How Many of You Felt That The "End" Would've Been Here By Now??? (page 2)

Black Sheep

I knew I was gonna die, but I didn't care. Getting baptised and all the crap that went with it was too much for this sinner.

shotgun

Isn't it next year?

I was sure it was coming in 1991..Gulf war

outoftheorg

LIKE YOU MINIMUS, I ALWAYS HAD MY DOUBTS.

BUT.

IN THE 1975 ERA, I THOUGHT, WHAT IF THEY ARE RIGHT? SO JUST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE, I WILL GO ALONG AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. NOTHING HAPPENED.

THEN I THOUGHT, WELL, MAYBE I OUGHT TO GIVE IT ANOTHER YEAR OR TWO. NOTHING HAPPENED.

I WAS DISGUSTED AND QUIT THE ELDER BIT AND MOVED OUT OF STATE FOR A BETTER POSITION.

ONE DAY AROUND 1980 MY NOW EX WIFE UTTERED THIS COMMENT. " I AM SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE NEW WORLD NOW. I THOUGHT, WOW MAYBE WE CAN GET OUT OF THIS MESS.

THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A STRAY THOUGHT THAT BURPED OUT. NEVER AGAIN DID SHE SAY ANYTHING NOT POSITIVE ABOUT THE WBTS.

I THINK YOU HAVE READ THE REST OF THE STORY A COUPLE OF TIMES.

Outoftheorg

Lady Lee

When I got pregnant with my first child 30 years ago I was told by my mother she would never go to school in this system

That daughter went to school and graduated

Has been married, divorced and remarried, has a 10 yr old daughter and is giving birth today to her second child.

I gave up waiting for the end a long long time ago

SAHS

Black Sheep:

I knew I was gonna die, but I didn't care.

I can relate to that. My parents, especially my mom, used to talk things up about things in the news supposedly leading up to the JW timetable (cry of ?peace and security,? the great trib., the big A, etc.). Since I really doubted I had any chance of surviving because of having lost God?s favour, I felt like someone standing before a firing squad waiting to die on the evening of the 4th of July, and jumping every time there?s another fireworks display but then realizing that it?s still not the sound of the firing squad?s rifles but just another delay to keep things interesting.

I too was brought up in a JW family. Every year, especially during my teens, my parents used to say to each other, ?I wonder if this will be the year the great tribulation starts??and I would think to myself, ?I wonder if this will be the last ?normal? year until things go downhill toward my no-doubt inevitable execution.? It?s a crime how religious dogma in organizations like the WT is used to instill such destructive fear in young people!

It was only in the last few months that I?ve started to wake up, thanks to Web sites like this. Although I used to be profoundly grieved at the rather fearful prospects set out by the WT, I?ve recently adopted a more objective ?don?t care? philosophy about the whole thing. I mean, if I can?t do anything about dying at the big A because of being condemned, then screw it! And if all that fire and brimstone stuff from the WT turns out to be just BS (it?s 2004, folks), then, well, ditto on the screw it!

?SAHS

wannaexit

outbutnotdown

Oh yeah, I definitley thought "the end" would be here by now. But hey, I was just a kid. If I still believed it NOW, then I would feel really stupid.

Brad (of the "man I feel sorry for those poor blokes who are still in" class)

How Many of You Felt That The "End" Would've Been Here By Now???