by Maverick 27 Replies latest jw friends
On another tread this point came up. Scotsman posted a comment about a certain poster being gay, and I do not know or care if this is true or not, and in conflict over the fear of dying at armageddon for this "sin".
Do any of you fear the big A because of your lifestyle? Or have you let this go along with so many other JW teachings.
Personally I don't sweat it. I live how I live and I'm OK with it. Maverick
Thief!
No fear of the big A for me.
I have come to the conclusion God would never destroy six billion people based on the preaching activity of the WTS.
During a prevoius inactive period in my life, 2 elders asked me if I was worried if the big A would come while I was "inactive." I said there were 2 aspects to their question.
1. If what they taught was true, I would rather be dead than live forever on earth with the cruel, unloving people at the KH.
2. I believed that God would not judge me based on putting an hour down on a slip and turning it in every month to the WTS and that based on their teachings many people at the KH would be dying at Armageddon because they did not meet Christ's criteria of what was a true Christian, actively loving their fellow Christians and then went ont to illustrate this with specific examples.
That was over 15 years ago. I have never feared God before that time or since.
Blondie
I honestly don't ever think about it. I can't say it isn't gonna happen, can't say it is. What I prefer to focus on is living my life the best way I can, being the best person I can and let the mystery be.
If it ever did happen, which I doubt, It would be more likely to follow Russell's relatively benign 'destroy governments/religions not people' version than the Raving Rutherford's Big A that my father used to scare the shite out of me with.
Russell's version has better scriptural support and he didn't have to quote the scriptures in reverse order like Rutherford.
Regardless if the big "A" is comming or not, my big "A" is going to be put in the ground in a few years anyway, so why should I worry? It never really scared me, even when I was a kid. In 1974, right before the big "A" was comming I left the "truth" and didn't give it a thought, even though I still believed it was the truth, well maybe not deep inside. I just put it all out of my mind. Instead I go my wife pregnant and we had my sweet daughter in 1976, that was so much better than the big "A".
Ken P.
Mav at first I thought you meant do I fear Gumby..that big Ahole
Don't fear the big A or Gumby no more!
I didn't care whether or not I survived the big A even when I was a JW and believed in it. The thought of living in a world populated with nothing but the loveless sort of people I met in the org bore no resemblence to any paradise I envisioned.
Walter
A. It is scripturally unfounded and
B. It is contrary to intuition and logic as described by Blondie's response.
Like the fable of a personified evil person (satan) it is simply an alegorical myth taken literally by those wishing to use the fear/guilt method of developing a following.
Nothing to fear but our active imaginations.
carmel
From time to time my mum asks how I will feel when Armageddon occurs. After telling her that it wont, I add that if the Witnesses are right about that then they're right about death and so I'd have nothing to fear. She doesn't like that sort of reasoning for some reason.
