For Some People, The World Is Always Ending

For Some People, The World Is Always Ending.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/jeff-dinnell/2013/01/for-some-people-the-world-is-always-ending/

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Some think every little disturbance means Armageddon. It doesn't. We had plenty of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011, but the world is still here. We had plenty of hurricanes in 2005, but joke-hova didn't judge us after that. We had plenty of financial headaches in 2008 (for some, more than a headache), yet we are still here. We had quite a few terror attacks starting with September 11, 2001--yet no Armageddon. Yet, some went running back to the Kingdumb Hell shortly after these.

This crap has been going back into the 1980s. I remember 1982 when AIDS first made headlines. Many a xian panicked and ran to jesus, thinking that was the end of the world. Quite a few fundamentalist xians viewed AIDS as joke-hova's judgment on the planet. I believe the whole thing was a man-made hoax intended to instill guilt and shame on people for sex, starting with gay sex. (And get people dependent on drugs for life, since they do not recognize zero viral load on a virus that either creates only minor problems on its own or was deliberately engineered to cause AIDS). However, many still fell for the "God is judging people for fornication" smut.

In the 1990s, it was "global warming". That smut started when we ran into a little warm spell. Most of the "global warming" happened between 1979 and 1989. It did warm a little more until 1998, but it has stopped warming. We are still getting blizzards and cold weather comparable to the 1980s. I remember heat waves and wimpy winters going back to 1982-83. Barely any snow, then it all melts. Then a little more snow, melt. A little more snow, melt. We were getting January days regularly around 8 o C, after temperatures on December 6, 1982, in western New York around 22 C. It has failed to get worse since then. Yet, many xians are proclaiming that joke-hova is about to judge us because of this "disaster of global warming".

Even without disaster, some people seem to think they can use "holy writings" to predict the end. Our own OBVES promised the end within the year 2011, and it never happened. Many a mathematician has postulated December 21, 2012 as the end. No show. I have heard judgment messages through the 1980s, too. This has been going on as long as the cat lick church has been trying to pick up the pieces after the Protestants and Renaissance. They threaten the end is nigh, and it never comes. From doomsday cults that promise the end "in a few years or months" to someone that thinks they know the exact day, they promise divine judgment that never shows up.

Now, one thing that is sure is that our standard of living is about to take a major hit. When, I do not know because intelligent beings are able to stall for a surprisingly long while. But, a currency based on debt mathematically must crash and burn through hyperinflation (or default). Your dollars will then become toilet paper--again, when is another matter. The battle for truth is to be won or lost. Either we enter a golden age where our parasites are fully exposed, or they keep us silenced through terms such as anti-Semite apostate, hate speech, and the like. Either we the people regain the planet, or the ruling class and the bankers will have us enslaved. When, anyone's guess because they can manipulate things and they make mistakes that delay things. But none of this is a result of divine judgment.

Frazzled UBM

I think believing the world will end (or Armageddon will come) in one's own life time is the ultimate exercise in narcissism

AllTimeJeff

Great blog and nicely Put.

Its a a difficult lesson to learn that there are certain kinds of people who will always look for certain things that fit their personality. Some people are looking for the world to end because they don't like the world. I remember at Gilead a sister was interviewed, a missionary, who said she did not miss being "in the world at all." It struck me that I was with a group of people you just simply didn't like majority of normal people in the world. I think all Jehovah's Witnesses who are serious about this religion are like that. They don't fit in, or don't want to fit in. They are malcontents. All they want is to have companionship with a group who feels the same way.

That way, instead of having their stupid thinking challenged, they can be around a bunch of head nodders to reinforce their defective thinking.

There is no changing someone else. It's hard enough to change yourself. It's harder still to find a genuine circle of friends who feel and can agree with some things you believe. I wish the human race could get wise to the idea that agreement and companionship is not as important as growing and learning and taking more people into your circle. Jehovah's Witnesses and groups like them are designed to keep anyone or anything that disagrees out.

of course, some people like to stay stuck in the little rut they are in. They never leave the county. Don't ever read anything that disagrees with their emotionally charged beliefs. These are the people that don't change the world. They get left behind. Waiting for the world to end while their curmudgeonly little life passes them by.

it's going to be embarrassing for a lot of Jehovah's Witnesses when 2014 passes. Then it turns into 2024. The world will still be here. And probably a lot of people who may leave Jehovah's Witnesses will just simply go to the next cult that encourages them not to join polite society.

AndDontCallMeShirley

every generation thinks its times are the worst and god needs to step in and end it all...

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"Our readers are writing to know if there may not be a mistake in the 1914 date. They say that they do not see how present conditions can hold out so long under the strain." Watchtower 1894 Jul 15 p.227

steve2

In a big, scary, madly busy chaotic world in which news and other media constantly list all the dangers and the perils unseen that lie around the corner, religion offers an empathically-attuned big dollop of reassurance of being rescued. Religion that joins in with scared people by saying, "We know exactly how you feel, and more importantly God is aware and His plan is especially for you because He loves you"is fu*king appealing to scared people.

Religion, like so many scams and schemes, is just another snare and racket. Just as bruised women have learnt never to trust a lust-filled man, wise people have learnt that religions that promise you a new world end up fleecing you of your integrity and self-respect - they rob you of opportunities to grow into adulthood in your present world - a world in which you really need to accept the responsibilities of adulthood rather than running to the Big Daddy in the sky to get you out of your latest difficulty. The antidote to religion is bitter medicine at first: Grow up, take responsibility for your life and stop wishing the world was not the way it is and act to make your world better.

EdenOne

Cults recruit more easily among people who suffer from social anxiety disorders.

Eden

For Some People, The World Is Always Ending

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