Every time we enter a new year, I think about how I wasn't supposed to make it this long. I REALLY believed we wouldn't live past the year 2000, and Armageddon would change everything. It almost strikes me as living on borrowed time, but then I remember that Armageddon is a story, not a reality. But here we are in 2008, still alive, and still living in this so-called wicked system of things.
Anybody else get any weird feelings or thoughts when we enter a new year?
Wow, the year is 2008, and still no Armageddon!
by Nosferatu 140 Replies latest jw friends
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Nosferatu
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Gopher
No, I'm just feeling a little older each year.
Actually, they will probably someday begin to teach that Armageddon has already happened invisibly, and that we are in a spiritual "new order". They made the so-called events of 1914 invisible, why not make Armageddon invisible too?
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isnrblog
I was convinced that things were so bad that I would never graduate high school.
I graduated in 1969. You're surprised?
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jookbeard
If like me and was raised in the troof,never thought we'd see 2008 , still expect more B/S and lies over the years from the GB , blaming the rank and file that we played too much emphasis in it (like Fred Franz did over 1975)and look out for the W/D bringing out articles on the fact that Armageddon is purely symbolic!
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Alex Delta
2012, that’s when it’s going to happen, the Mayan calendar, Nostradamus, and Einstein says it. Not that I believe in this, but if it’s anytime for it to happen, 2012 is it.
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OUTLAW
Any XJW who lived through 1975,is extremely jaded about any talk of Armageddon............
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Mariusuk.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that it will not be here come 2009 either
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worldtraveller
So I was wondering just what is so wicked about our system?
Pedophiles, disfellowshipping, lying, corruption. Maybe it's an armageddon towards the Watchtower? People in glass houses I suppose.
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NewYork44M
I graduated highschool in 1975 and now I am 50. I lived through the hype where your spirituality was judged based upon your trust in 1975.
And now here I am. Most of the elders from that timeperiod have died of old age. Those that remain are either out of the organization or are in a state of denial.
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mind my own
Yes, I remember my Dad telling me not to worry too much about my grades b/c the new system would be here before I even gratuated from high school. I was going to drop out of high school and pioneer til the end came. OMG how silly does this sound now?? Anyways, I didn't drop out and I graduated from high school 15 years ago. Still not here...
MMO
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