When I was about 12, a friend of mine and I were walking home. He told me about the "half factor"-something his strange mind had concocted.
Starting at whatever distance from your destination-lets say a mile-walk half the journey, take a break, then walk half the remaining distance, take a break, then half the remaning distance again.
Even when you are yards, then feet, then inches from the finish line you never get there.
Kind of like the history of The Empire in a way. They get closer and closer and closer but never there. In one of those "half the distance" pauses 1975 came and went. In another more recent one, the Generation That Saw 1914 teaching got a little tweak.
I also remember being told that 2000 would be it, or at least we would not make it to 2000 now here it is 2001.
Now down to inching along-or millimetering along-I wonder what will fill those "half the distance breaks".
Do you think the sayings will gradually get more outlandish and sensational so as to keep spiritual adrenaline pumping?
I'm curious to hear theories y'all may have on what "new light" may blink forth from Brooklyn to keep interest up.
How about The Empire adding extraterrestrials somehow? (maybe alien abductions are just E.T. Jehovahs Witnesses who didn't realize Earth wasn't on their territory card and decided to witness to humans. Maybe those weird medical experiments on their planet is how they place Watchtower and Awakes)
mike.
Starting at whatever distance from your destination-lets say a mile-walk half the journey, take a break, then walk half the remaining distance, take a break, then half the remaning distance again.
Even when you are yards, then feet, then inches from the finish line you never get there.
Kind of like the history of The Empire in a way. They get closer and closer and closer but never there. In one of those "half the distance" pauses 1975 came and went. In another more recent one, the Generation That Saw 1914 teaching got a little tweak.
I also remember being told that 2000 would be it, or at least we would not make it to 2000 now here it is 2001.
Now down to inching along-or millimetering along-I wonder what will fill those "half the distance breaks".
Do you think the sayings will gradually get more outlandish and sensational so as to keep spiritual adrenaline pumping?
I'm curious to hear theories y'all may have on what "new light" may blink forth from Brooklyn to keep interest up.
How about The Empire adding extraterrestrials somehow? (maybe alien abductions are just E.T. Jehovahs Witnesses who didn't realize Earth wasn't on their territory card and decided to witness to humans. Maybe those weird medical experiments on their planet is how they place Watchtower and Awakes)
mike.