heyo,.
your favorite garrett here.
so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.
That 1976 Watchtower article that chastised those who had sold up their homes and pioneered pre-1975 might have achieved some good had it said the same thing several years beforehand.
This is a big reason why my father sold the family home in 1974. Well the joke is on the borg as he did not have as much money to leave them when he passed away.
so this saturday we are going to have some kind of videolink speech, by a james mantz from headquarters apparantly.
how very exciting... or not.
thats what my mum said anyway, and i just thought like " yeah right" i can t remember we have ever had it before, is it a new take?
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.
heyo,.
your favorite garrett here.
so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.
heyo,.
your favorite garrett here.
so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.
@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."
heyo,.
your favorite garrett here.
so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.
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."?
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.
I have my lapel card ready to go,
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.
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.
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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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.
