The Duped Generation

by ISP 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  ISP

  So much promised to so many which resulted in so much disappointment, despair and misery.
  

  What Future For The Young?
  If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things. Why not? Because all the evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years. Of the generation that observed the beginning of the "last days" in 1914, Jesus foretold : "This generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur."-Matt. 24:34.
  Therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers. If you are in high school and thinking about a college education, it means at least four, perhaps even six or eight more years to graduate into a specialized career. But where will this system of things be by that time? It will be well on the way toward its finish, if not actually gone.
  This is why parents who base their lives on Gods prophetic Word find it much more practical to direct their young ones into trades that do not require such long periods of schooling. True, those who do not understand where we are in the stream of time from God's viewpoint will call this impractical. But which is really practical: preparing yourself for a position in this world that will soon pass away? or working toward surviving this system's end and enjoying eternal life in God's righteous new order? - John 2:17.
  (Awake May 22 1968 page 15)

  What can you say? Well here we are in 2002 and the end is nowhere to be seen. Would you have 'fulfilled any career'? Well if you were 16 in '68 you would now be 50. If you followed the WTS garbage you would be suffering the aches and pains of window cleaning, struggling to support your family with little financial security whereas those that did ' not understand where we are in the stream of time from God's viewpoint' would be settled in a career planning for retirement perhaps. Which course was 'practical'? I feel very sorry for all those duped. The WTS owes them. The WTS proves itself a liar and purveyor of false hopes and prophetic statements. It stands condemned from its own mouth.

  ISP
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  JBean

  I TOTALLY AGREE!!!! I see this with my folks who are fast closing in on 70 years old! No careers...still doing manual labor. It makes me sick!
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  Ivor Hope

  As a 17 year old when this article came out (which I clearly remember, believe it or not), I can vouch for your description of what life has become in 2002.

  I didn't worry about further education, having a career, getting a pension or even going to the dentist to have those bad teeth seen to. I didn't need to, Armageddon was just around the corner.

  How I wish I'd known then what I know now!
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  Fredhall

  Ivor Hope,

  Look underneath your pillow. The tooth fairy came last night.
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  JBean

  Hiya Fred! I don't know if this was ever touched on before... but may I ask what your profession is? (In all seriousness...)
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  rekless

  I know damn well they owe meeeeeee.

  Good Jw moron that I was...

  ooooh well, Guess i'll have to learn how to roller skate in a Buffolo Herd and have fun if I try soooo I'll just buckel down and do it, do it, do it.
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  Wren

  The mentality is "alive and well". My JW inlaws just remarked they are waiting until after Armageddon to have children. They are in mid thirties and starting to get gray hair. It's sad because they really do want children.
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  Ivor Hope

  Fred,

  If she did she was dissappointed.

  My teeth are like the stars.......they come out at night!
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  Martini

  Hi ISP,
  More than likely The SOB who wrote that crap is dead and gone, but his SOB alunni are still very influential. The WTS point of view with regards to the future of this system is still foremost on the minds of young JW's, even those in college and university! Therefore you will hear in their vocabulary and see it in their written word that they do not take schooling seriously.You will hear them express confusion as to what professions they should pursue that will benefit them now in serving the WT and that will still be valid professions for eternal life in the paradise earth etc, etc.

  Point is,it was sad back in 1968 for that young generation, but no less sad in 2002. 30 years from now many will be just as disappointed as we are, and they too will have no recourse.

  Martini
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  DB

  This thread rightly points out one of the most misguided pieces of advice that the WTS has given (or anyone else has given, for that matter). Here we have an organization that claims to be directed by holy spirit and yet dispenses advice that is clearly proven wrong. And if any jw dare question such advice, they are seen as spiritually weak or rebellious.

  I am of the 'generation' spoken of here, being 10 yrs old in 1968. Though a primary reason why I never went to college was the cost, this mindset was firmly entrenched (still is) in the jw culture. In fact, back then, and through the 1970s too, it had become somewhat fashionable for jw kids to quit high school (a jw girl I had been dating at the time did just that, before I met her). But hey, why not, right? Like the WT said, of what use would a good education be? If we only knew.