No, It's Not the End of the World!

by metatron 4 Replies latest jw friends

metatron

To you lurkers out there, I have a simple message:
Every day, when you wake up tell yourself, "Today, some things will get better, some things will get worse and most things
will stay the same". This point is so simple, countless Witnesses miss it - while repeating the unofficial Watchtower mantra,
"worse and worse, worse and worse". Many of the silly people who think New Orleans is a sign of doom are old enough to remember
when much of Europe was bombed flat and Japan was nuked/firebombed into defeat. If that isn't enough, Galveston was once
wiped out by a storm and Chinese cities have been wiped out in earthquakes. Cities come and go - and the world still goes on.
Big bad headlines sell newspapers and garner TV ratings - while good news barely gets noticed at all. Consider the recent case
of Dr.Mark Humayan, a talented researcher whose face adorns the cover of R&D magazine ( August 05). He is dedicated to
creating an artificial retina to give sight to the blind. His motivation? His grandmother lost all interest in living after she lost her
eyesight and this made him determined to end this sort of tragedy ( "Bringing Sight to the Blind" page 20, 21). He is making rapid
progress.
Over time, the world is actually getting better, even with disasters and tragedies. Our ancestors didn't have Social Security,
refrigerators, microwaves, space missions, antibiotics, automobiles, airplanes, X-rays, ultrasound, CAT scans, television,
radio, Global positioning satellites, electricity, modern agriculture, ........ need I go on? Hardly anyone seems to have noticed
that China is now exporting food after centuries of starvation - and dire predictions of famines by "experts" that nothing could be done
in the 1970's ! Remember when the Soviets were implacable enemies? When Hitler and the Axis nearly conquered most of the world?
After 120 years of predicting that "Armageddon is Soon!", "it's just months away", It's just around the corner", - and my personal
favorite - "it can't be much longer now!!!!!" - the world is still here, warts and all!
metatron
stopthepain

A good old fashioned metatron post was what I needed.
metatron

Thanks!
... and the real solution to disasters like New Orleans? Well before the "Awake" jumps in with empty promises, here it is:
life span!
If you only have an adult life expectancy of perhaps 50 years, just how concerned are you likely to be about a potential
disaster that comes around every half century or so? If you had an expectancy of say, 100 - 200 years, things might look
different. Speaking about managing an economy "for the long run", John Keyes said "In the long run, we are all dead".
So, a whole economy might look different if managed by men with a l-o-n-g-e-r viewpoint.
and life span is what science is working to improve.
metatron
jaffacake

(Ecclesiastes 7:10) 10 Do not say: “Why has it happened that the former days proved to be better than these?” for it is not due to wisdom that you have asked about this.
(Ecclesiastes 1:9-11) 9 That which has come to be, that is what will come to be; and that which has been done, that is what will be done; and so there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Does anything exist of which one may say: “See this; it is new”? It has already had existence for time indefinite; what has come into existence is from time prior to us. 11 There is no remembrance of people of former times, nor will there be of those also who will come to be later. There will prove to be no remembrance even of them among those who will come to be still later on.
(2 Thessalonians 2:1-2) 2 However, brothers, respecting the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we request of YOU 2 not to be quickly shaken from YOUR reason nor to be excited either through an inspired expression or through a verbal message or through a letter as though from us, to the effect that the day of Jehovah is here.
ColdRedRain

