Of course I believe the end of this system is imminent. . . The onrushing global financial collapse is certain to provide the necessary spark to detonate an earth wide explosion; which, in the coming days and weeks of 1998, (probably an 'October suprise' since you have asked me to be specific) will rock the present political order off its foundation, and usher in the necessary circumstances which will result in a final confrontation with Jehovah. The exact duration of the tribulation is still an open question. It is however, not inconceivable that the events which we will recognize as the tribulation may perhaps spill over into the 21st century.
It is my biblically based opinion that the Watchtower is going to be silenced by the worldwide catastrophe brought on by Y2K. From my extensive research it seems to me that this will be the means by which Jehovah concludes the preaching of the good news that he has sponsored.
So, while it is naive to think the world is simply going to go belly up at the stroke of midnight come triple zeros, it is also equally ludicrous to imagine that the world is somehow going to waltz through the minefield of Y2K without disaster.
For those of us who have been on the look-out for Jehovah's year of retribution, the coming year has never looked more "promising." Unless of course you discount the ominously looming catastrophe called Y2K; which I am sure you have done---in keeping with the ridiculer's delusion, "that all things are continuing exactly as from creation's beginning."
I think it is pretty plain in my post that I think Y2K is going to be it. While I recognized some time ago that a financial collapse would probably be the catalyst that makes the UN more prominent in world affairs, thus positioning it to do the deed. For the last year I have pointed to the Y2K computer problem for the simple reason that the highly complex financial system cannot survive unless the computers stay up---all of them throughout the entire world. . . What must be remembered is that Y2K is a year, not a day. Problems will simply be multiplied during the coming days and months until the breaking point is reached. So while it is fairly easy to say that the present system will fail to run the gauntlet of the entire year, it is impossible to pin-point just exactly when Jehovah's day will over-take them.
Get back with me in a couple of months, we'll see if you are still bragging about your portfolio then.
Whether you realize it or not, you too have made a prediction as regards the future; you have "hitched your wagon," so-to-speak, to this system in the hope that everything will be fine. Such cocksureness in the face of contrary reality reminds me of the folks who thought the Titanic was unsinkable.
Why is it so unbelievable that this could be the end? Is it because the Watchtower hasn't told you that it is the end?
New York City, for example, was assessed by a Navy report because they were concerned about the military facilities there. The report said there was a high likelihood that the water and sewer systems in that gigantic city were going to fail. So what happens when you turn the water off to a city of 8 million people, which also happens to be one of the world's main financial centers? (Not to mention the headquarters for Jehovah's organization.) Do you think Wall Street traders will be going to work? Do you think they will leave billions of dollars lying on the table when they are forced to flee Manhattan?
There are just so many things that can go wrong---that will go wrong---that it is really short-sighted to focus on one little aspect of such an enormous problem and say: 'Well, OUR computers are okay.
Y2K is such an absolutely perfect ending for this system of things. It will bring total humiliation upon the techno-gods and all of their worshippers. It will be an especially humiliating experience for those who at one time actually know Jehovah but who allowed themselves to be seduced into sprawling prostrate before the phony techo-gods.
The beauty of the coming Y2K is that it will settle this whole deal. It can't be postponed. You have made your predictions, I have my expectations. "In just a little while longer" the questions of who's right and who's wrong will be settled.
(Past quotes from the LaRouche disciple himself)
