On T V I recently saw some of the film "Knowledge" starring Nicholas Cage . The idea of the film was that the main character had knowledge of coming disasters . He was distraught - desperate - panicking to try and stop it happening. A similar scene was presented in the Terminator films when John Connor's mother was granted advance knowledge of an impending Armageddon like scenario and it drove her insane with worry.
Jehovah's Witnesses have a certain belief that all the rest of the world is going to meet this fate "very soon"
So why are they not panicking? We were once a part of it too. Why did we not feel the trauma of the terrifying prospect and "freak out " about it?
Instead the J W's go on with their lives, doing an obligatory few hours on the ministry (failing to mention the A word unless they have to) happily looking forward to their nice new home in Paradise and seemingly not giving a stuff for the billions who will be dead .....[and we did it too don't forget]
Now are they all heartless sociopaths devoid of feeling? No. Most J W's are normal kindly folk who care as much as the next man. So why are they so calm?
Have the screenwriters got it wrong? Is there something in the human psyche that does not panic or feel pain at an idea of coming destruction, provided that it only affects other people??
My excuse is that I was brought up with the notion and what you always know, does not scare you. But so many are adult converts and they grasp the doctrine as "Good News"
I do not know. but it seems strange to me.
