Love listening to you and it helps me make sense of all the rubbish that was drummed into me as a child I’m now a banished person disowned by my family mainly because I dared question the new bible that came out a few years back how dare we question the divine word I was told
I don't know how much this will help, but I got df'd 30 years ago, and I'm finally starting to welcome my family (my sisters mainly) out of that goofy cult. Be strong, keep hoping. People can surprise you.
Very well put together Lloyd. I remember vividly going door to door in 1974 doing what was then called “tract work”, delivering tracts and telling people that 1975 was going to be a momentous year. The message from Brooklyn was coming over very loud and clear in the kingdom halls at that time. Stay alive till ‘75. And your explanation of the teaching regarding the creative days is 100% accurate. I still remember clearly how this was all covered up in 1976 and how many “witnesses” left the org after that year. I’m so glad I’m out. Keep up the good work Lloyd. 👍
Absolutely! I was 10 in 1974 and clearly remember the hysteria surrounding the 1975 'end date" and the saying that my parents and their JW friends were using informally was "Come Alive In '75" a take on what the Watchtower was saying. I even went to school in 1975 and told classmates that Armageddon was coming in the fall of that year. I also remember people selling their homes and businesses and moving to places like Guatemala to pioneer, and crawling back to Canada after the debacle, financially broke and emotionally broken. Many formerly "strong' members of the congregation left the religion at that point. Then the Watchtower blamed the membership for being too eager!
Yes this is why born in 1960 I spurned the friendship of perfectly normal and friendly boys who are now grandfathers and could have become friends for life but who were scheduled to be burnt to death and destroyed at Armageddon in 1975.
I remember the discussion of 75 was kept to a minimum as a JW in the 90s but when it was brought up, anyone who was gone from that era, I was just told it was for smoking.
Good stuff I have the 1974 KM that says sell your homes and finish out the short time remaining in the system of things studied in my dads hand writing
As much as I love your rebuttal videos, it's the "side quest" videos of yours I like the most... Getting our torches and lamps and venturing off into the Watchtower's Wilderness of Madness always brings us on some very interesting JW teachings haha 😂
Thank you Lloyd. My father is an avid believer of the "Great Jubilee". I grew up in the 80s, he voraciously studied two medium sized red books, I think one was called Babylon it's grand climax. I've had repeated arguments with him about the generation teaching and other debunked "old light". He typically ended any argument with an accusation of apostasy. Our last conversation he said if I'm rebelling from the watchtower teachings to not call his house again. Although painful at first, I came to realize that he had no other thought process outside of the watchtower and our conversations were usually tense and unpleasant so it was probably for the best.
One of the books I think you may be referencing is the red Revelation book. It's full of "old light." Sounds like your Dad suffers from cognitive dissonance. Sorry it has come to this with your own father. Wishing you well!
Hey Lloyd, long time lurker here. My father(at the time of his death in 2013) was the one who donated a number of the items in Warwicks museum(finished the following year); including the Photo Drama of creation and what was claimed to be the first Watchtower and first Awake article. He was an well known collector and seeing your collection every week subconsciously makes me giddy!
And here I was thinking this was gonna be more stories about the Smurf getting up and walking out of the KH. 😁But seriously, it’s always truly fascinating to learn of the early (and ridiculous) teachings of the WT. There’s a reason why you can’t research this early nonsense on their website.
Lol I remember the story of the surf who ran down the isle of the kingdom hall😆😆 my mom said they were demonized and I couldn't watch the cartoon or play with the toys.
Thank you Lloyd for your insight which is helping to expose the gaslighting toxic leadership of this organization which lacks continuity, honesty and humility.
This is a great video, Lloyd. I remember when I was a JW the teaching of the creative days being 7000 years long and this being the basis of Christ's 1000 year reign after Armageddon following 6000 years since human life was created. I remember well the Eve "excuse" for Armageddon not coming in 1975. One thing always bothered me; Jehovah was supposed to have rested on the 7th day, but he's done everything but rest. He supposedly caused a world-wide flood, brought 10 plagues on Egypt, wrote hundreds of laws including the 10 commandments, led the Israelites out of Egypt, parted the Red Sea, caused many other miracles and gave dreams to numerous people, caused a virgin birth, resurrected Jesus, all the while giving inspiration to men to write all this down in the Bible and today he is still working his magic through 8 old fools in NY and will shortly bring worldwide destruction and slaughter to billions of people. Hardly a rest day!!!
