by ithinkisee 20 Replies latest jw friends
I got an original 1/1/89 WT - which says that the end would come before 2000 - before they changed it in subsequent Bound Volumes and CD-Rom w/out telling anyone.
I also got a 1969 (purple cover) Kingdom Interlinear. It is the one with the blatant Mantey misquotes - you know - the ones that he fired off a letter regarding and demanded they remove mention of him and a public apology.
Just thought I would share ...
-ithinkisee
I have that Interlinear! Do you know where I can find the Mantey info? I'd like to copy it and tuck it inside.
~Merry
I kept very few WT hardcopies. But I kept the one from the 70's where they claimed to be prophets. You know, the one where they have to backpeddle by saying "Acting as a prophet is not the same as being a prophet."
I love that one.
You know, the one where they have to backpeddle by saying "Acting as a prophet is not the same as being a prophet."
lol!
Yes, I love how they try to justify this by giving an analogy: "If a nurse was trapped in an elevator with a critical patient and a Dr. used a phone to tell the nurse how to save the patient, the nurse could say that she was 'acting as a Dr.'"
"If a nurse was trapped in an elevator with a critical patient and a Dr. used a phone to tell the nurse how to save the patient, the nurse could say that she was 'acting as a Dr.'"
Okay, if the doctor said to do some procedure and the nurse who not being a doctor messed up the procedure enough that it didn't work, who didn't save the patient, the doctor or the nurse?
So, if the WTS said that Jehovah promises Armageddon by a certain time period but it doesn't happen, who was wrong, Jehovah or the WTS?
Would you be able to scan your 1/1/89 WT for us? The copy posted on the internet looks "well studied". A cleaner copy would be appreciated!
... the nurse could say that she was 'acting as a Dr.'"
She is a nurse that is acting under direction of a Dr. Of course, she could be acting as a Dr. if she said she was a Dr.
I have always wanted to ask a dutiful dubbie to read that WT and tell me, with an honest heart, that the Society is not claiming to be a prophet.
A couple other favorites on my shelf:
- a 1911 copy of "Daily Manna" designed to be a personal registry of birthdays
- an original 1920 "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" booklet (Remember that the society hold that the 'Millions Now Living' assembly fulfilled one of Revelation's seven bowl outpourings. I've never seen a recantatiion of that belief, so they believe that at least one of those seven was a lie - the bowl poured out a lie.)
Wow I'd love some originals. like the Awake with the 26 sacrificed kids on front page, so sad.
How can I get any awake from before they changed the strapline about the 1914 generation?
Back in a few days, see ya.
I have that Interlinear! Do you know where I can find the Mantey info? I'd like to copy it and tuck it inside.
See the 1969 Interlinear, page 1159, right hand column, first paragraph.
See also Dr. Julius R. Mantey and the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society
Remember that the society hold that the 'Millions Now Living' assembly fulfilled one of Revelation's seven bowl outpourings.
I don't remember that. Is that in a WTS publication somewhere? That'd be a hoot to see.
