In 1988, our circuit overseer gave a talk while holding a cord of rope that stretched over the stage and out a side emergency exit door. Holding the rope he said, "The end is so close, that it's like the end of this rope right outside the door."
Boy, now that I think about it, that rope must have went on for miles!
Before high school I thought I'd never see graduation. When graduation came and went, I was certain the year 2000 would never arrive. While still using up our excess Y2K battery stash in 2004 and already well into fading-hood, I thought back on all the years I lived waiting on the edge of Armageddon to arrive, and all of those poor people from the 1800s who lived their entire life that way..
As I look at my family and old friends still living this way I just think, "Well, should the world ever end via divine intervention, nuclear war, or a giant meteor slamming into us, there's nothing I can do about it now or then, so I'll live in the now with integrity, truth, and passion.
That recipe has yielded the most delicious life by far.
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How did you measure how close the end was ?
by JH 13 Replies latest jw friends
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ush419
The end, that has always been a big draw for the dubs, keep the R&F in line and in fear. I got and get so tired of hearing it is just around the corner. It is soooooo close now, we are so deep into the end. The end of what i think a donkey, horse, cow, because they must have their head of the ass of something thinking that the end (rear in my book) is so close. They don'even think about what it is they are saying, and people just sit there and swallow it up.
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bluesbreaker59
- "This generation will not pass away", so I figured AT LEAST by the mid 90's or the very latest 2000
- I'd NEVER graduate high school, so I "wouldn't have to worry about college"- also year 2000
- I'd NEVER get married - so I didn't have to "worry about finding a mate" - I was married from 2000-2005
- My grandparents would "never pass away" or "retire" , well they are all retired, older, and starting to get cancer, diseases, etc. Great grandparents are all gone now as well.
- My dad would never have to worry about retirement, every year he inches closer, and he's now in his late 40's
One day it occured to me, hey, this might just be BS!
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justhuman
before 2000 for sure