But, without the signifigance of the 7000 year day, 1975 just doesn't mean squat. No matter if 607bce is right or not.
Cults seem to shake off setbacks due to doctrinal misfires with alarming ease!
The Mormon Church once had its own army and opposed the army of the United States of America! They printed counterfeit money and advocated multiple (plural) marriages even after publicly denouncing same!
Yet, a few carefully chosen words here and there and....Presto! The stench is gone. Pfffft! Like magic.
Mormons have successfully penetrated into mainstream America no matter who curls their lip at them.
Jehovah's Witnesses have multiple embarassments in their 100% error rate in dispensing Truth at the proper time, yet; they march forward and today's Kingdom Halls shrug it all off as mere human error. No significance is attached by way of regarding it as False Prophecy.
It is really the human need to shore up one's weakness by aligning oneself with a group larger than life and proclaiming absolute right.
What galls me is not merely claiming correctness in the face of evidence to the contrary. No. It is the fact Jehovah's Witnesses actually believe they have a superior knowledge based on facts. They have no facts. They have false premises. They have presuppositions. They stack the deck and then deal as though a clean shuffle has preceded!
They won't even consider contrary proof while cramming their own rigged propaganda down the throat's of the unwary under the guise of a Divine Purpose!
The best challenge you can present to a JW at your door is the challenge to them to do what they are asking the householder to do. To wit: give honest consideration to proof that your religion may be a pack of lies!
They are intellectually dishonest and ethical cowards parading about with human wisdom trumped up like a shiny badge of Divine Wisdom and humble martyrs to the true cause.
Humbug!