I was ten years old in 1968 and was scared the whole time. Along with the assasinations, Vietnam War and riots in American cities and colleges, I was convinced that the state where I lived, California, would fall into the Pacific Ocean that year. Psychic Jeanne Dixon said so, it must be true.
I was very glad when that prophecy proved false. It is too bad I did not learn my lesson and turn a deaf ear to the false prophecies of the Watchtower. I did not believe in 1975 but I did think that Armageddon must come just a year or two later. 1980 was a shock to my system.
This is a variation on one of your favorite themes:
Catastrophe has been avoided in the past THEREFORE it will always be avoided in the future.
I realize that this is your reaction to JW doomsaying but your view is also based on WISHFUL THINKING.
Just because you don't want something to be true does not mean it WILL NOT be true.
To believe that the worst case scenario will be avoided is an unwarranted assumption.
Intelligent life emerged in the universe in spite of its very low probability. We have a world where the technology to build nuclear weapons is spreading. We have a world where some people would give their own life to get hold of a nuclear bomb. Opportunity and Motive. Aren't those the circumstances for crime.
Even though I survived California falling into the sea and Armageddon in 1975, it was hard for me to see a future for myself and plan ahead for many years. Investing, buying a home, retrying to complete a higher education, very difucult.
It must have done something to my head. How about you all?
metatron-I can see your point that when it looks so bleak, it sometimes cheers me to know that it will continue and I will make it through. People will make it through.
James Thomas- You smoke? I knever would have known. lol
The closest we came in my opinion was the cuban missle crisis here in the states my parents the congregation and everyone else was in terror.
My opinion is, that if Armageddon was going to come at all, it would have come during the Cuban Missle Crisis. We apparently came within seconds of starting World War III. I was watching the movie Thirteen Days which outlines what happened during that time. Pretty frigging scary......the military was trying to go behind Kennedy's back and provoke the Russians even more than what they were. Had Nixon won the election in 1960 instead of JFK, I sincerely doubt that any of us would be sitting here today.
