I distinctly remember the Divine Victory International Assembly in Atlanta 1973. The speakers on the platform drove home that Armageddon was definitely coming in 1975. I then remember a district assembly in 1974, where the speakers were laying out the assembly schedule for the coming year. And the speaker said "If Armageddon has not come by then, and if we need it, we will have the assembly on such and such dates".

I remember how the Watchtower constantly pushed the Armageddon dates, and if you questioned these dates in the light of "no one knows the date and time...", you were lectured or "talked to".

And then Armageddon did not come as promised and the governing body now said that members of the Jehovah's Witnesses had speculated and not shown faith. We all knew that this was a lie. We didn't speculate, we read the books and magazines written by the governing body, and we listened to the Sunday talks.