God's word at the Watchtower

Karl Keating's e-Letter has recently had an interesting bit of info about the Jehovah's Witnesses.

There is a website that lists a large number of absurd quotes from the Watchtower's publications.

These quotations come directly from original Watchtower publications.  If Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to read them, they are admitting, if only to themselves, that the Watchtower is wrong.

Note: the Watchtower is persecuting this site, and whatever happens, it would be good to download the entire thing for future reference.  I'll be doing this.  I recommend you do the same.

Remember that the Watchtower says that God never changes his truth, and so the truth of the Watchtower, no matter how old, is still truth, and always will be:

If we were following a man undoubtedly it would be different with us; undoubtedly one human idea would contradict another and that which was light one or two or six years ago would be regarded as darkness now; But with God there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, and so it is with truth; any knowledge or light coming from God must be like its author. A new view of truth never can contradict a former truth. "New light" never extinguishes older "light," but adds to it ... - Zion's Watch Tower, Feb, 1881, p.3

So let's take a look at some of their more ridiculous truths:

It is known that only about three out of every one hundred operated upon for appendicitis really have a diseased appendix needing removal. We give below a simple cure for appendicitis symptoms. The pain in the appendix region is caused by the biting of worms near the junction of the transverse colon with the small intestines, low down on the right side of the abdomen. This remedy is recommended also for typhoid fever, which is also a worm disease. - Watchtower Jan 15 1912 (reprints p.4963)

THE subject of gravitation is a very interesting one, especially as it relates to attraction between heavenly bodies. "Attraction of Gravitation Not Universal" (Golden Age, No. 314) seems to be well and truthfully thought out. Therefore, Newton's "universal law of gravitation", that "every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely as the squares of their distance apart", is not true. The variableness of the planets in their orbits proves that the "constant attractive force", necessitated by the universal gravitation theory, is based upon a false premise. ... - The Golden Age 1932 August 17, pp.707-710

The electronic energy of the sun makes impingements against the electronic content of our air, and this friction causes light. ... - The Golden Age 1932 August 17, pp.707-710

The moon, made up of materials something like our earth, is also a magnet, and has an attraction for the earth, and the supercharge is in the pointed end, which faces the earth, which charge is so heavy that the moon will not rotate, the moon's speed and the centrifugal force of the earth keeping the moon at a respectful distance. The magnetic power of the moon is sufficient to influence not only the earth's air volume, but also the ebb and flow of the mighty tides in our oceans. ... - The Golden Age 1932 August 17, pp.707-710

It seems reasonable that each planet should have its own gravitational law, according to density and valency, reaching only to its atmospheric boundary. The moon, having no atmosphere, would, therefore, have no gravitational pull, and a loose object, unmagnetized, could not adhere thereto. - The Golden Age 1932 August 17, pp.707-710

Parkersburg, W. Va., Sept. 8. It has fallen to the lot of the Rev. William H. Draper, pastor of the Logan Memorial church, of Washington Conference, A.M.E. church, of this town, to give a living affirmative answer to the famous Biblical question, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?" Though once as black as charcoal, the Rev. Mr. Draper is now white. His people say that his color was changed in answer to prayer. Many years ago Draper was employed by a fair-skinned man, and he was often heard to remark that if he could only be white like his employer, he would be happy. While in the white man's service Draper `experienced' religion. - The Watchtower Reprints 1900 October 1 p.2706; Zion's Watch Tower 1900 October 1 p. 296-297

It has never been proven that a single disease is due to germs. - The Golden Age 1924 Jan 16 p.250