Another thing, President Ronald Reagan's first, middle, and last names all had 6 letters....666. It means the end is near. Oh yeah, I forgot, that was 20 yrs ago and the end hasn't come.
What Reasons Were Given to Prove that Armageddon Was Near?
by NeonMadman 19 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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TD
A perennial favorite was the age of the 1914 generation. I've read Watchtower after Watchtower with statements like,
"This generation is now _______ years old. Remember Jesus told us that some of these ones would live right on through the great tribulation! Surely now is not the time for us to be asleep spiritually!"
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ithinkisee
"This year's drama was so powerful and really hit home. The talks at the convention were so pwerful! The end must be so close!"
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Gill
Today my irate father told me that the end was definitely near because in the UK we are going to have 24 hour opening time for pubs and people will be drunk all of the time and fighting in the streets.
Also, he had read 'somewhere' (good job I was way ahead of him as I had already read the Watchtower Oct 1st edition) that the Uni students were having sex with everybody in the Uni!!! I asked him if 'wherever he had read that, he should question the motive of the writer of the article. But No! Armageddon was about to happen at any time now!
Ah! To be so dumb again!
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NeonMadman
Great answers from all, and some I had forgotten! I append my comments (and a few smart alecky remarks) herewith...
katiekitten:
Well, it did say that "no flesh would be saved," right?- God needs to save it before a nuclear bomb destroys it
- Lots of bad people have AIDS
And no good people at all, right?
Finally-Free:
Because the Watchtower Society says so! Who could possibly need more reason than that?
The ultimate all-purpose authority for every good JW!
rebel8:
We know the big A is coming soon because the birds are getting bigger. The reason for that is so they will be able to eat up more bodies after everyone is killed.
Yes! I had forgotten about the birds. The first time I heard that one was in the late 60's (probably because it had always been around and that was when I came into the troof). The version I heard had to do with a certain breed of carrion bird - some type of vulture, IIRC - that was suddenly and inexplicably multiplying to previously unheard of numbers somewhere in Asia. I think there might even have been a piece about it in "Watching the World." We all knew, of course, that this was occurring because Armageddon was so close and the extra carrion birds would be needed to dispose of the bodies. Let's see now, what is the average lifespan of a vulture? Those vultures would be pushing 40 years old by now! Just the same, the bird stories resurfaced every now and then in different forms over the years, but they always proved that Armageddon was very close indeed!
EvilForce:
The United Nation's 1986 "International Year of Peace"....in district assemblies of 1984/1985....talking about how the end was OBVIOUSLY imminent.
Yes, there was a big hoopla about that one. A decade earlier, I remember that many JW's also got cranked up about President Ford's inaugural speech (after Nixon's resignation), in which he promised "truth, peace and security." Those words were the headline of the New York Daily News the next day. When the JW's saw that, they went nuts, since the "new light" about the coming cry of "peace and security" had been introduced only a year before.
The 1975 fiasco. God was doing a "final sifting" before unleashing the end. He needed to test his flock as to their loyalty.....what I said? I thought God only alllowed Satan to test people......Oh well he allowed Satan to test people about 1975. What?
If Satan was using 1975 to test people, he must have had control of the Watchtower's printing presses and the writing department, no?
luna2:
poisoning of the environment, natural disasters (boy, they loved it when Mt. St. Helen's erupted). Now it's global warming cuz we've had a very hot summer.
How odd that the Bible forgot to actually mention any of those things as signs of the end...
rebel8:
Another thing, President Ronald Reagan's first, middle, and last names all had 6 letters....666. It means the end is near.
LOL, never heard that one from JW's though I have heard it from some other "end-of-the-world" crazy tyoes.
TD:
A perennial favorite was the age of the 1914 generation. I've read Watchtower after Watchtower with statements like,
"This generation is now _______ years old. Remember Jesus told us that some of these ones would live right on through the great tribulation! Surely now is not the time for us to be asleep spiritually!"
And since the original 1914 generation was supposed to have been 15 years old in 1914 (so that they could really understand what was going on in the world at that time), the generation is now 106 years old! Dang, when Jesus said that "this generation" would see it occur, I guess he meant the ones whose longevity would get them into the Guinness Book of World Records?
ithinkisee:
"This year's drama was so powerful and really hit home. The talks at the convention were so pwerful! The end must be so close!"
Lather, rinse, repeat...year after year after year after.....
Gill:
Today my irate father told me that the end was definitely near because in the UK we are going to have 24 hour opening time for pubs and people will be drunk all of the time and fighting in the streets.
Also, he had read 'somewhere' (good job I was way ahead of him as I had already read the Watchtower Oct 1st edition) that the Uni students were having sex with everybody in the Uni!!!
Yeah, cause people getting drunk and having sex is something that would ONLY happen in the final part of the "last days"!!!
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wanderlustguy
The big quake in California was one...El Nino was another in the early 90's...
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Hellrider
The S.A.L.T-agreements and the other peace talks between the Soviet union and USA (I particularly remember the Reykjavik-meeting, for some reason). Sure signs that they would soon say "peace and no danger", according to my mother and all her friends. I remember imagining how that would be, l pictured it as one night we would watch television, and then the news guy would come on in the middle of a program: "We bring you now a special news report. There is now peace and no danger!"....and that would be the cue, all hell would break loose. I remember being really scared of that expression, "peace and no danger". (Cause unlike all the others, I actually didn`t look forward to Armageddon, I was scared shitless of it. Think I must have been born apostate...)
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joelbear
the funniest one to me was when somebody somewhere put a cat in a microwave. my mom was convinced that was it for this system of things.
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minimus
Anytime "peace and security" was mentioned, everyone gave the weird JW look like "we know something you don't know".
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Hellrider
the funniest one to me was when somebody somewhere put a cat in a microwave. my mom was convinced that was it for this system of things.
Ha ha, that`s so funny. Oh dear, JW-mothers are so funny. Here`s another one (a little on the side of this topic): In the 70s and early 80s, there was this magician that was on TV a lot, Uri Geller, I`m not sure, but I think he maybe was from Israel. Well, my mother watched this guy bend spoons and doing psychic-stuff (guessing the letters on a hidden paper and stuff like that), and she was convinced that he had demonic powers, that he was in direct contact with Satan himself. Uri Geller was a big deal on norwegian television for a while, and my mother got totally obsessed with him! Watching him bending spoons and all that stuff was dangerous, because he was, after all, in posession of demonic powers, but she had to watch, she was so intrigued by that guy (he wa pretty handsome too, if memory serves me right). And then, when this sceptic/hoax-buster-guy named Randi, exposed Geller on some american talkshow, she saw it as a battle between godly and satanic powers. Oh, my mom was piece of work.