That's the mindset I'm talking about. It doesn't matter how clear the false prophecy is. It doesn't matter that the whole context indicates that he was talking to actual living disciples and telling them, personally, to watch for the signs because their own generation won't have passed before the end. It doesn't matter that those present interpreted it as generation. It doesn't matter that this is consistent with the rest of Jesus' philosophy (which, unlike that of Moses and Abraham wasn't about building up a great nation but rather about preparig for an imminent end). It doesn't matter that the whole package of Jesus' philosophy (about giving up everything and leaving your family and following him) only makes sense if the seconds were ticking down to a close. All that matters is that the plain reading of his comments was proven wrong, so subsequent generations had to interpret what he said differently than his own generation did. To return to my DOW prediction analogy, if the DOW doesn't rise 10% tomorrow, a sufficiently devoted apologist could point out that often "tomorrow" in English is used to indicate a future that's more than a day away ("the world of tomorrow will be full of technological wonders"), and claim, therefore, that I wasn't proven wrong.... But such apologetics don't change the fact that the context of my prediction makes it clear what I meant and that this ended up being false.