Consfearacy said: Whatever you believe is Gospel truth should result in an organizing principle with like minded individuals in an appropriate setting, not just the internet. If Jehovah's Witnesses are counterfeit Christians than common sense would denote to unite with others that share your thinking. Demonizing others as a reason for inactivity doesn't mean anything.
That's both inaccurate and irrelevant. You are using the usual JW defense of switching the topic. You don't know us or what we do, who else we associate with and in what "setting" or if we are "inactive" or not as Christians. And it's not relevant to this discussion. We're talking about the Society. The Bible condemns the Society as a "False Prophet" as do their own publications. Nothing is going to change that , including lashing out at others or trying to switch the focus to them or other organizations.
You said: I have all of the literature published by Jehovah's Witnesses. You should give me an example of what it is your are referring to.
You need to do so much more research. Although, by the way you blithely ignore clear scriptures regarding the identification of a 'False Prophet" you don't seem inclined, as yet, to allow yourself to see the full error of the Society and so I'm not sure such research would do you much good. It's all there with references, on the net, for those who are willing to find it.
After 1925 and a catalogue of embarrassing predictive disasters and false teachings about dates, all since disavowed, (or in the case of 1914 and 1919, given different meanings) - including those for 1798, 1799, 1829, 1844, 1846, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1920 - the Society finally wised up a little, not because they realized that their former course was presumptuous, destructive and Scripturally 'damning', (except when it comes to condemning others: Awake!, October 8, 1968, p. 23) but because they were tired of looking like fools and of their stumbled membership dropping dramatically after every failed prediction. So, they became more sneaky about how they pushed their dates, but push them they did, with varying degrees of vigor and implication, including for 1931, 1932, 1941, 1951, 1954, 1975 - you really need to do a lot more research on 1975 including listening to the audio of Talks at District Assemblies given regarding 1975 which can be found online: "Don't wait until 1975, the door will be shut by then!" - District Overseer Brother Charles Sunutko 1967 - 1984, 1986, 1994, and 2000 (ministry to be completed "in our 20th century", text changed in bound volume; WT 10/15 1980 p31 )
http://www.quotes-watchtower.co.uk/1975_-_sermon.html
They began behaving like lawyers regarding their dates after 1925. They did everything they could to push their dates but were finally aware of leaving themselves the technicality of pretending that they 'didn't say for sure', while at the same time creating absolute hysteria over certain dates with their words (as in 1975), praising those who gave up and sold everything to do ask much ministry as possible in the few "remaining months before Armageddon" (1941) and saying in 75 that Armageddon may not come immediately, but soon after, and that the time difference would likely be "months, not years". If you do enough research and are honest with yourself, you'll see how wrong it was. The worst of their "false prophesies" regarding dates were prior to 1925, but they didn't stop after 1925.
You said: Aside from your obvious disagreement about the early Bible students, looking to a date for their heavenly reward, what else do you disagree with?
You see, you spin things so deceptively! I don't disagree with Bible Students 'looking', I disagree with the Society and it's leaders elevating themselves as "God's Mouthpiece" and "The Lords Special Servant" and insisting as "indisputable fact" and as of "Divine Origin" their false date predictions, which all JW's were obliged to accept! That's not "looking"! The Bible condemns it as "false prophesy"! I don't really blame the ordinary Bible Students, except for being gullible and spiritually immature, I blame their leaders of the WTBTS, the 'Organization'.
As for my disagreements with WTBTS doctrine generally - well, to quote, "If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written."