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Agreed: it does not suggest it, but the current wording (not the current doctrine) lives the door logically open. If you say: "By canids, I refer to dogs and foxes", that does not mean only dogs and foxes, as it also includes wolves, see? Putting "only" there is needed for logical clausure. I won't
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The current wording says, regarding the 2010 change, that the 'generation' refers to ""the anointed who were on hand when the sign began to become evident in 1914" and other "anointed" members whose lives "overlap" with the first group." Irrespective of whether the 2008 may or may not be considered
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Whereas the 2008 change mentions 1914 several times and attaches urgency to the amount of time that has elapsed since that year, the 2010 article only mentions 1914 once without any reference to how much time has elapsed since, instead saying only that the extended period "must surely have an end".
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A common inference with the 2008 change, though not directly stated, was that 'the end must be really really soon' because 'at least some of the anointed who were alive in 1914' would still be alive when 'the end' comes. The 2008 change did not convey an open ended period comprising 'anointed' far
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Hi. As stated, your stated reasons are only inferences. The 2008-10 doctrine, although trying to inspire urgency, does live an open end (there could be anointed in the year 2200). The absence of the word "only" in our wording logically lives the door open to the generation including other groups.
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open-ended, the current wording about the 2010 change does not suggest either a later hypothetical third group or an extension to the duration of the second group, which explicitly overlaps the first group. (As the years go by, a subsequent change to this doctrine will go from
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Hi again. Thanks for your answer. I mostly agree with your current wording in the article because it encompasses both your position and mine, but have in mind that yours was, as you said, not directly stated, so it could be OR. I would still like to write "to refer
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Hence, the 2010 change greatly increased the 'possible' length of the 'remaining time' by several decades. That said, to restore some of the 'urgency' that was lost as a result of the 2010 change, there was some back-pedalling in the 15 January 2014 issue of
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I see your point: it's based on "general practice". It's a good one. I base mine in logic. And I do think that the later definition restricted the previously suggested duration. Your arguments on the contrary were based on your own inferences.
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