James Thomas Rook Jr.

I completely agree ... IF IT IS CLEARLY LABELED AS ONLY SPECULATION.
Without a clear and unambiguous disclaimer, capable of being understood by almost ANYONE with a 7th grade education ... so clear that it CANNOT be misunderstood ... it is merely a false prophesy, intended to keeps the troops motivated, afraid, and keep the money rolling in.

Exactly!
This is not like Groundhog Day, where men in tuxedos and top hats , with cameras rolling, wait for the baby Jesus to come out of his cave, pick him up and after pretending to listen, declare that there will be six more years of tribulation.

I completely agree ... IF IT IS CLEARLY LABELED AS ONLY SPECULATION.
Without a clear and unambiguous disclaimer, capable of being understood by almost ANYONE with a 7th grade education ... so clear that it CANNOT be misunderstood ... it is merely a false prophesy, intended to keeps the troops motivated, afraid, and keep the money rolling in.

I think it was the result of a 1930's experiment with the parents of Wilt Chamberlain, and the parents of Mohandus Ghandi that resulted in the experimental hybrid Danny DiVito, but something went terribly wrong.   
Instead of having the height of Wilt Chamberlain and the wisdom of Ghandi, what happened was the wisdom of Wilt Chamberlain, and the height of Ghandi.
 

I envy you.

Exactly!
This is not like Groundhog Day, where men in tuxedos and top hats , with cameras rolling, wait for the baby Jesus to come out of his cave, pick him up and after pretending to listen, declare that there will be six more years of tribulation.

Why would you want to raise that now?  And I think you mean Canaan not Cain.  But the Watchtower taught no such thing.
*** g82 2/8 p. 13 The Races—What Is Their Origin? ***
Noah and his three sons all had a measure of this dark pigment. From Shem came the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Jews and the Arabs who vary from fair to light-brown skin. The descendants of Japheth, who include the Indo-European races, vary from light skin to dark brown. As for Ham (meaning swarthy or sun-burnt), some, but not all, of his descendants had dark skin. The Egyptians, with light-brown skin, descended from Ham’s son Mizraim. Ham’s son Canaan, who was cursed by God because of bad conduct, was the forefather of the light-skinned Canaanites.
 

This is AMERUKA!  We don't use no stinkin' SI Units in AMERUKA!
We are red-blooded Bible-Totin' red white and blue  people that use FEET, and INCHES, like the Lord intended normal people to use.  Millimeters, PAH!, that what drug dealers use when rolling reefers!
Here in Ameruka SI unites is an abbreviation for SISSY man ... the kind of man that will watch Star Trek and yell for Captain Kirk to set his Phaser on STUN!
REAL MEN don't use STUN. and REAL MEN don't use millimeters !  Tha's for the French who drive those tiny little two seater cars with horns that go "Heunk! Heunk!"
And Amerulum Surveyors are the manliest men of all.  they go through reptile infested swamps, loaded with disease and death, measuring property lines on brackish water, with CHAINS. They come home from work with bug bites that CAST SHADOWS, like craters on the Moon! After six or eight beers, they hardly notice!
Millimeters ... PAH!
Next thing you know, they will be measuring "Overlapping Generations" in CUBITS!
 

I understand you may be concerned about adding anything to scripture (or taking away), since that is a very serious thing, but adding something to what is after all human speculation, surely is not a big deal?
Also, what Jesus Christ is saying to us now, is what he said 2000 years ago, and is recorded in the Bible for anyone to see.

Of course there could be OVERLAPPING groups, JWI.
These are known as zombies.

