Ah Datadog, I have had the pleasure of watching those that shun me, and await my death at the had of thier Hebrew desert god, die one by one. Not many left to go now.
It has not been this good since I fought in the arena for Caesar. To the death.
The END did NOT come in their lifetime!!
by DATA-DOG 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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LongHairGal
GLADIATOR:
I know exactly what you mean. I have seen shunners that got so old they are hardly recognizable.
The way I look at it: we are all DUST and Jehovah's Witnesses seem to have forgotten that fact in their arrogance.
What does it all mean in the end? Zero, that's what.
ON A MORE POSITIVE NOTE: HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !!!
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DATA-DOG
Go therefore and live! Let thine worries concerning the contrivances of men pass along the wayside like the chaff amidst a tempest! Will the tyranny of evil men thwart thy plans for joy in this life? Nay! The schemes of such ones will come to naught as they shed their mortal coil, lamenting their past deeds of inequity with bitterness and regret! Heed them not my friends. They have judged in unrighteousness and have received the reward of their brethren, the false prophets.
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prologos
not in their lifetime? the wtBtS has a way to deal with that.
read the wt articles, (study editions) that outline the means the departing have to keep the THING going by passing their assets directly to the estate harvesters of the organisation.
There is a silver, even gold lining for the wt in that white hair on the ground floor at the assemblies.
cannis datamonium= man's best friend's collected works. haha
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Clarity
The 2010 DC was when I stopped at once to attend the meetings and except for comments made by my still active wife I have no contact with any JWs...so I have no idea how the new light affected the morale of the troops. All I know is that what woke me up.
Jgnat
I was in my mid fifties when I woke up to the fact that I will grow old and die. With time I came to realize that I'm more at peace knowing I will die than the uncertainty of ever qualifying for an elusive everlasting life...
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wasblind
" I know some here don't believe in the after life in heaven, but I just wnder about all the Jdubs who have passed that are in heaven, that has to be the biggest " AhA moment " of all time____Shirley W
I don't know if there will be a " Aha moment " Shirley
They willingly followed a false prophet the scriptures warned 'em about
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If anything, they might be yellin' "Oh Hell "
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From what's expressed in the scriptures
they won't tolerate fools in heaven
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Black Sheep
If there is a heaven, my dad will be joining Rutherford at the gates of hell, greeting their converts.
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steve2
Facing one's immortality when one has fervently believed the end is just around the corner is really and truly the woeful story of "end-times" Christianity in all its shades and grades. The Witnesses attract our interest primarily because of our own personal attachmentts to this "shade and grade" of Chistianity. It could have just as readily been Pentecostalism or Mormonism or Adventism or any of the other shades and grades, some stricter than others. At least I defend my Watchtower link through "innocent" birth and not doorstep conversion.
Moreover, before we ponder the sad, forlorn passing of our JW grandparents, parents and assorted others from the immediately senior generations, let's spare some mindful attention for the even earlier generations of Watchtower believers who faced personal death whilst heralding the nearness of the end of the world. We're told Chuck Russell died on a train journey in 1916 - a full 2 years after he had arrogantly predicted the end of world in 1914. Oh, like all such predicters, he had put an elastic spin on his prediction. Let's move closer one generation forward to his vile-minded successor, Rutherford, who in the late 1930s issued a book entitled "Children" in which he asserted there were mere "months" remaining in this system of things. Months?! He and his generational peers and successors are all now dead and very "gone". Who enables this peculiar elasticity of faith?
The sadness of devoting one's finite life to a never-ending world is twinned with the rational-minded realization that it is simply the ongoing story of successive generations of believers eventually facing their own inconvenient deaths whilst the brazen, callous world lives on.
The world we once believed would end "just" around the corner, witnesses our arrogant predictions and, when we preach our final words of doom and
breath our last, the bored-silly world buries us. Who's a pretty believer then? Not me.
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prologos
steve, I would be very pleasantly surprised , (I hope)*, if I have to face my "IMMORTALITY" any time soon.
my MORTALITY, I am 80% done, is what keeps me enjoyong life every day,
free from WT Worries.
*given the hotter alternative to pleasant surprise.
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BluesBrother
The dubs that I know these days realise that the end will not come in their lifetime . They even make jokes about it , and laugh it off, in public anyway. I heard a public speaker crack this one
I used to think that I was going to march right on into the New World - but now it seems that I will be takeing the underground route !