Well, people born in 1992 would be 20 today 37 years after 1975. Their parents could be 37 to 38 today, born in 1975. But I guess he must have been reading from a current outline that skipped this. Note the passive voice as Leolaia showed above takes away the responsibility of those actually responsible. Note too that the WTS addressed this problem with 1975 in 1976 and had to revisit this in 1980. By then at least 2% of jws for 2 years running had left. I lived during that period and jws that did not believe the end was coming in 1975 had to keep quiet or be viewed as lacking faith. It is interesting that the 1976 quote is not listed under "1975" in the index. The WTS did not take responsibility in 1976 but blamed the rank and file. But with the exodus after that, they were forced to say something but even then blaming some unnameless jws responsible for the writing...didn't the GB have oversight?
*** w80 3/15 pp. 17-18 pars. 5-6 Choosing the Best Way of Life ***
In modern times such eagerness, commendable in itself, has led to attempts at setting dates for the desired liberation from the suffering and troubles that are the lot of persons throughout the earth. With the appearance of the book Life Everlasting—in Freedom of the Sons of God, and its comments as to how appropriate it would be for the millennial reign of Christ to parallel the seventh millennium of man’s existence, considerable expectation was aroused regarding the year 1975. There were statements made then, and thereafter, stressing that this was only a possibility. Unfortunately, however, along with such cautionary information, there were other statements published that implied that such realization of hopes by that year was more of a probability than a mere possibility. It is to be regretted that these latter statements apparently overshadowed the cautionary ones and contributed to a buildup of the expectation already initiated.
6 In its issue of July 15, 1976, The Watchtower, commenting on the inadvisability of setting our sights on a certain date, stated: “If anyone has been disappointed through not following this line of thought, he should now concentrate on adjusting his viewpoint, seeing that it was not the word of God that failed or deceived him and brought disappointment, but that his own understanding was based on wrong premises.” In saying “anyone,” The Watchtower included all disappointed ones of Jehovah’s Witnesses, hence including persons having to do with the publication of the information that contributed to the buildup of hopes centered on that date.
