What are some of your memories pre 1975? (page 4)

BONEZZ

Lemme see...

In 1975 I was a back-sliding, in-active 20ish guy who had just escaped the Dub-family restraints. I was a rock and roll disc jockey at a small AM station in Redding, CA. My Dad sent me a multi-page letter outlining all the stuff that was supposed to happen according to scripture and the WTBS. I never did read it but allowed my curious girlfriend to read it. She told me the basics and said it sounded like he loved me and wanted me to get back into the fold. Ha ha...I was having way too much fun.

However, when we started incorporating Disco records into our hard-core rock and roll playlist...I knew something was up and maybe the End was near. The rest is a blurr because I stayed self-medicated until January 1, 1976.

I do remember being told about some super-spiritual types like pioneers that went out and bought very expensive, cars (4-door) because they knew in their hearts that they'd never have to pay them off...woo hoo, did Big J ever fake them out!

-BONEZZ

NewYork44M

I graduated high school in 1975. So, I have many memories related to this abomination.

I remember the push to quit high school. "you will never graduate because Armageddon is so close."

I remember being judged based upon whether or not you believe in 1975.

I remember growing up and hearing talk after talk about how bad the persecution is going to get.

I remember worrying that I would not "drive a car" or "have sex" before Armageddon comes in 1975

I remember people selling their homes in anticipation of 1975.

I remember people buying used cars because they did not need to last past 1975.

I remember the debates about how long it would take Adam to determine he needed a wife and then how long it would take for her creation.

I remember hearing stories about predatory birds laying extra eggs in anticipation of the post Armageddon feast of dead humans.

I remember working late on Dec 31 1979 and hearing on the radio the new year of 1980 and wondering what went wrong.

Years later I remember reading a very old wt publication that pinned the date for the 6,000 hears of creation to circa 1875, I remember thinking wtf!!

Homerovah the Almighty

A true lessen in how to build a billion dollar International Publishing Empire.........its called fear and coercion

Rutherford when driving around in his very expensive Cadillacs knew it worked very well indeed

journey-on

I remember a 55+ year old couple selling everything they owned and him quitting his job so they could pioneer, so sure that 1975 was going to bring Armageddon.

They were held up as examples for the rest of the congregation. We were so sure because we had been strongly lead to believe it. Anybody that says the WTS

didn't say it out loud from the podium is lying. It was a HUGE deal to us all and we all awaited with trepidation because this is the way we were manipulated to think.

It gets me ticked off when I hear anybody say that it was because of a few over zealous brothers and sisters reading something into the WTS's words that weren't

there. That is simply untrue. But as the generation that remembers "1975" grows old and dies off, if the WTBTS is still around, their lying version will be the one that

prevails.

Seeker4

My wife and I were young Reg. Pioneers then. She was pregnant and we had our daughter in 1974. If you can imagine, one particularly clueless sister actually told my wife how sorry she was that my wife was pregnant because of the "Woe to the pregnant woman in that day" scripture!! I was sooooo pissed, and let them know it. This woman was the sort who would mindlessly parrot all sorts of JW tripe.

Yeah, my wife and I actually Pioneered through the birth of our first child. We were the zealous type, you might say!

Oh, by the way, that baby that was going to be such a burden through the imminent Great Tribulation is now nearly 34 and has two kids herself!!

S4

mouthy

Years later I remember reading a very old wt publication that pinned the date for the 6,000 hears of creation to circa 1875, I remember thinking

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Well in the" TIME Is At Hand " page 98-,99 published in 1889.. it says

"True it is expecting great things to claim,as we do,that within the coming twenty six years ALL present governments will be overthrown & dissolved ; but we are living in a special & peculiar time,,the Day of Jehovah in which matters culminate quickly & it is written " A short work will the LORD make upon earth.

Vol 1 chapter xv

Quirky1

I remember summers walking to town barefoot. Trans Am's, Camaro's, Charger's, Nova's, Chevelle's, Mustang's & yes Vega's.

I liked fast cars but just thru the Vega in.

atpeace

i wish i could get my parents to acknowledge this time period. i was only 2 in 1975 - so i have no memory of it. however, i do remember being in about the 5th grade, i guess i was 7 or 8, and telling a little boy at school that my parents said i would never graduate high school! he looked at me and said how said and sorry he was for me. i think about that often.

recently my mom and me were having a causual conversation - i mentioned the economy - she made a comment that "it just goes to prove that jehovah will step in soon" - and i replied back - didn't the economy go through a rough patch in the late 70's early 80"s? she said "oh, not like this, this is far worse". but i can't help but wonder, was it? and the new fever about the book study change, and "we're so close, it can't possibly be much longer, see no bookstudy!" - do they have such selective memory, or has the world gotten that much worse?

i also, remember being so afraid as a child growing up. and i remember actually being happy if a news story talked about a war someplace, because in my mind it wasn't "peace & security" which would bring on armageddon. and i remember thinking how much i would hate the fact that "in paradise" there wouldn't be the music i loved, or museums, or cool books, or travel to other countries, or shopping for clothes, or razor blades! guess i never wanted it or believed it deep down.

sorry for the long-winded thoughts - this just has be thinking.....

momzcrazy

Breast feeding.

momz

What are some of your memories pre 1975?