Submitted by jstep (not verified) on Sat, 2011-04-30 14:47.
I wandered across this blog through your link at Pharyngula. I'm glad I did. Yes, it is true that they modified their beliefs in regards to the "generation" from 1914. They've come to redefine the word "generation" to mean something much like they use to define a creation "day"; an unspecified period of time that is charecterized by certain traits of the end times. I'll admit to being a little hazy on the specifics, its been ten years.Incidently, although there are many things about my upbringing that are upsetting, I think the one that has caused the most long-lasting anger is being denied access to higher education. When my mother found out, after I had left the organization in my mid-twenties, that I had enrolled in college she said "All of the education in the world won't keep you from dying at Armeggedon." That was probably close to the last time we've spoken.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
— George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
I wandered across this blog through your link at Pharyngula. I'm glad I did. Yes, it is true that they modified their beliefs in regards to the "generation" from 1914. They've come to redefine the word "generation" to mean something much like they use to define a creation "day"; an unspecified period of time that is charecterized by certain traits of the end times. I'll admit to being a little hazy on the specifics, its been ten years.Incidently, although there are many things about my upbringing that are upsetting, I think the one that has caused the most long-lasting anger is being denied access to higher education. When my mother found out, after I had left the organization in my mid-twenties, that I had enrolled in college she said "All of the education in the world won't keep you from dying at Armeggedon." That was probably close to the last time we've spoken.