Sorry to hear your issues and problems. But this is how life works it throws us curves every so often. One thing I would recommend is to seek professional help if you are seriously thinking about suicide. An internet forum is not really a great place to seek life changing choices.
R6Laser
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How can I be free ?
by youcanhaveago incan anyone tell me how i find peace of mind ?
how i feel my life is not pointless ?.
i truly feel lost .
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Let's just get something straight about 1975.
by WTFBBQPWNT innobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.
in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?
there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..
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R6Laser
Ok I read most of the replies, so which one is it. Did the Watchtower specifically mention the 1975 date or not? Many of you come with an article then somebody else contradicts it. Like I said saying that most elders mentioned it doesn't mean a thing. My uncle elder said a lot of things that the wts did not say.
Oh, and Jim TX don't try and bring that 'houlier than thou attitude'. I can appreciate that you were doing air raid drills long time ago and lived thru it. But those were just drills, I currently have to live everyday of my life running to bunkers because of attacks on our military base and these are not drills, this is the real thing. So please just stop it there. I don't bitch about it because what I'm doing is my decision, and I wouldn't even think of bitching about doing drills if I were you back then.
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Let's just get something straight about 1975.
by WTFBBQPWNT innobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.
in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?
there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..
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R6Laser
Obviously you were not in my Hall or my Circuit or my District pre-75 in Ft.Worth, Texas ! EVERYONE I knew of that was a JW including all the O's...PO's, CO's, DO's, that I worked with as a Reg. Pioneer absolutely believed it would be 1975 !
And how is this proof that the wts actually was the one who said this. Where is the written proof? Once again we are going by what someone said or what the PO's said. That's the whole point. That's what current beleivers would tell you, you were following what someone said not wha was written down by the wts. Once again just because someone is up in the front preaching doesn't mean a thing, I was there and I made much of the stuff I said from the platform. It wasn't really what the wts had outlined me to say. So its not really proof.
If anything this is proof that most were following what people said, did the wts encourage it? The wts encouraged the life style of giving everything to further their spirituality according to them, but never was anyone forced or told what to do, the point here is where is the proof that we can take to current beleivers that the actual 'wts' said 'Ok, everybody the end is coming on such date get ready.' Fact is there is no proof besides what some speaker or some elder said or a comment that someone might've passed down. This is basically a religion that will always, no matter what, preach that the end is near no matter how many years pass and how ridiculous it sounds they will always preach that the end is near and that nobody knows the date or hour but Jehovah itself. I just don't care how many people you heard and followed that the end was coming in such year, it can't be proven besides saying that it was said from someone in the platform or some elder.
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Let's just get something straight about 1975.
by WTFBBQPWNT innobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.
in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?
there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..
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R6Laser
We were told we were wasting our time trying to make a life in this system. Some of us tried to follow, to the letter, what we were taught. No education, no house, no saving for old age, and in some cases, NO CHILDREN! I remember the words of the speaker who said, at a D.C. at Dodger Stadium "this is NOT the time to be having children". My wife begged me to have a child, but I had second, third and fouth thoughts about it because of this speakers words. If we had done what he said, we wouldn't have the beautiful 20 year old child we have now
I understand what you're saying. But I'm going to go back to my own point and mention that this was not said by the wts, it was mentioned by a speaker who put his own words into it. I know what it is like to be told something like that, my own uncle(who was an elder) told me I wouldn't need to worry about college because i wasn't going to finish it due to the armageddon getting here before I would be able to finish it. But those were his words and nobody else's. I didn't beleive him them because I knew my uncle was a hardcore jw and he would always put spiritual things first, everything else comes second to him.
That is where I'm trying to get at, to understand them you have to know that to the really zealous type of jw, the spiritual things comes first, even before family, jobs or anything at all. I know because I lived it, my uncle was like that my mother still is. To them it doesn't matter if they find themselves without a job tomorrow because they still beleive so much in their system. It is a real challenge to try and reason with them because they will not be convinced at all. I learned this with my mother. Now to me is better just to let her be happy with her beliefs. Which is what I'm doing. My point of view is, why try and change them if they don't want to change? Eventually if they realize and open their eyes and change, then I'll be happy. But if not I'll be just as happy and not try and change them forcefully. Afterall that's what most in the wts religion try to do.
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Let's just get something straight about 1975.
by WTFBBQPWNT innobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.
in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?
there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..
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R6Laser
Lady Liberty, thank you very much for your post. That is the same thing I'm trying to say, just not as eloquent as you put it.
Lets say I want to explain to my family that the wts planned all this, well first thing they want me to show is where did the wts print this. Obviously the wts either covered its tracks too good because I can't say for certain that I can come up with a printed copy of the wts saying 'specifically' that the end was coming in 1975 or 1994 or whatever date you want to say.
