THEY'VE DONE IT!!!! The WBTS set a new date!

by dmouse 208 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • Stephanus
    Stephanus

    Like Nathan, I've made the point that the Tower could only flog the 1975 date simply because there were at least two generations that hadn't seen the 1925 debacle and therefore couldn't learn from that mistake. I've also said (I think) that it would be at least 50 years from 1975 until they could get away with another date. However, they're running out of time - due to the end of the generation teaching and their last possible date (the year 2000) slipping into the past. So if they want a sizeable org by the mid 2020s, they'll have to start the date speculation now, before the slowdown in growth/negative growth becomes a mass exodus. I thought that they might do so by gradually producing new dates and withdrawing them before they arrive, only to replace them with new dates that are close enough to fear, but distant enough to allow some evangelism time. Someone once mentioned that in one of the prophetic books a figure of one hundred years was mentioned and could be added to 1914 to get 2014. If I were Bethel, having now established 2034 as the outer limit, I'd then introduce 2014 as the possible date to fear. As it got closer, the already established date of 2034 could be focussed on while de-emphasising 2014 - perhaps an intermediate date of 2025 (1925 + 100) could be similarly introduced and gradually de-emphasised along the way to 2034. And by then they'll have a new audience that has forgotten the previous lessons of history and they'll start massaging the figures to perhaps say that the "generation" started in 1975, giving them another date of up to 2055. Add 100 years and you get 2075, 120 and you get 2095.

    It's a game that could be played, but it'd take nerves of steel to succeed at it. And those idiots in Bethel have allowed themselves to believe their own press enough to prevent them from playing this game as cynically as they'd need to play it. But for people who like to play with numbers and dates, there are plenty of opportunities for Bethel to do so.

  • nilfun
    nilfun
    DO MORE 'TIL 34!!!!!

    Does anyone know where I can get the tee-shirt?

  • peacefulpete
    peacefulpete

    Nathan N...For the record they have dropped the 7000 yr. long creative day bit and now say "many thousands". Also as i remember they quietly dropped the part about Eve being the last thing created in the Creator book. They now say the imperfect tense of the hebrew may suggest that the making of animals was ongoing thru the 6th day of undetermined length. They've burned bridges by doing this, so it may explain the new angle. It's all drivel but just to stay current. BTW I hope you received something by now.

  • cruzanheart
    cruzanheart

    And when it doesn't work they'll say "no, no, no, we meant 120 years from 1975!" or some such nonsense.

    Nina

    (Oops, I'm guilty of not reading the whole thing -- Stephanus got my comment. Sorry, brothers!)

  • HadEnuf
    HadEnuf

    Hmmmmmmmmm....I'll be about 80 years old by then...probably condemned to a low-budget, understaffed nursing home by my family...drooling constantly and wearing the latest design of Depends. My teeth will probably be long gone and the hell with dentures. I'll be living on Ensure and be too blind to keep up with my soaps. I'll keep falling out of bed and won't be able to get up and no one will answer my feeble cries for help. I say BRING ON ARMAGEDDON...I'M READY TO MEET MY MAKER!!! Cathy L.

  • kgfreeperson
    kgfreeperson

    (can't tell you how much it pleases me that do more 'til 34" was worthy of notice!)

  • SLOAN
    SLOAN

    Totally Laughable!!

  • Beans
    Beans

    It's not official yet, it hasn't been approved by the United Nations yet.

  • Panda
    Panda

    Giving themselves a bit of breathing room now, eh? 2034, how exciting to be able to send the book sellers out with this new light. I bet the pioneer roles will explode... yeah, right.

  • Nathan Natas
    Nathan Natas

    Nilfun asked,

    DO MORE 'TIL 34!!!!!
    Does anyone know where I can get the tee-shirt?

    Not the shirt, but one design is here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/61695/1.ashx There are many here who can improve on this, I'm sure. If you have an idea but don't have the software (I'm using JASC Paint Shop Pro, mostly), tell me, and I'll try to do it for you. Office supply stores sell T-shirt transfer sheets for inkjet printers. You can REVERSE the image (or I can do it for you), print it on your printer and iron it onto a white or light colored T-shirt. Personally, I prefer real screened designs, or painting over the transfer with acrylic paint because you can get stronger colors that way.

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