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  Watchtower’s 53 Date Failures -- Prophetic Declarations Quietly Abandoned

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  below is a paste of the front of my recent essay.

  ask most jws today and they'll tell you that, yes, watchtower has made a few mistakes -- that there are a couple date failures -- 1925 -- and maybe another one they can't even remember.. lest they forget, the following should jog their collective memories as to how egregious watchtower has been in their obsession with date predictions (oh, but we don't make predictions, they may tell you) over the 138 years of watchtower history.. len miller.

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  FatFreek 2005

  Thanks -- Baldeagle, Etta, NotNew, and Cha ching. You've all made the effort worth every bit of it.
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  Watchtower’s 53 Date Failures -- Prophetic Declarations Quietly Abandoned

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  below is a paste of the front of my recent essay.

  ask most jws today and they'll tell you that, yes, watchtower has made a few mistakes -- that there are a couple date failures -- 1925 -- and maybe another one they can't even remember.. lest they forget, the following should jog their collective memories as to how egregious watchtower has been in their obsession with date predictions (oh, but we don't make predictions, they may tell you) over the 138 years of watchtower history.. len miller.

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  FatFreek 2005

  Our friend over in the technical section gave me a tip that appears to make those hyperlinks work. I've since added an alert directly above that table of 53 dates. It reads something like this:
  

  The following dates are hyperlinked to their referenced quotations. This provides very quick and convenient navigation to and from dates of interest. However, the links only work if this file has been downloaded to your machine. To do that (if you're using the Chrome browser), look for the download icon. Then open that file with your machine's default PDF reader.

  Len
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  Hyperlinks to bookmarks in PDF doc don't work

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  2. tech-support

  one of my topics re "watchtower's 53 date failures ..." has a problem.. the document that delivers all that content is in pdf format.

  the internal hyperlinks to the bookmarks don't work.

  it's not your fault -- it's mine.. see all those dates in that table on page 3?

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  FatFreek 2005

  Hey, NotSureWhereToGo,

  Great tip and we're all very gratefu to youl. Based on that, I've since added an alert above the table of hyperlinks. It reads something like this:
  

  The following dates are hyperlinked to their referenced quotations. This provides very quick and convenient navigation to and from dates of interest. However, the links only work if this file has been downloaded to your machine. To do that (if you're using the Chrome browser), look for the download icon. Then open that file with your machine's default PDF reader.

  Len
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  Hyperlinks to bookmarks in PDF doc don't work

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  one of my topics re "watchtower's 53 date failures ..." has a problem.. the document that delivers all that content is in pdf format.

  the internal hyperlinks to the bookmarks don't work.

  it's not your fault -- it's mine.. see all those dates in that table on page 3?

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  FatFreek 2005

  One of my topics re "Watchtower's 53 Date Failures ..." has a problem.

  The document that delivers all that content is in PDF format.

  The internal hyperlinks to the bookmarks don't work. It's not your fault -- it's mine.
  

  See all those dates in that table on page 3? Well, they are all hyperlinked to the appropriate bookmark later in the doc, supposedly to take you directly to the information on that specific date. Don't work.

  Then, to take you back to the top, that text between tables, "Back to Top" -- those, too, are supposed to be hyperlinks that quickly take you back to that date table. Doesn't work either.

  Any of you tech gurus out there who use LibreOffice Writer or Open Office Writer, and who may have some tips to make this work, please yell back.

  Len Miller
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  Watchtower’s 53 Date Failures -- Prophetic Declarations Quietly Abandoned

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  below is a paste of the front of my recent essay.

  ask most jws today and they'll tell you that, yes, watchtower has made a few mistakes -- that there are a couple date failures -- 1925 -- and maybe another one they can't even remember.. lest they forget, the following should jog their collective memories as to how egregious watchtower has been in their obsession with date predictions (oh, but we don't make predictions, they may tell you) over the 138 years of watchtower history.. len miller.

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  FatFreek 2005

  Apology up front.

  The internal hyperlinks to the bookmarks don't work. It's not your fault -- it's mine.

