I expected it when I was a kid..It`s what I was taught........Mom and Dad are always right.........Right?..........................................OUTLAW
Did You Personally Believe "The End" Was Going To Come In Your Lifetime?
by minimus 53 Replies latest jw friends
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Nowman
Yesterday, I was with my former pioneer witness mom...she mentioned she never believed that our family (non-JWs) would die at Armagedon, it was after I was talking about how I used to cry at night thinking about my aunt Colleen & aunt Donna dieing on Dooms Day...I had never known my mom did not believe it...
I was not sure yesterday how I felt about that comment, of course my mom and I do not have the best relationship...but maybe I was just shocked because growing up I really thought my parents were die hard JWs and here my mom had these thoughts...
Nikki
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minimus
Deep down inside, I think a lot of JWs are not 100% sure about the end of "this system". (Boy, doesn't that sound cultic, or what?)
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drew sagan
I actually did Of course, the more time went by the more I was inclined not to think of it as right around the corner. It eventually became a more casual belief. Practically speaking, it would have to be or I would have gone completely crazy. I'm sure it's the same for many JWs.
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minimus
Most Witnesses from the late 60s and mid 70s really believed the end was coming within that generation of 1914. I remember the WT. stating that by the end of the "century" the end could be expected. That ONCE AGAIN pigeon-holed them to a date---2000. So so DUMB!
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OUTLAW
"Deep down inside, I think a lot of JWs are not 100% sure about the end of "this system". (Boy, doesn't that sound cultic, or what?)"..................True enough..But..Have a disaster like 911 happen and watch how full the Kingdom Hall parking lot is for the next 2 weeks!................LOL!!...OUTLAW
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caliber
Not only in my life did I believe but first before ever marrying.. then before my children
grew up, then before my children left home, then before be coming a grandparent .
Only the last expectation remains to fall next month ! However it has been 15 year since I put any stock in dates
alone !
"No man knows the day or the hour" . We actually had an anointed man who reasoned this thought away
by saying "we may not know the day or hour..but we do know the year (1975 )
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minimus
Yes, when catastrophes occur, they run to the ark!
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insearchoftruth
It seems to me they are an organization in need of the next disaster, whether it is the tsunami of a few years back, Katrina, 9/11....
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minimus
That's what Millenialists are all about! EVERYTHING is about "The End".