Was Grandma a convert or born/raised JW
Oct 1975 was HUGH, though denied by JWs now.
Randy (Dogpatch on JWN )runs Freeminds and he has some talks from that time period. (concentrate on 1967-1975).
http://www.freeminds.org/wav/wav.htm
I was only 18 months then but it is when my memory starts..... I remember practicing being quiet in a bomb shelter. And digging up various survival tins we had buried in the backyard.
Perhaps someone will upload a copy of the 2008 WT CD (archival collection of WTs from 1950 and Awakes from 1970 (hiding some of the most damning 1975 stuff))
Many Members here can tell hordes of stuff who are a bit older then me..... just open up another thread entitled "Tell me about your 1975 experiences" and ask about what they were told and believed from 1966 to 1975.
Also consider reading the 'best of' section on JWN http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/best-of/1
The Society (now called the Organization) is a publishing company disguised as a religion. We are called 'publishers'. We have a sales meeting with training session once a week to aid us in spreading the literature of the WTS and to find converts. Like all sales departments, goals are never fully met and are always encouraged to do more, as proof of our worthiness to be saved (or in the business world not to be fired). No JW is ever doing enough. Guilt and pressure are used to control it's members to seek nothing but the Organizations goals (no college, school sports, many forego cmarriage and children and any interests beyond Field Service because the sky was falling and falling Oct 1975!) Back then the literature was sold but the WTS stopped when faced with paying taxes on these profits. ..... she was a child salesperson, and that Elder's attention seems creepy.
Do some research into companies who had 'infant' salesman before child labor laws (rewarded with items earned from a company catalog)....... our lives growing up JW wasn't much different
