WT Repayment AFTER 1975...HAHAHAHA

VM44

This is my own actual experience from about 1967.

I was sitting in a California Kingdom Hall, listening to an anoucement that the
Watchtower Society was either taking a loan out, or was stretching payments
out over time, in order to obtain some new equipment (printing presses, I believe
it was).

When the speaker mentioned that the repayment date was a good number of years
AFTER the year 1975, laughter broke out from the WHOLE congregation!!!

I don't think the congregation would find it so funny now.

--VM44

ZazuWitts

VM44

You are so right!!! If they could be truthful, I'm sure many of those 'listeners' don't think it is so funny now.

We had an elderly Swedish sister in our congregation. She was one of the so-called 'anointed'. She was just 22, or so, when the 1925 Rutherford prediction failed...several times she had mentioned to me what a disappointment the 'failure' was to her personally. (She had lost dear family members, Bible Students, during WWI, and felt they would all be happy together in Heaven.)

Her husband had remained Lutheran; he had a very nice little sheet metal business. Due to his success, he was able to my a lovely home, and filled it with beautiful antiques.

He died in the late '60's. "Sister Sweden" lived more than comfortably as a result of his hard work. (But, he was going to die at Armageddon, right?!!)

When it was believed that 1975 would see the "end" she sold her home!!!!
Gave most of the profits to the WTBTS. She then rented a lovely apartment, still filled with her beloved antiques.

When Armageddon didn't happen, she was eventually forced to start selling her antiques, piece-by-piece. Eventually, she had so little money available to her, that she moved into a rooming house...one room, shared bathroom, with a hot plate and mini-refrigerator.

Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died soon after. I've always wondered what she privately thought about it all.

I'm not sure why I've related her story at this time...something about your post made me think of her. Just another example of tragic results from false Watchtower propaganda.

Yerusalyim

ZazyWitts

ABSOLUTELY TRAGIC, and the Society will say, "We never said 1975 was gonna be the end, we just said, 'wouldn't it be appropriate"
PIGS!

YERUSALYIM
"Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
[Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]

VM44

ZazuWitts,

That is a very sad story about the Swedish sister.

Perhaps putting stories like these up on the internet will help to keep the
same thing from happening to others.

--VM44

MacHislopp

Hello VM44 and ZazuWitts,

Thanks for the stories, …very sad but maybe

they'll spare others the same situation.

Greetings, J.C.MacHislopp

VM44

Bringing this thread back, to ask the question:

What kind of people would actually believe the world would be destroyed by a certain year?

Just because they read it in a magazine?

Now we have JWs who say there wasn't anything special about the year 1975, and that they didn't say Armageddon would take place before the end of that year.

Obviously, the JWs who make that statement weren't attending the meetings in the late '60s!

Little Imp

Another point, surely it is definitely not Christian behaviour to take out a loan that they believed that they would never ever repay.

Ding

There was so much denial over 1975, I'll bet most of the people who laughed that day had completely forgotten the incident by 1976. If you brought it up to one of them today, they would probably give you a blank stare.

clarity

The way I heard this story about purchasing very expensive printing presses is this........ It is said that Freddie Franz came up with just an amazing idea for paying for these presses.

Maybe he said "Lets call another big emergency ... another 'end of the world' 1975! Millions will excitedly preach and millions more will come in ... and millions of $$$$$$$ will be made!!!!" And so they did? And the money rolled in?

It is said that, Franz and Knorr calculated, that just as in 1925, although initially the borg lost large numbers of slaves, ...the # of members would rebound even higher later on. And so they did.

Did anyone else hear about this? It could be just a figment of someones imagination, but ...... hmmmm

clarity

Botzwana

And here I thought this thread was going to be about the society REPAYING PEOPLE FOR THE MISCALCULATION OF 1975!!! Many people are owed LOTS of money because they bullied their followers to sell their frickin houses.

WT Repayment AFTER 1975...HAHAHAHA

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