LOL...I've always suffered from verbal and written diarrhea...but I didn't post here for months and months after originally finding it, via Randy Watters.
It's okay, I'm writing a multi chapter fiction at the moment and I'll burn off some of my writing-itis doing that. LOL
I got what I needed in the serious bits and had to go away for a while and digest it all. I had some decisions to make and what I read here and elsewhere and discussed in private with some people helped me do that.
I decided to not be overly confrontational but to just slowly fade away from it all. Aside from the fact that it's not my style, I don't think it gets the response I want.
I'm not out to punish Witnesses or the WTS...It won't help anything. Strangely enough, something in the Bible itself tells me this, it's just conventional wisdom offered by an old Jewish Rabbi...not a Christian. Gamaliel....If this is from God, it will stand no matter what you do, but if not, it won't last.
I see the Witnesses, eventually becoming a dead end religion. If their promised "Armageddon" or their version of it, and then some sort of paradise, never comes to fruition, where will that leave them?
A good many Witnesses are slowly but surely tiring of promises of paradise...the reality of living in the now is more on their minds, naturally, and the more the WTS makes them feel guilty about not "putting the Kingdom" first, the more that will either burn out or just leave, fading or leaving with a defiant flounce.
But, a house of cards just cannot last forever, regardless of how desperately you keep adding cards. That's the analogy that fits the best for me. They just keep adding and shuffling those cards, and still...it's collapsing around them.
Of course, they will, like any good cult, interpret that according to their current version of the truth, probably that it's signalling the collapse of the system, and not themselves.
They fail to realize that they are part of the system whether they deny it or not. The evil that they wish upon others will come upon them also, because they are part of it. Being "no part of the world" is something they've interpreted much too literally, like so many other things. I guess they feel some sort of miraculous bubble of invincibility will shield the faithful from all the horrible things God will supposedly do to the rest of humanity, but how is that any different than believing God will rapture you away from the burning inferno of God's judgment, as some others do?
Oh, and no doubt, the rise in inactivity and disinterest, and outright apostasy!oh horrors will be intepreted also according to their own convenient beliefs, for that is one of their great talents, adjusting reality to suit the changing situation, rather than changing to suit any sort of reality. Another defining characteristic of the cult mentality, of course. Do you drink the koolaid...or does the koolaid drink YOU? LOL
I think someone once said, Any belief that seems ludicruus is one YOU don't believe in. They despise other faiths for "irrational" beliefs and have so many of their own. It's amazing their heads don't explode from the conflict, but of course, people are capable of doing that...believing the most insane crap and still managing to walk around fairly functional.
I digress as usual. My brain seems to function entirely without benefit of organization. LOL
