So Just What Did Happen In 1975?

by Englishman 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  Englishman

  4026 BC Adam created.

  Add 6000years. ( 7000 -1millenium)

  = 1975 AD.

  Now, according to my reckoning, nothing has changed. The WT predicted that 1975 was going to be a biggy, possibly armageddon even.

  They hedged their bets a little by introducing Jehovah's last creation as being Eve, so the millenium had to start 6000 years after Eve's creation.

  As we now slide into 2004, this means that Adam is now 29 years old at least (2004 - 1975) before Jehovah has twigged on that he needs a mate, despite the fact that he gave all the animals a mate from day one. This would appear to me to be slightly unreasonable.

  Englishman.
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  Sassy

  What happened in 1975?? well.. I went to High School as a Sophomore.. the boy in the congregation I attended I most had a crush on graduated...

  oh yeah.. and I was made out to be a fool.. I didn't take business classes because I told teachers that Armegeddon was coming...... no time for buiness training.. the world was ending..

  lol.. stupid me.. they all reminded me of that later when I graduated and we were all still here.. and no change in status of the earth!
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  Abaddon

  Englishman:

  Actually, what happend in 1975 is you were in the pub when Armagedon came, and didn't notice that reality had been replaecd by a virtual simulation which will continue to run until everyone has been saved.

  An actual 'New Heaven and New Earth' was cancelled due to budgetry limitations and the rise of the Yen, but Gabriel had taken an interest in computers since the days of Babbage and proposed a cut-price alternative.

  Rather than having to fight Agents Smiths, we have to fight Brother Elders, who are all dressed identically...

  It's rather obvious really; I mean, if this was really reality it would be far more real... half the news sounds like it's been made-up for precisely the reason it has.

  Happy New Year!!!!
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  NeonMadman

  Well, based on the WTS' handling of their previous predictions, I'd have to guess that 1975 was the year that Armageddon came invisibly in the heavens, and the millennium began, as percieved by the "eyes of understanding" of the "faithful and discreet slave." Shortly thereafter, tne earthly resurrection began in a spiritual sense, and hundreds of thousands are now being prepared for life in God's new order, which has already begun invisibly, but will come to earth in a literal way any time now with the destruction of all false religion and governments.
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  Yerusalyim

  What happened in 1975? North Vietnam finished off the South and united the country under communist rule. I was part of Den 5 in the Boy Scouts.
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  Earnest

  My step-daughter and I were discussing this recently and she pointed out that Jesus was only considered ready for his assignment at the age of 30. Although Adam was physically mature when he was created he may well have taken 30 years to mature in other respects which brings the creation of Eve to...2005! Not unreasonable at all.

  More to the point is whether there is good reason to accept the creative days as being 7000 years in length. Scientific evidence for the age of man would suggest not.

  Earnest
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  RandomTask

  Well, I'm sure the whole docrine of 6000 years has been successfully swept under the rug in the past 29 years. DO you think that the average dub thinks about such things anymore. Just like in about 20 years from now: "this generation? What?"
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  Stefanie

  I was born.
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  got my forty homey?

  Disco was at its popularity, the brothers wore polyester bell bottom pants and I hadn't reach puberty yet, so I loved being in the truth!
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  muleskinner

  A childless, lonely and desperate old man wanted the world to end before he did. Having come to believe in his own wisdom Freddie Franz decided to enact what he hoped would be a self-fullfilling prophecy. So he made up the seven thousand year creative day which meant the world had to end. Maybe he thought if he could force millions of sincere people to sacrifice and spread this lie, it would become truth? Maybe he thought he could blackmail Jehovah; by having his people all preaching it, wouldn't it be too embarassing for it not to happen? He was old. He was going to die soon. Why shouldn't the world end? I think he had reached the point where he was able to believe his own lies. He was the Oracle, after all. All of this was done with the usual consideration for the pains of the brothers. 0. M.S.