by badboy 39 Replies latest jw friends
I remember 1975 very well. Actually the yrs leading up to it had the dubs really on edge. I knew some people that had houses all paid for, who sold them and went pioneering till '75. Strangely, i was never 100% convinced about the end coming in that yr. Guess that must have been my apostate nature, even back then. However, i thought that for sure, before the end of the century we would see the new system. *sigh*
S
I have a question....What did you all think Dec 31st 1975 right before 1976 hit?
Then after it turned 1976 what did you all think after that? I never asked that question before.
Brooke
I wanted to be there, but it was an exercise in mental torture( By Mulan)
Tell me about it. I had to stay in a tent!!!!! couldnt afford a hotel & what was more I had a bible study with me & her small baby 6 months old, The baby cried in the middle of the night I had to go all over looking for a place to heat her bottle- I found a couple of lovers in their tent who owned a camp stove-begged them to let me heat the bottle ( they were not JWS) they did... Got back to the tent -the kid was sleeping, Same assembly it poured with rain -I was never told you could not lean things against the tent (inside) so I had the cots piled with all the diapers etc the bible study's baby needed imagine the shock on going back to the tent -after a LONG session of MEAT!!!( Poison really) We found all the diapers wet!!!! I had to get a friend to drive me to a drug store to buy more for her. You know what I always wondered about ????????
Why didnt that woman become a JW after all my CARING!!!!!!! ??????????LOL
I was a sophomore in highschool... telling all the teachers I didn't have to take any business classes because I didn't have to worry about a career
(((((((((sassy)))))))) Boy do I hear you. I had to go to college after leaving the org, while pulling the weight of a full time job and a family too. It took me 6 years to complete my Bachelors doing it that way, and I will never recover financially from belonging to that organization.
Could we sue for lost wages? LOL
Jeannie
Whyamihere
Why not start a new thread w that question. It will probably get more attention.
S
yes, but not for long, because as we all know the prophecy didn't pan out........ rocky220
But also remember much earlier we used to have 8 days assemblies & the sessions ended at 9.p.m does anyone remember that?
Yes, I remember, I was 8 but I remember. My dad was an elder, so I can remember as far back as when I was 3, having to wait at the hall while he was in the meetings for hours after the talks had ended.
Luckily, my parents didn't buy into "the end is coming, sell everything and go into full time pioneer work."
Ash
But also remember much earlier we used to have 8 days assemblies & the sessions ended at 9.p.m does anyone remember that?
1975....I was a full time pioneer and was 19 years old....I just knew that I had a first class ticket to that New World....
a servant of "Jehovah"....I just had ALL the answers....
chuckle, chuckle.... how young and naive I was.....
Oh yeah. I was "there".
I was 18 in Nov 1974, and got married in June 1975 to that good JW boy I found, after I realized I hated pioneering, after my parents pulled me out of school 2 years earlier. Afterall I was raised to grow up, get married, and have babies. I had enough education to be either a pioneer or a wife.
I felt if the Big A happened, well it would happen. I wasn't concerned one way or another at that time. AND I had my doubts in general.
I didn't want kids right away. NOT because it was 1975, but because I wanted our relationship and life to be stable before bringing a kid into it. Husband with good job, not janitorial, buying a house, etc. Five years into the marriage, my dad had gotten my husband on as a maintenance electrician, but no house. We were both out by then and the marriage was soooo bad there was no way I'd bring a kid into THAT.
Wasn't the Big Convention in Vancouver, Canada in 1968 an 8 day'er? Man that one was long. I had sunburnt knees! AND I remember the moon walk from the lousy TV reception in our hotel room in Burnaby.
