several months ago i wrote a letter to two of my sons, still jw.
the letter is 41 years belated.
i am now 78 years old so this was a bucket list item.
Thanks for your compliment Slidin and thanks for your tip about potential redaction. I'll double-check the ones that I've left in there it's been a while since I looked over the whole letter but in general if they have passed on I've left their names in otherwise I redacted especially if there are still in the org.
Len Miller
several months ago i wrote a letter to two of my sons, still jw.
the letter is 41 years belated.
i am now 78 years old so this was a bucket list item.
It's above the snippet that I pasted it's the third line of my introduction
the year 1914 would be disappointing.
perhaps even more so than the great disappointment which happened some 70 years earlier at the hands of a a baptist preacher, william miller.
it placed target years of 1843 -- 1844 on the map of popularity.
I decided, moments ago, to share my 14 page letter to my two sons. That was last April, one of my bucket list items.
I post the link to that thread here because that letter bears a striking resemblance to my original post re colporteur Benjamin's letter to his recently deceased grandparents. I think you'll see why.
Len Miller
watchtower's apparent obsession with calendar dates is legendary.
what follow's are snippets from the main article.
link will follow.. .
Thanks to all for your encouragement. If it can help a single person do some thinking for herself / himself it's been worth it.
Len Miller
several months ago i wrote a letter to two of my sons, still jw.
the letter is 41 years belated.
i am now 78 years old so this was a bucket list item.
Several months ago I wrote a letter to two of my sons, still JW. The letter is 41 years belated. I am now 78 years old so this was a bucket list item. Below is a snippet from the front page. This link fetches the entire 14 page letter.
watchtower's apparent obsession with calendar dates is legendary.
what follow's are snippets from the main article.
link will follow.. .
Hadn't heard about that magic chicken, Joey. Thanks for sharing.
And, for that group FIVE times on the list -- perhaps with the internet, it will get less and less. Perhaps forums like this will slowly fade, and I have a feeling it wouldn't hurt Simon's feelings even a little bit.
As for Atlantis, perhaps we could share a frothy one some day. Oh, I'm glad to see (other post) that you're getting more recognition, which you deserve.
For those who don't know, Atlantis is one of this forum's treasures with his continuous stream of leaked publications and the generosity of his time.
watchtower's apparent obsession with calendar dates is legendary.
what follow's are snippets from the main article.
link will follow.. .
Watchtower's apparent obsession with calendar dates is legendary. What follow's are snippets from the main article. Link will follow.
To read main article, please click here.
the year 1914 would be disappointing.
perhaps even more so than the great disappointment which happened some 70 years earlier at the hands of a a baptist preacher, william miller.
it placed target years of 1843 -- 1844 on the map of popularity.
I lived through the 1975 debacle but as I imagine and place myself (in my mind) in the shoes of a JW just before 1914 (like Benjamin in his letter to his deceased grandparents), I actually don't think that they are parallel.
Before 1914, the believers had far more numerous and concrete things to look forward to -- 24 of them. The 1975 folks were looking for an inferred event since WT never said anything definite. Of course WT admitted that their implications went too far.
Before 1914, as that table of quotations reveals, WT gave those folks definite events in their future. It would be interesting if we had statistics of the falling away of those years.
1914 WT was worse than 1975 WT.
Len Miller
hi, this is my long overdue introduction.
i’ve been visiting this site since probably around 2011. in that time, i’ve taken a lot from these discussions and never contributed anything.
i’m not sure that i have much to contribute these days because i just don’t pay too much attention to wt land.
Hendrixguy, we are so proud of you. By the way what is this “growing tunnels” that you read about?
the year 1914 would be disappointing.
perhaps even more so than the great disappointment which happened some 70 years earlier at the hands of a a baptist preacher, william miller.
it placed target years of 1843 -- 1844 on the map of popularity.
Good observations, Fink.
They didn't accept Jesus's commandment and admonishment to his faithful followers to not set a time upon god's own sacred time, for even he didn't know of the time.
