did Russell come up with 1914 via the pyramid or just confirm it via pyramid

by Crazyguy 23 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  JeffT

  wiki has a good article on Smyth and the great pyramid.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Piazzi_Smyth

  It's hard to say who came up with which idea first. In the second half of the 19th century all sorts of nutty ideas were floating around. Days for years, invisible presences and pyramids were just the tip of the iceberg. People took the idea of fairey's seriously, also self-teleportation, astrology, the history of Atlantis and Mu, levitation by mental power, mind reading, palmistry, phrenology; take your pick. It's all the same dope, just in a different baggie.
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  yadda yadda 2

  Thousands of Bible Students (Russellites) still to this day fervently believe and defend that Russell got this right!
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  villagegirl

  Wha Happened wrote: "whenever I bring it up, everyone has this look

  on their face like so what. From the same people who don't

  celebrate birthdays."

  This really is some core mental lock-down, inability to see the obvious.

  What is that ? I have an old Russell book with the wings of ISIS on the cover,

  the man was more of a wizard than a Christian, he conjured up fantastical

  and magical ideas and sprinkled them with scriptures ,

  Oh wait a minute, the WT still does that !!! They are still the little men

  behind the curtain, and we are Toto.
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  yadda yadda 2

  "The man was more of a wizard than a Christian, he conjured up fantastical

  and magical ideas and sprinkled them with scriptures"

  That's a good description. Russell was really part modern-day mystic and part Christian charismatic (Rutherford was part ego-maniac, part Christian charismatic).