Did the Borg ever apologize for 1975?
1975 debacle
by Gman2001 19 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Ding
When is the last time the borg apologized for anything?
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LongHairGal
GMAN2001:
Not only did the religion never apologize for 1975, they hid this failure so thoroughly that younger Witnesses hardly knew anything about it.
The result of this secrecy was that decades later (90s?) some Witnesses made similar stupid mistakes again like quitting jobs before their actual retirement age and going where the ‘need was great’ thinking the End could only be just a few years away..
Problem was their money ran out but Armageddon hadn’t come to save them.😮 So, these JWs had a problem and were unprepared and needed to seek work at or near retirement age!.. Not a good situation to be in and one that could have been avoided if other older Witnesses were honest enough to warn them about what happened before 1975!..
I saw years ago that an unsuspecting person could be very damaged in this fear-based religion because other people will not speak up or warn! Too bad.
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KalebOutWest
Did the Borg ever apologize for 1975?
Yes.
We are sorry that the world's not ending shows us up as being sorry sons of bitches. We are still Jehovah's Witnesses, but we have witnessed the fact that he isn't backing up anything we say. For this we are far more sorry than you can possibly imagine.--Your Neighborhood Borg
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TonusOH
They didn't say anything about it until 1979 or 1980, when the explosive growth of the late 70s gave way to a drop in the number of publishers. Their first response was to insist that they made no definitive declarations and that anyone who behaved as if the end was near misread what they were being told and believed what they wanted to believe. I think it was many years later that they grudgingly admitted that maybe some of their words might have given some people the impression that the end was upon us.
Basically, their apologies consisted of "that was your fault" followed by "we're sorry your reading comprehension sucks."
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Sea Breeze
I turned 13 in 1976 and the world was still here. An entire generation of teens never believed another word their parents and elders said. They wondered why the kids were so "rebellious" in the late 70's.
Now, all the oldtimers that pushed the 1975 hysteria are mostly all dead and us kids are in our 60's. They all acted like it was no big deal after the prophecy failed. But, if you were a kid counting the months until you were likely going to be killed by God, it was a REALLY BIG DEAL.The kids weren't stupid. They could see how rebellious the parents and elders were in promoting the false prophecy (against biblical counsel otherwise).
The rebellious teens wre just following the example of their rebellious parents and overseers. -
blondie
First, the WTS blamed the rank and file jws for the 1975 "misunderstanding" in 1976 but then in 1980 said that the WTS could possibly, possibility share part of the blame. For more details and where to find this in WT publications go to jwfacts. com at the link below and scroll down to this (the whole articie very good outlining how the whole 1975 debacle happened)
Post 1975 Blame the followers https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/1975.php
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LongHairGal
SEA BREEZE:
I came into the JW religion after 1975.
The only whisper I heard about it was that ‘some left because they were serving for a date’…I was young and nobody told me about all the fanfare and buildup before: people selling homes and quitting jobs. In fact, I never learned all these other details until I left the religion years later!
You say all the ‘old timers who pushed the hysteria of ‘75 are all dead’. Yes, they are not even around to help anybody they misled…Isn’t that usually the case? When I was young in the JWs all the older people were pushing poverty sticking their noses into my business.. Well, those judgmental busybodies went to their graves after living a cushy life. Thank God, I never listened to anything they said.
The moral of the story out of ALL of this is: live your life and wisely work and plan for your future. Never believe anybody who tells you to pursue poverty because the ‘End’ is coming and not to ‘worry’ about anything. You’d have to be crazy.. In my observation, the poverty they were pushing was certainly not for them, just some young gullible person.
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TTWSYF
That’s what happens when you follow a “prophesy religion” as opposed to a legit faith.
TTWSYF
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Rivergang
Post 1975 Blame the followers https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/1975.php
The closest that they ever came to offering a written apology first appeared in the 1980 Yearbook of Jehovahs Witnesses.
That yearbook statement referred to something which was said in one of the previous year's District Convention talks. This so-called "apology" was again repeated in the Watchtower of 15th March 1980.
According to Raymond Franz in Crisis of Conscience, this "apology of an apology" was a much watered-down version of the one he pushed to be made. (With at least one Governing Body member all for just saying nothing at all and hoping that people would just quietly forget the whole matter).