It wasn't supposed to be like this

by molybdenum 21 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • adamah
    adamah

    Sad fact is there STILL will be JWs saying Armageddon is coming REAL SOON in 2113, just like now, or just like in 1913. There's been doomsdayers throughout history, even predating Jesus and Christianity.

    From:

    http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm

    According to Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (1979), an Assyrian clay tablet dating to approximately 2800 BC was unearthed bearing the words "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common." This is one of the earliest examples of the perception of moral decay in society being interpreted as a sign of the imminent end.

    634 BC

    Apocalyptic thinking gripped many ancient cultures, including the Romans. Early in Rome's history, many Romans feared that the city would be destroyed in the 120th year of its founding. There was a myth that 12 eagles had revealed to Romulus a mystical number representing the lifetime of Rome, and some early Romans hypothesized that each eagle represented 10 years. The Roman calendar was counted from the founding of Rome, 1 AUC (ab urbe condita) being 753 BC. Thus 120 AUC is 634 BC. (Thompson p.19)

    389 BC

    Some Romans figured that the mystical number revealed to Romulus represented the number of days in a year (the Great Year concept), so they expected Rome to be destroyed around 365 AUC (389 BC). (Thompson p.19)

    JWs didn't invent the doomsday predictions' appeal to personal narcissism (of thinking the present time is the MOST IMPORTANT TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY, EVAH!!!), and they're just the latest victims.

    Those who don't study and/or remember history are doomed to repeat it (and if not in Summer school, then in their life).

    Adam

  • factfinder
    factfinder

    Molly-

    that was my life too.

    Good job.

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