  See all those dates in that table on page 3? Well, they are all hyperlinked to the appropriate bookmark later in the doc, supposedly to take you directly to the information on that specific date. Don't work.

  Then, to take you back to the top, that text between tables, "Back to Top" -- those, too, are supposed to be hyperlinks that quickly take you back to that date table. Doesn't work either.

  Any of you tech gurus out there who use LibreOffice Writer or Open Office Writer, and who may have some tips to make this work, please yell back, preferably to the topic that I will open on the technical section -- so we don't clutter this thread.

  Len
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  Watchtower’s 53 Date Failures -- Prophetic Declarations Quietly Abandoned

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  below is a paste of the front of my recent essay.

  ask most jws today and they'll tell you that, yes, watchtower has made a few mistakes -- that there are a couple date failures -- 1925 -- and maybe another one they can't even remember.. lest they forget, the following should jog their collective memories as to how egregious watchtower has been in their obsession with date predictions (oh, but we don't make predictions, they may tell you) over the 138 years of watchtower history.. len miller.

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  FatFreek 2005

  I hear what you say, Desirous, and I've heard that before. Can you source that?

  There are more than 1,500 citations and quotations from the older "Zion's Watch Tower" within its modern literature since 1950. Watchtower has no qualms about using the early literature when it reinforces what it wishes to present to its readers.

  Since Watchtower uses them, what's good for goose is good for the gander.

  I therefore have no problem using them.

  Len
  
  
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  Watchtower’s 53 Date Failures -- Prophetic Declarations Quietly Abandoned

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  below is a paste of the front of my recent essay.

  ask most jws today and they'll tell you that, yes, watchtower has made a few mistakes -- that there are a couple date failures -- 1925 -- and maybe another one they can't even remember.. lest they forget, the following should jog their collective memories as to how egregious watchtower has been in their obsession with date predictions (oh, but we don't make predictions, they may tell you) over the 138 years of watchtower history.. len miller.

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  FatFreek 2005

  Oooops, again. That was the wrong link.

  This one should be correct. Thanks for your patience.

  Len
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  Watchtower’s 53 Date Failures -- Prophetic Declarations Quietly Abandoned

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  below is a paste of the front of my recent essay.

  ask most jws today and they'll tell you that, yes, watchtower has made a few mistakes -- that there are a couple date failures -- 1925 -- and maybe another one they can't even remember.. lest they forget, the following should jog their collective memories as to how egregious watchtower has been in their obsession with date predictions (oh, but we don't make predictions, they may tell you) over the 138 years of watchtower history.. len miller.

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  FatFreek 2005

  ooops! I fogot the link. Here it is.

  Len
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  Watchtower’s 53 Date Failures -- Prophetic Declarations Quietly Abandoned

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  below is a paste of the front of my recent essay.

  ask most jws today and they'll tell you that, yes, watchtower has made a few mistakes -- that there are a couple date failures -- 1925 -- and maybe another one they can't even remember.. lest they forget, the following should jog their collective memories as to how egregious watchtower has been in their obsession with date predictions (oh, but we don't make predictions, they may tell you) over the 138 years of watchtower history.. len miller.

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  FatFreek 2005

  Below is a paste of the front of my recent essay. Ask most JWs today and they'll tell you that, yes, Watchtower has made a few mistakes -- that there are a couple date failures -- 1925 -- and maybe another one they can't even remember.

  Lest they forget, the following should jog their collective memories as to how egregious Watchtower has been in their obsession with date predictions (Oh, but we don't make predictions, they may tell you) over the 138 years of Watchtower history.

  Len Miller

  
  
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  The 26 Prophetic Failures of Watchtower’s Most Heralded Date, 1914

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  below is a paste of the front of this, my recent, essay.

  most jws, and lurkers here, have never really thought of the scope of watchtower's 1914 prophecy.

  to them, 1914 was a simple one and done -- a mistake was made and it's been corrected.

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  FatFreek 2005

  Smiddy, that makes the effort all worthwhile. Thanks.

  We are now 102 years north of THE BIG DATE and there's no telling what method the Watchtower will take to spin their way out. However, the Overlapping Generation teaching proves they'll go to any length.