1975

by Prisca 24 years ago 24 Replies latest 24 years ago jw friends

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  Prisca 24 years ago

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  1975......

  is the number of registered posters as of this minute!!!!

  AMAZING, huh ???

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  peterstride 24 years ago

  Funny you should mention 1975.

  I was talking with my grandmother a couple of hours ago (she's been a lifelong JW, but she still talks to me) and I mentioned to her that when I was little, I remember how many times she had told me that Armageddon was coming in 1975. Being little and impressionable, her words are vivid in my mind down to this day. Unfortunately, she acted like she had never said that and that I was making it up.

  I'm glad I'm out of the Borg, even though I came out just over 20 years after 1975.

  Peter Stride
  Toronto, Canada

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  VeniceIT 24 years ago

  Made me think of one of my favorite t-shirts!

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  Ven

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  patio34 24 years ago

  Ah-h-h-h, the irony. . . .

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  Outaservice 24 years ago

  Actually, the 'end' did come in 1975. It just wasn't as bad as we had thought it was going to be !

  Outaservice (but still counting my time)

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  BoozeRunner 24 years ago

  Peter, by any chance is your grandmother a GB member?
  They too say all the R&F JW's made up 1975.

  Boozy, who's....
  ROTFLMAO

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  Thirdson 24 years ago

  They too say all the R&F JW's made up 1975.

  If the R&F made it all they did a good job of preaching about it and spreading the date and did so all on their own initiative. They did such a great job that the kids I went to school joked about the year when it arrived and used to ask me exactly when this year (1975...(9th/10h grade for me US style) God was going to destroy the world.

  Thirdson

  'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'

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  Oldhippie 24 years ago

  I graduated in 1970. I was being quizzed and laughed at by that time as well. There was only one other JW in school at the time and apparently he had told some people that armageddon was coming in '75. I know I was too embarrassed to say anything about it.

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  ozziepost 24 years ago

  The Gentle Times Have Ended!

  Cheers,
  Ozzie

  "Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading."
  TERTULLIAN, Adversus Valentinianos

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  Cowboy 24 years ago

  I recall a talk-probably in 1974(I would've been about 8)about hiding from the police(or whoever).We were told to use disguises while in the service,that meetings would be split up and moved around to avoid discovery and that should we get caught we should fully expect to be tortured and killed(but not to fear-if so,we should be some of the first to be resurrected)
  I was terrified and I don't think I slept for days.It was my first realization of not wanting to be apart of JWs.

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