A hilarious stupid WA message is being circulated amongst JWs in my area / country.. I had a hearty laugh at the ignorance and stupidity and brainwashed mentality, Different people may express different emotions so you have been warned
DAY ONE AFTER ARMAGEDDON
It seems ages since we last heard the gunshots and screams, today has
been really quiet. The last few weeks have been sheer terror. Total
anarchy, everyone turning on each other. Not so the brothers - we all
looked after each other, later on we had to flee and hide wherever we
could. Bill and I have been on our own for a few days, we went looking
for food for a group of Witnesses we were with, but later on we got
separated from them.
We managed to find some tins of food in a burnt out farmhouse yesterday
but when we heard gunshots we decided to hide here for the night. In the
distance we saw people running for their lives, the look of terror of
their faces is a sight I will never forget. But since the morning it has
been so quiet!
All morning the birds were singing and the sun was shining. We could see
smoke rising high in the sky from fires in distant cities, but other
than that it was totally peaceful today. At lunchtime Bill and I decided
it was safe enough to look for the others. Everywhere we looked we saw
dead bodies; some people slumped at the steering wheels of their cars,
and some even with their cars still running. Could it all be over? After
an hour of walking we found another family from our congregation, they
were so happy to see us. They had not seen any sign of disturbance all
day either.
As we walked on we came closer to the city. We decided to walk to the
site of the Kingdom Hall. The whole city was deserted, what a mess!
Houses were on fire, crashed cars, some with dead people still in them.
We zig-zagged all over the road dodging wrecks, bodies and some looters
that were laying dead next to the things they had looted. Some of the
things that used to very valuable, like sacks of money and valuable
jewelry laying on the road, but we did not even bother picking these
valueless things up. Bodies laying where they had fallen. Churches
totally looted, some burnt out; some of the priests that had apparently
been able to avoid prison when the government banned religion, seemed to
have died trying to stop the mobs.
We spotted a group of people walking in the distance. They were people
we did not know. They looked like witnesses to us and they were looking
at us the same way. We walked over to meet them and asked them were they
were going. They said they were looking for fellow believers who were
Jehovah's Witnesses. Once we found out we were all Witnesses, we all
hugged. It turned out that they were from a neighboring congregation.
They told us that everyone they met so far this day were witnesses too.
We now were getting more certain by the hour that Armageddon had passed.
It is hard to describe our excitement! Now we just had to see if our
Kingdom hall was still standing. We all run down the road whooping with
excitement.
When we came to the hall we had such a huge shock.. There were so many
people there. The place was all boarded up, and obscene graffiti had
been sprayed all over it. Brothers and sisters were already cleaning it
up and removing the boards from the windows. A brother was already
mowing the lawn, and a First-Aid tent had been set up. One of the
sisters from the neighboring congregation said it reminded her of the
day they built the hall in a "quick build" weekend. None of us expected
everything to be organized so quickly!
As we were marveling at the scene, someone tapped me on the shoulder. It
was our Presiding Overseer. He was so pleased to see us. He gave all of
us the biggest hug we ever had. I will long remember this day, when I
cried so many happy tears until I ran out of tears. Then he told us he
was organizing volunteers and asked us if we had any special useful
skills we might volunteer. I was a cook in the old system. That seems
funny now; we use to always talk about the new system. Jim, one of the
brothers in our group was a truck driver, Our PO told us to register at
the volunteer department at the literature counter of the hall.
Walking in the hall was such a shock. Even though the place had been
vandalized, brothers and sisters were already cleaning it and had
started setting up various departments in there. Well I must say they
were TRYING to clean up, because every now and again we heard exited
shrieks and saw people hugging each other sobbing and crying and
laughing all at the same time as they found friends that made it.
Two brothers laughed and laughed and laughed when they saw each other.
Bystanders asked one of them why he was laughing so much, and when he
composed himself he said "I never thought HE would make it!" The other
brother was not offended he laughed even more, and later when also
composed himself said: "And I think YOU were the least likely to make it
here." Neither was offended, they were just glad to be there and they
hugged each other with tears streaming down their faces.
