Quiz: What do these have in common?

by Simon 20 Replies latest jw friends

  • Simon
    Simon

    This will test you knowledge of WT history ... what do all the following items have in common:

    Adding Machines
    Aeroplanes
    Aluminum
    Artificial Dyes
    Automobiles
    Barbed Wire
    Bicycles
    Darkest Africa
    Electric Railways
    Escalators
    Dynamite
    Motion Pictures
    North Pole
    Panama Canal
    Railway Signals
    South Pole
    Submarines
    Sky Scrapers
    Subways
    Telephones
    Typewriters
    Vacuum Cleaners

    I've left a few off so if you know the answer you can perhaps just add one of the missing items to show you know without revealing it straight away

  • zerubberballs
    zerubberballs

    All invented/discovered after the invention of "Zions Watchtower and Harold of Christs Presants?"

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    Not sure, but if it included Television it could be a list of things dissed by the Watchtower as ploys of the Devil?

  • Mommie Dark
    Mommie Dark

    were these all things that were featured in one of the Society's goofy predictions?

  • zerubberballs
    zerubberballs

    Yeah Ballistic i recon you've got it!

    unclebruce, riding his bicycle through darkest africa, aluminium typewriter barbwired to the back.

  • Skimmer
    Skimmer

    They were all mentioned in a SINGLE paragraph in one of Rutherford's books (don't remember title) and were used as partial evidence that we were in the last days some seventy years ago.

    "Millions then living were never told the real truth."

  • zerubberballs
    zerubberballs

    Ah yes skimmer that rings a bell .. going back even earlier Russell wrote about the American civil where men flew in balloons dropping bombs thus breaking the powers of the heavens, machine guns and other new machines of death were a sure sign of satans presence etc.....

  • Celia
    Celia

    These are all unmistakable signs that the end is just around the corner...
    was just around the corner some 70 years ago....
    Hahahaaaahaha ha ha ha hahaha Haaa ha ahaha....

  • Eric
    Eric

    And don't forget cream-separators. Now there is a dead-bang sure sign of the end.

    Eric

  • closer2fine
    closer2fine

    What do the north and south pole have to do with the end being near????? (or any of the others for that matter?) I just don't get the reasoning.

    closer

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