Hey - this is a semi-serious question i have asked a witness before but did not get a sattisfying answer.
Consider Bob. Bob is a total psychopat. The only thing Bob really likes to do is to kill people, so thats what he do all day.
Next door to Bob lives Jill. One day Jill get a visit from two jehovahs witness. The two witness in questions begin to witness to Jill, but Jill is kind of an atheistic bitch so she tells them to stick the bible where the sun dont shine and beat it, then she let her rotweiler loose and one of the witness, being to full of spritual food to run, is eaten. Obviously Jill dont get return calls and never hear from the witness again.
- now stay with me -
Accoring to (how i understand) WT doctrine, Jill made a real bummer here because even if we cannot, positively, 100% say that Jill is going to get killed at armageddon, telling two witness to stick it and have her rotweiler eat one of them is NOT good. Jill heard the message and didnt respond, thats bad, and i think all witness will agree that Jills spiritual chances are in a shit state. Jills situation is made worse since what she dont know is that armageddon is due next friday.
So thats basically Jills prospects. perhaps 95% chance she is going to get killed next friday, end of story.
Fortunately for Jill, she lives next door to Bob, and on thursday he breaks in and shoot Jill. Now, Jills outlook changed - she is guaranteed to be woken up in the new world for an extra chance, and i think we can safely say, that if we woke up with jesus, moses and all the righous dudes walking around, theres a good chance even a staunch ateist like Jill would listen to what the witness had to say, considering most people alive when she wake up are witness. So what basically happened is that jills prospects got a hell of a lot better because she was killed - from almost certain destrucion, to a chance of being presented with "the truth" backed up by irrefuteable proof and without satan to desieve her.
What about bob? Well who cares, he died at armageddon.
The point here is not that i want to say bob did good in being a psychopatic serial killer - no doubt the bible condemn bob to destruction. But what if bob was so sick he didnt care about dying at armageddon? isnt bob, even though the bible tells us to do whatever we can to stop him, doing us all a favor? Would the most unselfish action a parent could do to his/her child not be to imediately kill it, hence making sure it would grow up in a world full of evidence *for* jv teaching? sure, the parent would condemn himself, but it would not be the childs fault - only he would be punished, and the child, once restored to perfection, would not miss the "evil" parent it never knew anyway, because how could there be longin in a perfect mind in a perfect world? isnt that what the JW's teach?
So i guess my questions is, does the current beliefs about armageddon, judgement and paradise not lead one to conclude that it is really a good thing the world is full of Bobs, hitlers and stalins, since they are helping those who cannot be reached by ordinary witnessing to have a second chance, in a world full of proof and without temptations, even if they in the process loose their hope of everlasting life? What is the "witness way" around this?
My only counter argument is that jehova would see into the heart of jill and condemn her, even if she was receptive to the truth when presented for it with evidence in the new world. But it raise a lot of questions - if jehova sees into the hearths of people and judge them thus, why care about preaching? is it not then only a way to proove the witness who preach worthy and ... isnt that kind of bonkers when you think of it?