keep their jobs?

  I can’t imagine the courage men and women like Barbara Anderson, Bob Bowen, Raymond Franz and others from the group expelled at Bethel because they did not believe the Governing Body was infallible! This happened during the “Second Great Purge”: is the timeline of 1977-1982 correct or is my date off? Barbara Anderson and her husband along with Brother Bowen were Disfellowshiped for exposing the Watchtower’s incompetent Pedophile Cover-Up! Each member is drawn to associate with fellow EX JWs as we try to make sense why we allowed ourselves to be deceived for so long? Are the writers on the Watchtower’s Committee vetted so they don’t get access to information only the Governing Body along with the Power Brokers have who really control the Organization? When the Writers of the Watchtower write articles blaming the Rank-and-File members for their own financial plight or not saving money because they believed the Watchtower’s lies that the end was near, how can a Watchtower Writer not feel any sense of shame when it’s their (Watchtower Organization’s) fault so many members are broke?

  I read Barbara Anderson’s article how the Watchtower left out facts about one of their Asian missionaries who got sick and ended up getting cared for in a brothel by harlots. Why would anyone not feel the warmth and love shown by women with little means trying to help some White man fallen ill? Did those females expect repayment or was their love and compassion so foreign to the Watchtower Leaders they felt it best to leave part of his story out? Their untruths are finally coming home to roost now that we have the Internet fact checking is easy. On Facebook there are Witnesses showing pictures of witnesses helping witnesses during a natural disaster making a bold claim “We are the only religion that helps others during times of crisis!” so whose fault is it? The writers on Facebook for ignorance, lying or unaware of facts like most of the Watchtower propagandists are?

  With one tongue the Organizations brings praise to the Bible and it’s candid accounts of the “Apostles arguing”, “Peter denying Christ”, “Rehab being saved though she be a harlot”, “Mary Magdalene and other harlots were comfortable associating with the Son of God” while the Watchtower hides anything that might tarnish it’s self-perceived reputations. Who does that sound like? They write like the Pharisees and Sadducees, they write like historical revisionist who refused to admit their own errors and for what reason? Everything is now available online for any thinking Witness to consider.
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  crazyhorse

  The writers themselves are deeply indoctrinated and too mind controlled to see that what they are writing is bullshit.
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  Fulano2

  By whome crazyhorse?
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  The Searcher

  Excellent topic!

  I was discussing this very subject last week with a close relative who can see TTATT, but has not reached my point of fading - due to wife, kids, parents, etc.

  However, I pointed out that the Org's Writing Committee + the GB are evil because they know that what they are spewing out as 'spiritual food' is nothing less than doctrinal faeces!

  Their Bible 'food' has passed through their hearts and minds first - removing all the goodness - then they serve up what comes out of their collective waste-pipes as pure truth!

  He replied that he agreed 100%, - because they know they're lying, they must be evil!
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  DATA-DOG

  Fulano2, read "Captives of a concept" and you may understand the comment by Crazyhorse. It may seem that the GB cannot be indoctrinated because they are at the top, but it's not true.

  As SanLuis mentioned, reading the older literature and knowing the real history are important. It all ties together and actually goes back to Adventism, and the men who influenced the men who influenced Russel. Now we have a living Corporation which demands to be fed so that it may live. The GB are like parasites living on a host organism. Their lives depend on MOTHER.

  If the ORG dies in our lifetime, it won't be pretty.

  DD
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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  WT's own comments are as revealing as they are self-condemning; it's simply that WT is so focused on shifting blame they fail to see the false prophecy forest for the trees.

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  "True, there have been those in times past who predicted an "end to the world," even announcing a specific date. Yet nothing happened. The "end" did not come. They were guilty of false prophesying. Why? What was missing? Missing from such people were God’s truths and the evidence that he was guiding and using them." -- Awake! 1968 Oct 8 p.23

  Laughably, WT is too focused on the error of others to see that it just shot itself in the foot.

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  "Does this admission of making mistakes stamp them [Watchtower] as false prophets? Not at all, for false prophets do not admit to making mistakes." {WT Nov 1 1972 644}

  There you have it, straight from the most prolific false-prophecy organization in existence!

