Sign of the Times/the End is Near!!!!!!!!!!

mama1119

My Dad told me a story today about a dub he works with. My Dad is a huge spots fan, and he was talking to this dub about the incident a couple years ago when some baseball player wrote a book about all the steroid use in sports...just normal conversation...and this dub shook his head and said..."just goes to show you the end is near, its a sign of the end of system of things". WHAT??? Where in the bible did it list baseball players steroid use as a sign of the end??? They are very desperate it seems, for anything..kind of sad.

Does anyone have any stories like that??? Ridiculous things dubs chalked up to a "sign of the times"?

Carmel

Frogs croaking will get the same response from a UU!

carmel

StillGroggy

Most dubs i know are like this, they usually throw in the bigotted "worldy people" comment in there. "like, that's just how worldly people are, they're worldly!"

Makes me so effing angry.

*AAAAAAHHHHHHHH*

gordon d

I remember an older brother telling me that the first half of the people saying "peace and security" (you remember... the catch phrase that starts armageddon) was the popular fad that the hippies had of saying peace all the time... The even had a hand gesture that had it's origins in Babylonian rituals... We just to wait for them to start saying security as a greeting and them "BLAMMOOOO!!! Game-over!"

Another young (super-dork) brother at the same hall was adamant the the Jimi Hendrix song said, "You better read your watchtower"

Oh yeah, almost forgot... Led Zepplin's line about "there's a lady who know's" (Stairway to Heaven) was about one of the annointed sisters.... and the title "houses of the holy"... Kingdom Halls, of course...

Seems like I remember a lot of Led Zepplin referrences but maybe that's better saved for another post.

Sorry for getting a little off-topic... your question just brought back a bunch of memories.

Gordon

Sam87

i dont think theres anything that they dont consider to be a sign of the end, everything that they see they reflect in some way to how the end is coming.

Sam87

Arthur

In the eyes of JWs, these are some signs of the last days :

If a JW gets to the donut shop after they've run out of jelly donuts . . . .

If a JW holds the door open for someone, and they don't say thank you . . . .

If a comedian makes any kind of JW joke . . . .

If gas prices hit $3 per gallon . . . .

If the United Nations holds a press conference . . . .

If a householder refuses a Watchtower or Awake . . . .

If a JW gets a really bad flu . . . .

If a JW gets laid-off of work . . .

If a JW gets a shopping cart with a broken wheel . . .

So listen up you JW lurkers. If any of these calamatous events should ever occur; flee to the hills; and do not look back; for Jehover's Great Day has arrived!

SirNose586

What's great is asking one of them to explain exactly why we are any closer to the "end" than a few years ago. My PO likes to say that we are in the "last hour of the last day," whatever the heck that means. I told my friend I took offense at that phrase. "Well, it's so obvious that we are," he replied. "Okay, and how do you prove that we're in the 'last hour of the last day?' "

He trailed off....nothing to tell me.

The same PO was leading the group and everyone was having success at placing the mags. "Maybe Jehovah is doing a final gathering work, getting the last interested ones in!" he suggested to the beaming magazine-pushers. That was at least a year ago...

mama1119

If gas prices hit $3 per gallon . . . .

HAHA....I remember pioneers talking about gas prices and what it meant when they got really high...I forgot about that one!

SirNose586

HAHA....I remember pioneers talking about gas prices and what it meant when they got really high...I forgot about that one!

It means that part-time minimum wage job is starting to look a little threadbare...

blondie

When I was a JW, this irritate me since the bible said:

(Matthew 24:44) 44 On this account YOU too prove yourselves ready, because at an hour that YOU do not think to be it, the Son of man is coming.

(Luke 12:40) 40 YOU also, keep ready, because at an hour that YOU do not think likely the Son of man is coming."

(Matthew 25:13) "Keep on the watch, therefore, because YOU know neither the day nor the hour.

Sign of the Times/the End is Near!!!!!!!!!!

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