Were you 'alive in '75' and how was that year for you? (page 10)

punkofnice

Dad always said that we should not serve for a date

My Dad said the same. In a strange way he was right about that but wrong about the stupidity of 'armageddon(TM)'.

coffee_black

My daughter will be 38 in March. I'd say they were a little off.....

Coffee

I was in my 40s. It was the rotating arrangement of Elder positions, really deflating for the super-egoes that thought that without them at the helm or tiller things would slide. no, the 'god delusion', It was my turn to be the pr o that year, so as a pioneer I could see daily what went on in the field.

during the year, things got quieter & quieter, both world wide and among the 'friends" their minds were shutting out the thought of the non-existing end.

then in 1976 the rotation brought me into the school overseer task, people were amazed what could be said about their platform performance, not just platitudes.

The WT control-freaks could not stand that rotation, no-tier system, it was changed. Now the 'END' is SSOON, overlapping, two group generation, possibly stretching to 2075.

With wt central control getting more paranoid, more good people are going to get hurt as we approach 2075.

New FADS chosen in 1919 because they preached : "the world has ended, millions now living will never die". The old light was so much exciting.

Too bad armageddon did not come, we could have had work rotation forever, now we are stuck with

punkofnice

prologos - Yes. All the changes the WBT$ has made too. They really have attempted to dumb down the whole thing to a level of simply obey and don't think or question now. It certainly isn't the same as it was back in the day.

Heartofaboy

marked

Socrateswannabe

I was a teenager and I remember all of the hype leading up to it. Scared me enough to join the regular pioneer ranks right out of high school. I was at the summer convention at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1973 when one of the WT heavies (either Knorr or Franz but I can't remember which) gave a talk that left no doubt that 1975 was the end. The GB has blamed the hysteria of the time on the R&F but the craziness definitely came straight from the top.

MissMyHarley

I was 13 years old and remember my mother waiting for '75 to come so we could see her/our husband/dad again. He died in '73 of a massive heart attack in the front yard of our farm. It didn't happen. She is now 92 and still waiting "on Jehovah". I tell her she will see him soon and just smiles at me now. Sad very,very sad. But at least my wife and kept them from stealing her estate and we are free ourselves now. Stay warm, it's a little chilly here(-2) in the midwest.

punkofnice

socratesewannabe - Yes. I remember they actually DID say 1975 was the end and did blame the R&F. Typical CULT tactics. Let's face it the JWs ARE in a cult.

"...we don't have to guess what the year 1975 means if we read the Watchtower. ...And don't wait 'till 1975. The door is going to be shut before then....As one brother put it, "Stay alive to Seventy-Five..."---- Wisconsin Sheboygan District Overseer Brother Charles Sunutko 1967

Then there was that watchtower(R) article that blamed the R&F for their 'expectation'.

nonjwspouse

1975 was my first knowladge of JWs.My father would comment during the year that there are an awful lot of dissapointed people out there because nothing happend that year of 1975, and then again when the ball dropped in 1976 he mentioned it again. The world is still here, and he felt sorry for all those deluded witnesses. He knew about some JWs selling off everything to await the destruction. I was 14 and had a hard time understanding how anyone could believe in such things so much that they would completely turn thier lives upside down willingl. I eventually forgot about that as the years went on.

I resally wish my husband would/could remember what it was like for him as a 13 year old ( with an elder father) during that time and to share those feelings/thoughts with me or a therapist. I firmly believe it was a big part in his heavy drug use shortly after, and his quitting all JW activities etc, as well. He began working at a resturaunt before he could drive, walking there, working late hours, and it was there he was introduced to drugs. He is puzzled at how his parents allowed his late nights out, they knew he smoked pot in his room and with his friends but didn't do one thing about it. They did tell him how they didn't approve etc. No dicipline at that point. His father walked away from the eldership and KH about the same time.

He continued until he quit the drug use immediatly after high school. He then began martial arts class, and threw himself into it. Everything he became interested in after that he became almost obsessed with it. Then each time he eventually dropped it. ( Which means he has a large number of various skills, but has no real idea how to utilize them.)

Tobe 13 in '75 had to be extremely confusing and scary, and definitly shaping a child's mindset.

punkofnice

Tobe 13 in '75 had to be extremely confusing and scary, and definitly shaping a child's mindset.

I was 16. Just left school.

Were you 'alive in '75' and how was that year for you?

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