Ok, thanks Midget-S and WasAnElder, I understand it now, in the way it...can be understood. It still doesn`t make sense though, because it doesn`t MAKE sense, at least not logically. "Generation" means what it means and what it has always meant, the average lifetime of a group of people born the same year. This save they made by redefining that word is so far-stretched and bogus that it`s really pathetic.It`s surreal, and when this organisation has to redefine words used in everyday-language into meaning something that they do NOT, this defines the organisation as a CULT once and for all (for those that still had any doubts about that). It reminds me more and more of something Orwellian. The rewriting of history found in "Animal Farm" has always been a symptome of JWs, but now they also have the redefining of words and manipulation of language found in "1984".
LoL, this puts another thing in perspective for me, though, I`ll tell you a story. Five years ago, my mother died, and as 4/5 of her children had left the sect, and she herself had disassociated herself from JWs over the last few years, we decided to bury her properly, in the state-church (we have a protestant state-church here in Norway), with a priest holding the service. My mother was a JW untill the end, but she had been disappointed with the sect (for various reasons, one of which was when a ministerial servant made a pass at her, trying to get her to have sex with him, she refused, told the elders, and they didn`t believe her, they chose to believe him instead, although everyone knew he was slightly retarded and a raving sex-maniac), and the last few years of her life, she didn`t go to meetings. Anyway, some of the people over at KH must have been provoced by the fact that we buried her properly, and one of the elders came to the funeral. Well, he sat there nice and quietly during the service, and didn`t mess up things, but he sure pissed me off afterwards! What he did, was that he walked around talking to us kids (not kids though,we were all over 25), trying to use that influence from when we were children, talking to us about Armageddon, saying that now`s the time to come back (to KH), that an incident like that (my mothers death) should make us think. And the weird thing about the whole thing was that he had an album with him, with newspaper-articles in it, from distasters around the world (earthquakes, wars, the ozone layer and so forth), talking about the "signs". But he never once mentioned that time was running out, you know, in the old sense, that the generation had soon died out. Not even once, and it surprised me, because that`s what they were always talking about before. Well, he ruined things after the service had been held, and that ruined the whole experience for me, it was emotional, it always is like that when a person looses his mother (unlike when my father died in 1986, I was 14 and didn`t shed a tear). And the thing that really bugs me, to this day, is that I didn`t knock him right down, physically I could easily have done it, but theres something about them (the elders), I think it`s the power they held over us when we were the kids, they were sort of the doomsday-prophets, we were scared of them, and that fear is (how surreal it may sound) still with us now in our adult lives. So I didn`t do it. I outwheighed that guy by about 20 kgs (40 pounds), he was around 60, I could have broken every bone in his body, and I wished aferwards that I had done it, but I could hardly look at him, and I didn`t prostest when he said all that crap about the end-times, I just mumbled that I wasn`t interested. Imagine, ruining someones burial, the lack of respect, it`s fu##ing unreal. If I ever have to bury a close one again, and that happens again, all hell`s gonna break loose, I I swear on my life!
