Did You Believe The "End" Would Come In Your Lifetime? (page 2)

luna2

Yup, yup, yup. I was sure it would come sometime right around the year 2000 (thought that was a nice round number). Dur There's no fool like a self-deluded fool.

Darth Yhwh

Hell yeah!

Sister so and so was of the generation of 1914 and she wasn’t going to last much longer, I reasoned.

I was raised in with this crap. Drummed into my head at least three times a week. That doesn’t include the times I was expected to cram it down the throats of others.

I should be in the new system right now playing with my pet White tiger. That’s when I’m not helping other construct their beautiful houses on large acreages of land.

Damn right I believed it. That was one of their major selling points... I thought it would be here before 2000. And then when it didn't I thought it would be here surely by the time I was 30. Nope here I am its hasn't arrived. I know now the JW version of the 'end' is just bollocks.

IWasDuped

nope...never believed it. JW for 30+ yrs. but never believed in the "End"!

Momofmany

I never thought I would have a teenager in this system. I would never have gray hair. I would never see my folks die. I was so dumb.

jwfacts

believed it, preached it.
i never thought i would get to high school, now my kids are finishing high school.

Satanus

Yah, i did. I didn't fall that much for the 1975 thing, but i figured maybe 2000. I defintely didn't expect to get old, or have to face retirement.

S

delilah

I never believed it....but my mom sure did. She still thinks it's a- coming. She never thought I'd go to high-school.....my eldest child graduated highschool, my oldest son will go next year.......

Delilah

GetBusyLiving

I wanted to believe it, but never really did. I did believe in God for a while though and always figured that he was going to eventually vaporize me for my lack of faith. I always thought he hated me because I couldn't be like the kid's in the Watchtower and Awake. Happily anyway.

GBL

AlmostAtheist

Absolutely, without question.

When I was 18, I was painting a barn roof with an old brother, probably 75 or so, but he looked 90. (He would die a few years later) He asked me, "How much more time do you think this old system has?" I said, "Maybe 5 years, probably less." He just said, "5 years... hmmm....." and nothing more on it. I can't help but wonder now what he was thinking about. He came into the "Truth" just after World War II. So many years he'd been waiting, and now this little upstart was telling him it couldn't be more than 5 more years. I wonder now if *HE* thought it was going to come in my lifetime. I doubt it.

Dave

Did You Believe The "End" Would Come In Your Lifetime?