If the organization did not actually prophesy the end in 1925 and 1975, then how come so many Witnesses left the faith immediately afterwards?

[Anna]

3 minutes ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

When you are claiming to represent Jehovah God,  the standards are higher than " ... we were all just self-deluded incompetent fools, looking to preserve our jobs and positions".

If they are NOT .... those PRETENDING to be God's channel of communication have forgotten to plug dat 'ol regriratator into the wall... and the "food at the proper time" is THERE ..... but it is LONG SPOILED.

A reasonable person might expect SOMETHING ..... ANYTHING "prophesied" to be right ...

Even a blind pig will OCCASIONALLY find an acorn.

How have  we done on that issue? (..and I am NOT talking about literal acorns)?

Hmmm?

Of course we (they) shouldn't be predicting or prophesying anything. The prophesies are already there in the Bible. It's the interpretation of them that's the problem.  And we (they) haven't done all that well so far....

[Anna]

9 minutes ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

With the COMPLETE and TOTAL absence of any EVIDENCE to the contrary .... yes, it does.

Look, I don't know if Br.Jackson breaks out in remorseful sweat every time he talks to Jehovah at night. And neither do you.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

2 minutes ago, Anna said:

Of course we (they) shouldn't be predicting or prophesying anything. The prophesies are already there in the Bible. It's the interpretation of them that's the problem.  And we (they) haven't done all that well so far....

We (they) are batting ZERO, after a hundred and more years of trying.

I suppose some delusions are helpful, short term. 

It keeps some parents from drowning their ugly babies.

 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

As in the movie "The Matrix" it all boils down to what is acceptable to you personally .... do you want to live in a peaceful, tranquil world of complete fantasy (The Blue Pill), or the dangerous and hard world of reality (The Red Pill).

If you refuse to choose, you get force-fed the Blue Pill, from the unplugged refrigerator.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

... the Universe does not care, as we are all biodegradable.

[Anna]

2 minutes ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

As in the movie "The Matrix" it all boils down to what is acceptable to you personally .... do you want to live in a peaceful, tranquil world of complete fantasy (The Blue Pill), or the dangerous and hard world of reality (The Red Pill).

If you refuse to choose, you get force-fed the Blue Pill, from the unplugged refrigerator.

It's late JTR. Go to bed and stop worrying about pills

[Grey Reformer]

Yes, to see the term 6000 years come to its conclusion. The focus of the Watchtower with its view in world problems went beyond 1975. This I don’t need to copy/paste from an apostate site and agree with their wrongful conclusions.

Just because the writing department wrote phrases like “. Immediately its contents were examined. It did not take the brothers very long to find the chart beginning on page 31, showing that 6,000 years of man’s existence end in 1975. Discussion of 1975 overshadowed about everything else. “The new book compels us to realize that Armageddon is, in fact, very close indeed,” said a conventioneer.” Didn’t define that Armageddon would follow on that year. To intelligent people, it meant we were one step closer to Armageddon since no one knows the day or the hour. That is true then as it is today if we use 2018. In 2018, we are one step closer to Armageddon.

Jehovah can pull the plug whenever he wishes, but he is allowing prophesy to complete itself. The next phase is the great tribulation when the sheep from the goats get separated, and none of this will matter to those that became a skeptic or left because of their self-inflicted conclusions.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

I rest my case .....

[Anna]

5 minutes ago, Grey Reformer said:

It did not take the brothers very long to find the chart beginning on page 31, showing that 6,000 years of man’s existence end in 1975. Discussion of 1975 overshadowed about everything else. “The new book compels us to realize that Armageddon is, in fact, very close indeed,” said a conventioneer.”

There is a little bit more than that, that they wrote. You're not being entirely honest nor fair.

[Anna]

3 minutes ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

I rest my case .....

Oh good! Good night

[Grey Reformer]

No one here is being honest nor fair. They just assume as former witnesses do.

[Anna]

5 minutes ago, Grey Reformer said:

No one here is being honest nor fair. They just assume as former witnesses do.

No one? Really?