Closing the barn door after the horses have fled

by jgnat 21 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  jgnat

  This "news" is months late and I post it now simply because I don't want to let the moment slip by. These are direct quotes from David Pesch at the Edmonton 2009 "Keep on the Watch" district convention. They were startling enough for me to make notes verbatim. The Public Talk was entitled "How Can You Survive the End of the World?"

  "This planet...will never be destroyed or depopulated....Humans will have a hand in killing each other off....storms...no electricity....no internet...people will be in utter panic...Some of Jehovah's servants will be involved in the elimination of the wicked ... (Jesus and his angels) they will need no help from events. We will be observers of this profound event."

  This, this, this eager anticipation of destruction is it's own sort of evil. Can you read the smugness of this false prophet? Can you imagine how he sets up the simple to look forward to every shred of bad news, as if future evils are something to look forward to? Can you imagine these passive observers on their front porch, watching the world go by tsk' tsk'ing all the while that they had known it would get "this bad"? Meanwhile, careers languish, pensions unplanned, and teeth rot in their head in anticipation of an imminent fresh start.

  I swear such grim prophecies stunt people.

  Not only that, it won't matter how much time passes and such events do not unfold in full; they will simply say the hearers were too literal in their hearing.Now, I prefer to listen to visionaries whose predictions have borne true over and over again. I keep track of what they say will happen in the near future and if they are proven correct, I sharpen up. Here's one such team of visionaries:

  Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation by Neil Howe, William Strauss,
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  It's called Blood Lust.
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  JWoods

  people will be in utter panic...Some of Jehovah's servants will be involved in the elimination of the wicked ... (Jesus and his angels) they will need no help from events.

  Wonder just how much further this would have to go to become a JW form of Jihad? (say they get a little more impatient in a couple more decades)
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  JeffT

  Wonder just how much further this would have to go to become a JW form of Jihad?

  Pretty much the plot of my novel. Right now I'm taking a break from editing the manuscript. I hope to have it to a publisher by the end of the month. I made up my own religion because I didn't think JW's were capable of this kind of thing. If they keep saying stuff like this, I may have to revisit that thought.
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  ziddina

  "Some of Jehovah's servants will be involved in the elimination of the wicked..."

  JWoods, that caught my eye, too... Wonder if the FBI is keeping its eye on the Jehovah's Witlesses; since they are reportedly monitoring ALL "doomsday/apocalyptic" cults/movements...

  I sure hope so!! {{{SHUDDER}}} Zid
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  ziddina

  Oh! And thanks, JGnat, for posting that! Better late than never...
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  OUTLAW

  Some of Jehovah's servants will be involved in the elimination of the wicked ...

  (Jesus and his angels) they will need no help from events. We will be observers of this profound event."

  The WBT$ is capable of New Light any time they want..

  The WBT$ could decided to go on a Holy War and JW`s would`nt bat an eyelash..

  They would Prepare for Battle..

  

  The WBT$ can Kiss my ASS!!..

  ....................... ...OUTLAW
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  Mad Sweeney

  Wonder just how much further this would have to go to become a JW form of Jihad? (say they get a little more impatient in a couple more decades)

  I don't see the Dubs ever becoming fighters. They just don't have the stomach for it.

  What I see as more likely is a Jonestown-style elimination of all professed anointed in the future. It would be an easy way for a GB backed into a corner to escape responsibility, eliminate any and all challengers to their authority, and pass the torch of running the Borg completely to the other sheep class. It would be an easy spin for them, too. If you're REALLY anointed, you'll drink the Kool-aid and go be with Christ. If you chicken out, you weren't really anointed and need to beg forgiveness for faking it or be DFd.

  Before they go, they handpick a new GB from the 'earthly' class, who will presumably run the borg in perpetuity.

  I can see this happening within our lifetime. They're THAT deluded.
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  aligot ripounsous

  It is the very first time I hear about JWs participating in the elimination of the wicked. We were more used to the Stand still and see the salvation of Jehovah discourse.
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  JWoods

  It is the very first time I hear about JWs participating in the elimination of the wicked. We were more used to the Stand still and see the salvation of Jehovah discourse.

  Well, it does revert back to "Jesus and the angels" but what struck me was that it seems deliberately and provacatively designed to kind of hint at the idea that the JWs could be part of the action. Almost (eerily) like a sort of preparatory plan to bring on some new light - and like Jgnat said, the bloodthirsty glee is pretty disgusting.