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A veritable love-in between Boyle and JWI.
I never thought I’d live to see it.

First of all. Thanks for the sentiments in the previous post. I don't plan to focus much on things said here anymore, so you're right that it isn't really going to matter much whether those details about 2016 are explained to me or not. 
I've read what the editors of "DTIB" have said about genealogy and it's easy to understand. I also understand what it says about "generations" in those pages you referenced and in other parts of this same "Bible Dictionary." Also, I know that if someone did a search on the term "overlapping generations" among all the Bible commentaries and Bible dictionaries, the term almost never comes up at all except in this particular one: "Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible" (DTIB). And it only happens on page 244, the first page you quoted. Yes, it's "cool" and "unique" that someone can find a person with academic credentials who used the term "overlapping generations" but its very use here undermines the Watchtower teaching instead of helping to support it.
The problem, of course, is that the editor you recommended here (pp. 244-246), doesn't really believe the Bible's genealogies are trustworthy and accurate as actual genealogies. He prefers to see many of them as unhistorical. But that's typical of modern critical commentaries. However, he quotes Rendsburg who actually does argue that the genealogies of the Pentateuch are reliable and historical. And in that paragraph, he uses the phrase: "overlapping generations." He says that:
Rendsburg "has based his conclusions in part on the observable pattern of overlapping generations so that people of the same age need not be of the same generation."
But it's quite easy to see that this goes completely against what the Watchtower publications have tried to say about generations. In fact, it directly opposes what the Watchtower publications say.
The Watchtower publications NEVER use the expression "overlapping generations" with respect to the generation teaching, because our current teaching is the opposite. Our teaching is that even persons of widely different ages NEED to be part of the SAME GENERATION because Jesus said that "THIS GENERATION" (not "these generations") would not pass away. Our current teaching is that almost all of the people in the first part of the generation do not need to have their lives overlap with most of the people in the second part of that same generation. In fact, our current teaching is supposed to work out even if only ONE person among the thousands in that first part has a lifespan that overlaps with at least ONE person in the second part of that SAME generation. The infamous Splane chart even mentions the possibility that this ONE person might be, using a known example: Brother Frederick W. Franz. If FWF was indeed the last living person from the first group, then his lifespan, in the end, would only need to have overlapped with ONE remaining person from the second part of that same generation by the time the end of this system arrives. Our definition of the current teaching could allow for this even if that overlap had happened for only a few seconds and the overlapping person in the second group had never met or even known about FWF while FWF was alive. And then, by definition, this ONE GENERATION Jesus spoke of can only go on for as long as at least that ONE person from the second group, is still alive.
That might sound complex and I'm using an extreme example. But it's an example that fits the current teaching.
I'm personally not too concerned with whether this teaching is going to hold true, time-wise. It very well might. If it does, I don't think it's necessary that it was because the teaching was right. It could just be a coincidence if the end of this system comes tomorrow.
One reason I'm not too concerned is just based on the very nature of speculative teachings. If the teaching is now correct, then this means that it is the "truth." Yet, if someone believed and promoted this "truth" back in 2004, for example, then it would have been an apostate teaching at that time. Speculative teachings are always this way: they could be an apostate teaching, then a true teaching, then they might become an apostate teaching again in the near future.
I'm not saying the Watchtower is wrong. But I'm not personally concerned with our more speculative teachings. And this one is the kind that creates a range of dates, which, to my conscience, goes against what Jesus and Paul said about not needing anything to be written to us about the times and seasons. These things are in the Father's jurisdiction, not ours.
We should be more concerned with what type of person we ought to be knowing that the end could come at any time.

The times they are a changing.

I think you are world class delusional.
I don’t remember when TTH said anything even remotely similar to your accusation.
of course when challenged to prove the lies of your absolute madness, you choke so thoroughly I do not know how you even breathe.

I see previously, boyle, that you downvoted the procedure Jesus specified for disciplining brothers and sisters in the Congregation.
Without any rebuttal.
Whazzamatter?
Cat got your tongue?

Yeah …. 
Nothing quite as ironic, as someone who continually considers and lambasts other people as stupid, uneducated, ignorant fools, than to be the prime example. 
That’s one reason I have never asked to have him banned.…. That’s Entertainment!
…… comedy is where you find it!

JWI: “Good afternoon. This meeting of the closed club will now come to order.
All else: Hear hear
JWI First order of business is to consider a stack of applications for new members
TTH: Do they all seem to represent diverse personalities?
JWI: No, they all seem the same person with the same idiosyncrasies under a dozen different names.
Thinking: I propose we put them in the trash. All in favor?
(Unanimous)
Very well Motion carried. Time for refreshments. Pass the Bible chips, please?

I hardly ever think of an “afterlife”
I have decided it’s more productive to try and be better at the one I know about now.

