Watchtower would try to convince everyone they don't lie... it's not a "lie", it's just "untruth"... that they later "correct" with another "truth". It's a cold, hard fact, Watchtower lies and tries to cover their butts with cunning "word games" this way:
*** w07 2/1 p. 6 Why Be Truthful? ***
Every lie is an untruth, but not every untruth is a lie. Why not? A dictionary defines a lie as “an assertion of something known or believed by the speaker to be untrue with intent to deceive.” Yes, lying includes the intention to deceive someone. Hence, to speak an untruth unwittingly—such as giving someone incorrect facts or figures by mistake—is not the same as to tell a lie.
Really? Wait a minute. That doesn't sound right. Let's take a look at more definitions of "lie". Researching facts wouldn't hurt, right? Never would we want to take some imperfect men's word for things like this and be "untruthed" to. The "official" Watchtower dictionary of a few years ago is quite clear...
Webster's Ninth, [4]lie n 1 b: an untrue or inaccurate statement that may or may not be believed true by the speaker 2: something that misleads or deceives
Wow, according to the most authoritative English dictionary, Watchtower would lie about the definition of "lie". If someone misleads others with an inaccurate statement, even if the speaker believes it is true... it is a lie!
Even with everyone in Watchtower Corporation Writing and Teaching Departments believing and using all the weight of their authority to press everyone into believing, "Before the last members of the generation that was alive in 1914 will have passed off the scene, all the things foretold will occur, including the “great tribulation” in which the present wicked world will end." (Reasoning Book p. 97 par. 2) That was untrue and inaccurate statements that mislead and deceived. They printed this lie over and over in countless books, brochures, and magazines in earlier years. Since the Reasoning Book is still in print and unchanged, technically it is still publishing this LIE.
reniaa said: "with generation we all thought it was true"
Technically, I was raised a JW and was allowed no information or opinion to the contrary. I wasn't given a "choice" to believe. An older sibling didn't believe, so she was "marked". Anyone that didn't go along with their lies du jour would be labeled an apostate and expelled, shunned, disfellowshipped, disassociated... even if what they believed was later proven TRUE.
reniaa said: "sometimes it's time that refines the wrong idea"
You're finally starting to realize that time will prove that Watchtower is based on many, many wrong ideas.
the slave of truth, B the X