Originally posted by menace71
I will find it for you. I know literature from I believe 1968 awake or Watchtower indeed pointed to 1975 so I shall find it for you.
As far as dishonest it's the opposite of honest right? Honest would mean truthful.
When the end of the world is predicted multiple times but does not happen well that is the opposite of honest. This is not to say that ev ...[text shortened]... were false on the predictions.
Manny
PS: let me find the pre-1975 predictions for you.
So in your mind those Brothers woke up one day and said "Lets do something dishonest today and mess with all the people out there and say the world is going to end".
If that is the case then lets take this farther.
Y2K Bug (2000)
Towards the end of the last century, with the coming of the computers, people began speculating that computers will trigger doomsday. They believed that PCs will not be able to tell the difference between 2000 and 1900 dates, and suggested problems leading to N-holocaust.
Ice Age (2000)
“5/5/2000 Ice: the Ultimate Disaster” written by Richard Noone says that by the year 2000, there would a three-mile thick mass of Antarctic Ice. It was said that on this day, the planets would also be aligned in the heavens, and would somehow lead to a global icy death.
Comet Catastrophe (1910)
In 1881, an astronomer found that comet tails contain cyanogens, which is a deadly gas related to cyanide. This was just another bit of news until it was discovered that that Earth would pass through the tail of Halley’s comet in 1910. There was a lot of speculation that the Earth might be bathed in the toxic gas when it passes through the tail of the comet and it caused panic, until scientists intervened to tell people to calm down and that no such thing is going to happen.
“The earth’s crust does not move”- 19th through early 20th century accepted geological science. See Plate Tectonics
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.
“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” — Albert Einstein, 1932
“Space travel is bunk.” — Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of the UK, 1957 (two weeks later Sputnik orbited the Earth).
Etc, Etc.
So in light of these and thousands of other "PREDICTIONS" that have been made by IMPERFECT men just as the Brothers are at the WTS, then all scientist, doctors, government officials, and humans in general should be called dishonest and liers. Right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishonesty
So this description of dishonesty is what you are claimung the JW's do???????????