Are the JWs were you are getting worked up over having a to go bag (Armageddon bag) ready? (page 2)

jamiebowers

LITS, I love your posts! They just drip with disgust. I imagine I wuld stark raving mad if I had to live around/with jws.

Several years back when I lived in Montreal, several members of a church called the Mission of the Holy Spirit were lured into the "truth"...some influent members of the cult said that their "leader" approved their studying with the JWs...and several did and quickly joined our congregation. Anyways, these people had stockpiled huge amounts of unperishable foods and water because they were expecting the end of the world. Some families had their basement full of cans and drums of grain that they started to get rid of when they became JWs...Some of us made fun of them for being so gullible because their stocked goods would be pillaged as soon as starving neighbours would find out they had something to eat!

Following a terrible ice storm in 1998 some households were without power for a full month during the coldest days of winter and following this event, brothers were told that it would be safe to keep candles, water and basic food to sustain them for a few days....

life is to short

Thanks jamiebowers your comment meant a lot to me.

Billy I agree about having things like you mentioned. Where I live we can get a lot of snow and I personally would never go for a trip without blankets and water and some kind of snacks. You never know if you can make all the passes OK of if your car were to break down, etc. All of this is common sense what the JW's are talking about goes beyond common sense to putting your trust in the elders who are truly stupid for lack of better words.

Where I live in the 1980's many of the brothers had guns. They would go target practicing all the time, carry them with them for what reason I do not know, etc. In fact one of the MS.s I used to babysit for him and his wife invited me to go with him and my sister to target practice when I was just 16 years old it was just the three of us, looking back how crazy was that, but he was really looked up to in the hall one step away from being an elder. His gun was a 44 magnum I had never touched a gun before then. It was truly crazy the gun almost knocked me over and I was wondering why he was having me shoot it. Anyway I degrees again but I wonder if some of the brothers still have their guns and if they would use them if it ever came to that.

LITS

exwhyzee

I'm in the Seattle area and we are always told to be prepared for a major earthquake by having food medicine water etc stored in our homes and in our cars in case we're on the road when the big one hits. It could be that the JW's are getting prepared for that especially since they think Armegeddon will follow on the heals of a major disaster anyway so they are doubly motivated about being prepared. The thing is, how long can you put off the inevitable. That is, you can't store that much food or water, you'd eventually run out of it in a long term situation like the "tribulation". Anyone who appeared to be surviving would be targeted by those who were without.

Back in the Pre 1975 days. There were people in our hall that had literature buried in plastic soap bottles in their back yards so that when there was a "Ban" on the preaching work or whatever, they'd have a stash of literature to keep them going. I often wondered if some of that stuff is still out there today or if anyone ever found it and wondered what was going on. That would be a great assembly experience or urban legend....someone became a Witness after finding the truth buried in a soap bottle in their back yard.

wha happened?

My wife did this based on a talk a few years ago. She and her sister ran off and bought all this survival type bags with goodies.

Diest

I heard about this to down here in the Rockies.

WTWizard

This is only one way to prepare. But it isn't going to do you any good if you don't have a plan once you leave your home. Where do you go? How do you get there? Your car might not work (it won't work without gas) or you might be stuck in a traffic jam caused by everyone leaving at once or whoever is causing the emergency or might profit from it putting up a stupid checkpoint. Public transportation might not get you where you want to go. A bicycle is handy, but is useless if all the roads are blocked or you don't have the physical stamina to ride it possibly 100 km or more in possibly very hot, freezing, wet, or snowy weather.

I advise people to look at all the ways to prepare. You will not be able to implement them all. But, I believe everyone should do at least one thing. Learn a skill that will help you barter (computer repair is one hot skill; growing food and fixing bicycles are others). You might take the money you are now putting on your church collection plate and put it into silver or gold (and pxxx off the pastor, but when is the pastor going to help you when hyperinflation renders your dollar worthless). You might stock up on non-perishable food and/or water (even from your own faucet, with a fluoride filter attached). You might get a gun and ammunition, and learn to handle it safely (and properly--only shoot people defensively, never offensively). Or, you might acquire some land. (Shooting defensively means only shooting to defend yourself against an attack, and if warning them fails to prevent it--never shooting someone without first being seriously threatened).

But, make sure you get the most out of your preparations. Having a gun is worthless if you don't know how and when to use it. A boogie bag will do no good if you don't have an escape plan in place. A bicycle will do little if you can't ride it. Growing food is not going to help if you lack space to do it. Learning a skill that is not marketable in a survival situation will do little good if you can't barter. And so on.

biometrics

Yes, we have an emergency bag all ready to go at a moment's notice. It's been gathering dust for the past 4 years.

breakfast of champions

In my mothers congregation, a brother directed the congregation to a "witness" website that sells these bags for $100+. . . . For some cheap flashlight, water, and a granola bar. . .

Are the JWs were you are getting worked up over having a to go bag (Armageddon bag) ready?