Even my faithful 83 year old mother sees the End will not come before she's dead. And she's a believer!
Did You Personally Believe "The End" Was Going To Come In Your Lifetime?
by minimus 53 Replies latest jw friends
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Mickey mouse
Up until '95, yes. After that something didn't smell right.
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caliber
it's just around the corner" 'Well it's been a pretty long corner !"..Bethel speaker
Minimus,
I think I can safely state that we are not just a on" a long corner".. but rather have been sent on many detours
down many roads and have yet to get back on the original road !!
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minimus
But JWs are still on the right road, right????
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babygirl75
Being a born-in, I believed it as a child cause that was daily put into my head that the end was near and if I didn't act right I would be destroyed!
As I grew older and was in my late teens...I begin to think it was all BS!
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Scarred for life
Up until I was about 13, yes. I believed what my parents taught me. As the hysteria over 1975 got closer and I became more mature in my thinking I did not believe. By the time I was 15 in 1973, I attended my last memorial and I said adios. BUT, I remember the date that everybody had said was going to be the date of Armageddon in the fall of 1975. I got drunk that day and as the day turned into night I sort of collapsed in a manic laughing state because NOTHING HAPPENED that day! It was just another day like any other. I then knew for SURE that I had been lied to and abused emotionally and spiritually my whole life. It was the true turning point in my life. My attitude toward my parents and family changed forever.
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villabolo
"Honestly, I NEVER believed in the chronology. "No man knows the day or the hour" was pretty clear to me"
Yes I did. I rationalized the "day or the hour" scripture not with the "year or the month" response but with the counterargument that Jesus was speaking in the present tense and his statement did not necessarily apply in the future when the "signs" would be obvious.
Villabolo
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wobble
I did not believe,and as a young MS in 1974 I gave a talk I had composed myself entitled "Are you serving with a date, or eternity in view?"
or something similar, I know I got a bit of flack ,coz it made a mockery of 1975, but it was from my heart, I was willing to serve Almighty God whether the end came in my lifetime or not. Many who listened to me agreed, and they are the ones still in !!!
I was 24 years old.
I still feel the same way,( about serving God, not the WTB$), what has the end of man's mis-rule really got to do with me ?
Armageddon ain't my battle, or my problem ,Revelation makes that plain, so why worry ? that was my view in 1974 and still is.
O.K if God (Jesus) judges me and says "Big fat Wobble, you just aint good enough for my New system ,or heaven, or whatever" I will say." I know you are a righteous and loving judge, so I accept what you say"
So in answer to the thread title, no I didn't believe it would come in my lifetime, so in August 1975 (and remember, it was supposed to kick off in October '75) I set up my pension (aint worth Jack Sh*T now but that's another story)
Just shows how you can have your eyes half open, and still suffer from Cognitive Dissonance and stay trapped in a cult.
May God soon open the eyes of those still in !
Love
Wobble
p.s But I still stuck with the Cult until spring last year ,what a fu**ing tosser I am.
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frozen one
As many others have already posted, growing up a jw how could you not believe? "The End" was a constant companion.
Over the weekend I had a visit with some jw family. An elderly sister, who is near and dear to me, was giving me the rundown of who had died during the past months (all jw's) when she paused and said, "So many of the old friends are dying now..." It was a bit heartbreaking listening to her.
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Gayle
In the mid-80s, at a large social gathering of JWs, people were talking about '75 end issue, one elder arrogantly stated he didn't believe it was going to end then. In response to his remark, I stated, "Wow,,,, no one was saying that,,,,,,,back then!" He was clearly angry at me for me calling him on that comment in front of the group.