End of the world

kenpodragon

"It's the end of the world as we know it ... and I feel fine"

I have always loved this line, as it sums up my conversations with Witnesses and family that remain Witnesses. When 9/11 happened I got a lot of letters, conversations, and phone calls from Witnesses wanting my wife and I to become active again. It was "the end is near" over and over with one spin after another. When the war started and the other events of the last 10 months took place, I heard more and more from Witnesses and other Christian religions. Each one of them saying the same message, "the end is upon us".

You know what is funny about the end in books, it is normally the best part. It is when you really get to see who was the hero and who was the villain. So if the end is really here, which I do not agree with, then why worry unless you are the villain. I am the hero, I saved my life and the life of my wife by getting us away from the Witnesses and Christianity. By allowing us to think for ourselves and to love without condition those whom we meet.

So if it is the "end of the world as we know it" ... I must truly say "I feel fine"

Do you?

Incense_and_Peppermints

...better than fine...

Tinkerbell4125

Loved your post! I feel fine too my friend!

I'm so sick of the same ol *the end is near, it's the last day's, bla bla bla bla, it wears me out! I've pretty much drifted away from my j.w. family. Don't really talk to them much anymore, but it's all good, and I feel fine!!!

Tink =;o)

Thanks for asking, by the way!

professor

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
in a fire, representing seven games, a government
for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in
a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team
by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh,
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel
fine...fine...

(It's time I had some time alone)

Edited by - professor on 1 July 2002 23:32:42

cellomould

That's a cool song...but I am curious about something. What is the significance of mentioning Leonard Bernstein?

Wait, I am looking it up...

...oh, of course...Leonard Berstein was a gay conductor, most notably of the NY Philharmonic. That's right. I met an older composer once at Tower Records in Hollywood (I forget his name, but it was not familiar) who said he used to see Berstein in Harlem. The composer that I met was there to see movies, but Berstein admitted he was there to pick up young guys.

cellmould

Mimilly

I LOVE that song! When I saw the title to your thread - I was going to add 'and I feel fine'. Great Big Sea rocks! And everytime I play it - I think of the JWs shoving the end of the world down everyone's throat. I think it's a fitting reply to them.

Mimilly

tdogg

It is wonderful thing to finally shake that fear of the big A.

beckyboop

Kenpo,

I had to tell you how much your post affected me! I FEEL FINE TOO! (except for the odd days of lingering confusion) I really appreciated your remarks about saving yourself, and being able to love others unconditionally. I think that feeling alone was one of the biggest releases for me--I am so much happier living in a world that I'm not continually judging "to death". Thanks for the pick-me-up post!

Becky

SpiceItUp

Great song..

obviously REM has professed the end so I might as well accept them to be the truth...LOL

BTW... I FEEL FINE!!!!!

Spice

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