A timeline of events since the JW's first predicted the end of the world.
1914
W. H. Carrier patents design of an air conditioner.
First everyday items made of stainless steel come into public circulation.
In Cleveland, Ohio, USA, the first electric traffic light is installed.
The Panama Canal opens to traffic.
The end still hasn't come yet.
1916: The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints 'Water Lilies'. Jehovah's Witnesses ban blood transfusions 30 years later.
The end still hasn't come yet.
1918 Czechoslovakia gains its independence from Austria-Hungary.
Russian Revolution: At Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family.
The Boston Red Sox win the World Series, something that wasn't repeated by the club until 2004
1922:The Irish Free State gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1922
In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
Invention of Vegemite by Australian Fred Walker
The end still hasn't come yet.
1930: The Jet engine was invented, Hostess Twinkies are invented.
The National Socialist party of Germany arises to power.
The end hasn't come yet.
1937
Daffy Duck is born
Marijuana Tax Act in USA.
Japan Invades Manchuria
The end hasn't come yet.
1940 For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award
Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
London, UK is bombed by the Germans
1945 World War II: Japanese city of Kobe is fire-bombed by 331 B-29 bombers, killing over 8,000.
American B-29 bombers attack Japan with incendiary bombs. Tokyo is fire-bombed killing 100,000 citizens
Worst is yet to come for Japan.
The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The United States detonates an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan at 8:16 AM (local time).
The end still hasn't come yet.
Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that British troops leave India
Execution of Vidkun Quisling, leader of Norwegian Nazis
United Nations founded. Sadly, the library isn't built yet. Watchtower has to find a better excuse to become an NGO.
1948:The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared (this day was celebrated as Republic Day until 1990s). Marshal Tito is named president.
Israel is formed
The end still hasn't come
1950
The Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
First TV remote control, Zenith Radio's Lazy Bones is marketed.
The End still hasn't come yet.
Atlantic Tropical Cyclones (Hurricanes) were first given names.
The Korean War Started.
The end hasn't come yet.
1957
IBM makes FORTRAN scientific programming language available to customers. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work.
Ghana becomes the first colonized African nation to achieve independence.
The end still hasn't come
1960
In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
1965
American Involvement in Vietnam escalates. Smoking pot and free love reigns supreme, only to lead to brain dead hippies in the 80's and 90's raising their children the same way in a world of HIV and short attention spans.
At least the sex was good!
1967
Vietnam War rages on. Conventions echo with the words "Stay alive 'til 75".
1970
The
1975
America pulls out of Vietnam.
We stayed alive 'till 75! The end hasn't come yet/
1977
Jimmy Carter is inaugurated.
The end hasn't come yet.
1980
Ronald Reagan is elected. To see the reason why, read above.
1981
I'm born. I wasn't supposed to have seen the end of the system before I was supposed to graduate high school. I'm now 24 years old as of this writing.
1987
1991 The first Gulf War. Saddam is kicked out the first time. Later on, HW Bush is too chickenshit to follow him into Iraq, leading to the second Gulf War, where his son would have to take the fall for a war that wasn't finished.
1995 The generation of 1914 isn't going to die after all!
The end hasn't come yet.
1997
William Jefferson Clinton is re-inaugurated.
Princess Diana dies in a car crash
Comet Hale Bopp appears in the skies.
The end hasn't come yet.
1999
The Y2K bug has all Americans fearful. The end hasn't come yet.
2000
George W. Bush is elected. The end hasn't come yet (Although Socialists all over the world start thinking the end has come)
2001
A terrorist attack turns the best financial minds on earth into an ash-heap. Osama Bin laden was last seen in public around this time.
The end hasn't come yet.
2002
War is waged on Iraq again after Saddam Hussein is given a warning that he is going to be invaded in 4 months if he didn't rid his country of weapons of mass destruction.
The end hasn't come yet.
2003
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched and then crashes. Iraq is then invaded by US and UK forces. I saw two JW's at a night club telling me that this was the sign that the system was going to come to an end. Young Neo-hippies finally find something to protest. Old hippies who were so stoned out that they couldn't remember Vietnam protest this war too.
Baghdad is conquered. No more war! Ignore those pissed off Saudis in the bushes.
Saddam is found in 8 months. Osama Bin Laden buys a portable dialysis machine and waits out the war.
2004
The Red Sox win the World Series. The end hasn't come yet. Perhaps it never will.
Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne strike Florida.
President Bush defeats Senator Kerry. Liberals go on suicide watch all over the world.
2005
Spain is bombed, so is London. Blair wins re-election.
Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans. The Mayor of New Orleans made the same mistake as Ted Kennedy. He thought motor vehicles could float.
The end hasn't come yet.

No, It's Not the End of the World!

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