This is AMERUKA!  We don't use no stinkin' SI Units in AMERUKA!
We are red-blooded Bible-Totin' red white and blue  people that use FEET, and INCHES, like the Lord intended normal people to use.  Millimeters, PAH!, that what drug dealers use when rolling reefers!
Here in Ameruka SI unites is an abbreviation for SISSY man ... the kind of man that will watch Star Trek and yell for Captain Kirk to set his Phaser on STUN!
REAL MEN don't use STUN. and REAL MEN don't use millimeters !  Tha's for the French who drive those tiny little two seater cars with horns that go "Heunk! Heunk!"
And Amerulum Surveyors are the manliest men of all.  they go through reptile infested swamps, loaded with disease and death, measuring property lines on brackish water, with CHAINS. They come home from work with bug bites that CAST SHADOWS, like craters on the Moon! After six or eight beers, they hardly notice!
Millimeters ... PAH!
Next thing you know, they will be measuring "Overlapping Generations" in CUBITS!
 

Melinda, I respect your opinions, and have also carefully considered the Scriptures you posted.
I am not trying to convince ANYBODY, as Jehovah shows us all mercy for being wrong ... or who could stand?
My problem is I know for an absolute fact that at one time, Dinosaurs  ruled the Earth, and much, much later there were human civilizations in almost every nook and cranny of the Earth ...... who left hard evidence of their existence .... LONG, LONG before 6,000 or so years ago.
How do you resolve irrefutable hard evidence ... verified a dozen different ways .... with the idea that no people existed on the earth before Adam?
Cain certainly was worried about them killing him!
 

"(Genesis 3:20) 20 After this Adam named his wife Eve, because she was to become the mother of everyone living. "
 That includes whomever Adam's sons got married to.

They already know this deep into their souls, Srecko Sostar .... but their AGENDA of defending the indefensible will not allow them to admit to it.

You posted NOTHING NEW that you learned at the Convention, Billy ... only quotes from old publications.
You choke EVERY time you are challenged.  It's a wonder you can get enough oxygen to sustain life.

An interesting note: In EIGHT PAGES of this thread (unless I missed something ...) the FIRST menntion of something new coming from a regional "Love Never Fails" convention is John Butler's Wife's completely believable account!
But, even that .... is not even new.
 

Of course there could be OVERLAPPING groups, JWI.
These are known as zombies.

They already know this deep into their souls, Srecko Sostar .... but their AGENDA of defending the indefensible will not allow them to admit to it.

My wife is intelligent enough and wide awake enough to KNOW what she heard said from the platform, BUT as usual a JW has to throw insults as the only answer they have. 
TTH was saying something about building up, not knocking down, but JW's that dislike a comment on here just have to be negative to the one that has written the comment. Not even constructive criticism, just insults. 
SO WHERE IS THE LOVE IN YOUR BEING INSULTING ? 
Come on then, take on JTR Jr's challenge and tell us all what wonderful NEW things you have learnt from the convention.
I would not even waste my time or fuel money going there. 

An interesting note: In EIGHT PAGES of this thread (unless I missed something ...) the FIRST menntion of something new coming from a regional "Love Never Fails" convention is John Butler's Wife's completely believable account!
But, even that .... is not even new.
 

They already know this deep into their souls, Srecko Sostar .... but their AGENDA of defending the indefensible will not allow them to admit to it.

... if you need to drink something to keep from choking  again ... that's O.K.

To avoid the very reasonable assertion that you are delusional, TTH, please tell me, and the audience watching at home, just how you learned that Cartoonist Scott Adams is peeved at me. ( as if I care ... which I do not.)

This is what happens, TTH, when you are so agenda driven with WDS (Watchtower Derangement Syndrome, "The Sword That Cuts BOTH Ways" (tm) ),  that you forget to have your Prescriptions refilled.
To expand on your analogy .... "If it looks like a Duck, walks like a Duck, and sounds like a Duck ..... it's a Duck!"
All that you have stated in the previous post is just quackery.

My wife went to the Friday morning session just to please one of her daughters. When my wife came home she said she had learnt that 'wisdom' is bad for you. At least that was what the brother on the platform was saying. 
My wife was most upset by that 'talk' basically saying not to learn anything. Or only learn from the Org. Even she can see how bad the talks are getting. They seem to be really pushing this idea of not getting a good education.