Where Are All of the JWs From Years Ago Now?

by minimus 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  BluesBrother

  Certainly those old timers are still there...They are going nowhere now, except the grave, which they always believed they would never see. Of the 1970's intake? I certainly know a few that have skipped, perhaps the 1975 debacle had something to do with it.

  I do not know too many newer ones, what with moving area then dropping it myself. One thing, there are precious few new ones coming along in the cong my wife attends. It seems that youngsters growing up make the new publishers.

  How long before they are told to procreate as a "Sacred Service"?
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  minimus

  Procreate for "The Slave".
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  minimus

  Hmmm.....maybe they are all here.
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  eyeslice

  Many of the real old timers have now passed away. I remember when I was growing up there were people in my congregation going back to WWI and we had one ex-missionary who had been to the 2nd Gilead class. These are all long gone.

  The congregations today are oftem made up of 2nd, 3rd and even 4th generation witnesses.Many of today's elders are sons of elders. And, unlike the 60s and 70s I don't see any new famillies joining the religion. Where new ones do come a long as individuals and often they are the strange and disfunctional.
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  WTWizard

  Most of them were still in about the time I quit going to boasting sessions. However, the area I was in had a large number of people that lived in poverty and had limited education, so I am not expecting too many of them to turn apostate or leave the cancer.

  However, I (who went into the cancer in the late 1980s) have simply quit going.
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  blondie

  The PO in the last congregation I was in said that in the last ten years, the only new jws have been children of jws and not many of them.
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  minimus

  Wizard, does it bother you that some of us have to regularly re-read what you write (in a de-coding way)? You're always interesting but tough to decipher.