I remember in 1974 I had my first real job at a little place in North Miami called Edward’s Fabrics. I delivered fabric for them the first half of the day and then sorted the same the rest of the day. They were great folks as I recall. Anyway, I remember "informing" my coworkers there was no sense in planing thier vacations (as they often discussed at break time) for the next year, as they wouldn't be enjoying any such time, as Armageddon would be here. Can you believe it? Yep, I actually did this. That’s how much I believed it. Then one day, one of the older employees kindly took me aside and told me. "Steve, the world has been here for a long time and its gonna go keep going on for a long time". I of course refuted that comment, but it did make sense to me the way he said it. I have never forgotten that moment in time.
Still the staunch JW, I continued to believe. I quit a very promising musical band at that time to dedicate my time to he "faith". I didn’t wanna die at Armageddon! So, I settled down and worked with some jackass JW, at a camera repair company (who got me the job), got married to a slut of a woman JW who wound up sleeping with my brother-in-law JW elder. I dumped her when I found out about their affair. It destroyed my family. A year later at my fathers prompting I forgave my brother-in-law, in an effort to restore the family. A year after that my sister (married to my brother-in-law) sent me a letter stating that I was no longer welcome to visit her and her family as I had left the Organization (which I did in 1979). That was twenty-five years ago. I have never seen any of them in that time. I will always wonder if the band I had would have gone the distance. Whatyagonnado?