Can someone explain the generation change?

by feelinglost 43 Replies latest jw friends

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  steve2

  Hey,my Surnames Greek9ish) and ive been to Crete,Kos AND Corfu!

  Think im overqualified??

  Yes - and with those magnificent qualifications, you'd make the rest of the GB feel inadequate.

  hey, I'm going to see Nana Mouskouri live in concert tonight in Wellington. She's from Greece. There's an opportunity for concert goers to meet her afterwards at a reception. Maybe I could suggest toher that she apply for GB membership. It may not be her relative lack of knowledge of 1st century Greek that would stop them taking her on- she'd probably know as much as the wrinklies on the GB. She'd be stopped by her gender: Sorry, girl, this is still pretty much a man's world in JWdum.
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  stillajwexelder

  but I think they would benefit by having a token Greek bloke too.

  Wasnt Gangas greek - he is now dead but was on the GB at the time?
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  Nellie

  Steve2: It was an utter shock to me that these people who had put so much pressure on "interested" persons checking out the facts and to be totally honest when doing so, could themselves be so complacent about a significant (and convenient) change in a central teaching.

  Exactly!

  All my life I looked up to some in the congregation I thought were so "educated" and "intellectual" - it was hard for me to get the fact that THEY weren't having a problem with this! I began to doubt myself and my ability to reason out what I had heard and read!

  I had to give myself permission to believe that I could be right and they could be wrong! That was the turning point for me.
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  Seeker4

  So many of the comments on this post hit home with me. The generation change was absolutely central to my leaving the Witnesses - for so many of the reasons mentioned here.

  What struck me at the time was that in the late 1980s I had conducted a Watchtower study explaining why the Greek in Matt 24, etc. HAD to refer to a specific generation, the one that saw the events of 1914. THEN, this Watchtower study in 1995, using the SAME Greek words, shows how they can apply to an essentially open-ended generation, one that could have been born in 1900,1914,1940,1956,1980, 2000, 2024, 2055.... you get the idea. All they had to do to be part of that generation was share a common viewpoint about the Kingdom of God.

  God, it was such an obvious and cynical ploy by the Governing Body to cover their collective asses because of the time running out for the long-touted 1914 generation. It made me sick - and I soon was an ex-JW. Now, when I see them appointing men born decades after 1935 (when the annointed stopped being chosen, according to the WTS, because the full number of 144,000 had been annointed), I wonder how any thinking person can continue to be deceived by all of this shit.

  Oh, well...

  S4