When it comes to the world around us:
A) Are things pretty much as they always have been?
B) Has the time come for some sort of Divine "do-over"?
C) Is this the best time in history to be alive?
Is it time for a "do-over"?
by The Berean 8 Replies latest jw friends
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snowbird
A) Are things pretty much as they always have been?
Speaking from my experience, children of today are more resistant and hostile to correction than when I was a child.
B) Has the time come for some sort of Divine "do-over"?
I certainly hope so. However, the "time" is up to the Father. No one else can - or should - say.
C) Is this the best time in history to be alive?
Any time is/was a good time to be alive. Notwithstanding, I don't believe the events of Zechariah 14 to be too far in the future.
Sylvia
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WTWizard
I think God can only fxxx things up even worse, creating stagnation for everyone. What is needed is the removal of those from power that insist that everything we do be what they tell us to, and use their power to take all of our money and give it to banks that deserve to go belly up or to the big drug companies that created the whole medical crisis we are now in.
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mindmelda
I was thinking of this very thing this morning as I watched the news.
The economy is just awful, global warming is worse than we thought, and there's a lot of grief and strife everywhere.
Humans did a lot of this to themselves and now we want God to magically fix it for us?
I don't think there's any harm in learning from our mistakes, and certainly nothing wrong in believing in divine help. I just don't happen to think that killing everyone and starting over with only JWs would work too well.
Not enough people with enough skills to rebuild the earth in that doomsday scenario. It was always one of the things that bothered me about it.
I can't see how going back to a primitive society, at least technologically, is going to fix all mankinds problems, which is where only 7 million or less people in the world, most of them lacking survival skills, would leave us.
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BabaYaga
Folks... things have always been "hard to deal with". I am quite happy to be living right here, right now.
Remember how close they thought the end was in Jesus' day? All of the scriptures you quote about how close the end must be were written 2,000 years ago.
If I had been born in another time, I probably would either have had bubonic plague or be burned at the stake. Give me tolerance and the internet any day.
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sspo
Enjoy life every day and try to help others in the process.
Don't worry about the end.........the end for all of us is when we are six feet under.
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Elsewhere
Things have always been messed up. I'm of the opinion that compared to right now; humans have never had it so good in all of human history.
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MissingLink
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Crime, war, violent death, life expectancy, health care, standard of living. They've all never been better. It's a golden age, people just don't appreciate it.
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jaguarbass
10 years from now, when you look back at 2009, you are going to say those were the
good old days.
Thats just the way life works.
I look at the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's and say those were the good old days.
Life gets better at the same time it gets worse, thats the enigma and paradox of life.