Why Doesn't Armageddon Freak Them Out ?(Why didn't it freak us out ? )

by BluesBrother 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  StAnn

  It worried me to death. Constant concern over what would happen to my relatives and friends who weren't JWs. I could not take joy in the pictures in the Paradise book. This caused me serious issues with depression as a teenager and into early adulthood. This was especially bad for me because I was so stressed out about losing my father and grandparents in 1975 and then it didn't happen and the cognitive dissonance started setting in, although it took years to finally manifest itself clearly.

  However, there are other people like my mother and my sister who absolutely relish the idea of walking by the dead bodies of the people they dislike and feeling superior because Jee-hoo-ber viewed them as more worthy. They are truly sociopaths.

  StAnn
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  BabaYaga

  It did freak me out, and I did panic. I had panic attacks much of my life I spent as a Jehovah's Witness.
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  BluesBrother

  Thanks to all for their input..perhaps it shows that the ones to whom it does seem wrong, are the ones who end up here.

  As for me, I confess that I was not shocked by the doctrine, but it did trouble me often . Whenever I hit a "low" which was quite regular, then I would see that Armageddon doctrine was simply unjust and out of character to the God we knew. But then I rationalised and told myself it was up to God, not me and I would have to go along with his judgement????. Eventually it something special to make me see that it was just plain immoral to believe in it.

  I think that this may prove the point of the psychological experiment by Stanley Milgram. He set up people to believe that they were causing pain to others, but because the instruction came from a trusted authority, they did it anyway. J W's trust the authority of the Watchtower and the force they believe to be behind it....so they think it must be right...

  BTW It really gets me angry when I hear them joking and giggling about Armageddon - as if it was a great holiday or something
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  JWoods

  Thanks to all for their input..perhaps it shows that the ones to whom it does seem wrong, are the ones who end up here.

  That is very likely true. The other two groups are people who don't really believe it, and the psychopaths who LIKE IT.

  BTW It really gets me angry when I hear them joking and giggling about Armageddon - as if it was a great holiday or something

  Especially disgusting when done by the circuit overseer or uber-elders. Also especially disgusting when displayed in watchtower illustrations showing happy witnesses walking around in sunlit fields with stepford wife grins on their faces while the worldly people are zapped by lightning, getting hit by asteroids, or falling into crevasses.

  It really makes them look completely thoughtless and immune to human pain and destruction - as long as it is other humans, and not them.