No such thing as history

by woodforde 23 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  OneEyedJoe

  Well there's that, plus wasn't it in the 60's Awakes that women's brains are smaller than men's thus they are less intelligent, or something like that?
  

  I guess you're right.  I'm probably allowing the way the quote affected me personally to impact my judgement of it's significance.  If I'd been confronted with the blatant misogyny of the older literature as a loyal JW, I would've just dismissed it as having been influenced by popular views of the time.  For others, though, it would've probably had a much larger effect.

  I do wonder why they bothered to include the older WTs.  Some of those have some pretty damning stuff in them too.  
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  sir82

  I do wonder why they bothered to include the older WTs.  Some of those have some pretty damning stuff in them too.

  They are sneaky. The particularly embarrassing stuff doesn't show up in the CD's search feature.

  There was a "Questions from Readers" in the late 50's. Someone wrote in and complained about an "anointed" JW who accepted a blood transfusion. This was about 6 or 7 years before it became a DF offense. Prior to the mid-60's, it was just a "conscience matter".

  The WT answer to the "Question From Reader" was a rather balanced, even scriptural, answer, saying "it is a matter between the person and Jehovah. Don't get your knickers in a wad over it" (well OK they expressed it slightly more tactfully). The message was, don't judge.

  Just try to find that article on the WT-CD. You can't. Pick any topic even remotely related to anything discussed in the QFR - nothing comes up. The only way to access the article is to know exactly in which issue it appears, and pick that WT from the main menu.

  I can't remember which exact WT has the QFR now - but I do recall reading it on the WT-CD. 1957 or 58, probably.
  
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  OneEyedJoe

  Wow, that is sneaky.  And a strategy that they continue to employ.  Look no further than the reasoning book's entry on false prophets - which excludes the scripture that clearly indicates that anyone predicting something in god's name that doesn't happen is a false prophet, even though an adjacent scripture is mentioned.  Also, when you search for a scripture on the app or website, it sorts by frequency of use in the publications.  So the embarrassing scriptures that they don't refer to fall to the bottom of a long search results page.
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  brandnew

  Thank you cantleave