Posted by ExDub [ExDub] on November 01, 1999 at 12:23:17 {2gTL9dbN6kS2pgVcL2CgYwT5J/kZ46}:
In Reply to: *? for active J.W.s please posted by Answer on November 01, 1999 at 12:11:24:
Answer said: "If the end doesn't come in my lifetime, will my life of serving Jehovah have been a waste? People like you are only interested in serving until a certain date. I'm working hard to serve Jehovah the best I can, because I love him. If the end comes tomorrow, or a thousand years after I die, I just hope I have the priveledge of making it into the new world. "
My response: Answer, do you know that if I'd written the paragraph you just wrote when I was involved with the WTS, I would have been called on the carpet. It was the WTS itself that dwelled on the dates. THAT is where that mentality comes from. We did not dare question those dates and would have been considered spiritually ill to have said what you just said above.
ExDub