i would like to show my friend that the watchtower change their mind all the time about higher education over the years.
they usually discourage higher education as we all know that.
i would like to show him the wt quotes.
That sounds like a continuation of the theme "reading the Awake and Watchtower magazines for three years is the equivalent of a Bachelor Degree."
Which is true enough of course -if that degree happens to be a Bachelor of Stupidity from Tasmania's University of Lower Crackpot!
Bill.
how many here attended the "divine victory" international assembly that was held 12- 16 december in christchurch, new zealand?.
the venue was lancaster park.
if the truth be known, that stadium was probably a casualty of the february 2011 earthquake?.
Karter,
I, too, remember that - and similar - quotes.
Bill.
the wtbats like to state "we never stated when the end will come" when they blatantly have:.
1969 "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years.
Leaving quietly,
That is about as close as they (the WTS/GB) ever came to admitting they were wrong over that one. It is noteworthy, too, that it took until 1980 to get any sort of "apology" out of them about 1975!
Also, according to Raymond Franz in Crisis of Conscience, this was a much watered-down apology than the one he suggested (while still a GB member).
Bill.
the wtbats like to state "we never stated when the end will come" when they blatantly have:.
1969 "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years.
St George,
Thanks for clarifying that point!
another of my rants.... .
why am i still scared when i read something that the jw's have written?
why does it still upset me to read jw literature?
After having had several similar experiences myself, I start to comprehend what it was that attracted me to this #$%&ing bloody religion in the first place. And yes, it does defy all logic. (I think that is the major part of the problem).
Bill
how many here attended the "divine victory" international assembly that was held 12- 16 december in christchurch, new zealand?.
the venue was lancaster park.
if the truth be known, that stadium was probably a casualty of the february 2011 earthquake?.
Watson,
The "Youth" book was released several years later, either 1976 or '77.
One of the books released at the "Divine Victory" International Assemblies was "True Peace and Security - How can you find it?"
Bill.
how many here attended the "divine victory" international assembly that was held 12- 16 december in christchurch, new zealand?.
the venue was lancaster park.
if the truth be known, that stadium was probably a casualty of the february 2011 earthquake?.
How many here attended the "Divine Victory" International Assembly that was held 12- 16 December in Christchurch, New Zealand?
The venue was Lancaster Park. If the truth be known, that stadium was probably a casualty of the February 2011 earthquake?
Bill
the wtbats like to state "we never stated when the end will come" when they blatantly have:.
1969 "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years.
Whaaa?
Are you not aware of - or have you forgotten about - the organisational changes that occurred in the early 1970s?
The elder arrangement only came in from September 1st 1972 onwards, and the Governing Body was formed after that:
-this was six years after the release of Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God and the beginning of the 1975 debacle.
1975 was the dream-child of Crazy Fred Franz - nothing more, nothing less!
Bill
the wtbats like to state "we never stated when the end will come" when they blatantly have:.
1969 "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years.
The Governing Body never said this:
- simply because back then, there was no such thing as the Governing Body!
Bill
a friend of mine is an electrician supervisor.
back in 1975, one of his employees was a jw.
the jw was so convinced that 1975 would bring the end of the world, that the jw took off from work (like, the first week in january) and sat on the top of a north carolina mountain waiting for armegheddon.
Dubs did really crazy things in that year.
That they did. In fact, my overpowering memories of those years 1972 - 1975 are of mad people and mad times.
Our congregation was then deemed to be in an area "where the need is great." As a consequence, we had so many families arrive from elsewhere:
- ones who had sold their homes and invested everything in a large caravan, there to live for the "few remaining months of this system."
The novelty seemed to wear off rather quickly, though - particularly when the local council's health inspector discovered some of these families living in rather insanitary conditions, and ordered them to be evicted. (Things wouldn't have been too comfortable, either, once the southern winter set in!)
As for people going crazy with their credit card etc. :
- to be honest, I never knew of one single instance of that happening.
Selling ones home and going pioneering for the "few remaining months of this system" was certainly typical, though.
Bill
