JW perception of Armageddon's Iminence (page 2)

Dansk

I am wondering How iminent did Armageddon seem when you were JWs?

Just around the (same old) corner! I wondered if I'd ever be good enough to make it!

How iminent does the WTS feel it is today?

It can feel what it likes. It's baloney with a capital 'B'. The good thing is, it doesn't worry me one bit! I just feel soooooo sorry for those gullible souls still in. Which brings me to this:

They are going to go to their graves mindless tired and lonely old people.

I'm afraid that statement is true. Claire and I were discussing this only yesterday, about how the elderly would feel if they suddenly realised they'd been duped all these years. We agreed that many would sink into the deepest depths of depression. It wasn't easy for Claire and I at first to suddenly realise our own mortality; that we DEFINITELY WOULD NOT be entering a paradise earth or be resurrected from the dead. How do you think those poor, sincere old folks would feel!

The Watchtower is guilty of sheer and utter cruelty in building up people's hopes and playing with their kind and considerate feelings. It has lied and continues to promulgate the lie and is intent on hurting yet more people just because it hasn't the guts to apologise for being wrong!

If those in Brooklyn genuinely believe in an Almighty God do they honestly believe he is going to overlook their foul and disgusting deeds? What is it with these people? Do they think they will be able to get away with it all? Do they think they have no responsibility to be called to account for? If one does not believe in God one cannot disagree with the rules of cause and effect. Watchtower has made numerous foul calls and will ulitmately pay the price - the effect.

What continues to amaze and disgust me is that there are numerous Jehovah's Witnesses who really know what's going on - they know they are helping in promulgating continual nonsense and lies - and yet they carry on. SHAME ON THEM!

Ian

SAHS

I was born and raised in a JW family for 37 years, all the while with armageddon hanging over my head like the proverbial ?sword of Damocles.? I believed it right up to pretty well this year (after some productive Internet time). The thing is, I?ve always assumed that I would be destroyed at armageddon anyway because I thought that I probably sinned against the holy spirit back when I was in my early teens.

My dad, a prominent elder for around 40 years, always scared me about committing unforgivable sin if I ever ?deliberately? did anything wrong. He was always saying that I would be ?shaking in my boots? when armageddon comes. So, because of some very ?private transgressions? around the age of puberty (you know, . . . ?that,? . . . but accompanied by some rather deviant thoughts), since then I have never really saw myself as surviving, but instead lived with the constant anxiety and sadness of finally meeting my fate. I used to cringe when my parents would discuss news events relating to so-called prophecy (Oh no, this is it! Here it comes!).

Ironically, this unreasonable fear that has been foisted on me has no doubt resulted in a self-fulfilling prophecy in that if I even think that there?s a good chance that there?s no hope for me anyway, then I might as well live accordingly ? which, of course, would in the end bring the doom I have always feared. All well, I guess you just can?t win in such an oppressive system of belief. Ah, what the f---, eh?!

?SAHS

FirstInLine

Im sorry your mother died like that Corvin. The must have been hard.

Those were some great posts everyone. It seems the furthest out the JW mind can fathom the world going on is about 5 years. I would have to agree. I couldnt imagine it going on beyond that at anytime but here I am 15 years later and such.

Doubtfully Yours

Those bunch of greedy idiots screwed me out of a career. Good thing I reached an Associate's in college which has helped me tremendously in my working life, but it should've been a bachelors; but WHY???!!!, if the end was so near!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FARGING JERKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DY

A Paduan

Just do the bachelor's - don't let them screw you out of it anymore

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SAHS

That's classic - hope you're ok.

It's not hard to put it to them that they're the ones in an unforgiveable sin - but hey, tempting as it is, they might kill themselves or something.

Good to see you've got a sense of humour after copping all that.

Charms

I was scared that I would never live to be old. It was to the point that whenever a large earthquake hit somewhere or a war started, I would wonder if that was a sign of Armageddon. When I stopped going to the Memorial, she started trying to scare me back in by implying that Armageddon may start this particular night and I wouldn't be in the safety of the KH. I used to have nightmares about Armageddon as a teen.

Kenneson

It's just around the corner, corner, corner, corner, corner, corner, corner.

Winston Smith :>D

About 2-3 years ago my wife and a few other JW's were sitting in our yard discussing ...How Soon....???

My wife and a couple other JW's said 5 years, ten max!

One brother said 50 years.

I said I have to go with the 50 years idea more than the 5-10. Plus, I could see it never coming in my own lifetime.

Well, I DA'd myself a few years later, and so has that "brother"

The older I got, the farther away it always seemed.

cyber-sista

I'm afraid that statement is true. Claire and I were discussing this only yesterday, about how the elderly would feel if they suddenly realised they'd been duped all these years. We agreed that many would sink into the deepest depths of depression. It wasn't easy for Claire and I at first to suddenly realise our own mortality; that we DEFINITELY WOULD NOT be entering a paradise earth or be resurrected from the dead. How do you think those poor, sincere old folks would feel!
The Watchtower is guilty of sheer and utter cruelty in building up people's hopes and playing with their kind and considerate feelings. It has lied and continues to promulgate the lie and is intent on hurting yet more people just because it hasn't the guts to apologise for being wrong!

Yes, I have often thought about the older ones who have dedicated their lives and put all there hopes and dreams into that elusive future paradise. Just recently I received an email from a very nice JW woman I was friends with for many years and she told me that her mom is still pioneering in her 80s despite being tired and in poor health. They are nice people who have sacrificed many things to the Org, but you are right it would kill them to know the truth about the lie. One day they will know that I no longer believe and they will be sad about that too. I can only feel pity for them now.

PS Corvin--That is a sad story about your mom--sorry

nelly1

yep I agree with all that has been said too, I remember for years i thought about furthering my education but they had brainwashed me so much into thinking that I should really be pioneering and giving my time to jehovah not trying to improve my lot so i could support my 3 children on my own without the help of welfare,looking back i felt so cheated, and before the end when i left i went to polytech for 6 months got a degree and graduated with an outstanding acheivement award and rubbed it in their faces i didnt care.

its all done through guilr using jehovahs name as a way of making us feel guilty, saying oh you should be doing this for jehovah and that for jehovah, trying to get us as far away from normal life as possible, gee wernt we blinded, i am dumbstruck when i think about it and if i do too much my brain wants to fry, good job we have this board because its a tremendous healing thing for all of us who have suffered( some greater than others) at the hands of that organisation my heart goes out to all of you who have been through so much, at least" that that does not kill me only makes me stronger"

love to all

nelly

JW perception of Armageddon's Iminence

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