WT quotes like that one from 1921 are not a thing of the past. The WT will go on printing material that will eventually embarrass them because most of the WT researchers, writers and editors do not live in the real world anyway.
Quotes from the WT that piss off the WT
by Smiles 38 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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AnnOMaly
The Golden Age quote is not untypical. It was the 'science' of the time in some quarters. Check out this hilarious one from the Finished Mystery, p.228:
Many of the clergy are today followers of Darwin and Socrates instead of Moses and Christ. And both Darwin and Socrates were mentally unsound. The following is from Dr. Dorland's The Age of Mental Virility : "It is likewise exceptional to find an unusually short nose, such as that possessed by Darwin and Socrates, among men of intellect. Nasal abbreviation is one of the well-known signs of degeneracy, as is also the sessile or otherwise misshapen ear, the sugar-loaf skull, the close-set eyes, and other physiognomic irregularities, including the cretinoid face. The latter, strange to relate, has been noted in certain men of remarkable genius, including Darwin and Carlyle, Rembrandt, Pope and Socrates. I wish to emphasize at this point the assertion that not every individual who chances to possess one of the above mentioned physical peculiarities is to be immediately stamped as a degenerate. It is only when there is a combination of two or more of these traits, especially if this combination has been noted as a family peculiarity, that the suspicion will be awakened; and this may then be confirmed and the condition established by close and careful investigation." "Socrates," writes Pedigo, "presented one of the most interesting studies in dual personality and subconscious conditions in all history in his memorable daemon, which he said guided him and inspired him with wisdom." "Herbert Spencer was the victim of a fixed delusion."
Add that one to your site, Quotes!
Before we're too hard on them, isn't that kind of science behind cranial bump-feeling and nose measuring, that was in vogue back then, a little like some of the 'off the wall' claims hitting the media now? E.g. if your ring finger is longer than your middle finger, it shows that you are more aggressive because you were exposed to more testosterone in your mother's womb. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4314209.stm
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badboy
THE LEVIATHAN/BEHEMOTH IS A STEAM ENGINE!
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dmouse
It is not persecution for an informed person to expose a certain religion as being false.
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AnnOMaly
THE LEVIATHAN/BEHEMOTH IS A STEAM ENGINE!
Yes! That, badboy, is among the side-splittingly funniest passages the WTS have ever written. Pure genius.
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badboy
SO WAS THE CHARIOT MENTIONED IN NAHUM A STEAM ENGINE!
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rebel8
So by guiding their children away from the so-called 'higher' education of today, these parents spare their children exposure to an increasingly demoralizing atmosphere, and at the same time prepare them for life in a new system as well.” Awake!, , p. 8. Higher Education part of "Devil's Propaganda" The following quotation from a 1969 Watchtower article hints at how strongly the Society opposed higher learning. Making something of yourself is here classed as "Devil's propaganda." Notice the continuing theme that time is too short to waste it on education. They, claim that the only work with a future is Watchtower service: “Many schools now have student counselors who encourage one to pursue higher education after high school, to pursue a career with a future in this system of things. Do not be influenced by them. Do not let them "brainwash" you with the Devil's propaganda to get ahead, to make something of yourself in this world.
avengers, what are the dates of these articles? Thanks
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AnnOMaly
Hi rebel8
The first one is Awake 1971 6/8, p.8
The second is Watchtower 1969 3/15, p.171
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Gerard
*** Thy Kingdom Come (SIS vIII) 1891 (1903 edition), p.313 ***
"The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt"
...the Great Pyramid... seems in a remarkable manner to teach, in harmony with all the prophets, an outline of the plan of God, past, present, and future...*** Watchtower 1928 November 15 p.344 ***
It is more reasonable to conclude that the great pyramid of Gizeh, as well as the other pyramids thereabout, also the sphinx, were built by the rulers of Egypt and under the directions of Satan the Devil... Then Satan put his knowledge in dead stone, which may be called Satans' Bible, and not God's stone witness... -
AK - Jeff
Beware of "organization." It is wholly unnecessary. The Bible rules will be the only rules you will need. Do not seek to bind others' consciences, and do not permit others to bind yours. Believe and obey so far as you can understand God's Word to-day, and so continue growing in grace and knowledge and love day by day…What shall be our Standard by which we may know the truth and prove it? We answer, The Word of God "is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect [-ed in knowledge and conduct], thoroughly furnished unto all good works. [2 Timothy 3:16,17]
Zion’s Watchtower September 15, 1895 Page 216 Try using this quote at the next WT study. Jeff