by jambon1 23 Replies latest jw friends
This was devastating news to the majority of witnesses in my congregation as they were all in their 70's and 80's at the time. Now they are all dead and the rest are in thier 90's now. They no longer are living proof of Bible prophecy coming true. They are just more poor slobs duped by the silly ass bullcrap of the Faceful and Excrete Salve. So sad the whole affair.
We're out now, rejoice!
W.Once
most JW's are ignorant of the significance or are in denial that the WTS
could be wrong.
I'll second that. Some are not even aware that anything changed. Then there are the ones who do and know not to ask questions.
Blondie
What appeased the congregation, was when they said that this change doesn't push back the end. It will happen just like God wanted it to be, not a second later.
But it just didn't add up in my mind. The end WAS pushed back, because the urgency to preach wasn't there anymore.
It was very significant for me. I already had serous problems, and this was the last crack in the WTS facade that brought it down for me.
I know for a certainty that most JWs didn't understand it. I knew EXACTLY what it meant.
S4
I was 12 years old and newly baptized, so I didn't think about it at all.
people around me where going nuts though
Prob a good 6 years later it crossed my mind that it was a copout. Now I know it is...
I remember when I got reinstated..........after the change.
And how excited this sister was to tell me about the change. It was new light.
The years of living in fear........judgement right around the corner.........
(big exhale)
what a trip is all i can say
purps
It did me in, I lost my son to leaukemia in 89 when the gen. thing happened I knew the whole thing was a shame.
I posted some graphs at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/121792/1.ashx that show there has been a significant drop in growth since 1995 and a large number of people leaving. I think this is partly attributed to the generation teaching.
I did not leave for 10 years after the generation teaching, but it was that change to made me realise I could not trust the Watchtower Society, and ultimately led me to read Studies in the Scriptures to find out how many teachings that had been changed over the years.
Speaking to my male friends before I left, many have little trust in the Watchtower Society. They stay because of "where else is better" but have no real urgency that the end is going to come any time soon. It is quite different that in the 1980s when we used to sit around certain the end was a couple of years away and without doubt going to be before 2000. It is the Urgency that has been affected more than anything else. Without urgency there is less growth.
I was already gone when the formal generation change took place. It didnt suprise me to find out about it though.
I wonder if there where people before the change that where DF'ed for not believing in the original belief ? and if so, where they now automatically reinstated ? The amount of these is probably next to nothing. Only due to the "let's wait on the society" expression so pathetically and so often used.