I... Have no words this is an amazing comment!!! 😆🤣 Sh*t, I'm tired for the Almighty! I think this should be plastered everywhere! It's entirely accurate and also hilarious. The sass is thick and I love it! 😂
@@diana7915 And I guess Adam was alone for at least 47 years, and counting. Only then God noticed that Adam needed companion? And, how was he supposed to populate the earth? by cloning himself? It looks that God didn´t have a clear plan at all. No wonder they don´t talk about this.
When I was a JW, growing up I always believed each creative day was 7,000 years. It underpins the idea that after 6000 years of human history, there will be a millennium reign of christ, the end of which coincides with the end of God's rest day. I remember watchtowers on the parallel with the jubilees in the late 70s. Definitely a ghost teaching that people still believe, but don't think about much anymore. It was a hot teaching in the run up to 1975, as that date was heavily invested in the idea of a creative day being 7,000 years. I have even heard Elders defending the fossil record with the statement that Satan went back in time and out them there to deceive us. In the mid 70s as a child i heard it said many times that creation did not end until Adam had named all the animals and Eve was created. This was Very much the get out of jail free card over 1975.
I walked away before 1975 but I remember picking up a newspaper in 1976 and reading a report on how the WTBTS spun and weaselled regarding “we’ve still got time, when was Eve created?” There was even a figure from the JW hierarchy of 9 months 🥱
That pyramid teaching, I remember in my teens (late 1980's) finding one of those early books in a Northwich antique shop, they had a small book room and I was overjoyed to find an old publication. Can't remember the book title and sadly it's lost now. (You may recall Lloyd at the Manchester assembly in Northenden, they would sometimes have a stock of old yearbooks etc that you could add to your collection) Anyway I go this book and was excited to tell an elder what I had added to my collection and that it mentioned the great pyramid with diagrams but he very sternly warned me about reading old society literature as it was old light and not upto modern JW thinking. I was almost made to feel like I was being an apostate just for owning it.
We were also taught that a day is as a 1000 years to us back when we started in the JW world in 1959, continued through early seventies and the 7000 and the number 7 was both a conflicting time line and 7 being heavenly perfection, now the discrepancies may have been with the human men in elder positions and their misinterpretation or just plain Herman error, but there definitely, in my world was contradictions.
I remember trying to point out to my mom, and the elders that we should apply the 1000 years is a day to the "last days" if we really want to know how far we are from Armageddon. I was told I was contradicting the Bible, and trying to mislead my own mother.
I always picture them (gb) saying let's make this or that up as needed add or subract as we see fit. Great video I wish I could "rub" it in their smug faces.
The description of the creation referring to pedestals, keystone, foundation, etc is poetry, figures of speech which occur many times in the Psalms, Song of Solomon and the books of the prophets. The Bible is not a scientific or history handbook, but was written exclusively to guide and direct us to live a healthy and productive life, having a personal relationship with our Heavenly Father
They hold onto the "thousands" of years because too many JWs truly believe it only took "thousands" of years. Changing it to "billions" would cause too much upset for the old timers.
Lol I've been questioning this religion even when I was a kid. It didn't make sense to a 6 year old. And in the back of my mind it worried me a little and I said to myself what if it's all a lie and not the "truth". I'm so glad that doubt manifested in me so young and when I was 18 I left. My whole family stayed. I've always been the outcast but I broke the generational curse put upon my family in the name of Jehovahs witnesses
I had the same thoughts as a child. And I remember asking my grandfather how you know it’s the truth. His answer said it all for me. “You just know it’s true because it’s in your heart”. To which I asked, “well what if it’s not in my heart?” And he said that I was free to make my own decisions, but there are always consequences to decisions. I made my mind up at 12 years old I didn’t want to be part of something that was basically a fairytale in my mind. I ran away from home, and was then banished from my home from my decision to run away and not be a witness. It was a hard life, and I have problems now as a older adult, but I think I came out ok considering what I had gone through growing up and being in the streets at such a young age. I was scared, hungry, tired, and no one in that religion would help. They all turned a blind eye. What kind of people would allow this? You’d have to be a psychopath to think this is right! My mother wouldn’t even have anything to do with her grandchildren because of me. She died no knowing her grandchildren. How sad is that. All she cared about was money, and what others in the religion thought of her!
@@hehawkiller I'm so sorry. That religion has destroyed so many lives. I feel we all need a support group for former witnesses so we can lean on each other and help others who are thinking about leaving. Sounds like you've had it pretty tough since you've been out but if you ever need to chat, you can message me.
