by Sargon 2 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Just to let everyone know. The last survivor of the Battle for Vimy Ridge died yesterday at the age of 103. There are now only 19 Canadian veterans left from the first World War.
The only significance in pointing this out is how close at hand the end of the 1914 generation actually is.
Hi Sargon,
This is an interesting item since even babies born around 1914 are almost extinct by now. This teaching is discredited all the more by realizing that babies are never thought of as part of a "generation" in any general time frame. The 60's generation, for example, were never understood to be the babies born in this era but rather the adults who were the movers and shakers of the time. At the very least, an influential person is usually in their mid 20's before they can have any impact upon the mores of their generation and many are in their 30's,40's, and 50's if we think of politicians, business leaders, and military officers having a real impact on their contemporary society, especially so in 1914. The reality of how silly the Watch Tower Society's excuses are sinks in when we realize that a 40 year old in 1914 would be 66 by 1940, a very average age of death for that time. In short, even the longest lived survivors of the 1914 Generation died out at least 40 years ago. Keep in mind too that the WTS never said "when the tiny number of 100+ year old survivors finally all die the end will come" they said "before the 1914 Generation passes away Armageddon will have begun.". This generation doctrine was "modified" in 1995 because even gullible JWs found it too hard to hold on to in its original form. It is now thoroughly discredited and joins the many other false predictions from the Watch Tower leadership on the scrap heap of history.
Yep , what significance is this now to those in WT World?!
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