# **our recent co visit

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Posted by Sunspot [Sunspot] on November 29, 1999 at 16:13:52 {DGglKT6Uj20hi4VK0MIQebMrN7e8s2}:

In Reply to: *our recent co visit posted by Amazing on November 29, 1999 at 11:24:11:

Oh, Amazing,
I could relate perfectly to every sentence you wrote.

"Life Everlasting in the Freedom of the Sons of God book"

Am I wrong, or was that the "2nd" book we were supposed to study (after the "Truth" book) in order to qualify for baptism? If it isn't, does anyone remember what WAS?

"POs, COs and DOs and special talks by visiting Boys from Bethel including GB members all pushed the date. They revealed the date in their literature. Now is the 'time' to get into Jehovah's ark of salvation. It may even be too late by 1974. We must not wait until the last year to jump into the truth. Jehovah may not accept last minute entries into the Big-O."

Yer durn tootin' they did! In the Springfield/Holyoke MA area where I used to live, it was stressed CONSTANTLY. (Some people will always say that it was "regional" but the more ex-JWs I meet lately, the less I tend to find that to be true.

"I recall the gas shortages at that time with long lines in major metro areas. Knorr said that the world situation was so tense and ripe, that we might not even make it to 1975."

I remember that too, the long lines at the pumps, the flared tempers (before road rage!) and ALWAYS the pointing to the world's conditions as being so volatile that the END just HAD to be mere months away.

"Now I take it all those 'weak' and 'immature' ones are grown up, and now mature and serving as POs, COs and DOs. Now they can call those who point back to 1975 as a false prophecy and label us apostates. Maybe it is pay-back time for being called all those nasty names before 1975."

Yep! We just made it ALL up, and we were all serving Jehovah for a "date" right? Not to mention looking pretty STUPID to all our nonJW family and friends (blush)

"I stayed in after that because I thought that the truth was there and that I wanted to show I was big enough and mature enough to accept a failed date like they did in 1914.

Yes, I showed them. I gave another 20 years after that, but I showed them alright."

Yup! I showed'em too!

. "And the band keeps on playing. But I am not marching to their tune anymore."

Amen.

Sunspot....who really "got into" this post.

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