Probably my obsession with eschatology and predictive date setting was the last thing about the JW saga to leech out of me.
Interest in eschatology and visions of destruction is what drew me into studying other cults and churches. I was most interested in the compilation of a recent history of predictive date setting leading up to the year 2000, which i completed.
I expected a LOT of activity, but not much happened that I saw.
A lot of Mormons and radical right wingy christians stocked up on wheat, lentils and honey because of Y2K, that was about it.
I think 2012 may prove an exciting year in the lead up, but Ive lost interest in the whole subject now.
Are you still an eschatologist?
by Mindchild 16 Replies latest jw friends
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refiners fire
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Hmmm
No, and I'll thank you to leave my sexual preferences out of this!
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Mindchild
Some responses to a few posts:
Saint Satan: I have a hard time being positive sometimes as well but look at things these days as natural progression of cycles. In nature, we see abundant examples of population/resource cycles where a species exploits its environmental situation to the maximum and the resulting die off when the environment no longer can support the population levels. We actually see the same thing already happening with humans as in different countries, people do starve to death because they exploited their local environment beyond the carrying point and consequently were not able to continue in their course of action. Will it ever get to a point where the whole house of cards come falling down and we have a global resetting of the human clock? Some days I think so, other days I don’t.
Tallyman: I would call you more of a meta- eschatologist and you are almost like a sociologist looking at the cultural effects instead of being caught up (for the moment) in the eschatological dance for dim-wits. You also asked me: What IS yah weh ? What road you be traveling now, post-WT? …The road less traveled, that of thinking things through. As per what is Yahweh…you must have come a long ways to forget that.
Skipper
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heathen
I would have to say yes to that question.there are many ways the life on the planet is endangered .scientists have proven mass extinction to have been caused by such things as meteors or super volcanoes,my reasoning is, if this has happened already than who is to say it can't happen again.But to me the likelihood of a nuclear hollocaust is an even greater threat. Just the threat of having clean water to drink or enough food is very real to me .We're all doomed.
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Carmel
Its interesting that the definition is Christocentric. There are similiar "end of the world" doctrins in Judiasm and Islam. Zoroasterianism talks about a similar concept but assure the triumph of good over evil. Once I got out of the fundamentalist mind trap of literalism, concepts of "resurrection" and "end of the world" took on a totally different meaning. By the way, the proper translation is more like end of "time" or the "era" rather than the "world". Actually the JW term "system of things" is not too bad a term. As we transition from one world view or paradigm to a new one, it is the end of an age, era or system of things. We're experiancing it as we speak.
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Farkel
: Are you still an eschatologist?
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Farkel
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proplog2
Yes. I still believe there is a point where man's territoriality comes close to destroying mankind. I believe the Bible presents an uncanny description of events that lead up to that critical point. However, I don't think the Bible is the word of god. More like the word of some older brothers.