You claim you can prove 1914 by the Bible! amazing, you would be one of the first jw's to do so. Even the elder I met with couldn't do that. Your next statement, learn to love one another, that is truly a lovely sentiment. Would you please advise the WT of this? Seeing as that I do not see much 'love' on the part of active jw's. I see broken homes, broken relationships, abused children, protected pedophiles, broken marriages etc..etc... I have never had a discussion with a jw that was able to stay on topic or actually prove anything using scripture only. In fact, I find the ones I have talked to quite lazy and certainly no lovers of truth. Lovers of a man made org? Yes! They are lazy because they are unwilling to do even the slightest bit of research on any given topic. It does not go against God to question the publications of the org. Unless of course you equate the org=God. Which most jw's do. I have even found some so called historical research done by the org that was so out of date it hadn't been taught by anyone, since the early 20's! Not to even mention their bizzare views on science. Then there is their 'unscholarly' Bibical work to contend with. You are not interested in any 'truth', just protecting the org. at all costs, even at the cost of truth. When people on boards like this have found out they were lied to they decided to see what else they were lied to about. Compare it to a spouse that just found out the other had an affair, what usually will happen is the wronged spouse will begin to check phone records, credit card records, coat pockets etc....To find out if the affair is still going on, after the spouse claimed he/she would end it. Isn't that a normal response? Once you get burned you become very careful. The people on boards like this have tremendous courage, they cared that much about truth, they were willing to risk being shunned and abused by family members because they did care about real truth. And even after the mistreatment of family members (often just because they had different viewpoint) they still want a relationship with the abusive family members. Why? Because they know what love really means, not some conditional love that the wt espouses. Many of these people have not left God, they left a man made cult that is destructive and certainly does not teach anything of God. By the way, your name alone is Blaphemous, calling yourself The Word, you should be ashamed of yourself, carla