@littlerockguy: Spot on! The hits kept coming in the 1980's for the Organization. (then referred to as The Society)
This culminated in them actually stating in a 1989 WatchTower that "this System of Things" probably wouldn't make it to the end of the century! The end of the 1990's is now 25 years ago! They actually removed it from the online digital edition. Total revisionist history, ala George Orwell's 1984 style!
By 1994 (80 years after 1914) they had to do SOMETHING, so they up and made a change to the Generation by removing reference to it in the WatchTower mission statement and also in an article. Imagine, DECADES of "absolute, indisputable proof of the Truth", gone in a single paragraph. Anyone with a brain left then. If they stuck around, they were truly brain-dead. And for anyone who came in after or was born-in after, the "Overlapping Generations" nonsense should have woken them up as to how the Governing Body are just making shit up as they go along. The chart Splane held up really drove home the man-made convolution of this cult. It's nonsense! Imagine Jesus during His Sermon on the Mount, pausing to hold up this chart and explain that he wasn't really speaking to them, but to people thousands of years in the future?? LOL!! What a load of crap.