If you have information dont have, I would really appreciate knowing it, this is where I am at....
I'm confident 1930 is not in the bible and I'm sure 1914 is wrong because its based on a historical date that not one historian agrees with Watchtower on. In fact the Babylonian ABC 5 tablet in the British History Museum assures us that 607 is incorrect and therefore 1914 is wrong. Not to mention the bizzare intepretation of random verses in addition to statements such as "if we conclude a month is 30 days" ....to reach 1914. Can any JW explain this doctrine without the bizarre explination in the publication at their fingertips.... Not to mention the date 1914 being from another religion, Russell making it truly his own by declaring it was based on the Pyramids in Giza.
Was a god hand picking or 'anointing' people in this religion, especially during the 30s, when the JW leader of the time was writing to Hitler with full support, adding that he felt his god supported Germany too. Now the same organisation claim Hitler was under the influence of Satan and that WW2 was nothing more than an attempt to destroy the anointed class of the time. I am confident everyone knowing the facts would conclude it is delusional and evidence of corruption and false teaching in the 30s by the head of the organisation. I'm quite sure these people were not under godly direction prior to this either as they declared Armageddon for 1925 and continued to preach to the public under Rutherford that ''Millions now living will never die." That was a lie. if one chooses to believe the bible about godly direction it is very clear...
Deuteronomy 18:20-22
20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak.....even that prophet shall die.
21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord , if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken...
The millions did die and have kept dying. Not to mention all those early teachings on vaccines, organ transplants, aluminium being from the devil, rape being fornication, a slurry of false prophecies and false dates......
In the 30s they also began teaching that only 144,000 go to heaven and that seats were still not filled from the death of christ on.
By 300 AD there were 600 millions christians on Roman soil, but to accept the Watchtower teaching, we are to assume less than 144,000 were genuine in those 267 years according to Watchtower, not even taking into account the thousands baptised in Jesus day and shortly after. A thousand years on and millions of christians later, over 100,000 protestants died in one war alone in the protestant reformation. Despite dying for a desire to see faith refined, the Watchtower anointed class teaching would have to conclude they were obviously not all or in any great numbers sufficiently righteous to be taken to heaven.
2,000 years later and still the 144,000 places are not full, of all those now billions on christians who lived and died, all but a tiny, tiny percentage were less 'christian' than Miracle Wheat con man Russell or Beth Sarim Manison man Rutherford, door to door lets make salessmen Knorr..or the NWT translator that couldnt really read Greek and Hebrew when asked to do so by a judge in Scotland, Franz the one year in university dropout fraud. In fact early Watchtower partakers alone over the years fiil the 144,000 places. There were 30,000 partakers in the early 30s alone.
As for the modern day 15,000 partakers, I dont believe they know they are about to be thrown off the train. If they were genuine and anointed they would have left had they forseen this corruption. I also think its going to be a hard ride for those that have claimed a mysterious connection to the FDS over the years and claimed to know and influence literature, for they now will be shown to be liars by their own religion. It cant go both ways, one cant claim to have gods spirit help direct by some power a book factory in Brooklyn that then states themselves that no such thing happens, not to mention it being unscriptural. The false teachings, corruption, lies and divisions are not new. They have existed as long as the religion has. Most still dont know that the first owner was a banker, with muddy paws all over the stock market, nothing has changed 100 years on.
As an atheist, ex JW, it is a relief to not have to juggle answers and explinations anymore. Thats all this "not so smart" person knows. Being smart is nothing to do with it. As Steve Hassan the cult expert says, your family will tell you you left because you are bitter, or you dont want to live by gods rules or you think you are so clever with all the answers. But in reality its just people hurting. Having gone through that process already I understand,
Finally worry not about how I view my intelligence, though it seems peverse to make it a negative trait. My medical school seems determined to let us know that we are statistically the top 3% of our generation, it makes most students proud of their hard work, I just get embarassed, maybe because of my abnormal upbringing. But to be sure, with my A star distinctions at college, my BSC, my almost complete medical degree and my patent receipt for my medical invention about to begin ward trials with the NHS...although i dont consider myself a smarty pants I am not a child anymore and its not so easy to be manipulated into thinking I'm "not so smart" and that my opinion is not worth voicing. Which reminds me, keep a look out for my paper soon to be published in the Lancet (or BMJ) its on Evolution and Medicine.
But thanks anyway mum, I always enjoy your replies.
