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  1975 failed prediction?

  by Garrett in

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  heyo,.

  your favorite garrett here.

  so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.

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  @SimonSays
  

  Unless you live through it you can't understand what the R&F members went through at that time.
  

  The GB knew exactly what they were doing as they deceptively worded this Awake article but the way they worded that the message they wanted to convey to the R&F members what they wanted them to hear. They first pose the question to the reader "Does this mean that the above evidence positively points to 1975 as the time for the complete end of the system of things?" Then the last sentence of the paragraph says, "If the 1970's should see intervention by Jehovah God to bring an end to a corrupt world drifting toward ultimate disintegration, that surely not surprise us."
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  1975 failed prediction?

  by Garrett in

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  heyo,.

  your favorite garrett here.

  so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.

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  William Penwell

  The WT can deny it all they want. I was there I I witness it first hand. It was not just the R&F dub that believe this, it was pushed by the society at the time. One quote from many is the Oct 8th 1968 Awake,

  
  

  What do they mean when they say in 1968, "It means that only a few years, at most, remain before the corrupt system of things dominating the earth is destroyed by God."?
  
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  Regional Convention 2015 - Program

  by Designer Stubble in

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  friday morning9:20 music9:30 song no.

  5 and prayer9:40 chairmans address: imitate jesuswhy and how?10:20 symposium: lessons from jesus word pictures observe the birds and the lilies have salt in yourselves build your house on the rock11:10 song no.

  120 and announcements11:20 follow jesus patternkeep on asking, seeking, and knocking!11:45 keynote address: concealed in him are all the treasures of wisdom12:15 song no.

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  I have my lapel card ready to go,

  
  
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  Regional Convention 2015 - Program

  by Designer Stubble in

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  friday morning9:20 music9:30 song no.

  5 and prayer9:40 chairmans address: imitate jesuswhy and how?10:20 symposium: lessons from jesus word pictures observe the birds and the lilies have salt in yourselves build your house on the rock11:10 song no.

  120 and announcements11:20 follow jesus patternkeep on asking, seeking, and knocking!11:45 keynote address: concealed in him are all the treasures of wisdom12:15 song no.

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  Jesus - Jehovah, so they replace one fairy tail with another fairy tail.

  Seems like a big snooze fest to me.This would be my line up for Friday morning.
  

  Friday Morning,

  9:40 - Listen to a boring talk about Jesus.

  10:00 - Doze off to sleep out of boredom.

  12:00 - Wake up in time to hear the finale comments, song and prayer
  

  12:15 - Lunch time and get ready for the next set of boring talks.
  
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  Have anyone here ever told a elder he is full of poop.

  by James Mixon in

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  i wonder what the report to the branch would say.. he said " me, you and the wt organization is full of poop".. do we df him?

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  I know when I was DF'd I called the elder an f*ing prick.
  
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  Who REALLY believed in the idea of living forever on earth??

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  seriously.....even when you were 100% in "the truth", did you really believe in living forever?

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  "Let's say it is all made up and we wont live forever on a paradise earth. Would living a moral and clean life that helps people be a terrible thing?"

  One thing that really shook my faith was as a teenager I remember an older sister that everyone looked up to as she put in a lot of hours in the service etc. I was at a door with her once and someone said to her "what if it is all a dream?" Her response was, "Well then it is a nice dream to have". It wasn't what I expected like some scriptural backing or anything, its just a nice dream. To me that showed that even she had doubts that it was real. I can dream that the Easter Bunny is real to but it doesn't make it any more true. Maybe some people can only exists believing in fairy tales.
  
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  Who REALLY believed in the idea of living forever on earth??

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  seriously.....even when you were 100% in "the truth", did you really believe in living forever?

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  Well as a ten year old boy I believed in it just like a worldly person would believe in Santa or the Easter Bunny. Then when I grew up and 1975 failed predictions, I realized that it was just a fantasy. It took me years to get over that. It was a sick dream pushed by a bunch of pathetic old men on the GB that feared death. Myself and my family we were not supposed to grow old and die but hold hands and walk into that paradise together. I think my mother and father realized toward the end of their lives that this maybe all a dream but had to hold on to that knowing their days were numbered.
  
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  How to be happy flopping whoppers part time while pioneering!

  by life is to short in

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  i was just thinking the other day why is there not service meeting part like my title says.

  i mean that would really be helpful to those who totally believe the no collage thing.

  since they do not want anyone to have any education why don't they at the very least try to help them to be happy living a life of poverty with service meetings parts, since everyone would be in poverty if they really listened to the fds.. like a part on how not to be upset when anther brother buys a new car parks it two blocks from the hall so as not to get door dings in it and rides all day in your car and does not give you a dime for gas.

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  I know what you mean. I pioneered ten years and looked at the other elders and their wives who had somehow found the time to have lots of children and buy a big house.

  To me that seems to say that these good elders don't even believe the BS they are peddling.
  
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  Graduating college May 14. Update on Getting my GED and going to college thread from 5 years ago.

  by noni1974 in

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/187163/getting-my-ged-can-go-college.

  i started this topic 5 years ago letting everyone know i had decide to get my ged and go to college in hopes of getting an education so that i could have a career instead of just a job.

  i wanted fulfillment and a future, not just another job that has no really future in it.

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  Good show
  
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  Jehovah Witnesses accept 2000 year old Scripture , yet reject writings of C.T.Russell the founder of the religion.of 136 years ago.?

  by smiddy in

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  is not this ironic ?

  that they can claim to believe something that was written 2000 years ago and base their life and some cases their death on it , yet disown writings of the modern day founders of their religion such as c.t.russell , the so called first president of the i.b.s.a.

  , later re-named jehovah witness.. and the same fate awaits the so called second president of now re-named jehovah witnesses ,if the writings ,books ,tracts ,etc .still exist in the library you sooner or later will be quizzed as to why you want to read them , it will be discouraged , and if you persist you will be brought before the elders .. so what are they afraid of people learning ?

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  Not just Russell and Rutherford books are being discourage to read but also the later books by Franz. I would think anything older than 30 years is now out of date and is now "old light".