The END did NOT come in their lifetime!!
by DATA-DOG 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
-
-
wannaexit
"We weren't supposed to be here still" quote my father age 84
-
rmt1
By the time they were done, my mom was saddled with five boys. At about boy #3, I recall the family sitting around as she read a short story she had written that featured something about the wind blowing fragments of leaves into someone's eye. Dad and us boys (5yo and down) for some reason thought it was worthy of panning. There was undoubtedly a male majority component to the opinion. She went away sad. Another time, she showed us her charcoal drawings. I believe no one panned those. Dad is gone from cancer, she's a graying widow under the care, I'm sure, of some secondary sequence of alpha elder gorillas, and she will die in this cult, with her artistic potential unexplored.
-
kaik
From my old KH, I think pretty much everyone has already died, DA, DF, faded away, or became irregular. I remember my aunt who was JW since the time of Stalin assurred that we will never age, etc. She died around 2000. Her kids, my cousins are between 50-60, who believed that they will never die. Some of them are combating cancer, etc. I still remember hearing her words that Armageddon is just couple months away in 1970's. She died beliving that she will be resurrected very shortly.. 14 years later, she is still a dust.
-
smiddy
And the end will not come in our lifetime , or in the lifetime of our children or in the lifetime of our childrens children .
smiddy
-
bats in the belfry
.
. . . then why all the urgency — the talk about a matter of “life or death” — if the end is not immediate? It just becomes so obsolete with time advancing.
.
As per WT definition, any one dying before Armageddon will not be counted as belonging to the “Great Crowd”.
Just think about it!
.
-
Ucantnome
i know someone who left the witnesses years ago they are now old and they still believe the end is imminent. we once had a discussion about how important it was to keep on the watch and what it means. i didn't agree with their views.
for me leaving the witnesses was about serving God and not telling people something i wasn't convinced of. i think everyone who has beer a witness had the same spiritual food as i did.
one witness i spoke with a few months back asked me a question regarding if i was concerned about the nearness of the tribulation and when i answered they turned away and wouldn't talk. i've had one who wouldn't read the publication i show them. another one who told me apostates wrote some of it. another one i grew up with had no interest in what has been taught in the past. the list is long of the indifference to what i have said caused me to leave and that is fine.
-
kaik
I knew one sister in KH, who survived both of her children. In her old age, she believed that the Armageddon will be certain in her lifetime. She hoped to see her children resurrected. At the end she was institutialized in a mental institution uncapable to say anything except shreking Armageddon is abou to happen. This was only thing she could think of. What I heard, she died year or two ago without seeing the End, except hers. Very sad.
-
LongHairGal
KAIK:
That is truly a sad story about that elderly sister!
The point is: we are all going to meet our own end at some point. Geologists also say the earth itself will end at some point. Surely, somebody will be alive to see this!
All through the centuries people have lived and died. The problem is that the Jehovah's Witness religion has an unhealthy fixation with the "end". The result? You have people who are not living their lives in the present (which is the only time they can be sure of) and it has them wishing for a future life they are not guaranteed. In effect, they are letting their present life run through their hands like a fistful of sand! So sad.
Also, the JWs are not in reality with what is really going on in the world around them and have problems coping. This is the tragedy of the religion.
Hopefully, those of us who are out now have rectified this error and come to our senses. We are appreciative of the time we have left and are living and enjoying the present!
-
kaik
To LongHairGal, that elderly sister stuck in my memory due subsequent tragedies that happened to her. As she survived both her children and husband, she could only think one thing, Armageddon. She constantly inquired when the Armageddon will happen.She was institualized in a mental instutition where she died.
Problem for many JW that their entire life revolves about imaginary End of the Time. Their entire life, livelihood, theology, and thinking is directed to date that should happen within ther time. I remember one elder that debated in the 1980's if it is worthy to fix his house, since Armageddon is about to happen and he can move to some nice leftover villa from worldly people. That was 30 years ago! Many JW find themselves suprised to live regular human life span without ever seeing the End, except theirs. My aunt thought she will die only to be just resurrected to live with her's extensive JW family in upcomming Armageddon. That was 14 years ago.