Those of us that were adults in the 1960's and 70's had it hammered into us there was no doubt whatever that 1975 meant Armageddon and the New World. How naive we all were!
George
1975 And The Life Everlasting Book.
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designs
Oh yes, every Tuesday night.
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zoiks
The way things get picked apart, analyzed, and discussed ad nauseum at book studies, I can only imagine how it was.
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designs
zoiks-
You know back in the 60s we could actually ask questions and raise issues at both the Book Study and Watchtower Study meetings. By 1970 that was all done away with, by 1980 'raising questions' was a sure trip to the backroom.
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cabasilas
Book studies in the 60s:
When I started attending meetings (1966) they were finishing the "Impossible to Lie" book. They had been studying the "Babylon" book before that. They started the "Life Everlasting" book in 1967 at the book study. I remember it like it was yesterday. After the "Life Everlasting" book they went back to the "Babylon' book, part 2.
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zoiks
Yeah, I was taught never to 'raise questions' at the meeting. But the book study group, being small and intimate, always generated discussion of its own. There was always someone going off on a tangent.
But 1975 in the book... first it is studied at home. Then read aloud, then Q & A. It wasn't something that people could miss.
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JeffT
I was baptized in 1973, having started studying as an adult. EVERYBODY was talking about 1975 and the end of the world. I was told not to go to grad school because the big A was so close.
In retrospect I find it telling that there was never any official comment on this, except for the usual exhortations to spend more time in field service (such as selling your house so you could pioneer). The never once said the we should stop speculating about a date! Smoking would get you DF'd. Saying it was OK to smoke would get you DF'd. Saying oral sex was OK would get you DF'd. Telling his children to go to college would get an elder DF'd. Who knows what they'd do to somebody that said you didn't need to go out in field service.
But hey, announce that you sold your house and cashed in your life insurance so you could move to Armpitland and pioneer and you were an outstanding example.
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designs
I bet you could buy a home in Armpitland real cheap these days..............
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Listener
Watchtower 68 5/1
Thus, eight years remain to account for a full 6,000 years of the seventh day. Eight years from the autumn of 1967 would bring us to the autumn of 1975, fully 6,000 years into God’s seventh day, his rest day.
Whoever wrote this article didn't realize that some of the others in the org were only summizing that 1975 was the end of 6000 years from adams creation.
w67 4/15
Bible chronology and prophecy with the events piling up that demonstrate its nearness show that the warning must be given with the greatest urgency and acted on with all possible speed. It is to come within the generation that has already seen two world wars and it is only a few short years ahead of us.
w67 11/15
Bible chronology and prophecy with the events piling up that demonstrate its nearness show that the warning must be given with the greatest urgency and acted on with all possible speed. It is to come within the generation that has already seen two world wars and it is only a few short years ahead of us.
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Bonnie_Clyde
BluesBrother: Sorry I can't agree!
This is the book that started it all:
1963 "All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial" was the original mention of 1975,
on pages 286-287, in the 1990 reprint a small note was added about the time of Eve's making.
From this my wife and others in the cong during 1963-64 were sure 1975 was the time of Armageddon.
Foykc - I have the original "All Scripture Is Inspired" book, and I know it didn't cause anyone (at least in our area) to think that Armageddon was coming in 1975. It states on page 286:
"Of what significance is this today? It means that by the fall of 1963 mankind has dwelt upon this earth 5,988 years. Does this mean , then that by 1963 we had progressed 5,988 years into the 'day' on which Jehovah 'has been resting from all his work'? No, for the creation of Adam does not correspond with the beginning of Jehovah's rest day. Following Adam's creation, and still within the sixth creative day, Jehovah appears to have been forming further animal and bird creations. Also, he had Adam name the animals, which would take some time, and he proceeded to create Eve. Whatever time elapsed between Adam's creation and the end of the 'sixth day' must be subtracted from the 5,988 years in order to give the actual length of time from the beginning of the 'seventh day' until now. It does no good to use Bible chronology for speculating on dates that are still future in the stream of time."
If anything, this book was suggesting that the end could be many more years beyond 1975.
The hoopla about 1975 didn't begin until 1966. I couldn't believe it when three years after 1963 they changed their mind and decided it was OK to speculate.