Araucaria
JUB 10k Club
Good midday Tuesday, RM and Frankie!

I've been doing this, that, and the other. We're having nice weather, with warm days and chilly nights, so I'm trying to get out and enjoy it.
Well, I'm going through my father's old box of photos and letters, and so far I haven't found the picture that lady wanted. But in the meantime I've been reading letters and checking, do I have this person in my family tree, etc.? There were a couple of letters from a great aunt to my father written in the 1970s. She had seven children, and in one place she talked about all of them, giving birthdays and all. So I opened up ancestry to see if I had all that info. But then I saw a name for a husband, and I said, wasn't that guy married to her sister? I checked it out, and yes, the old bastard had 3 or 4 kids with one wife, and left her to marry her younger sister. Yep, you do find scandals when you do your family genealogy.
But that great aunt was a Jehovah's Witness. And she wrote page after page of foreboding from scriptures in the Old Testament, and things that are to happen, blah, blah, blah. After reading through all that, my reaction was, "OK, what's the POINT of all this?" And she wrote about how Jesus has been ruling since 1914. Funny, I hadn't noticed. But really, I think the problem is that Jehovah's Witnesses paint themselves into corners with their prophecies, and when they don't come to pass, they do all these convoluted somersaults to say the prophecy was true, and why we don't see it. Why can't they say we misinterpreted it or misunderstood it, or even we got it wrong?

I've been doing this, that, and the other. We're having nice weather, with warm days and chilly nights, so I'm trying to get out and enjoy it.
Well, I'm going through my father's old box of photos and letters, and so far I haven't found the picture that lady wanted. But in the meantime I've been reading letters and checking, do I have this person in my family tree, etc.? There were a couple of letters from a great aunt to my father written in the 1970s. She had seven children, and in one place she talked about all of them, giving birthdays and all. So I opened up ancestry to see if I had all that info. But then I saw a name for a husband, and I said, wasn't that guy married to her sister? I checked it out, and yes, the old bastard had 3 or 4 kids with one wife, and left her to marry her younger sister. Yep, you do find scandals when you do your family genealogy.
But that great aunt was a Jehovah's Witness. And she wrote page after page of foreboding from scriptures in the Old Testament, and things that are to happen, blah, blah, blah. After reading through all that, my reaction was, "OK, what's the POINT of all this?" And she wrote about how Jesus has been ruling since 1914. Funny, I hadn't noticed. But really, I think the problem is that Jehovah's Witnesses paint themselves into corners with their prophecies, and when they don't come to pass, they do all these convoluted somersaults to say the prophecy was true, and why we don't see it. Why can't they say we misinterpreted it or misunderstood it, or even we got it wrong?











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