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  While WT may consider this to be a genuine moment of candid honesty, is it? Not really. When an honest person makes a mistake, they admit it and take full responsibility for it. WT euphemizes its lies, deceit and false prophecies couched in the following terms:

  "tacking"

  "seemingly"

  we "inferred"

  "suggested"

  "evidently"

  "misinterpreted"

  'we never said it'

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  The most eggregious maneuver WT makes is to simply deny what it previously published in tens of millions of magazines as if it never happened. A lie is compounded by insulting the intelligence of its very own readers:

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  "Jehovah's Witnesses, in their eagerness for Jesus second coming, have suggested dates that turned out to be incorrect. Because of this some have called them false prophets. Never in these instances, however, did they presume to originate predictions ' in the name of Jehovah '. Never did they say, ' These are the words of Jehovah'." (AWAKE! 22. March 1993)

  Oh, really? Then how do you explain this?:

  "This chronology is not of man but of God . . . of divine origin . . . absolutely and unqualifiedly correct." --Watchtower 7/15/1922, p.217

  "We see no reason for changing the figures - nor could we change them if we would. They are, we believe, God's dates, not ours..." --W 7-15-1894

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  And, after three decades of WT wolfing about what would positively happen in 1914, the failure came, and here's how WT handled it:

  "We did not say positively that this would be the year [1914]." --Watchtower 11/1/1914, p.5565

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  Finally, how did WT address the mass exodus of its followers after the failure of 1914, 1925 and 1975? Blaming the rank-and-file for being gullible enough to actually believe WT's message! and accusing those same people of "lacking faith" for leaving the Org.

  ... which makes the following statement absurd at best (again, an epic shoot-yourself-in-the-foot fail by WT):

  "Stumble" is just another word for "make a mistake." And though we all make mistakes, how difficult it is to admit making one! It goes against one’s pride. When one is charged with making a mistake one is prone to want to justify oneself, to make excuses, to shift blame onto others, or to deny having made the mistake. It takes bigness to admit a mistake, to shoulder the blame, to admit that one has been wrong, or used poor judgment. -- W 11-1-72
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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  One other tactic WT commonly employs is to simply not mention its "mistakes", as if they never happened. This is hardly honest. Acting as if a mistake has never happened is as bad as making excuses for it.

  In the Proclaimers book, under "noteworthy events" in JW history, notice this:

  1914

  First showing of the “Photo-Drama of Creation,” in New York, in January; before the end of the year, it is seen by audiences totaling over 9,000,000 in North America, Europe, and Australia

  On October 2, in the Bethel dining room at Brooklyn, C. T. Russell affirms, “The Gentile times have ended”

  Bible Students are active preaching in 43 lands; 5,155 share in witnessing to others; reported Memorial attendance is 18,243

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  1925 Watch Tower of March 1, in discussing the birth of God’s Kingdom in 1914, shows that there are two distinct and opposing organizations—Jehovah’s and Satan’s

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  1975 Governing Body is reorganized; on December 4, responsibility for much of the work is assigned to six committees, which begin to function on January 1, 1976

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  Not one mention of the WT prophecies predicting Armageddon and the demise of this entire world system in each of those years... nor the fallout within the Org. when none of it came true!
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  Vidiot

  Shirley - "Laughably, WT is too focused on the error of others to see that it just shot itself in the foot."

  Not quite.

  They're focusing on the errors of others so that no one will notice the bullet hole in their foot.

  Still laughable, though.
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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  WT: "Hole? What hole? Oh, that's not really a hole, it's just an area of my foot where skin doesn't grow- ever. Besides, it was already there when I got here. Why do you ask? Are you an apostate? Maybe you should do something about your gay tight pants rather than looking at my feet".
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  johnamos

  ADCMS

  Blaming the rank-and-file for being gullible enough to actually believe WT's message!

  I just saw the latest Woody Allen movie “Magic in the Moonlight” and the above comment made me recall a line in the movie where Stanley says that he doesn’t know what he hates more, “those that deceive and profit off of gullible people, or the gullible people that are to stupid to know they are being deceived” (paraphrasing)