okage:
Good post. I came into the religion after 1975 and they carefully hid this fiasco from new studies like it never happened.
Now, they must imagine that nobody from 1975 is around or they won't dare talk about what happened. So, the religion feels confident to peddle the same worthless message again to a new generation of gullible people in the religion! With the internet now available to everybody, hopefully there will be fewer people who will fall for it. I am so sorry the internet wasn't available to me back then. I would have run from these people and not looked back.
the crushed and Toth:
I feel so badly for people born into this religion. When I hear stories about faithful JWs who sold everything in 1975 and had to start all over again because the world did not end, it is truly sad. Not sad that the world didn't end, because I would not be here, but sad because these JWs were so trusting and believing with a dead-sure certainty everything that was taught to them! You can be very sincere but be sincerely wrong.