Did the millenium turning and 9/11 make you think about armageddon?

by Sirius Dogma 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Sirius Dogma

  I was thinking back the other day to new years eve 1999. It was a few hours before midnight. I was in the Virgin Islands drinking with my girlfriend and some friends and I started to freak out. I started thinking that maybe christ would return that night, maybe armageddon would come and the earth would be turned inside out and I would die that very night. The fear that my parents and the witnesses had ingrained into me started to take over. I started to doubt my decision, had I made the right choice to leave and live life on my own terms? Then I started to think - wait what time zone does christ abide by? Midnight on the planet and new years is constantly moving since the earth rotates. Did I already miss armageddon, was europe in ruins while I was sailing and drinking and having the time of my life? Maybe destruction was sweeping across the earth from one time zone to the next. How long would it take? Was this how it ends!?!

  Midnight past and the sky lit up, explosions were heard echoing across the water for miles around and fire rained down all around us. It was the best fireworks show I had ever seen. Afterwords all I said was, - 'Hey - the world didn't end.' and laughed.

  I knew that technically the millenium didn't end until new years eve 2000, so I went through a bit of the same thing on that day as well. The witness logic took over again with the idea that since so many where expecting christs return in 1999, he would return on 2000 since he would come in an unexpected hour or whatever revelation says.

  Same thing happened the morning of 9/11 when I woke up, turned on my TV and watched it all go down. I started thinking again, is this the end?

  After each time though I came to the same conclusion, even if the world does end and I end up dead forever while others I know live forever in a paradise earth (yeah right), I was happy with the decisions I had made, and happier for making them. Happy to no longer endure the organizations psychological terror and their bullshit fear-inspiring propoganda. Happy to be able to make up my own mind about personel and adult decisions and not have someone else make up my mind for me. Happy to be free.

  Although I thought the witnesses where full of crap I was still, at times, filled with doubt and fear. Anyone else relate to this?
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  frankiespeakin

  Yeah I had that for a little while durring 9/11 but it was usually just for a few seconds and then gone.

  It funny that even though you know it's all bull shit it takes a while to reach your inner person.
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  Flash

  I do think 9/11 was a turning point. I believe the WTS is correct in their assertion that world governments will turn on and destroy world religion. I think its been happening incrementaly for many years with the general public and now the governments themselves are inclining that way. If/when the US empowers the UN to fight the War On Terror, then I think the 'party will be over' for religion and the Big A will not be far behind. IMO
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  DanTheMan

  Just the opposite.

  I was still a Jerhover's Meeting Attender on 9/11/01. I remember *not* thinking about Armageddon that day, not at all. Kinda strange that I didn't, now that I think about it.

  I was just so damn burnt-out on JWism by that time that I didn't give a shit.
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  justhuman

  Dooms day cults like JW trying to find an excuse to bring the world to an end.

  WT has FAILED in ALL the prophecies they have told to take place:

  U.N in fact today it is in the worst possition since they have been established after WWII.

  U.S. it is the one who controls U.N and in recent events shows that. US strikes any country feels to do so(Yugosalvia, Afganistan, Iraq)without any U.N. resolutions. After the fall of Communism there is only one superpower that is in control and that is U.S. Similar like the Roman Empire that was dominating the world, U.S does whatever likes to do. No matter what is the cost of innocent Human lifes.

  The W.T has no CLUE(prophetically speaking) what it will happened. The fall of communism (king of North VS South)has ended up ALL WT prophecies.

  9/11 was a terrorist act, thats all.

  The End of the millenium it is just an hypothetic human timing(and in this case Christian) starting from Jesus Birth. Muslims have different year, Chineese also another.
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  Corvin

  The new millinium had no effect on me whatsoever. 9-11, however, was much different. I was in "shock and awe" as I watched the airplanes plow into the towers. The images of that, and soon after, the sight of the towers crumbling down to the ground gave me flashbacks of the "Paradise" book. Then I thought, OK, this is not the Big A, and it is not exactly what the great trib was suppose to be like, but I sort of saw how the 9-11 attack could lead to the UN turning on religion starting with the Muslim extremists. It was also in line with the whole Catholic child molesting scandal. Isreal was also having and still is having sort of a day with the palestinians, so we had the three major religions in the world in crisis. There seemed to be alot of excuses culminating for the UN to turn on the "harlot". But then I took a look at how GW was pushing his "faith based initiatives" and couldn't see how it would be this prez to begin or support the proscess of turning on Babylon the Great.

  It is business as usual for the nations now, and in the stream of time, these last few years will soon become nothing more than a notable rift or ripple in our history . . . much like the Battle of Belgrade, or the sacking of Constantinople; all significant turning points in man's history, but hardly the end.

  Corvin
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  A Paduan

  Hey, look out behind you !

  Ahh, the peace of God - as found in jwism
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  peacefulpete

  Fanatical religion has always fomented division and war. Nothing has changed. The WT interpretations of Revelation were plagerized from Adventists before them. These Adventist groups in turn simply used current events (League and UN formation and world war awakening a new secularism) and spun the cryptic language of the outdated and failed prognostications in the book and gave the bloodthirsty hopes of the Jewish writer new meaning never intended. I fear that superstition and irrationality will be with humans for a long time, don't worry about that.
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  Nathan Natas

  Q.: Did the millenium turning and 9/11 make you think about armageddon?

  A.: No, because I'm not retarded anymore.
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  blacksheep

  No. It made me think about the price of not being involved and hiding your head in the sand.

  Both of which the JWs are famous for.