Armagedon, still looking like a dummie.

PinTail

I was raised a witness for fifty years to watch world events, now I am aproching my retirement years and still no armagedon. Where is it?

You missed it. In ten years, you're gonna learn via "new light" that it happened invisibly way back in 1914 and we've really been living in the 1,000 year reign but it's just taken an awfully long time to round up all the demons fluttering about. I mean, how long does Christ have to sit enthroned as king waiting for the 1,000 year reign to begin??? You would logically think a king's reign starts when he is enthroned, huh?

Gopher

Jehovah keeps setting dates for Armageddon (as previously announced in his journal, "The Watchtower"). But every time the date gets close, he gets cold feet. He just can't pull the trigger. He must think it would be too unloving.

And anyways, he decided he really didn't like the Watchtower Society and Jehovah's Witnesses. So he's scrapping the book of Revelation (in which EVERY SINGLE event applied to the modern-day organization associated with Russell, Rutherford and their successors) because he's decided that Revelation (including the Armageddon prophecy) is just plain weird.

got my forty homey?

And imagine all the faithful who decided not to pursue further education, careers, marraige, children, property ownership, saving for retirement, getting high and having fun.

I'm pissed off I lost a opportunity to get a college education and get a real career instead of the lousy crappy job I have now. At least I did the fun and get high part! And I fullfilled my life's dream, to build the largest ice cream scoop in the world!

garybuss

This is from Sept 1, 1930 Watchtower:

THAT THE WORLD HAS ENDED; that the Lord Jesus
has returned and is now present; that Jehovah has placed
Christ Jesus upon his throne and now commands all nations
and peoples to hear and obey him.

You missed it.

Here is the discussion.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/65052/1.ashx

Sorry!

Elsewhere

Oh, you missed it... it was way back in '75.

Carmel

Yep, you shore missed it alright! Wait another 900 years, the next resurrection and Harmy Gedion will come again.

cavedweller

Flash

LOL... I guess I'm the contrarian here.

I still see Armageddon as a reality. Granted, the WTBTS has an exhausting history of dates connected with it. Now their floating 2034?! But that's human thinking and has been their biggest problem on ALL levels. I think the GB is wrong with their revised view on 1914 and the last generation, in my opinion, they 'blinked.' Jesus illustrations emphasized that a lot of time would pass before he would return. As I see it, the steadily increasing building of the anti-religious attitude among the people in the USA and other countries is an event not to be dismissed quickly. The constant talk about the UN playing a larger role in the War on Terror is something of note too. IMO

wednesday

Darn, I missed it? I have watched for it, everytime a Texas storm blew in i was sure that was IT. as is everyhting else, it has an atypical fulfillment.

Valis

um...things will forever change regardless of the hidden meaning people want to apply to them. For every society there have been doomsday myths, yet funny enough the only cataclysms that happen are either of natural or man made disaster. Particularly ones we bring on ourselves. I am more inclined to believe an asteroid might his the earth or the sun will supernova before the earth and humans go away. As far as religious intollerance I dunno about any of that...you got the major religious factions lining up behind political lines and poloticians currying favor witht hem...nothing new over the course of history and maybe the public in general being religiously intollerant...well ya towards the secularly intollerant religious of our society then ya...and duh. nothing new there either...persecution complex is an important means of validating the Armageddon myth ad infinitum...IMO

Sincerely,

District Overbeer