@@catladyjai1113 it’s not been the worst life, but it wasn’t anything a person should have to go through as a child. I for one would never turn my back on my children. Support group sounds fantastic actually.
hasn't Anthony Morris been seeing ghost (angels) in the trees?! seems like they've been bringing that up more often lately... starting to get really Scooby Doo around bethel
the Watchtower Jan. 1, 1976. When was it printed? When written? Well before 1975 was over, Watchtower had their excuses ready of why their predictions did not come true.
Thank-you So Much Lloyd for bringing out important points of the past which many of us never knew especially of the Russel Era and the Pyramids. Back in the mid 60's none of that was ever mentioned. Like you've mentioned it's a Ghost of the past. Definitely the 6,000 year ending in 1975 was taught back then in mid 60's in the book that I studied "The Truth That Leads To Everlasting Life " which said that 1 day in God's eyes is a 1,000 years to mankind and that 6,000 years was ending in 1975 which of course as I've mentioned in the past that this book was revised to take their lies out! Amazing how they can get away with anything and hide their teachings of the past. Lloyd Thanks again, your great work is waking up so many people and making us that have left appreciate our true freedom from slavery. All The Best to you and family 👪
I'm tired today, but I do want to thank you for all you do, Lloyd. I almost got baptized years ago. There's so much I didn't know about them! It's absolutely mind boggling what they taught and do teach ! ⌚🛑
I haven’t been in a Kingdom Hall since 1969, I was 15, that 42,000 years was the teaching I was raised on 🤣. That then blended into (wait for it) Archbishop Ussher’s chronology + 7,000 years god rests (-1,000 throw Satan in the pit) = 1975 we’re all going to die 🤯 It is all fuzzy now but the dogma was “end of 6,000 years of man on earth” But Lloyd knows all this
I knew this wouldn't be actually about ghosts, but I was kind of hoping it would be. 🤣 Saying new light every time something is changed is such a cop out. How are so many okay with this? It's one of the reasons I woke up.
Excellent presentation. I don't think they ever backed away from 1975 being the 6,000 years of human existence. This means we are still waiting for the time between Adam was created and the date Eve was created.
JESUS CHRIST KNOWS THAT - Adam and Eve died and just became worthless and useless dusts on earth forever as CONSEQUENCE of their Satanic hatred of the Creator and defiance of his Sovereignty, instructions, guidance, and commandments. JESUS CHRIST KNOWS THAT - All the powerful, great, glorious, and superior Atheists, Agnostics, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, etc. who rejected his BIBLICAL teachings about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" as worthless and useless will just die and become worthless and useless dusts on earth forever like Adam and Eve as CONSEQUENCE of their Satanic hatred of the Creator and defiance of his Sovereignty, instructions, guidance, and commandments. CHRISTIANS, HINDUS, MUSLIMS, BUDDHISTS, ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, etc. DON'T KNOW THAT - All submissive and obedient human beings who put their faith and hope in the BIBLICAL teachings about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" will be rewarded and honored by the Creator with ETERNAL LIFE and existence on a safe and peaceful planet earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and deaths, without terrorists, criminals, and militaries, without liars and hateful atheists, agnostics, and fanatics of religions, without slanderers, deceivers, hypocrites, without funeral homes and cemeteries. Worshippers of the Creator who died thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, King David, Jesus Christ's disciples and many others will be resurrected back to life by Jesus Christ at the Creator's own good time. Worshippers of the Creator and believers of the Christ will fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of the Creator and his Christ for eternity as subjects of the "Kingdom of God" under the loving rulership, guidance, and protection of the Creator's Chosen King, his Christ.
I'm a Christian who believes that the world creation took millions upon millions of years. The days the Bible describes may be the day God decided to start His new creation, but it took a VERY long time to finish. That's all. Except man, since we've only existed for a few hundred thousand years.
Be gracious and concede that the Bible is not giving a scientific account of the creation, it’s giving you litterateur, some in form of poetry, some in the form of myths to give their philosophical/religious understandings…
Deuteronomy 21:10 When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. 14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her. God is so just and merciful as described in the Bible!
@@sofietaylor2573 are you serious? A loving god orders the killing of men, women, children, infants, and all the animals--but says if you want to take any pretty women, and rape her, you can keep her as a wife (sex slave)? That is moral and good because it could be worse?! That isn't how good and bad / morality works. Like Ted Bundy was actually a loving person, because while he raped, tortured and killed people, he didn't eat them like Jeffrey Dahmer did? Makes as much sense as this "divine command" being loving because it could be worse.
