Hi Farkel,
I'm glad to see you tackled the issue of the Watchtower "Mystery." I bought my copy of "The Four..." mainly because my curiousity was piqued by the mention of "the mystery" - something that I don't recall hearing much about during my 20 years or so in the Borg... or maybe my rational bullshit detector was working and simply protected me from "the mystery."
Your discussion of the issue is better than any I could have done, and I am in full harmony with your comment,
"in order to accept Watchtower doctrine, you have to be convinced that God intended the Bible not to mean what it says. In order to properly understand it, you must accept the words of people who have a 100% track record of prophetic failure, double talk, lies, coverups and revisionist history."
I remember when "Then is Finished the Mystery of God" was studied on Tuesdays. In retrospect, it rather surprises me that we could have gone through that entire book without ever obtaining a clear and concise description of what exactly that "Mystery of God" was supposed to have been. And since the question wasn't printed at the bottom of the page, none of us dared think to ask it.Thanks, Farkel.