… Eventually boyle will go off the rails and be banned again, and I suggest he resurrect himself as “NoToesPete”, the gunslinger who fired his gun before it cleared the holster … 
Of course nothing will EVER be his fault, due to his unparalleled superiority over the rest of us.
The excuses in boyle’s above posts are truely cringeworthy.
 

In the movie “Dr. Strangelove”, an Alaskan Air Force General named Bat Guano decided to start World War III, because his “bodily essences” were being contaminated by the Russkies with fluoridated water, and sent B-52 Bombers to nuke Soviet Union Strategic Targets.
Even when talking about the Western gunfighter Bat Masterson, I never knew what the name “Bat” was a contraction for, if anything … I will ask ChatGBT.
I dunno, it’s just when boyle says “Remember Audrey! I drink the purest waters for my mortal soul.”, I remember Allen Smith bragging about his .50 cal. Sniper rifle….. and it reminds me of General Bat Guano.

I asked the ChatGBT AI to review this entire thread of boyle vs Audrey, because, quite frankly, I am amazed at how well you get along together, even with dramatic differences of opinion.
Prophesy is at no time initiated by man, so I figured who better to prophesy about the JW protestors in Washington, DC than an AI.
HAL9000 was not available for comment, but did offer to sing me a song….. 
 

Uh …. OK.

…. Just “rattling your chain” boyle, checking to see if you have a sense of humor ….

Yeah, some people have no sense of humor at all. Not their fault … 

I never thought I would EVER see Scriptures so badly interpreted and applied as you have just done.
….. well, not since an old woman at the door said her dogs were going to heaven because Jesus said “… after I’m gone, wolves will enter in among the flock … “, and of course dogs are like wolves, so that means they are going to heaven…
Your intelligence has betrayed you.
You have with this last post proved yourself to all readers to be bat crap delusional.
And THAT is my carefully considered opinion, based on facts.

You’re just ticked off because your social emotional bank account is overdrawn and you keep trying to pass off that same old bad check with a half dozen false identities and everybody always recognizes you as the same old Wally McNasty, and refuses to cash it.
The facts show, over and over and over that YOU ARE  the scammer.
….. or would be, if other people were as stupid as you THINK they are.
 

Do you type all that, or transcribe from speech? Just reading it tires me out .. I can’t imagine typing that much.
Boilerplate?
 

Noah did not know when it was Jehovah’s time to close up the Ark, but the Penguins did.
Apparently several years in advance. 
….. it takes a long time to swim and walk from Antarctica to the Middle East where the Ark was.
And the Kangaroos in Australia had to walk and hop the whole way across Asia to get there … and walk and hop all the way back!
My guess is four years, each way if they could hop through winter snows.

My question is:
Who is your target audience for all the above?
There is only about six people reading this blog, and they all know this stuff.

@Moise Racette Agreed, however, as you already know, it won't stop anyone who is in opposition to something or someone to make their own assumption and push it as a truth. The people similar to whom Witness brings up (like Ex-Bethel Marcus), as did Srecko (Grifter and Red District Adventurer Lloyd Evans), are blaming one of a JW leader, with the idea of enticing murder of infants by using clipped videos, and days after that a situation took place, and they tried to link that mental illness situation with the JW leader and push it as a truth, gain support for the Washington DC event they have planned, which will fail, as is throw anger and hatred towards the community, obviously stuff like this will influence people, and a single soul could take action, which is bad.
They already did this with the shooting in December, and they'll do the same with the shooting involving the underage boy.
So, in this sense, not only CSA is weaponized, Mental Illness, is also weaponized as well, which is sadistic in all sense.
That being said, just like CSA prevention, people with an axe to grind will not read things about mental illness, instead, they spark accusations and assume things.

I can tell you why there are no Octopudgys.
Years ago I  had drank about six beers from my dog dish at the beach and feeling amorous, saw a lady Octopus at the water’s edge.
I don’t remember what happened next, but I woke up next to a soggy plaid bagpipes.

You are overthinking this, AmidstheRoses.
Did Sampson kill himself … yes or no?
He did.
That’s EXACTLY the definition of suicide.
All else is backstory. 

I’m not so sure. Whenever a person with an odd name appears out of nowhere (especially when another of odd name has disappeared) and becomes intensely active, we can suspect another reincarnation of you know who. 
That’s not to say it’s a bad thing, necessarily. I mean, just look at who he is squaring off against—hardly a paragon of fair play or reasonableness.
That said, a couple of innocent people have been caught in that net, so you never know. Only ONE person—a certain wizard in internet technology who takes the place of ‘only your hairdresser knows for sure’—can be said to know.

@WitnessYou like to scribble, why don't you do something useful, like scribble out a verse by verse commentary on the book of revelation since you claim to have it all figured out.

No one has a coherent and believable narrative on the whole book of revelation. At critical points it all goes crazy conspiracy theory.