No. It's not your age, but it is the "age" into which you were born or have grown up. The computer age. It's now, regardless of a person's age.
I agree. I had many "red flag" moments growing up in this religion, but it wasn't until I was around 19-20 years old and working in my career that had internet access that I started looking online to answer my questions. This would have been 1998, and all I did was type in "Jehovah's Witnesses 1914" into the Yahoo! search engine. Imagine the search results that came back to me and the mountain of information I had to sort thru, and this was in 1998! It was a domino effect, and the effect is still continuing on thru today as I learn things from the past, from long before I was born or even my grandmother was born (1918) from long-time researched members like Blondie, etc.
I will sometimes state my age as a frame of reference for others reading. In hindsight, the 1980's were a critical decade I believe. It was after 1975, during the Cold War, and Ray Franz had just released his book. Meanwhile, the WatchTower released an entire series of articles in 1984 (ironic I know) focusing on 1914, The Generation, Biblical Prophecy, etc that whipped everyone into a frenzy that lasted up thru the early 1990's. The End just HAD to be SOON, because the old geezers born in 1914 were up in years, and the Great Tribulation would HAVE to erupt. Even as a young child, it had a great impact on me. After 1995, the balloon of urgency started to deflate, and it has been nothing but flaccid since then. The evolution of this cult is such that we are left with what we see now, a mere shadow of what once was. It truly is unrecognizable from the religion of 30 years ago. 2014 marked 30 years since those WatchTower articles, and also the 100 yr reign of Christ proposed by the WT. And here we are!!!! 15 years ago my young 20-year old self was floored that we had actually made it to the year 2000, a date my parents (and traveling speakers) assured everyone we would never see this side of the New System. Now, my 35 yr old present self can look ahead 15 years and see age 50 being in this old System of Things. It was something that I was not prepared for, at ALL. I was told (no, promised!) that I would NOT grow old. In 15 years, my son will be 25. He has never set foot into a Kingdom Hall, so I guess I should be thankful that I have spared him the mind-rape that we have been thru.
And as for the WatchTower? There is ZERO sense of urgency emanating from that cult about "The End" or anything else like it used to be. Forget that type and anti-type "rhetoric", that's "Old Light." The focus has shifted drastically from end-times apocalyptic doomsday bible-thumpers, to real estate and techno-cool hipster dufos flavor-of-the-day, all smiles, join our happy-happy joy-joy everyday run of the mill religion. Look at our new website and apps! Look at the cool new age churches......errr.....Kingdom Halls we are going to build, with all the latest techno crap crammed into a sterile box that looks exactly the same no matter where you go! Come visit our new worldwide Headquarters up in the middle of New York, next to a lake, where we suppress outside information and work the slaves half to death! While you are there, be sure to kiss the pinky rings and Rolex watches of our Spiritual Overlords, the REAL 144K living it up in the ivory towers. What an incredible sight to behold. I do believe I heard the Harlot nearing her Grand Climax upon the Wild Beast.
