Britain's farming industry was in crisis after the European Union banned Britain from exporting meat, livestock and milk to the rest of the EU until March 1, following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among pigs in southeast England.
The effect maybe catastrophic to farmers who may face ruin. The market for infected livestock is not particularly strong. Also all those who like chasing foxes with packs of hounds have been told they can't …..shame. Foxes all around the UK have rejoiced at this development. Also those that like rambling through the countryside also cannot no longer due to the risk of spreading this disease.
However few realize that the last outbreak in the UK was over 20 years ago. Even fewer realize that it may have been caused by a carelessly discarded magazine. Such magazines originating from the 'Watchtower' organization have been known to contain a particularly virulent strain of 'foot in mouth' disease. An example is shown below…but these occurrences are by no means unique and is giving cause for widespread concern.
*** w68 8/15 500-1 Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975? ***
35 One thing is absolutely certain, Bible chronology reinforced with fulfilled Bible prophecy shows that six thousand years of man's existence will soon be up, yes, within this generation! (Matt. 24:34) This is, therefore, no time to be indifferent and complacent. This is not the time to be toying with the words of Jesus that "concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father." (Matt. 24:36) To the contrary, it is a time when one should be keenly aware that the end of this system of things is rapidly coming to its violent end.
This article was promoting the 'end of the world' idea in 1975. At the time some people were saying that 'the day and hour' could not be known but such caution would be considered 'indifference' or 'toying' as the 'chronology reinforced with fulfilled bible prophecy' just proved that the end was sooooooo ['so' with extra o's is commonplace amongst Watchtower detractors] near.
Well 1975 came and the world carried on…….. unless the world ended invisibly.
So it didn't take the old Watchtower to tell us how simply mistaken we must have been to believe that through CHRONOLOGY we could possibly determine the time of the end. So early in 1975 the Watchtower reminded all very helpfully that the'day and hour nobody knows'
.*** w75 1/1 9 Will You Live to See Christ's "Coming"? ***
But nobody should get the idea that, simply by chronology, he can calculate the time of that "coming" of Christ for executing judgment. Christ himself told his apostles: "Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father."-Matt. 24:36.
Please note that if you have been handling these magazines you should desist forthwith. You should proceed to quarantine. A course of visiting one of several websites specializing in anti-foot-in-mouth-WT-stuff is recommended. Hopefully the usual symptoms of braindeadness will shortly subside.
ISP