by proplog2 45 Replies latest jw friends
Proplog2:
Jehovah's Witnesses will still have their world-wide brother hood. There are enough JW's in Latin American lands to accommodate the 1,000,000+ witnesses who would be moving in.
What if the brothers and sisters in South America don't want to accomodate all these north-americans ?
...And what are you going to do if nothing happen late December ?
Edited by - Celia on 18 October 2002 19:27:36
The world's not going to end anytime soon. Eventually, the sun will go nova on us and then you're toast but until then don't sweat it. Any fruit cakes out there who try to say other wise are acting on their own accord.
Think about it, for thousands of years people have been trying to figure out the meanings of strange and obscure writings written by nomads to see when their small and petty version of god is going to destroy all the people they deem to be unholy. Forget all the countless billions of people who have tried and failed to predict the end of the world but failed. Some crackpot who repeatedly makes predictions and gets them wrong uses his own warped vision of the bible (piece of crap book that it is) to take a shotgun approach (throw a bunch of crap at a wall and hope some of it sticks) to come up with something that has somehow eluded some of the sharpest minds in the history of mankind. Yeah, that's going to happen.
bendrr:
"Assumption is the lowest form of information. "
The human brain is best suited for intuitive speculation. The real world requires reaching "tentative" solutions and working hypotheses. "Assumption" is part of this way of thinking. Are you using the term "lowest" on some definite scale of "quality of information" or are you just trying to put forward your own assumption? If assumption is the lowest form of information what is the highest? How many degrees are there on this "assumed" scale? Maybe you could elaborate on your scale and give some examples. Otherwise you are just disturbed by what I wrote and you are trying to evade the possibilities I describe.
Wishful thinking. I too engage in wishful thinking. You hope you are right. I wish that I were wrong.
Searchin:
Whether I'm a nut case is irrelevant to whether my statements have merit. You certainly haven't said anything that would show my speculation is far-fetched.
Let me remind you that finanical,political & military leaders ALL agree it is no longer a question of whether weapons of mass destruction will be used against the USA it is only a question of when.
The year in case you forgot is 1 Post 9-11
Edited by - proplog2 on 18 October 2002 20:52:46
Kenneson:
You said:
"I , however, just don't know how terrorists could pull this off"
Where there's a will there's a way. Drugs are getting into this country all the time.
Manufacturing an A-Bomb from scratch is out of the question.
It is more likely that they will get their hands on something of Soviet origin.
The Russian intelligence people would have absolutely NO problem doing this.
Franciois:
"All Scripture is Beneficial for teaching reproving and setting things straight." It is not necessarilly all TRUE.
The JW's have enough truth to make them a viable organization that has been culture-formed for survival. No other people have achieved the level of world unity that they have. The message of Jesus was that nationality was not a factor in God's approval. Humans have to reach that level if they are going to survive. JW's will prove this to the world during the great tribulation.
The year in case you forgot is 1 Post 9-11
Hey! Who declared this new calendar? Sheesh, first we had B.C., then A.D., then the new millenium, now we're counting Year 1 from 9/11?
Speaking as a native NEW YORKER, I'm sorry to have to be the one to break this to you, but if they nuke NY there goes Bethel and the precious GB. There goes the U.N. There goes poor me, PurpleV.
I SAW the World Trade Center burning. I SMELLED the destruction. I LOST a cousin, a brave firefighter who saved many other lives.
This wasn't biblical. This was FANATACISM to the max, by rabid Al Quaeda members intent on destroying the U.S. and Israel. They were never mentioned in any of the WT "prophesies" as being the perpetrators of "the beginning of the end."
If they destroy the U.N. with a nuke strike on NYC, then all of the WT "prophesies" go bye-bye.
Not for nothing, but I'm not fleeing to South America. I only speak a *teense* of Spanish. Who would feed my cats if I left?
If they 'do' New York, everyone else is not far behind. The whole world will self-destruct. There won't be a JW or anyone else left.
I'd rather go first so I don't have to witness the rest of it.
Hugs, V
"Of course I have a scriptural basis for all my assumptions."
"Chip away. I can defend it - completely."
"...you are trying to evade the possibilities I describe."
"You certainly haven't said anything that would show my speculation is far-fetched."
I make a lot of assumptions, consider many possibilities, and speculate frequently. I've learned the hard way recognize them for what they are, and for what they're not.
I no longer make life-changing decisions based on such conjectures.
Craig
Defender:
You raised one of the arguments the Watchtower tries to utilize in making its point that Babylon the Great is False Religion.
The scripture at Rev 18:24 is hyperbole. "Yes, in her was found the blood of prophets and of holy ones and of ALL those who have been slaughtered on the earth."
The same is said about the political entity of Ancient Babylon. Jeremiah 51:49 "Not only was Babylon the cause for the slain ones of Israel to fall but also at Babylon the slain ones of ALL the earth have fallen."
Don't put any more significance on this then that Babylon the Great is responsible for a lot of blood shed.
The USA makes deals with the ruling elites in various countries to keep the raw materials flowing. These elites starve their subjects and cut them out of the benefits they deserve. Pinochet, Somosa,Batista, Marcos, Shah of Iran, Saud family even Sadaam have been friends of the USA to the detriment of their people. The Taliban? Weren't they the great freedom fighters the CIA created to fight the USSR in Afghanistan? Globalism has a bloody pedigree.
Jehovah's Witnesses are not the only ones who will be saved. Even those who die at armageddon get a resurrection. But Jehovah's Witnesses will be the ones saved by escaping the USA before it is completely destroyed. No one else is going to understand or believe they have to flee. Even JW's don't understand this ...YET! But they will.
Crazy 151
This should explain what I mean by controling the whole world:
"In the context of the world-system, hegemony means that one nation possesses such unrivaled supremacy, such predominant influence in economic power, military might, and political-ideological leadership, that no other power, or combination of powers, can prevail against it. Economic supremacy is the indispensable base of hegemony, for all other forms of power are possible with it and no other possible, for very long without it. Any hegemonic power must, simultaneously, contain the dominant financial center, possess a clear comparative advantage in a wide range of high-tech, high-profit industries, and function commercially as both the world's major exporter and its major importer. Beyond economic power, it must possess clear military superiority and ideological hegemony as well. By fear or respect, it must be able to exert its political will over the rest of the system and command deference to its principles and policies. America's Half Century Thomas McCormick The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 1989
