Remember 1975? Maybe when you were a kid - like I was? I will celebrate 01.10.2025 the 50th anniversary of the "end of 6000 years of human history and the immediate end of the world". Surreal. I will eat a cake or a nice ice-cream.... Recall it, as it would be yesterday.
50 year anniversary
by Dromedar007 11 Replies latest social humour
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iloowy.goowy
We have Freddie Franz to thank for all the 6000 year hoopla nonsense that never amounted to anything real.
Happy mid-centennial anniversary!
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liam
I wasn't born yet in 1975,
So I don't believe the WT ever said 1975 was going to be the end. I think the publishers were overzealous and assumed the end was near and sold their house, car, and took poor spot to the animal shelter to go preach where the need was great.
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DesirousOfChange
liam, you might want to make a mention that what you posted is satire. Some of the slower learners here don't always pick up on it to quickly.
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fedup
I remember it clearly, I was not going to live passed my 12th birthday. At the time I was terrified that I was not going to survive the end of the world. The WT made everyone feel they were not worthy, nothing we can do would please them. What a shit childhood they offered us.
Now, I'll be celebating my 62nd birthday in January,
I don't understand the people that are still in and waiting, it's insane!
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liam
DesirousOfChangeo
liam, you might want to make a mention that what you posted is satire. Some of the slower learners here don't always pick up on it to quickly.
It was Satire ....with the exception that I was not around yet.
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LongHairGal
In 1975, I had not yet made the mistake of setting foot into the Witness religion…Too bad the internet wasn’t around then.
Well, several years later I made that mistake but thank God I didn’t listen to everything they said… I kept working… But, when that 1995 Generation teaching came out I knew I had to get out and planned a ‘Fade’.. It was well worth it and I made up for a lot over the years after that. I reconnected with estranged relatives before it was too late and that was priceless.
I cannot even imagine anybody who stayed in the religion after the ‘75 failure!!
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Biahi
I turned 16 in 1975, certain that I would die at Armageddon. My cousin, only 11 or 12 then, was also certain that he would die. Yet, here we are, both of us out!
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DesirousOfChange
Sadly, at least half of JWs today were either not JWs or not even born yet in 1975 and thus they have NO recollection of that 1975 WT fiasco (Stay Alive 'til '75). At the very best they might know of the vicious rumors unleashed by mentally diseased apostates claiming that WT "prophesied" the culmination of this old system by that time. At least that is how I heard it explained by a newly baptized JW during the WT Study about 10-15 years ago. That's right-- he had been told that all those "lies" about WT forecasting The End by 1975 were apostate falsehoods.
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St George of England
Saw this on Flickr recently. Summed up the JW journey for me. My parents married during WWII and I was born with my parents convinced I would never go to school, get married, work, retire etc. Well you can work out my age, I look like the passengers in the train, well almost, so many more just like me and many that have died along the way whilst waiting.
George