by Samuel Thorsen 47 Replies latest jw friends
Just give them a few more years and they'll announce more "new light" saying there are "typical" and "antitypical" generations™. (or have they already done that?) An antitypical generation can be hundreds of years in length, but we'll still be on the threshold of the great tribulation.
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I basically took it in stride like a good dub. I can remember feeling a bit better about my decision to go to college because I then thought it was quite likely I would die before Armageddon with this new definition of a "generation". I was in the middle of my first semester of college.
I thought in 95, its been 20 years since Armegedon. Nothings changed. Where do they get all these people.
Then I thought P.T. Barnum is credited by some as saying a suker is born every minute.
And L. R. Hubbard said if you want to make a million dollars start a religion.
They'll come up with something. They will have to. "Expectation makes the heart sick." or some such thing, and I'm sick! I refused to be strung along.
I never found out about the Generation Change until a few months ago.....Seeker4 was the one who explained it to me..I was in shock..
...OUTLAW
I never really "studied" anything. I just kind of accepted everything at face value, having been raised in the "truth".
I think I studied too much. I had a lot of time on my hands. I was pioneering but my parents were supporting me so I didn't work. I was a dork. I cross referenced everything. We had a big library of bound volumes going back to the 50's. When I studied that article, it really ticked me off.
I was raised in the "truth," but me and my best friend, who I only saw at meetings had agreed secretly with each other to not get baptized til after we were 18. Another friend of ours died, at 19, in his sleep. Scared the crap out of me and I studied and got baptized when I was 19. At 20 I started pioneering, I think. She was the smart one and never did get baptized.
I felt ripped off...
After buying into all the "this generation" crap from da troof book all the way through the 80s, not going to college, not getting married, not building a career, not having a family, then they say "oops, but we're still da troof and it's still coming really soon." LIARS. Their "new light" didn't even make sense. Now, this year's "new light" makes even less sense. They're full of sh!t.
B the X
I had allready faded and stopped believing when the generation change happened.
I had a really good laugh over it, I still think its hilarious, how could we have been so dense!
Shortly thereafter my forever pioneering sister tried to tell me how everything the society teaches can be backed up by the bible.
I said " I know, a few months ago you could have proven to me, for a fact, that the generation that saw 1914 will not pass away before the big A, and now you can use the bible to prove for a fact, that "generation" just means a general group of people".
She had no reply.
Later she tried to tell me that she believed what she believes because of her own personal study, not because the society tells her to believe it.
I mentioned that it was pretty amazing how her belief about what "generation" means changed at the same time that the society decided it meant something else.....how did that happen? Was it really her own personal study that changed her mind?
She again had no comment.
I was also the watchtower study conductor at the time and I conducted that watchtower study. Having been born "in", at the time I was still loyal, and just figured it was new information. However while preparing that study I understood the implications of the change, but there was so much injustice going on within our body of elders with the way many of them were treating members of the congregation, as well as disagreements among the members of our body of elders, that I just didn't focus on that information at the time. Also my personal battle with some of the elders and the then circuit overseers and wts officials was just heating up at the time, therefore my attention was more toward that. In addition our congregation had split around that time even though we didn't want to, so attention spans were short.
So I can attest to the fact during that watchtower study, the congregation basically had no clue as to the implications of the generation change. It turned out to be just another meeting that the majority wanted to end so they could get home and eat dinner.
As said by another poster on this thread, for me it also took another series of events before I realized the watchtower is nothing but a scam.
After I left in 12/99, I realized by talking with other exjws, that the 1995 generation change had made hundreds of thousands leave the borg. So it is interesting hearing your stories here attesting to the fact that the 1995 generation change was the last straw for many here also.
Worf
aSphereisnotacircle,
Your story gave me a good laugh. She was an example of a good drone.
Worf
