Before I left I said this in a WT answer

Chook

This when I believed, I said no one really believes Armageddon is imminent because we would sell our possessions and preach the remaining short time , I said we all like a each way bet. I was always a loose canon with the microphone. I once said if bible was in movie form JWs would be forbidden to watch.

Isambard Crater

Well said; good for you!

ScenicViewer

You've got some nerve Chook.

I wonder how many listeners actually agreed with you silently. I'll bet some did. Armageddon has always been 'imminent' but has never come, in almost 140 years of the JW religion. More than a few are well aware of that even if they won't say it out loud.

smiddy

I personally think that is a very good reason why the partakers of the memorial are going up simply because many of the rank and file see that Armageddon is not coming anytime soon in their lifetime so they are hedging their bets and partaking of the wine and emblems at the Memorial celebration and hoping to rule in heaven if they die before Armageddon comes on earth.

scratchme1010

...I once said if bible was in movie form JWs would be forbidden to watch.

You never tell what their reaction or response is.

stillin

I love it! I may have to borrow that one.

I once said in a comment that the larger any group of people gets, the stupider it acts. I had some great feedback after that one. Everybody who has been in this religion for any time can see how it has deteriorated from what it used to be.

JW_Rogue

Armageddon has always been 'imminent' but has never come, in almost 140 years of the JW religion. More than a few are well aware of that even if they won't say it out loud.

Older ones have been making many comments like this lately. Stating that they never thought they would graduate high school before the end or make it past the year 2000. Of course, they follow it up by saying that is why we must have faith in the resurrection.

Chook

I got hauled before the po for my radical answers , but I ways told them that they can't censor truth.

waton

they follow it up by saying that is why we must have faith in the resurrection.

JW _Rogue .my follow up comment. Armageddon would be the easy part, like Trump's itchy finger on the nuclear button, and it did not happen , destroying life is easy, making it hard.so: If

wt can not even deliver destruction on time, what makes you think they can deliver life anytime?

Brokeback Watchtower

About 4or 5 years before I left I was contradicting the WT Society's statements while answering at the meeting and giving talks as an elder, I got so uncomfortable that I removed myself from being an elder even though the CO tried to get me to stay on as one. It took a few more years after that of listening to their bull shit that I stopped going to meetings and with in a year I was no longer a believer(2001 February).

That was a real struggle for me to break free of this utter infantile bull shit.

Before I left I said this in a WT answer

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