Ozzie's Weekend Poll #3

by ozziepost 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  ozziepost

  G'day all,

  The Brits here aboard may have had too much excitement already this weekend with the soccer season coming to a climax. So our poll this weekend is more of a gentle, thoughtful topic.

  This weekend's poll question is:

  When Armageddon failed to arrive in 1975, did you:

  1. Enroll at university.

  2. Go out and buy a new car.

  3. Start pioneering because the end must be close.

  4. Had a manicure.

  5. Tore out all the pages from the publications that stated that
  1975 was "the year"

  6. Cancell your subscription to The Watchtower

  7. Ask the elders to explain it to you.

  8. Apologise to the elders for doubting the F&DS

  9. Ate a lot of chocolate.

  10. Tell your Bible study calls that it was all a terrible mistake.

  11. Pretend it never happened.

  12. Assume it happened invisibly and you didn't notice 'the signs'.

  13. Got appointed an elder/ministerial servant, so you thought
  "What the heck does it matter?"

  14. Figured it must be in 2000

  Cheers,
  Ozzie

  "If our hopes for peace are placed in the hands of imperfect people, they are bound to evaporate."

  
  - Ron Hutchcraft Surviving the Storms of Stress
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  Prisca

  I went to school the next day - afterall, I was only in Kindergarten.
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  gumby

  What did I do?

  11. Pretend it never happened.

  I was 21 at the time and dumber than I am now.
  We had Dan Sydlic do the cover up for us at the next district assembly. He put the blame on......'SOME HAD THIS IDEA" and of coarse, blamed the publishers.
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  Joyzabel

  15. Stayed at bethel for another year before leaving to start a family! Doh!! (we should have totally left then )
  Busy work kept our minds busy and then seeing the changes with the governing body and committees kept us going for a while.
  Live and learn.
  j2bf
  ps, I was at bethel during the "homo years" (there are always homo years and will continue to be homo years) and I don't think I'm gay! well, maybe I shouldn't be joy2bfree, but gay2bfree
  edit to add the ps
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  DakotaRed

  How about none of the above? I was still on active duty in the US Army stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC. I only paid cursory attention to it anyway, remembering that the news media mentioned that they were expecting the end and that it didn't happen, obviously.

  20 years later, I was an inactive JW myself. Go figure.

  If God's Spirit is filling a Kingdom Hall, how is it that Satan can manuever the ones within that Kingdom Hall at the same time?
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  gsx1138

  I was about 6 years old then so I don't remember much. I do know my parents stopped going to the meeting for a couple of years but chose to keep all the JW rules around. In fact they never went to the meetings often enough for me to have JW friends and they wouldn't let me have "worldly" friends either. All I know is my daughter will not have to go through that crap.
  I do, however, remember many talks after 1975 that squarely put the blame on overzealous JW's who were interested in pushing their own ideas. Needless to say I bought that line of crap hook line and sinker.

  Dear Lord, please save me from your followers.
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  larc

  I left in the 1960's. By 1975, I had completed my education, had skipped town and was never disfellowshipped. I was teaching college when the big A was supposed to hit. I had no contact with any Witnesses except my parents who we would visit occasionally.
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  Mulan

  I was really disappointed, when the end didn't come, and wondered how to explain it all. I assumed it was a 'slight' miscalculation, and must be really, really close. As the years went on, I thought it might be 100 years off, so stopped feeling it was an urgent thing. Then, I wanted to get my children raised, successfully. And we did, very successfully.

  I started pioneering, mainly to qualify for privileges like International construction work, with my husband. We didn't have a retirement plan, and it didn't look like we would be able to save enough money to live on when retirement came, and some young friends suggested the International work to us, and we liked the idea. My husband started working at Brooklyn (another requirement), about twice a year (they paid his way) and that added to his already, increasing doubts about whether it really was God's true organization. Ultimately, those trips to Bethel were the cause of shattering his faith in the Borg.

  Marilyn (aka Mulan)
  "No one can take advantage of you, without your permission." Ann Landers
  
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  refiners fire

  11 and 14.
  I was completely "orthodox".