Something tells me the WTS would appreciated it if you kept that mess buried now
did you stash literature away in 1974?
by Aussie Oz 21 Replies latest watchtower bible
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exwhyzee
I posted about this before.
There was an elderly sister back around 1974 that raised her hand in the meeting to tell about a clever way she had devised to tuck the magazines into plastic dish soap bottles and bury them in her garden for use during the Trib. (as we called it) She died in the 1980's, her son turned out to be gay and her daughter ran off with some guy.
Another sister had a case of Lady Clairol Chesnut Brown hair dye stashed under the crawl space of her house. Her idea of a "great tribulation" was to be seen with gray roots. She also had 4 freezers full of home made TV dinners she had made out of left overs. (assuming there would be power to run them)
Yet another sister had a supply of eye makeup because she was horrified at the thought of being imprisioned in a concentration camp without the proper eye makeup on. (what shade of eyeshadow goes best with prision stripes...hmmm?)
My decent and responsible immigrant parents (Dad wasn't even a Witness) sold our nice house and moved a family of 6 into a 10' X 55" mobile home across from the Hall with a few dozen other Witnesses, so that they wouldn't have any debts when the Trib. hit. A few years later they had to start all over again and buy another house. Others did the opposite, they bought big houses figuring they would never have to pay for them and then ended up doing the walk of shame away from these places a few years later.
Such was the climate back then...and these were the adults that I looked to, to form my view of life and the world around me. I learned how to be fearful and was always waiting for the other shoe to drop. And the WTBTS never acknowledged those of us who's lives were forever altered because of this nonsense and even claimed they had nothing to do with it.