I can’t help but think of the cartoon movie in which one of the villain steals the pyramids and the theft is hidden by blown up canvases. A competing thief promises to steal the moon. 😂😂
i remember the grand climax book....good grief what a name for a religious book from super sexually repressed orginazation. Bravo Lloyd great job as always
Doesn't really matter how much of this stuff you show witnesses- they just role their eyes and say "yeah-yeah- it's old light from a long ago and we have new light now so it doesn't matter and the light getting brighter is just more proof of how right we are"
Imagine Lett and Tony showing up on your doorstep on Halloween with little JWBORG donation boxes ( anyone remember the UNICEF boxes kids carried on Halloween??) 🤣😂🤣🤣
As I remember from my childhood the creative days were 7,000 years each with us living in the 6th day almost at the end and that would end in 1975. It was first mentioned I believe in the 1904 New Creation page 19 and later in New Heavens page 43, The Truth Shall Make You Free page 57 and Let God be True page 155. They explained the light dilemma by saying the water in the firmament blocked light from the sun but over the period of 14,000 years the mist cleared enough for the light to finally peek through and now there is enough light for plants to grow. They alluded that the planet was once like Saturn with rings of water and minerals. The Truth Shall Make You Free page 58. On page 67 they explain earth’s extinctions and limestone deposits as some of earth’s rings falling. Far out shit here. This is the first book I remember studying and as a young child it left its mark on me. This book also has a lot of chronology that if you add up the dates you come to 1975 or close to it. Remember this book was written in 1943 and I was studying it probably about 1950 and I did the math. I got in trouble for that because I was running ahead of Jehovah
24:50 Just because it was dark at first does not mean the Bible suggests that the earth existed before the sun. When God said "Let there be light," it most likely meant that He created the earth's atmosphere, WITHOUT which the light of the sun would fail to illuminate. The moon has no atmosphere, and that's why it always has a "night sky" in photos taken on its surface.
Every witness who'd I'd ever talked to about the days of creation wasn't going by the doctrine then. I'd always heard that each day represented a thousand years. And I'd heard people say that a thousand years is like a day to Jehovah. I never heard anything about 42,000.
Adam was created on the sixth day, and he died at the age of 930 years, as it says in the Bible in Genesis chapter 5 verse 5. Which I am guess happened years after the seventh day of creation. So are Jehovah's Witness saying the Adam lived for more then 7,000 years, and are they saying that God rested for 7,000 after creating the Earth and the universe? It seams crazy to me.
Thank u, good to hear n understand the reasoning for all these teaching. The propoganda taught about 1975 to this day is mind boggling blaming the bros for jumping ahead ofvthe org is astounding n frankly sickens me bc they reveded the bros into believing this date to be the doomed date for mankind.
Time is relative. What seems like an eternity from the perspective of a human with a very brief lifespan and limited mind would indeed be a ‘nano second’ from the perspective of an eternal all powerful being. Just saying…
@@ShoNuffSoulBro1 An all-powerful and all-knowing entity being bound by the limits of time? Sorry, that simply doesn't add up. "I am God! I can create whole universes! But, like, not right now of course..."
Thanks very much Lloyd. Do you have Watchtower's book - From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained (from the 1950's) in your collection? It also propagates their teaching of each creative day being 7,000 years (see chapter 1, from paragraph 7 onwards).
in the mid 70‘s I was a (young) pimi elder… but every time I had to mention this teaching in a study or a public talk, I was deeply ashamed! my (worldly) job was to teach logics and maths, but there is not the faintest reason to believe that all creation days had the same length! but fortunately it was a trigger for my progressive leaving…ten years later
The teaching about the gap between Adam and Eve's creation was still very much alive in my old congregation. People would talk about it and speculate all the time. To suggest that Adam lived for decades before the creation of Eve, they would say that he had time to name all the animals, that it must've taken years! And then he realized he felt lonely because he was the only human while all the animals had companions. But they would also say that it couldn't have been that long because we are clearly in the last part of the last days. And that's how we would always explain the failure of 1975. I didn't realize it was a ghost teaching hahah
I will never forget the moment that you were in the bunker, and you reached behind you & pulled out a book! 🤣 I thought it really was a backdrop or something! I was just all "whoa! Magic? Wait, am I high right now?" I don't do anything to be high but like, maybe? How'd I ever get sucked up into this ridiculousness and for 10 years? Christ on a bike!!! 😆😂
