Is the World really getting worse?

by Nickolas 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Snoozy

  I think the young people in the world today lack respect. I agree all the other things mentioned are good things..but as far as the morality of the people in it...has gone downhill.

  I fear for the youth of todays futures. I hope I am wrong but the peole are so greedy that our water supply is being poisoned, our food is being poisoned our air is being poisoned. What will happen in the future?
  Trees are being cut down ruining the air, animals are becoming extinct. Rivers are being polluted with chemical runoffs from factories illegally while law enforcement look the other way.

  Most politicians run because they are greedy, they want it all. Money and power! They talk a good talk but can't give a good walk so to speak. They also pay a hefty price for that. I haven't seen one president come out of it looking healthy.

  And who would have heard of a 8 year old child killing his or her parents long ago..

  I think the earth and the people on it are getting worse in many ways..

  There are worse things than dinosaurs to fight..

  I could go on but that just feeds my tendancy to be negative...

  Snoozy
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  WTWizard

  Yes, the world is getting worse now--with "president(??)" Osama Obama running the US. And, the One World Totalitarian Government is ready to plunge the world into the Second Dark Ages--if the Washtowel Babble and Crap Slaveholdery doesn't do it first.

  However, note "Second" Dark Ages. Previously, there was already a First Dark Ages--and it was much worse than conditions now. People were slaves to a few, and the Catholic Church ran everything. Anyone not believing their doctrine to the "T" was burned at the stake. They had a plague that destroyed 3/4 of the population. Crime was everywhere--instead of risking being a victim, people expected to be victims. Even castles with very heavy doors and moats got burgled. People expected to be robbed on the highways. Medicine was a complete joke: Not only did they not have natural cures, but allopathic medicine couldn't even begin to take care of acutely sick or injured people (which is where it does its best). People died of infections and suffered long-term disability and death from injuries that today are easily cured.

  And the disasters were worse then. You didn't hear about every hurricane, tornado, earthquake, or tsunami that happened then. You also didn't hear about the disaster that was headed your way until it was too late. Today, people have at least a warning so they can get out of harm's way in case of disaster. During the First Dark Ages, a hurricane could show up and you would not be able to escape. Even during the early stages of the storm, superstition ruled until it was too late. The combination of bad infrastructure, rampant highway crime, and lack of acknowledgement of science made cleanup much harder then and led to diseases that would easily be prevented today.
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  Bungi Bill

  Schnell, in his For Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave, probably summed it up correctly when he stated that the WTS took advantage of the mass upheaval that followed WWI in Europe . This is the origin of the WTS's "things are getting worse and worse" dirge.

  (As someone has already noted on this thread, it is as if events only in Europe count for anything, when the WTS raises this issue!)

  Bill.
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  oldlightnewshite

  Nope, I don't believe the world is getting worse. The world is now educated and informed, and healthy. All the things that make for a broken society are being eradicated... ignorance, pestilence, governmental coups etc. This all really only happens in Africa, but we're slowly beginning to help out. I think that living in 11th century europe is probably similar to parts of modern day Africa. The only thing that will really screw things up in the near future is overpopulation. I think many governments will probably have to deal with this by doing sterilizations, and offering incentives to not procreate.

  Nobody's mentioned it yet, but if you search out the world geological survey, the incidence of earthquakes is actually lower now than it has been in the past. The Afghan and Iraq wars' bodycount has been much lower than the first and second world wars. I think people aren't so predisposed to be sucker-punched into supporting wars for their religion, or nationalsistc fervour, as opposed to say, 100 years ago. (the millions of church-going youth going to sign up to win the war with the 'Bosch' or 'Krauts', being cheered on by their families and peers, is thankfully a thing of the past).

  There is growing sexual equality, religious tolerance, racial tolerance etc, which is down to education, and the growing moral zeitgeist from of all places - TV!

  The bottom line is that if you got in a time machine and went back 200 years to live in the good old days, you'd probably be dead by the time you hit 40.
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  designs

  The end of the Cold War really hurt their hopes for a nuclear war.........
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  greendawn

  The world always had its problems but today at least in the western world things are better than in the past, who would like to live in the medieval times to be the serf of some aristocrat in a world plagued by superstitions where everyone was illiterate and innumerate except the religious people and part of the ruling classes? Nowadays people are more educated and aware, medical science has advanced immensely, there is welfare for needy people. Surely not a perfect world but much better than before. On the other hand there has been a breakdown of the family high divorce rates. many single parent families, a very one sided materialistic society. Wars, famines and earthquakes had always existed and are no worse now than before.
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  Gregor

  I think it is getting better in many respects as some have pointed out.

  But I do feel that the proliferation of 'news' media has created such a demand for CONTENT that it is distorting the impressions we are getting about the world. Thanks to video and the internet the ability to transmit images of crime and disaster all over the world many people get the distorted impression all these things are increasing at an alarming rate. Just a few of the things that get disproportionate coverage:

  Sex crimes

  murders

  police chases

  convenience store hold ups

  child abductions

  natural and man made disasters

  the list goes on and on. The media needs this raw material to fill out their programing and sell cars, cornflakes and laundry soap. I think each individual has to try to sift through this flood of 'news' and decide for themselves what is worth their attention.
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  designs

  The Medium is the Message- Marshall McLuhan

  We have the knowledge to address the great threats to humanity- Hunger, Disease, Pollution. The human will is there, we need the political will and the corporate will to fully address these issues.

  Be an Activist, don't pass the baton to others...............we did that as Witnesses, its not morally right.
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  notverylikely

  I think the earth and the people on it are getting worse in many ways..

  Every generation thinks that. The older you get, the more you think the youth is falling apart. It's very common.
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  Cold Steel

  I think it's getting worse.

  Keep in mind that in prophecy...REAL prophecy...that the return of Judah to its anscentral homelands was one of the fundamental occurances that was supposed to take place. And though I'm a believer in global warming, I doubt very much that man has much to do with it. The present warming trend began well before the industrial age, and the globe has experienced mild to serious precessions without the Earth ever being aware we were here.

  Isaiah writes: And it shall come to pass in that day [before the Millennium], that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." (Isa. 11)

  The first time the Lord scattered and brought back his people was during the Babylonian captivity. The second time Judah was scattered was by the Romans around 76 A.D. In the 1870s, Judah began to return from the four corners of the Earth. God specifically says he will give the land to them; however, Armageddon will occur when the nations of the Earth invade the Holy Land.

  As someone who well remembers the 60s and 70s, I think things are getting worse. But the Witnesses have little understanding of the scriptures (of which they have very limited understanding), and can offer little guidance based on either it or their own beliefs. We're contstantly being told about global warming, impending pandemics, societal breakdowns and other disasters.