King has become Jehovah... oops

by proplog2 24 Replies latest jw friends

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  hybridous

  he gives us a glimpse at the embryonic stage of an organization like the one Russell started (and Jim Jones).

  
  I was hoping that you could go a bit farther into what you mean by this.
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  Cygnus

  I suspect that maybe a couple thousand JWs will actually read King's book, and a few hundred might be convinced of at least parts of it. Most JWs today I don't think are very concerned with prophecy and live in a dream-like "everything will be OK" state, trying not to think too hard about how terrible the tribulation and Armageddon are supposed to be. The 1/1/1989 Watchtower says that 3,592,654 JWs reported field service time in the 1988 Service Year, when the Revelation Climax book came out (the latest most graphic apocalyptic publication) so at least half the number of JWs today have come into the organization in the last 15 years, and likely they didn't come in because they were impressed with "the generation of 1914" or "Armageddon's right around the corner."

  H2O is short for Hourglass2 Outpost. It was a JW-oriented discussion board that had its original intent on ways of reforming the organization. It came into existence in August of 1996 and soon became THE place to discuss JW topics. I joined it in January of 1997. The reform idea pretty much died by June of 1997 and H2O evolved into more of a debate board (e.g. creationists vs. evolutionists, trinitarians vs. unitarians, etc.). The forum admin "Rick" was a rather eclectic fellow and always had difficulty with his Forum Participation Policy and how he and his moderators would enforce it. Around April of 2001 Rick changed the board's format similar to this one's style, and that sort of killed the "feel" of the place, and many of its regulars left it and came here, leaving only a few behind (like JCanon). I honestly don't know what its status is now, or if it is still alive. I have almost every post made there from Aug. '96 to Mar/April '01 on CD-ROM thanks to Joe Malik who compiled it all and sent me copies.
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  sf

  Here are some archived Guestbook entries over the years @h20:

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