A discovery concerning 1975 as I am going through old Watchtower literature

by lastmanstanding 14 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  alanv

  There is a picture of the KM online where those infamous words were written. It says clearly it is May 1974. Maybe it was published in a different month in some countries."Yes, since the summer of 1973 there have been new peaks in pioneers every month. Now there are 20,394 regular and special pioneers in the United States, an all-time peak. That is 5,190 more than there were in February 1973! A 34-percent increase! Does that not warm our hearts? Reports are heard of brothers selling their homes and property and planning to finish out the rest of their days in this old system in the pioneer service. Certainly this is a fine way to spend the short time remaining before the wicked world's end." Kingdom Ministry May 1974 p.3 How Are You Using Your Life?
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  BluesBrother

  I can't remember exactly now too much about the old Kingdom Ministries, it has been a long time. I recall however that there were funny things about the indexing. To find one you had to look up the monthe before, or was it the month after? .... I wish Blondie was around, she would remember.

  Also I believe they were produced Nationally. I know the UK one differed a bit to the U S ones. All that changed when it all went digital .
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  Anders Andersen

  Jup. The whole 'simultaneous' circle jerk started mid 1980's if I'm not mistaken. Some countries a bit sooner, others a few years later.

  Dutch magazines and KM lagged behind English several months.

  And even today KM aren't 100% identical everywhere.

  So the thing you noticed is simply the Canadian KM lagging behind US in those years.

  I bet you can easily verify this by taking a sample of other KM you have in hardcopy and compare to the online version. You'll find similar differences for less controversial topics too I think.
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  Anders Andersen

  Btw I checked on wol.jw.org

  If I look up the English KM 05/74 and synchronize the infamous article to Dutch I get the same article but in KM 12/74, with statistics specifically for The Netherlands.

  Of course you can't do this check to sync US English to Canadian English, but it's clear Watchtower isn't trying to hide this or cover it up (at least not by rewriting old KMs or messing with dates)
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  lastmanstanding

  Good research team.