It is now official: Another falsified Watchtower prophecy

by ILoveTTATT2 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  ILoveTTATT2

  "Jesus was obviously speaking about those who were old enough to witness with understanding what took place when the 'last days' began. ... Even if we presume that youngsters 15 years of age would be perceptive enough to realize the import of what happened in 1914, it would still make the youngest of 'this generation' nearly 70 years old today." Awake! 1968 Oct 8 p.13
  
  My friends, effective May 12, 2016, this WT prophecy is officially false.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Mushatt_Jones
  
  Susannah Mushatt Jones passed away on May 12th. She was the last living person that was born before July 28, 1899, exactly 15 years before the beginning of WWI on July 28, 1914.
  
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  Anders Andersen

  Nice find.

  Some more will follow as the age requirement to be included in the 1914 generation was lowered a couple of times afaik.
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  ILoveTTATT2

  Yes... I believe they lowered it to "10 years or less", then "5 years or less", then "born in 1914".
  
  I have studied the average maximum lifespan of the verified oldest people and it increases about 1 year every decade, so we will have to wait 6 years for the next, 12 years for the next, and 17 or so more years until the "born in 1914" people all pass away.
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  prologos

  Did  wt not also declare these old prophecies to be intrinsically false when they introduced the "anointed" and then the underlapping overlapping groups anointed generation? without waiting for the supercentenarians to actually appear in the obituaries, thereby sealing the false! label, as pointed out in ILoveTTATT2's  OP?
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  talesin

  Even if we presume that youngsters 15 years of age would be perceptive enough to realize the import of what happened in 1914

  Not to mention that they baptize children much younger. My own father was baptized at the age of 12, and that was in the 1940s.

  They have contradicted themselves so many times over the past 100 years, it's enough to make your head swim trying to keep track!
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  Ding

  That Awake article was published during the 1975 fervor.

  After Armageddon failed to arrive on schedule, I think they dropped it from 15 to 10 years of age to buy themselves a few more years.

  When that didn't work, it became anyone born before or during 1914.

  Now it's anointed whose lives overlap with anointed who were alive in 1914 or some such thing that no one understands.
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  Finkelstein

  1914 in itself was the most fraudulent doctrine that the WTS. publishing house created and held onto for over 100 years, and used that year as a base from all other preceding end times doctrines .
  

  The WTS/JWS were not faithfully loyal and obedient to God or Jesus in that Jesus admonished his true faithful followers to not make a time on god's own sacred time, as mentioned in scripture.
  
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  hoser

  The generation teaching ultimately was a tool to fear monger the sheeples into compliance.
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  ILoveTTATT2

  There are only 51 people that fit the "10 years or older" case as of today.
  
  

  Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Age as of 15 May 2016	Place of residence
  1	Emma Morano[5]	F	29 November 1899	116 years, 168 days	Italy
  2	Violet Brown[5]	F	10 March 1900	116 years, 66 days	Jamaica[a]
  3	Nabi Tajima[5]	F	4 August 1900	115 years, 285 days	Japan
  4	Chiyo Miyako[5]	F	2 May 1901	115 years, 13 days	Japan
  5	Eudoxie Baboul[5]	F	1 October 1901	114 years, 227 days	France (French Guiana)
  6	Ana Vela-Rubio[5]	F	29 October 1901	114 years, 199 days	Spain
  7	Mitsue Toyoda[5]	F	15 February 1902	114 years, 90 days	Japan
  8	Marie-Josephine Gaudette[5]	F	25 March 1902	114 years, 51 days	Italy[b]
  9	Yukie Hino[5]	F	17 April 1902	114 years, 28 days	Japan
  10	Giuseppina Projetto[5]	F	30 May 1902	113 years, 351 days	Italy
  11	Goldie Michelson[5]	F	8 August 1902	113 years, 281 days	United States[c]
  12	Adele Dunlap[5]	F	12 December 1902	113 years, 155 days	United States
  13	Kane Tanaka[5]	F	2 January 1903	113 years, 134 days	Japan
  14	Gladys Hooper[5]	F	18 January 1903	113 years, 118 days	United Kingdom
  15	Maria-Giuseppa Robucci[5]	F	20 March 1903	113 years, 56 days	Italy
  16	Iso Nakamura[5]	F	23 April 1903	113 years, 22 days	Japan
  17	Meta Dishman[5]	F	1 June 1903	112 years, 349 days	United States
  18	Élisabeth Collot[5]	F	21 June 1903	112 years, 329 days	France
  19	Alida Victória Grubba Rudge[5]	F	10 July 1903	112 years, 310 days	Brazil
  20	Tae Ito[5]	F	11 July 1903	112 years, 309 days	Japan
  21	Viola Jacobi[5]	F	25 July 1903	112 years, 295 days	United States
  	Shizue Nagata[5]	F	25 July 1903	112 years, 295 days	Japan
  23	Honorine Rondello[5]	F	28 July 1903	112 years, 292 days	France
  24	Delphine Gibson[5]	F	17 August 1903	112 years, 272 days	United States
  25	Ila Jones[5]	F	21 August 1903	112 years, 268 days	United States
  26	Hatsuno Goto[5]	F	1 September 1903	112 years, 257 days	Japan
  27	Yisrael Kristal[5]	M	15 September 1903	112 years, 243 days	Israel[d]
  28	Tane Shimada[5]	F	25 September 1903	112 years, 233 days	Japan
  29	Henriette Boeuf[5]	F	4 November 1903	112 years, 193 days	France
  30	Florence Boggs[5]	F	16 November 1903	112 years, 181 days	United States
  31	Feli Noi[6]	F	5 December 1903	112 years, 162 days	Suriname
  32	Tameko Shijo[5]	F	1 January 1904	112 years, 135 days	United States[e]
  33	Anonymous[5]	F	12 January 1904	112 years, 124 days	Japan
  34	Mumeno Sakurai[5]	F	7 February 1904	112 years, 98 days	Japan
  35	Kuma Kobayashi[5]	F	8 February 1904	112 years, 97 days	Japan
  36	Lucile Randon[7]	F	11 February 1904	112 years, 94 days	France
  37	Ambrosia Acosta Terán[5]	F	21 February 1904	112 years, 84 days	Mexico
  38	Luzia Mohrs[5]	F	23 March 1904	112 years, 53 days	Brazil[f]
  39	Tomoe Iwata[5]	F	25 March 1904	112 years, 51 days	Japan
  40	Shin Matsushita[5]	F	30 March 1904	112 years, 46 days	Japan
  41	Nugi Ikeda[5]	F	1 April 1904	112 years, 44 days	Japan
  	Yoshiyo Bessho[5]	F	1 April 1904	112 years, 44 days	Japan
  43	Bienvenida Vergara Jaen de Cano[5]	F	6 April 1904	112 years, 39 days	Panama
  44	Tsuya Hayashi[5]	F	26 April 1904	112 years, 19 days	Japan
  45	Tane Yonekura[5]	F	2 May 1904	112 years, 13 days	Japan
  46	Virginia Moyano[5]	F	17 May 1904	111 years, 364 days	Argentina
  47	Mumeno Shirai[5]	F	19 May 1904	111 years, 362 days	Japan
  48	Vera Van Wagner[5]	F	24 May 1904	111 years, 357 days	United States
  49	Masamitsu Yoshida[5]	M	30 May 1904	111 years, 351 days	Japan
  50	Katsue Hiraishi[5]	F	9 June 1904	111 years, 341 days	Japan
  51	Ana Sara Marquez de Ramirez[5]	F	25 July 1904	111 years, 295 days	Colombia
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  Lieu

  Whomever is a part of the "generation" has to see everything occur, not just some of it.

  From my perspective, none of those folks are a part of the "generation" spoken of. And 1914 is plain silly, invisible presence .... pffft!