And saying that some one in the wts said it first is not going to cut it as proof. There's a lot of things said by elders that have no proof and that's the whole point, many people in the kingdom hall come up with some crazy ideas and propagate them as the truth. Example being my own uncle who was an elder telling me that I would never graduate college because the end would come before that, and I was wasting my time. Where did my uncle get that idea? I don't know, because I never read it in any publication. But it was mentioned and I agree that many of the folks who were part of the congregation beleived the same thing.
On the other hand you had other members of the congregation who lived their lives just normal, their kids going to college, trying to get better jobs and so forth. There seemed to be different types of folks in the congregation, those who took everything seriously and did everything they were told. And those who while still attending meetings but at the same thing kept things leveled in their own lives, looking for a way to better their own future by whatever means necessary and not getting caught in ridiculous teachings.
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The JWs still blind to the implications of the 1995 generation change
by greendawn inin 1995 the wts as time finally caught up with them, they had to yield to the inevitable and admit that its hitherto interpretation of the so called 1914 last generation was erroneous.
to all intents and purposes the end was indefinitely posrponed it could be centuries away according to the new explanation.
yet the r&f do not seem to realise these implications and are apparently suffering from collective blindness they still believe the end is as near as it was before 1995, just round the corner.
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I truly believed what the watchtower taught about the last days and this generation, UNTIL They changted their definition of what a generation is.......back in 1995
I don't see how that pictures proves anything. Ever since there has been a wts or a jw they have always taught the we are in 'The Last Days.' This hasn't changed. If you bring this up to them they would say that to Jehovah what seems like a long time to us is just a day or two for God.
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Let's just get something straight about 1975.
by WTFBBQPWNT innobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.
in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?
there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..
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R6Laser
Let it be 1975 or 1914 or 607BC, the bottom line is that the watchtower is going beyond what's written.
Sure its the watchtower and not individuals who are going beyond what's writtten?
Once again I go back to my original point. If I were to explain this to some family members of mine still attending. First thing they would reply back to me would be, "Where did the society say that?" I would go back and say "Well, it wasn't really written or said by the society but it was eluded too, and some over zealous jws went with their own interpretations and came up with specific dates."
As far as your picture, it doesn't prove a thing. Ever since I can remember the wts have been preaching and telling everyone how close we are to the end and it would only be a short period of time, but once again I see no specific dates. The only dates I heard of was when people were taking things and coming up with their own conclusions. Example would be with the generation lasting 70 - 80 years. I was still a member when this happened and I rememberd many were saying that the armageddon would be in 1994 because 1914 + 80 = 1994. But I don't remember reading that in any publication, this was just mentioned by people who were thinking in this manner. Still this proves nothing besides that some people actually went ahead and calculated it and came up with that date.
So how would you explain to someone still in the wts that the society specifically mentioned the specific dates the end was supposed to happen?
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Let's just get something straight about 1975.
by WTFBBQPWNT innobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.
in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?
there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..
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R6Laser
All I wanted was printed proof that the end was 1975 nothing else. I'm not denying that it wasn't said by some jws. But like many here, I was told that I wouldn't graduate from high school, then that I wouldn't graduate from college. Well, guess what I graduated from both. But this was said to me by very strick jws and I never found anything in writing from the wts that mentioned this. I also heard many things from active witnesses when I was attending the meetings, which i wouldn't even dream of beleiving what they where saying.
While I see the point that this was eluded too, I wanted proof, not just what someone told me, or what a zealous jw told me once, or what I heard in a talk. Hell, when I was giving public talks I would say all kinds of made up stuff, all just to make it interesting. Still to this day the wts still preaches that the end is very near and that we only have a couple of years left, but that's how it always has been. This is just to make it seem urgent to their followers and instill fear in them.
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Let's just get something straight about 1975.
by WTFBBQPWNT innobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.
in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?
there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..
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R6Laser
After reading most of this thread I still can't see where in a printed publication by the wts the date 1975 was mentioned as the end. I see alot of 'we are near the end', which has always been the case since I can remember. So if someone can just quote the publication where it is printed that the end was in 1975, I'll appreciate it. Thanks.
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Keep ears and eyes open: Possible announcement this Wednesday
by truthseeker inno hype - no rumor please.. anyone who still goes to the hall might hear something during the announcements.
i will be going myself and will be sure to report back what is said, if anything.. from channelc.. .
http://www.channelc.org/cgi-bin/eboard30/index.cgi.
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It must be something quite big or there wouldn't be the tract campaign
LOL, we sound just like them! How many times are we going to announce this BIG announcement here in the forum. Reality is there is no big announcement. Tract campaign doesn't mean a thing, there's been campaigns every year so its nothing new. Damn, most of you sound like you were probably members of the wts for only a couple of weeks not to know this. There's nothing new about this, they have always done campaigns and stressed that we are at the end of times.