WT Armageddon Logic

by Ding 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Ding
    Ding

    In doing some research, I recently ran across a September 1, 2000 WT article that contained a brother's testimony about his years of service in the organization.

    He said, "As we arrived for the meeting one Sunday in 1938, two elderly sisters greeted us, and one said: `Young Brother, have you taken your stand for Jehovah yet? You know, Armageddon is just around the corner!' I knew that Jehovah is the only true God, and I was convinced that this is his organization. I wanted to be part of it, so on October 15, 1938, I was baptized. [My wife] Aileen was baptized about six months later. I am happy to say that all in my family became dedicated servants of Jehovah."

    Let me get this straight. This man made the decision to get baptized as a JW because two elderly sisters told him, "Armageddon is just around the corner!" He was still glad he believed them and became a JW even though Armageddon still hadn't arrived 62 years later! (No doubt those two elderly sisters were long since dead).

    Why would the WT run a story like this?

    It's admitting that this man got baptized because of a prediction about Armageddon that was totally false.

    But JWs don't think in those terms.

    If this guy really exists and is still alive today, I bet he is still going door to door proclaiming, "Armageddon is just around the corner!" and seeing no irony in what he is telling people in order to get them to spend the rest of their lives in service to the borg.

  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    Doesn't the WT claim that all content is vetted by at least three GB members before going to print?

    Obviously, three copy editors with a high school education can't quite get the job done. Thus the continuous avalanche of flip flops, contradictions, and outright lies slip through the cracks and into print, year after year.

    There is ZERO quality control at Watchtower headquarters. That is why if you are trying to get an active JW out of the cult, it is always best to use their own words without any outside information. That is what got me out.

  • Pete Zahut
    Pete Zahut

    Why would the WT run a story like this?

    Silly Ding....are you forgetting?? That article was written back in 2000 when they still believed that the 1914 generation wouldn't pass away before Armageddon arrived. Here we are 14 years later, everybodys gone....including the guy in the article I'm sure. Not only that....the 1914 generation idea has been extended out even farther. Like so much of the informaton in those oh so important and thought provoking articles.....it wasn't true and is no longer relevent (not that it ever was).

  • Apognophos
    Apognophos

    No contradiction or illogic here at all. Quite the opposite. The implicit message of the article is, "Keep persevering. See how these friends thought the end was coming soon? They kept serving God until now even though the end has taken longer to arrive than they thought." The same point has been made about the very first Christians, who thought the end was coming almost 2,000 years ago.

    It may sound illogical, but that's only from the perspective you have. From the perspective of someone who is sure that Armageddon is coming, then it's only a matter of "when" and any amount of delay is not cause for suspicion that maybe it will never happen. So for a true believer reading this article, the story of this oldster wuld strengthen their conviction to keep on going even when it seems like the end should be here.

  • Quarterback
    Quarterback

    Wow, then Armageddon must really be around the corner, now.

  • Apognophos
    Apognophos

    It's getting closer all the time, and it's getting closer faster than before! Those first-century Christians were hilariously off the mark, weren't they?

  • losingit
    losingit

    Oh geezzzz Apog , I remember that line of reasoning well :-\

  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    Pete,

    They took the 1914 generation teaching out back and shot it in the head in 1995. A chart for further reference:

  • Ding
    Ding

    It seems to me that the fact that the WT ran that article shows that that they didn't see the irony of what they printed.

    Scary...

  • cultBgone
    cultBgone

    Thanks for the chart!

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