This site has been going for 13 years. Did you ever at one point fear armageddon? (page 2)

DATA-DOG

I got a little freaked out last week. I was thinkng about the blood-moon memorial coming up and the 100 years of Christ's rulership. Those two events coinciding seem pretty ominous at first glance. Then I thought, " 100 years from WHEN?!? The erroneous date of 1914?!?" Once you eliminate one of the ominous factors, the other means nothing.

I also think of this. If there is a secondary fullfillment of Revelation, what can I do about it? If God decides that I am unworthy of life, well, ok. I'll be dead, there is nothing that I could do to stop it. I also feel that any " Father " that demands worship from thier children by the threat of death is a terrible parent. I don't want to live forever if that's the case. 1,000 years of JW organizing sounds like hell on earth.

Jwfacts.com is awesome. When the panick hits, review the facts. There is no denying the sins and manipulation and revisionist history in the WTBTS. They are a flawed group of judgmental humans. They are making it up as they go along. That's not so bad in itself because we can't have all the answers. The problem is the Pharisaic legalism and the persecution of others for not believing made up ideas. There is no way that a loving creator would judge you or I as worthy of life or death based on that. Also, AMMO'S quote was spot on!

I see no real reason to believe that we will not live out our lives in this planet. The overwhelming evidence shows that every single generation before us, since the beginning of man, had died. Also, every single prediction about the END, including those of the WTBTS, have proven false. I always play the odds. So far, so good. Hang in there. Just for fun, buy yourself a nice bottle of scotch. Plan on opening it with friends 10 years from now....

DD

BU2B

That is really what woke me up!

I read the Bible, came to the conclusion, not that it was wrong,,, but that I didnt want any part of worshiping the tyranical Jehovah of the OT esp after reading about the Genocides he advocated, the flood wiping out innocent people etc. I decided I did not want to live on a planet under his rule, since it seemed like it would be micromanaged and you could get zapped nytime for your thoughts etc. Also the cruelty of not allowing decesased married people to get married or have families

Only after I decided I wanted no part of "Jehovah" or the "new system" did that allow me to really investigate the WT without fear and only after that did I learn TTATT. So for me learning TTATT was actually a big relief.

Ucantnome

there was one time when i was a witness i thought the tribulation looked imminent. i wondered if i had done enough but thought it's too late now.

Giordano

We got out in the mid to late 1960's I knew Armageddon wasn't real. What was real was the Vietnam war and I was going to lose my draft exemption. Then I learned that the big year was going to be in 1975. For a moment I wondered if we were truly f@%ked. We would have been if we missed the first Woodstock! Made it to that forgot about Armageddon until 1976 called my mom up to wish her well in the new world.....glad we all made it.......long silence then......... click.

Later she asked me how I knew it wasn't going to happen...... two reasons I told her.......you remember Freddie Franz?

What's the other she asked......Jesus never mentioned it.

ILoveTTATT

Great responses!! I think that things do happen to me like they do to Data-Dog, but what he said is true; just asking oneself some questions and reassuring oneself that it's all bull...

Magwitch

I walked away from the religion and my 20 year marriage in the summer of 2006. It is going on 8 years and I can honestly say once for about 3 minutes I had a slight regret. I had always been a stay at home mom. In my forties I had to start working for the first time in my life. I had two young teenage daughters with no support from the ex and I was struggling financially to survive. My Awake and Watchtower degree didn't do much in the work place. I was driving to work thinking "Should I have stuck it out? I actually think it was more like one minute. Other than that lapse in judgement it was the smartest thing I could ever do for my girls and myself.

SuperBoy

I have been away for 12 years. I decided to 'come out' about a month after 9/11. And do you know, at the time I thought that was a sign from J.
Really! It seems so egotistical now.

It was a scary time. All the JWs at the time where saying 'This is IT! This is the start of the great tribulation...' and my family were texting me all the time urging me to come back.

I never did.

And I do get scared sometimes - 30 years of expectation isn't going to disappear that quickly - but the conclusion I am left with looking at world events is that life is for living, not waiting. So LIVE IT.

ILoveTTATT

Wow superboy!! I would have been so scared to leave!! Glad you toughed it out, and are still alive to tell the story!! I agree with you... I gotta LIVE LIFE!!

heathen

I did start a study and was going for the dunk but the church once again made me turn back because of their idiot mentallity where they think church time is time to insult me . i believe armageddon is going on now , it's a spiritual war with the church and jesus against the demons and the world political powers that hate individualism and want everyone to be slaves to the state , it ends when the last saint is martyred then the wrath of GOD wipes out all the military and armies , revs 19. As far as I've seen i've not identified any JW as saints tho some of their publications show there may be some , the only way to know is if they prophesied and died as martyrs . There is no symbolic dying as to the world , revelation is clear they all died violent deaths .

Fernando

"Amen" Wasanelder Once.

Uncovering darkness masquerading as light takes time and effort.

In time one "sees" the full extent of the cult leaders' spiritual confusion, drunkenness, and insanity.

Then there simply is no desire to go back to following these self-congratulatory fools ever.

This site has been going for 13 years. Did you ever at one point fear armageddon?

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