Will the WTS ever give up on Armageddon?

by factfinder 34 Replies latest jw friends

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  wobble

  I too hope that the human race grows up and stops believing in Sky-daddy Gods and Jinns and Demons, and in a pre-ordained "End".

  The problem is that many who believe that a fictional character, God, is in control of it all will do nothing to make this world a better place, or to avert the problems that mankind creates.

  Belief in such nonsense is a break on advancement, and should be resisted in any way possible.

  We particularly should insist that children are not taught nonsense like Creationism, and God and Religion as though they are factual and true in any way, those subjects should simply be taught so that the kids can appreciate that the poor benighted souls who believe such stuff are not educated.

  AS "I Quit" ably said above, I doubt that the WT will grow up, unless it is forced upon them by dwindling support, and only by dropping the Armageddon nonsense and End Time crap are they able to attract more suckers, but I do not see them recognizing the situation for what it is, they are too far removed from reality, so their business will fail eventually.
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  the-illuminator81

  Yes but you see, a thousand years is as a single day, so we have only waited two days! Thoughtstop successful.

  Of course this is a dangerous argument, because that may mean it will take another thousand years for armageddon to arrive, so you will have to follow up with some more doublethink, fear and lying such as "But conditions in the world were never this bad!" and "But Jesus arrived invisibly in 1914" and "We don't know the time and hour so you better be ready for armageddon or you will be cast into the lake of eternal fire!" and "One thing is for sure, the world never has been this close to Armageddon and every day brings it even closer".
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  blondie

  Think of this, how many members of the WTS remember that the WTS taught that the end would come in 1914 or 1925. Before my time and the books are out of date that had this info. I had been a jw 40 years before I found the 1925 tidbit. So the jws today are ignorant of their past and are tweaked by a careful filtering of WTS lore.

  1) remember the 1914 generation, that the end would come before the last of them died

  2) remember that the WTS taught that some of the anointed had to be alive on earth before the end, and then adjusted the 1935 doctrine that the last of the anointed were called by 1935 to being called years afterwards
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  TotallyADD

  I also think the WT uses Armageddon like other churches use Hell fire to control their flock. Nothing like death and destruction to get you motivated to do whatever they ask. The other day on the history channel they talk about millennium cults. One point I thought was interesting was these cults go only two ways. (1) They become very violent and destructive or (2) They become mainstream. So will they ever give up on Armageddon? No. It will only become some obscure teaching that is only referred to once in awhile as they become mainstream. Totally ADD
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  kjw53

  Well Mockers- here are the prophecys going down before your eyes-- The two horned beast(Eagle-Lion) goes into the middle eastern region after the hidden gold(oil) then the prophecy of Egypt-Libya-Then the fall of Babylon the great-the tribulation-Harmageddon- Jehovah of armies is watching. keep on mocking just as they did in Noahs day.
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  thetrueone

  There is always going to be ignorant, naive people that the WTS can feed off from, fear is the catalyst that drives much of the WTS.

  publishing proliferation and creates a semblance of power toward the WTS. hierarchy.
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  keyser soze

  It will never happen. The threat of Armageddon being imminent is the foundation upon which the religion is built. Without it, what would they preach about? Or for that matter, would most JWs be compelled to preach at all? If they simply taught about Jesus, they would be like every other religion.
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  james_woods

  The threat of Armageddon being imminent is the foundation upon which the religion is built. Without it, what would they preach about? Or for that matter, would most JWs be compelled to preach at all? If they simply taught about Jesus, they would be like every other religion.

  As much as the witnesses hate the doctrine of Hellfire, they have been blind for well over a hundred years to the plain fact that they have their own Hellfire (to scare their followers into submission).

  It is Armageddon.
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  NomadSoul

  I'm going to echo the opinions of various comments already made. I hope that more than 100 years in the future mankind has grown up and have abandonded all or most of they myth of our ancestors.
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  james_woods

  The two horned beast(Eagle-Lion) goes into the middle eastern region after the hidden gold(oil) then the prophecy of Egypt-Libya-

  That already happened in WW2 (over 50 years ago) - Field Marshall Rommell (Germany) versus the Allies. It was in Libya & Egypt and it was over oil.

  Armageddon did not occur.