While you were sitting in that uncomfortable folding chair the other night...
listening to something you've heard already a thousand times before...
do you know what was happening at the same time?
Somebody somewhere else was studying a real textbook.
Somebody was cramming for a college exam. Somebody was earning a degree to get a career.
That somebody will be able to support their family, save money and give to charity and provide a better life to their kids.
How? They weren't wasting their time, that's how.
You know what was happening last weekend when you were out knocking doors and handing out Watchtower and Awake magazines?
Somebody else was out there visiting sick people in a hospital.
Somebody was taking meals to the elderly.
Somebody was volunteering as a Big Brother to help a young boy become a man.
Real help in real life that actually did somebody some good was going on exactly at the same time you were annoying people in a local neighborhood.
You know those Christmases and Easters you didn't spend celebrating with your kids?
You know, the ones where music, lights and laughter is being enjoyed by "worldly" pagans?
Yeah, well, listen while I tell you something.
When those worldly people's kids grow up they'll have beautiful warm memories of a loving childhood and they will continue those traditions eagerly with their on children.
Those people will have generations of solidarity and contentment that means something profoundly comforting.
But, you and your kids? Nah--not so much!
It will be a dark empty feeling because you bet everything on the End of the World that didn't happen! What will you have to show for it? Why, exactly what you put into it----nothing.
You see, there are people you look down on and would rather turn your back on who know the secret of life isn't inside a Kingdom hall.
There are people who know that hard work bettering themselves is a better investment than parroting a cartoon theology.
And do you know why that is?
Because one day you will be older....much older....older than you are willing to face. And you will gradually come to realize something--not because you are brave and courageous about facing awful truth, either.
You will have to face the fact you are going to have nobody around you who will care about you or care for you because of three terrible mistakes.
1.You wasted your time with losers who gave you very bad advice and misled you as to what life is really all about: family, real friends and a practical purpose.
2.You traded away all your opportunities to create a happy family life. You traded for a lousy alternative: you enforced rules, you clamped down trying to please elders and leaders who didn't give a crap about your quality of life. You sold your soul for cold comfort.
Sniff that? You know what that smell is? It is the rotting stench of your marriage and your kid's respect.
3.You will grow older and older. You will have little or no savings for when you get ill and can't fend for yourself. All those so-called brothers and sisters at the Kingdom Hall will be busy "serving jehovah" to have any time to drop by and offer you a meal or a kind word. YOU WILL BE ALL ALONE with what you earned as a faithful servant of Jehovah. Add all that up. If it looks like a zero that is because it is. Exactly nothing.
While you still have a life...
While you still have a family..
While you still have time to make something out of the 24 hours in your day...
DON'T WASTE A SECOND that won't bring you anything but depression and loneliness!
Stop inventing in a certain loss and disappointment.
That bus marked "Paradise" won't stop to pick you up because Armageddon is a mirage....an illusion and worst of all, a TIME WASTING LIE.
Oh--you don't believe me?
Why? Oh--because I'm an Apostate?
Well, listen to this. A so-called Apostate is just an unsatisfied customer who use to eat what you eat. I got food-poisoning from the "faithful and discreet slave." It took me years and years of my precious life to recover from that "food at the proper time."
If you want to end up like the old Bethel workers hanging by their fingernails with no means of support after a lifetime of dedication and hard work....well, go right ahead.
But--DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU!!
