That's it, I'm cancelling Easter!

@medullah said
Excellent, with so many many sources at your disposal it should be easy for you to reference one if you'd be so kind?

Just to be clear, you think it is erroneous to suggest that the JW's predicted that Jesus would return in 1914? I honestly thought this was something in the public domain that nobody disputed, including Jehovah Witnesses. - Indeed this can be found in 'Three Worlds, and the Harvest of This World' written by Russell and Barbour jointly. (And also I believe in Russell's 'The Photo-Drama of Creation' - although have never watched it personally).

Or if you prefer:

"But bear in mind that the end of 1914 is not the date for the beginning, but for the end of the time of trouble." - Zion's Watch Tower 1894 Jul 15 p.226


Edit: It you require a further interesting link, try here:

https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/failed-1914-predictions.php

@very-rusty said
I believe for the prank to work you actually have to believe it. 😛 🙂

Decent try I guess!

-VR

To know the link related to a post from 2001 you must have taken the bait and followed the link. (Hence falling for the prank).

@venda said
Good point.
If you are the same ladder as a player you have blocked can you still receive challenges from said player, or does the "blocking" just refer to messages?

I think it's just messages. (But I could be wrong).

@very-rusty said
Gooster,

Your link is from 2001 nice try though! 😛 🙂

You did manage to remind everyone it was April fools day though. 🙂 (Spoil Sport) 😛

-VR

Ah, you followed the link.

@galveston75 said
Hey I do sleep at night you know..... Sorry I'm not awake 24/7 to be at your beckoning call.
Again we all discussed this already over and over a few years ago. I see no need in doing this again for about the 4000th time.
If it is important to you, go back and read it all again.

Everything you bring (regurgitate) in this forum has been discussed before. Why bother?

Bring something original of your own reasoning, great. But what is the point parroting the same dogma that every man and his dog here thinks is complete hogwash. The same goes for bringing it to my doorstep.

@rajk999 said
Are you sayihg that Russell was right that Jesus returned in 1914?

Despite telling their followers not to bother going to college etc around 1914, due to Jesus's imminent return, they later made the weak claim Jesus actually just ruled in heaven since 1914 and later still that this prediction (of his return to Earth) was not a prediction at all, just a speculation.

Such is the fate of a doomsday cult.

@medullah said
A bit of a theme running though tonight.

A quote from Wiki means nothing dear boy, as anybody can put what thy like on there.

Tell us what was actually said or at least give the full address of the web page that you are drawing this from.

Incidentally, so there is no ambiguity (we don't want any of that), I would say that he was probably right. But let's get the exact quote and then we can go from there.

The Wiki link was an easy grab. The whole 1914 thing is well documented and can be validated easily from many (many) other sources.

The world didn't end in 1914 and the JWs have been squirming ever since.

@galveston75 said
I've answered you many times. It is you that can't understand what the scriptures I've quoted to you explain. Perhaps you should not "lean on your own understanding" as the Bible says and pray to Jehovah for assistance.....
So as long as you keep asking a question that you don't understand, you must not be asking for Jehovah to help you? Give it a try....

The problem is 'you' learn from somebody else's understanding, somebody who has strayed from scripture. That is the problem 'you' have.

@very-rusty said
Will it be a face to face meeting? 🙂

I give free lessons if it comes to blows. 🙂

-VR

We are both pacifists.

@spruce112358 said
They never had any beef because...

what goes around, comes around.

🙂

Nice. 🙂

@very-rusty said
Well I been doing it for years as well as others on the site, when will the Police be coming to arrest us....I want to get a good head start on them. 😛 🙂

-VR

Tuesday, 3pm.

@medullah said
Good Sir I only ask that in case there was a subtlety in the question of a divinity that I may not be aware of.

We probably both agree on what divinity is, I just didn't want to assume.

Over to you Galveston I think?

He may need a few weeks to muster the courage.

@galveston75 said
@medullah

Yes obviously Mr. @ghost-of-a-duke will never agree or accept any answer I give. So I've wasted way too much time trying to shut him up. Lol.

And I appreciate your comment on our neutrality with wars. I've commented before to a poster here that didn't like that we would not fight for our country.
He lived in Europe some where. Anyway I made it clear to ...[text shortened]... y of his family in his country were killed in a war ...it would not have been a JW that killed them.

You've said previously that a child from your church could answer my questions, and yet struggle to do so yourself.

How odd.

@very-rusty said
Ghost believes if he said it and he thought it was funny, everyone else should see it to, is the impression I get. 🙂

-VR

I think people who don't get the joke should aspire to understand it and put their lives on hold until they do.