How Do Dead Witnesses Feel?

by professor 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  professor

  Some of you may find this a bit strange. I have a picture of Charlie Russell in a nice frame that I keep. In fact, it sits on my desk at work. Througout the work week people sometimes ask me who the person in the picture is.
  
  "Is it your grandfather?" some have asked.
  
  I tell them "It's Charles Taze Russell. He invented the Watchtower."
  
  "Are you a Jehovah's Witness?" is sometimes the next question.
  
  Of course I no longer consider myself to be "one of Jehovah's Witnesses". But the picture brings me a strange comfort. That is because I feel that he knows now what has become of millions of people due to what he started at the end of the 19th century. I look at the picture now and I feel that he is saying to me "I know, and I'm sorry for what has happened to you and your family."
  
  Do you ever think about Jehovah's Witnesses reaching the other side and realizing that they were wrong? Perhaps it is your relatives that shun you or a particularly difficult elder. I like to think about Russell and I get a feeling once in a while that he is with me in some way.

  -professor

  Edited by - professor on 31 August 2002 1:37:16
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  plmkrzy

  are you a Bible Student?
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  professor

  Are you a Bible Student?

  No. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Russell is dead now and realizes he was wrong.

  Edited by - professor on 31 August 2002 2:0:29
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  nilfun

  I enjoyed reading this, Professor. This feels to me like a post about letting go (of resentment?)
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  professor

  This feels to me like a post about letting go (of resentment?)

  How right you are, Nilfun. By the way, welcome to the board!
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  searcher

  prof

  I do sometimes wish that I could somehow get a hold of all the people in history who have caused so much pain/heartache/suffering/death in the name of religion, and bang thier heads together.

  I do not think of my self as a vindictive person, but those people make me sometimes wish that there is a hell, and that they are in it.

  searcher.
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  nilfun

  I am reminded of a certain elder who showed a lot of hostility towards me. For some weird reason he seemed to believe that I was covering up or had some inside info on some wrong-doing in the hall. He once told me that Jehovah had given him a "special power to be able to read a person's thoughts, so it was no use lying" to him -- he was a very strange person who only addded to my misery. It always hurt whenever I thought about how unloving he was to me. Eventually he died. Once, after his passing, I caught myself thinking about how mean he had been to me and I thought to myself, "How much more of your lifetime are you going to waste feeling resentful for the way he treated you? He is dead!"
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  Francois

  OOOOOHHHH, the old "special power" trick, huh? I've heard of that one before. Then there's the one where the guy elder type has got Gabriel's trumpt right there in his pants and all you gotta do is...well, you KNOW what you gotta do, and you go straight to heaven when you die. It's a little back door technique to get in the 144K without all that work.

  francois
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  FiveShadows

  Actually they're unconscious of what they did while in the flesh ...that is why the "book of Rememberance" is opened whent hey are judged. They rest in Sheol if not in union with Christ and remember nothing of what they did on Earth in the flesh...because the "Rememberance of them has been forgotten." This scripture does not imply that we FORGET them...if this is the case how can God Resurrect everyone if they are forgotten after they die? They have no conscious of the FLESH...and what the FLESH does...which is Galations 5: 19-21... ~FS