Funny, When I clicked on this link, my Windows Media Player started playing "Are you ready" by CREED.
Are we no different than JWs when it comes to expectations?
by undercover 13 Replies latest jw friends
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Butters
Now I am listening to something a little more tasteful and happily destructive....
"Take a look to the sky just before you die, it's the last time you will!!!!!!" ...."Hear's the silence so loudddd!"
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Arthur
I think that it's a mindset of wanting something that we see as wicked to stop. When we were JWs, we just wanted to see all of the badness stop. We wanted to see crime, war, poverty, and death stop. Because of being promissed that the end of all of this was "just around the corner", we became more and more obsessed with "the end".
Now that we are out, I think that we have some of this thinking left over. We want all of the deceit of the WTS to stop. We want to see an end to the idiotic blood policies, the hypocrisy, and the psychological coercion. Seeing the WTC meet it's doom would be a very welcomed development. But, realistically, I think that JWs are here to stay.
I don't ever see the organization closing it's doors. Even if the WTC were to be sued into bankruptcy, they would just go start a new corporation under a slightly different name. The concept of seeing this system destroyed and ushering a paradise earth is extremely powerful. There are millions who will never give this concept up - no matter how much contrary evidence confronts them.
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esw1966
My thought is that people have been hurt by the organization. We have lost family to it who are hopelessly lost inside. Our only hope of being reunited with them seems at times to be the end of the WTS itself. That and because we have been hurt by them I imagine some seek solace in the hope that it will implode.
I do not dwell on the thought. It isn't much of a concern to me though I would love to see it as long as it doesn't include much bloodshed.
I do see several things as pointing that way though since you bring it up. The internet will have much to do with limiting it's future numbers. The other thing is the ends expectations. How long after 1914 will it be before many will leave because of expectations not meant? Sooner or later doesn't it become a fad to believe the end is near. What will hold them together?
(I have 3 kids still in it, I would love them out! Hope springs eternal...)