QUESTION - Who is the loving, kind, and merciful God and Father of Jesus Christ? ANSWER - The CREATOR of the heavens and the earth and all that are in and on it. QUESTION - What are the BIBLICAL teachings of Jesus Christ? ANSWER - The "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead"? QUESTION - Who are opposing the teachings of Jesus Christ? ANSWER - Satan the Devil and his anti-Christs. QUESTION - What are the LIES and UNBIBLICAL teachings of Satan's anti-Christs? ANSWER - Armageddon, Hellfire, Trinity, Rapture, and Reincarnation. QUESTION - Who are the believers of the LIES and UNBIBLICAL teachings of Satan's anti-Christs? ANSWER - The Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and all LIARS and hateful human beings. ETERNAL DEATH, JUST WORTHLESS DUSTS ON EARTH FOREVER - Jesus Christ KNOWS that all Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and all Liars and hateful human beings who believe and preach the LIES and UNBIBLICAL teachings of Satan's anti-Christs about "Armageddon", "Hellfire", "Trinity", "Reincarnation", and "Rapture" will just become worthless and useless dusts on earth forever after their inescapable deaths. ETERNAL LIFE AND EXISTENCE ON EARTH - Jesus Christ KNOWS that all submissive and obedient human beings who put their faith and hope in his BIBLICAL teachings about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" will be rewarded and honored by the Creator with Eternal Life and existence on a safe and peaceful planet earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and deaths, without terrorists, criminals, and militaries, without liars and hateful atheists, agnostics, and fanatics of religions, without slanderers, deceivers, hypocrites, without funeral homes and cemeteries. Worshippers of the Creator and believers of the Christ KNOW that they will fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of the Creator and his Christ for eternity as subjects of the "Kingdom of God" under the loving rulership, guidance, and protection of the Creator's Chosen King, his Christ.
I thought that JWs still believed in the 42000 year six creative day teaching until recently talking to a JW elder and it became apparent this was no longer insisted upon
why to human beings assume that a creator god would consider our species special in any way? And, on the other end, why would atheist consider our species to be an intelligent one?
Awesome video as always @Lloyd! Great job! Just a quick one you referring to their association with the UN? Do you have any content or info on this? Cheers
Seeing those older books...I remember studying them during the Tuesday night bookstudy!! I wish I would have kept some of them, my mom saved them & eventually tossed them
The Branch started sending out letters advising congregations & publishers to destroy certain publications & videos. They’ve been trying to purge their past for a while. I remember as a COBE, I wanted to ensure our Kingdom Hall was a history library, not that I was aware of what were in those publications. Had WTs from the late 1800’ all the way til current. Friends who were in their late 90’s had them & donated them. Let me just say our C.O was less than impressed, stating World HQ have these & we’ve been instructed not to keep certain literature. Welp, that led me to read & when I tell u my mind was blown! My goodness! It became abundantly clear y they wanted these things destroyed.
@27:20 - All I can think of throughout the entire 49-50,000 year discussion is a salivating Franz hovering over all the materials and maniacally fixated on 1975. The Jubilee period and the 4026BCE chronology was all just too thrilling. Printing that content in 1973 was just more of his own mania related to - and based on - what is clearly acknowledged earlier by Russel himself as a 'theory' (per Photo Drama publication.) Why would Satan need to build something so expansive to mislead when God's own organisation has created their own falsehoods from their own theories?
In the 13th Century Thomas Aquinas raised a- possibly tongue in cheek -question as to how many angels can dance on the head os a pin so fixations with the obviously absurd is nothing new. Nice to know JWs are keeping the tradition alive
Speaking of the Aid Book. Didn't Raymond Franz write that book? Seems like they would have collected and burned every copy they could have gotten their hands on
Actually the 7 days being like 50K years was still being preached and talked about down here in Latinamerica. It is considered to be much more sensible by people preached to. As the calculation for it comes from other examples of when God's 'days' in prophesy and such days are not actually 24 hours. The logic is. "How is there a day before even the sun and moon?" Days werent even a thing yet. That's how we would hook people when preaching
Then basically just saying god guides evolution. That's why they 'aren't like creationists' When I was fighting with my Elders It would always get to some more reasonable explanation. But this helps note how that detail was not in the books. When this is pointed out they'd just say well the book is a guide our interpretation that makes sence of it is where belief comes from
Bible Students Movement still to this day! Do not reject CT Russell's Pyramid teaching. Bible Students to this day still print and make available to the public: Studies In The Scriptures.
if my memory is good, the reasoning was: the 6000 first years of the rest day will finish in 1975, ( before they thought about Eve!) , and obviously we are living in the last days, cf. the generation teaching which was not yet overlapping, and the 1000 years of christ reign s will finish the rest day. So the 7th day lasts 7000 years. And: OF COURSE, all creation days have the same length…so the whole creation process of animal life ( 5th day?) lasted 14000 years!!! and all the scientists use stupid methods to tell us the contrary as Satan guides them!!