ARMAGGEDON has arrived !! (page 2)

gsx1138

I had the same problem for years after I got DF'd. Well there's no big day of judgement in the Pagan faith so I don't even think about it anymore. That's not true, sometimes I think about the big A but only to laugh at myself for ever buying into that obvious scare tactic.

Satanus

I may have had that thought occur to me a few times since the wt. But only for a small split second. In my christian phase, i liked watching lighting storms. I would imagine how jesus' supposed coming might look, compared to lightening. It's understandable that old beliefs and their effects can pop up now and then, like a flashback. BTW, i still enjoy watching lightening.

SS

KKLUV155

It's strange. I was just talking about this a few days ago with my mother. I used to be terrofied by bad weather. I used to hide and think it was armaggedon. Even a couple of years after I left the borg. and got married I was scared. I used to make my husband come home from work to be with me because I was scared to be home alone during storms. I would sit a cry from fear. Now I kind of enjoy a good rain storm. I think the fear is from all those pictures of armageddon with the lightning and dark clouds they would put in all the childrens books and magizines. all better now.

Incense_and_Peppermints

"Armagedon drills"?

good grief! that's scary and funny, all at the same time.

Thirdson

Refiners fire,

I used to have fears of Armageddon as kid. I can't say that I have had feelings of impending doom (or joy, as a good JW) that armageddon was coming in a storm during the past past 30 years. In the last 7 years I have gotten used to severe storm warnings and periodically retreating to the basement during the summer storm season, but I haven't felt these were that worrying. The worst a storm has done is cut power for 3 days and taken down a tree in my yard.

However, flying has often made me feel that this might be my last few moments. I particularly hate flying on aircraft that can't start engines in cold weather or planes that get de-iced three times before even reaching the end of the runway. I don't like "puddle-jumpers" and I don't like Chicago, Midway airport. I made multiple parachute jumps as a young man but the older I get the less I like to fly. Armageddon is one thing but dying on twin-turboprop with iced up wings seems much more likely and induces far more fear.

Thirdson

refiners fire

Well, I been away all day watching one life (dear old Granmas)winding to its end and another (my step granddaughters) just beginning. Its all very sobering and puts things into perspective.

This one from "Bikerchic" is pretty interesting,sure is,:

..."We used to have Armagedon drills when I was a little kid. My Mom would tell us the police werecoming to our door and we had to hide,"...

Crazy Baby!!

..."first hide our Bibles then ourselves."...

So obviously your parents thought your BIBLES were more important than YOU were!

..."I always hid under my bed and put my bible on the slats above me under the box spring mattress . I remember being scared to death!"....

Right where you could see it and it could protect you huh? Totally wild post, many thanks... That incident would go great in a novel.

Plum:

..."running ahead of the oncoming storm"....

Actually, Years ago I read a book by J Gordon Liddy called "Will". Liddy, at one point (when he was a kid) was scared of lightning and climbed a tree in a lightning storm to confront the lightning. I thought this a cool idea (when I was young) and set myself on top of a cliff in a lightning storm and screamed at God to strike me. Course I was drunk at the time. Got to admit though, I was a lot less scared of Gods wrath after that. (true story)

Edited by - refiners fire on 21 July 2002 5:50:40

plmkrzy

God looks down at refiners fire, rolls eyes

"Your drunk kid...go home and sleep it off"

Beck_Melbourne

Hey there RF...When I was a jw I remember being really excited every time there was a storm, the thunder and the lightening used to make me wonder if this was it, the big day I had been waiting for since I was kid. I used to wish it was that big day - I so badly wanted it to come while I was still faithful! I eventually grew tired of waiting for it to come.

The strange thing is I have really vivid dreams about Armageddon. Usually I am aware that Armageddon is here and there is alll this massive destruction going on, and then I remember that I'm now on the 'dark' side, and then the fear sets in. Do you know that feeling you get when you realise in your sleep that you're just dreaming, and your subconscience says to you 'its okay, its just a dream'....well I get that feeling, except my subconscience is saying to me 'its okay, Armageddon isn't real, Jehovah isn't real, you're okay, don't be alarmed'....and then I experience that sense of relief. Weird stuff.

Maybe I need to be de-programmed, where's Pappusan??

Beck

Pappusan

Sounds like you are too far gone Beck. Just enjoy the rest of the ride.

ozziepost

Armageddon never figured much in my thoughts as a Dub. I spoke about it in talks and meeting parts, if it was called for, but both Mrs Ozzie and I have always believed that a Greater Power, a Heavenly Father, should be obeyed out of love, not fear of the 'Big A'.

No wonder so many Dubs were formerly Roman Catholics. The Catholic Church holds its members in fear of Hell, whereas the Witnesses hold its own members in fear of Armageddon.

The more a person becomes a true Christian (in the Watchtower's words!), then the less that such false teachings will hold him (or her) in fear.

Sadly, anyone, whether an active Dub or inactive, who still fears Armageddon, is still held captive by the Borg's false teachings.

Cheers, Ozzie

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