Another wacky kool aid thread for your reading pleasure from the hardcore Dubbs on JW Talk dot net is here if you want to read it:
thread-on-Matt-23.34-this-generation
They wax philosophical, they curse this horrible old world, they gently try to project how soon the Big A will come, and then swoon when someone quotes a tidbit from a GB member that they overheard. Warning: those with weak stomachs do not read!
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Here's the OP:
In the WT study this Sunday, one of the points in the box on page 9 is about 'this generation'. It tells you to research in an old (2010) Watchtower. This is what the WT says, I copied it: "... He evidently meant that the lives of the anointed who were on hand when the sign began
to become evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see
the start of the great tribulation..." I know we can't calculate when the end will come. There
is actually a scripture about that in the bible reading next week. But, when you look at this
explanation of this scripture, am I right that you can calculate approximately? For example it
can't go on 30 more years. Because then there won't be any more anointed alive who lived at
the same time with anointed that lived in 1914. Or did I not understand that correctly???
And here's an excerpt of one El-Dur trying to explain overlapping generations in the above-linked thread:
"So, in what I would consider an extreme scenario, let's presume a person was 15, baptized, and anointed in 1914. He lives to be 100 and dies in the year 1999. When he died, there was another anointed contemporary of his who was also 15. He too lives to be 100, and dies in the year 2085.
Both of these individuals were part of the same generation - the "last days" generation."
Here's some other bon motts from the faithful Dubbs:
"I really look forward to studying the 7/15 Watchtower as a congregation and sounding down all these refinements!"
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"At our visit to Brooklyn we met Brother Loesch and talked a little bit with him. When my husband said we came to see the HQ for the last time before they move to Warwick, Brother Loesch told us that they don't think they will make it out of N.Y. completely before the end. The end is that close! And when do they plan to finish Warwick? 2016 I believe......That gives me such a deep feeling of satisfaction, contentment, and yes---goosebumps!!!"
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"Bro Samuel Herd gave a talk in which he stated:
'Sometimes in traveling about, and I am not trying to make any judgments, but sometimes I see those who claim to be of the anointed not representing anything that I've seen of the anointed. Sometimes they're the biggest troublemakers in the congregation.
Sometimes they cause more fights, literally fighting, I've actually seen that. Difficulty and trouble that they cause within the congregation; I went on a bible study and this person wasn't baptized and they were sitting there figuring out whether or not they were of the anointed.'
We have the composite sign Jesus gave us, and we know Jehovah's patience will soon run out. His institution of marriage is crumbling as gay marriage laws are passed around the world, gay men are paying surrogates to have babies for them, so the role of the mother is obselete, the earth is being ruined at a faster rate than scientists thought, more horrific stories every day as Satan knows his time is fast running out."
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"I would hate to be a woman with pangs of distress comparable to today and have to endure that kind of pain 20 or 30 more years...even 2 more years will take anesthesia from Jehovah to get thru what is ahead!"
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