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WT Repayment AFTER 1975...HAHAHAHA

    VM44 WT Repayment AFTER 1975...HAHAHAHA posted Sat, 07 Jul 2001 17:51:00 GMT (7/7/2001) edit




    Post 11 of 5256
    Since 7/1/2001
    This is my own actual experience from about 1967.

    I was sitting in a California Kingdom Hall, listening to an anoucement that the
    Watchtower Society was either taking a loan out, or was stretching payments
    out over time, in order to obtain some new equipment (printing presses, I believe
    it was).

    When the speaker mentioned that the repayment date was a good number of years
    AFTER the year 1975, laughter broke out from the WHOLE congregation!!!

    I don't think the congregation would find it so funny now.

    --VM44
    ZazuWitts Re: WT Repayment AFTER 1975...HAHAHAHA posted Sat, 07 Jul 2001 19:49:00 GMT (7/7/2001) edit



    Post 302 of 813
    Since 12/17/2000
    VM44

    You are so right!!! If they could be truthful, I'm sure many of those 'listeners' don't think it is so funny now.

    We had an elderly Swedish sister in our congregation. She was one of the so-called 'anointed'. She was just 22, or so, when the 1925 Rutherford prediction failed...several times she had mentioned to me what a disappointment the 'failure' was to her personally. (She had lost dear family members, Bible Students, during WWI, and felt they would all be happy together in Heaven.)

    Her husband had remained Lutheran; he had a very nice little sheet metal business. Due to his success, he was able to my a lovely home, and filled it with beautiful antiques.

    He died in the late '60's. "Sister Sweden" lived more than comfortably as a result of his hard work. (But, he was going to die at Armageddon, right?!!)

    When it was believed that 1975 would see the "end" she sold her home!!!!
    Gave most of the profits to the WTBTS. She then rented a lovely apartment, still filled with her beloved antiques.

    When Armageddon didn't happen, she was eventually forced to start selling her antiques, piece-by-piece. Eventually, she had so little money available to her, that she moved into a rooming house...one room, shared bathroom, with a hot plate and mini-refrigerator.

    Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died soon after. I've always wondered what she privately thought about it all.

    I'm not sure why I've related her story at this time...something about your post made me think of her. Just another example of tragic results from false Watchtower propaganda.
    Yerusalyim Re: WT Repayment AFTER 1975...HAHAHAHA posted Sat, 07 Jul 2001 21:52:00 GMT (7/7/2001) edit


    United States South Carolina

    Post 320 of 6405
    Since 4/17/2001
    ZazyWitts

    ABSOLUTELY TRAGIC, and the Society will say, "We never said 1975 was gonna be the end, we just said, 'wouldn't it be appropriate"
    PIGS!

    YERUSALYIM
    "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
    [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
    VM44 Re: WT Repayment AFTER 1975...HAHAHAHA posted Sun, 08 Jul 2001 03:16:00 GMT (7/8/2001) edit




    Post 13 of 5256
    Since 7/1/2001
    ZazuWitts,

    That is a very sad story about the Swedish sister.

    Perhaps putting stories like these up on the internet will help to keep the
    same thing from happening to others.

    --VM44
    MacHislopp Re: WT Repayment AFTER 1975...HAHAHAHA posted Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:21:00 GMT (7/10/2001) edit


    Tuvalu

    Post 460 of 1706
    Since 2/27/2001
    Hello VM44 and ZazuWitts,

    Thanks for the stories, …very sad but maybe

    they'll spare others the same situation.

    Greetings, J.C.MacHislopp
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