The Watchtower's Last Generation

by metatron 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  I have to visit various in-laws this weekend.

  I'm getting prepared mentally for it. Most of them are Witnesses, to varying degrees. I promise to keep my mouth shut

  and lay low, keeping away from arguments.............

  Well, except one:

  Look at the kids in this extended family. This is the organization's last generation.

  They have drifted away, gotten df'd, joined other churches, or are simply nominal Witnesses who are caught up

  in divorce and custody fights with other Witnesses. These are the elders, pioneers and publishers of tomorrow?

  I don't think so!

  Don't ever lose heart in fighting this sick, ignorant cult. They are going the way of slide rules, buggy whips,

  and the Iraqi Republican Guard. They bet the farm on Armageddon - and lost. They allowed everything to rot

  while luxuriating in the "mental masturbation" that THEY would be Gloriously Preserved by God - and everyone

  else slaughtered. They built no colleges for the young, no hospitals for the old .. and leave behind no rigorous body

  of scholarship or great works of art. One day, their magazines will be all recycled into pulp and their buildings sold

  off.

  Their children are gone. This is the Watchtower's last generation.

  metatron
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  OUTLAW

  Hey metatron,this is one of your best threads..Insightfull to be sure...OUTLAW
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  refiners fire

  All they have to do is set another predictive date and the boom times will be back again. But at least if they set a predictive date it will give apostates like me (interested in prophetic date setting) something to yowl about.
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  cruzanheart

  And poetic too. As I get older I realize the wisdom of leaving some kind of legacy for future generations. It doesn't have to be profound or large to be of value; I hope to leave a set of values in my children that will help them be good people and good parents. I would like to leave an ever-spreading circle of kindness and compassion for others. I would like to have my stories of family passed on to the succeeding generations.

  I DON'T want to raise my children to forever look ahead without looking around. I DON'T want to leave a pile of tracts but no good deeds. I DON'T want to leave a legacy of fear that if we don't do things a certain way we will die and condemn our children to death. I DON'T want to look at my neighbor's beautiful 2-year-old and think "well, she's going to die at Armageddon because her mother is a Baptist."

  Love,

  Nina
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  Makena1

  Very well said! " They have drifted away, gotten df'd, joined other churches, or are simply nominal Witnesses who are caught up

  in divorce and custody fights with other Witnesses. These are the elders, pioneers and publishers of tomorrow?

  I don't think so!"

  I made a similar point with some fellow elders 5 years ago - with few exceptions they sadly agreed I was probably right.

  25-30 or more years ago - there were issues and things going on in the world that motivated many young people to take a stand for their "faith" - flag salute, nuetrality, morality, 1975 etc.

  What is there lately?

  Nada - except appearances, which creates double lifers and hypocrites.

  Makena

  lamenting that it took me 40 + years to realize that I had been duped!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  bluesapphire

  Excellent comments everyone! I think about this often and my favorite thing to say is "This is their last generation." Good to think about too. Gives me hope.
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  Gopher

  With apologies to REM, these are my thoughts:

  It's the end of the Borg as we know it

  It's the end of the Borg as we know it

  It's the end of the Borg as we know it

  ...and I feel fine
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  stichione

  Amen to that!
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  Big Tex

  This is the Watchtower's last generation.

  I hope you're right. I really do. They've hurt enough people. But I'm afraid there will always be Jehovah's Witnesses in one form or another; dumber, meaner perhaps but still there.
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  DanTheMan

  They bet the farm on Armageddon - and lost.

  Succinctly put.

  Being a convert and watching so many that were raised in it heading for the exits as young adults was a big cognitive dissonance factor for me. And it seemed that the ones who stuck around were often just social club dubs, not ardent believers at all.