You are correct, nothing like this has ever happened before in the history of the world. Therefore the time for Jehovah to slaughter six billion must be close at hand! Jesus replied and said, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went off leaving him half dead. And by chance a certain priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
The world IS getting worse!!
by themonster123 40 Replies latest jw friends
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Highlander
I love Lucy and shows lke it were during a time after WWII was over and tv shows were emphasizing the nuclear family and things being proper in their place (since women were actually working and what not since the war and men were back home and they had to gets back in the Kitchen and make them sammiches!!), so shows like Leave it to Beaver and I Love Lucy were on television selling this ideal of how a family should be when most families did not even reflect that.
Plus, in the talk I heard it was used to send a shock to us as "those times were oh so great and grand and simple and people were kind.."
Were they really? Racism was even more overt back then with blacks being killed, ignored, and oppressed, and native americans still being ignored and allowed to die as if they didn't matter or exist in the first place. Women were in unhealthy relationships and unprotected by the government, not even allowed reproduction rights.... Those times were not better, they were different (as someone mentioned above) just like today is. Remember History is more than just about what happend, its also about who it happend to and where you are getting your information from. There is always bias.
Let's not forget that many of the TV shows back then would not be allowed on TV today due to their extreme bigotry. Was TV really that much better then? No, it was just different.
Archie Bunker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search Archie Bunker on the cover of TV Guide (August 8-14, 1981)Archibald "Archie" Bunker was a fictional character in the long-running and top-rated American television sitcomAll in the Family and its spin-offArchie Bunker's Place. He was a reactionary, bigoted,blue-collar worker and family man, played to acclaim by Carroll O'Connor. The Bunker character was first seen by the American public when All in the Family premiered in January 1971. In 1979 the show was retooled and renamed Archie Bunker’s Place, finally going off the air in 1983. Bunker lived in the borough of Queens in New York City. TV Guide once named Archie the greatest television character of all time.
All in the Family got many of its laughs by playing on Archie's bigotry, although the dynamic tension between Archie and his left wing son-in-law Michael "Meathead" Stivic (Rob Reiner) provided an ongoing political and social sounding board for a variety of topics. However, during the series' run, it would be revealed that, while he did disagree with his son-in-law's political views, much of his resentment stemmed from the fact that Mike was attending college and would be able to chart his own successful future, while Archie was forced to drop out of high school during the Depression to help support his family. Other family members included wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and, after late 1975, grandson Joey Stivic.
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Anti-Christ
I guess when you grow up w/ a certain Witness mindset like I've been indoctrinated w/ your whole life, it's hard to shake that and you think of the world in that mindset..
It's called a "flash back", don't worry I get it once in a will too. It's getting better. It's hard to deprogram that kind of thinking wen your raised such a way.
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Leolaia
If you ever get a hold of a time machine, you may want to visit the year 1919. Yup, the very year the Watchtower Society was chosen to be the F&DS. :) If you think of the '50s as a time of peace and serenity (Cold War, what Cold War?), just consider what you would see happening some 30 years earlier. The country was just reeling from the Great War, which ended with the most lethal battle in American history (Meuse-Argonne Offensive with over 122,000 casualites, of which 26,000 were killed). While that battle was being waged in October 1918, the worst disease pandemic in the twentieth century killed an additional 200,000 Americans in the States, and the Spanish Flu continued to rage throughout 1919. Such death toll is beyond anything in our lifetime.
How about terrorist attacks? You would witness a wave of anarchist attacks that swept through the nation in the spring, targeting prominent government officials and financial leaders. Between April and June 1919, a total of 30 bombs were sent to the Attorney General, the mayor of Seattle, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, federal judges, a Senator, including a synchronized attack in seven U.S. cities on June 2nd. Attacks continued into the following year, most notably in the bombing of Wall Street on September 16th, with 38 killed and over 400 injured.
How about social unrest? In late January and early February 1919, over 65,000 workers went on strike in Seattle (which had a total population of only 315,000 people), including 35,000 shipyard employees, which crippled the city until the military became involved. Paranoia also struck because the strike was feared as an socialist attempt to foment revolution. Then on May 1st, Cleveland succumbed to chaos when a major riot broke out pitting 700 policemen against thousands of socialist and anti-socialist rioters, who looted and destroyed offices in the business district. Then in September 1919, three-fourths of the Boston police department went on strike, plunging another major U.S. city into chaos with looting and rioting until the city was placed under martial law. As if that wasn't enough, there was a massive strike the same month that shut down half of the steel industry, leading to chaos in many other cities, including Gary, Indiana, which went under martial law the following month. And if all of that wasn't enough, the president had two major strokes on September 26th and October 2nd, putting the future of the country even more in doubt.
Can you imagine what it would be like if the equivalent to all this takes place this year? As bad 2001 was with 9/11, the anthrax attacks, and the war in Afghanistan, I doubt it meets the scope of disorder, death, and instability that 1919 saw. No wonder Rutherford was so convinced that the end of the world was very close. But things got better, and then they got worse, and then they got better, and then worse, etc. etc., as it has done throughout the history of humanity.
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5go
WW1 changed the world, mainly europe almost every empire fell and those the didn't were going to face WW2 then fall. Except the USA and Russia the in the 1990's Russia fell and now we will probaly by the end of this decade. That would leave russia (ironic) china and europe (yet again ironic) to take over. Then they will fall to it's just a cycle.
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Gayle
Even in Jesus day,,he gave a parable of the good Samaritan because people even then had the same attitude of not helping people, so nothing new under the sun. Of course, now most people would at least use their cell phone to call the police right away, if they were fearful to stop & help.
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steve2
I'm telling you- I honestly think people are getting more immoral!!
Utter fantastic rubbish. What about the crowds looking on and jeering when Christians were fed to lions in the early centuries of the present era? Or the nice white people who came to view the arbitrary hanging of blacks in the South during the 1930s? As disgusting as it is to hear about people not stepping in to help, don't fooll yourself into thinking it's a recent phenomenon. If you do, you're perfect JW material.
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themonster123
Thank you to EVERYONE'S thoughtful comments-I am going to print all these comments out tomorrow and keep them for future reference. JWD really helps me...THan kyou everyone.
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greendawn
The monster, so you realised it's the JW attitude that got you thinking that way. Their whole concept about earthquakes, famines, pestilence, wars, crime increasing is sheer propaganda to impress those unversed in history, there have been worse times for these in the past. They just say these things to entice and ensnare people in their organisation.
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needproof
You have to read 'Sign of the last days - when?' by Carl Olof Jonsson. Your views will change dramatically. I mean, in 14th century China, the famines were so bad people were DIGGING UP HUMAN GRAVES to eat the bodies.
As Billy Joel said "We didn't start the fire, it has always been burning since the world's been turning"