Others were somewhat disappointed some of their love ones did not make
it, but soon were swept up in the euphoria of this great day, and were
smiling with everyone else. Every now and again people came running
towards the hall jumping for joy, shouting "We made it! We made it! We
really are in the new system!" and went running around shaking everyone
hands and hugging all comers. In amongst all the excitement Jim and I
registered with a brother entering all names in a laptop. We wondered
where he had found that, and even how he had managed to charge it up,
but we were too exited to ask. He told us all names were being
registered so we would know who survived. Jim asked about his mother who
he had not seen for weeks. The brother entered the name and told him
she was already registered and was working in the First-Aid tent and...
(Jim did not hear the rest of this sentence as he was running off like
an Olympic sprinter to the First-Aid tent)
Later when Jim came back we were both assigned to collect food from the
neighbourhood and to salvage any supplies we could. So we walked away
from the hall into the deserted streets and found a big pickup truck
standing in the middle of an intersection. A big burly man lay dead
across the front of it, a woman lay dead next to it, we wondered briefly
if she was the mans wife. We moved the bodies to the side of the road
and started the pickup truck; it started straight away. The fuel tank
was half full so we decided we would use it for our search. Brother Jim
reached into the glove box and found a handful of CDs. They were all rap
and heavy metal so he walked to a rubbish bin and threw them away. It
seemed quite funny doing that now, we did not expect the city garbage
trucks anytime soon, but then again we were not going to litter the new
system! Wow! It seems so funny saying that still. The new system! And we
are standing in it. Wow!
We had just driven barely a kilometre when a police car came chasing
after us with sirens blaring and lights flashing! Jim was shocked and
pulled over immediately, like he had always done in the past, but out of
the police car jumps Terry - one of our ministerial servants, his wife
Mary and their excited young son Tim who had gone for his first ride
ever in a police car. Terry excitedly told us of how he had found this
car on a country road deserted with its engine still running. The
policeman was laying on the road, it looked like he had been shot, but
Terry thought the car would save his family a long walk. We suggested
that he should drive to the kingdom hall and register, but that he would
not be needed to keep order. As Terry was getting back into the car a
voice came on the police radio "Hello, can anybody hear us?" Terry
answered the call and found out the voice was from a brother in a
neighboring town that had found a police car. They reported that
everywhere the brothers were convinced Armageddon had passed. There were
scenes of jubilation with people dancing, leaping for joy and crying
tears of joy everywhere, the brother on the radio said.
We jumped back into the truck and went from house to house collecting
food out of kitchen cupboards, and restaurants until the truck was
loaded. At one of the houses Jim came running back to the truck nearly
doubling up with laughter. He shouted that I had to come and have a
look. I followed him and there was a sign on the door "NO JEHOVAH'S
WITNESSES PLEASE!" We peeled the sign off and stuck it in our pockets to
show the brothers at the hall, and then walked in laughing shouting
"Hello, we are Jehovah's witnesses and we calling at homes in the
neighborhood!" It seemed a little sad to us that witnessing had finished
as we knew it back in the old system. (Boy it seems funny writing this.
Back in the old system).. But then we wondered what Jehovah had in
store when the resurrected ones start coming back!
It was dark when we came back to the kingdom hall. The whole town was in
darkness, but we could see the Kingdom Hall from several kilometres
away. Obviously, someone had found generators and the wholesite was lit
up like the quick builds we used to have in the old system.
One of the brothers in our congregation used to set-up the sound systems
for the quick build halls and he had set-up a sound system. Brothers
and sisters were serving meals and while we were eating an announcement
came over the sound system, "Brothers and sisters we just had word from
the governing body, Armageddon is over, everyone that is here has
survived the war Armageddon." A huge cheer went up, brothers and sisters
danced, hugged cheered and celebrated. Then one of the Italian brothers
starting singing song 212, "We thank you Jehovah!" in Italian. We all
recognized the tune and all joined in!
We made a huge bonfire many joined in singing kingdom songs. Yes we sang
the "victory song"! Two brothers had dragged the piano out of the hall
and everyone was singing with such fervor, it brought tears to our eyes.
There was a crowd of hundreds singing like the Levites in the back of
our song books singing in full voice with feeling and pride to be
serving this great wonderful God, our God Jehovah
I will hear the words of song 171 ringing in my ears for all eternity. A
VICTORY SONG! We won, and Satan had lost the great war. Sing to
Jehovah, for he has become highly exalted. Happy we are to be living
today. To our God Jehovah and his Messiah, thanks we render all day
long. To them alone we look for salvation, grand will be our victory
song.