1989 Watchtower

[Jack Ryan]

January, 1989

The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our 20th century." (w89 1/1 12 "The Hand of Jehovah Was With Them" [as originally published in the Watchtower magazine]).

Rewritten

"The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our day." (w89 1/1 12 "The Hand of Jehovah Was With Them" [as it appears in Watchtower bound volumes & CD-ROMs])

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[Diakonos]

As printing is reduced it will become easier to rewrite all the embarrassing statements online that never materialised.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

That is EXACTLY ... and I mean EXAXCTeLLY .. the same job that Winston Smith had in the George Orwell Book "1984".

THE BOOK "1984" WAS A WARNING ... IT WAS  NOT INTENDED TO BE USED AS A SCRIPT!

 

[Evacuated]

Thankfully someone is correcting these mistakes.

Even better to have them brought to our attention. It's like having a personal secreary!

[Evacuated]

10 minutes ago, Gone Fishing said:

secreary!

secrecy.....I mean, secretary.......where has that secretary gone!!

[Diakonos]

11 minutes ago, Gone Fishing said:

Thankfully someone is correcting these mistakes.

Even better to have them brought to our attention. It's like having a personal secreary!

You are thankful for the covering up of falsehoods ? If the"spirit directed organisation" gets it wrong one has to ask, where was the spirit?

[Evacuated]

Just now, Diakonos said:

You are thankful for the covering up of falsehoods

Thankful for the correction of error actually. Must be holy spirit at work.

[TrueTomHarley]

5 hours ago, Jay Witness said:

He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our day."

If @JW Insider didn't have to keep messing with 607 BCE, they probably wouldn't have to rewrite anything!

[Melinda Mills]

If you don't want the corrections, when the updates come in to the computer, you can tell it No.  And keep your bound volumes.

[TrueTomHarley]

59 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

If @JW Insider didn't have to keep messing with 607 BCE, they probably wouldn't have to rewrite anything!

I also noted at the annual meeting that no one seems inclined to shake the foundations, as one of them said: 'if people can't see conditions today and realize how deep we are into the time of the end, well....' or something like that.

[JW Insider]

13 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

'if people can't see conditions today and realize how deep we are into the time of the end, well....' or something like that.

...then they must must have spent the last ten years in a coma... [or something to that effect]

Of course, this could have slightly more effect if we hadn't been saying almost exactly the same thing for the last 138 years and counting.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

1 hour ago, Melinda Mills said:

If you don't want the corrections, when the updates come in to the computer, you can tell it No.  And keep your bound volumes.

Melinda:

You really, REALLY need to seriously read George Orwell's book "1984" to understand what this conversation is REALLY about.