by unclebruce 42 Replies latest jw friends
Do those pictures bring up an age old question I've had.
How do JWs avoid being around those cracks when the end comes? Do they get some secret notice to gather in some "safe" place? We all know JWs can't keep a secret...how do we know they won't tell others? Will the entrance be supernaturally barred to non-JWs, double life JWs, etc.? Will KHs really be islands of physical safety as some JWs speculate?
Blondie (safe now)
Well blondie, I was about eight when Jehovah's big crack appeared. In the following years I thought up all sorts of ways of not getting sucked in from contraptions involving parachutes and ropes to spring shoes and jet packs. My mum just laughed and reckoned it would get me no matter what I did. See that girl with the barby doll - that's my bad sister debbie .. she should have bought a jetpack™
Paradise Lost to Paradise sucked in:
I think being tainted by the spirit of the world is rather naughty.
I have occassionally been known to be tainted by the spirit. Just ask gumby.
blondie asked: How do JWs avoid being around those cracks when the end comes? Do they get some secret notice to gather in some "safe" place?
god damn it Blondie! Weren't you 'paying close attention' at the meetings all those years ago? Every good Dub know that Armageddon is going to take place on a Sunday morning and that Jehovah will have a shield around each and every Kingdumb Hall like Captain Kirk's Enterprise, when it starts to rain fire and brimestone. When it starts, the PO will say "Shields Up!" and they will just bounce off the protective rays and nary a shingle on the Hall roof will be touched. Those that are outside of the Kingdumb Halls, including the bros and sisters who are late for the meeting, won't be able to get through and they'll fall through those giant cracks all the way to China.
As for the picture below, they should have the caption by the little girl that says: "....I'll get you my pretty! And you're little dog too!"
That little girl's not pretty - Debbie fell out of the ugly tree (and hit every branch on the way down)
How could anyone see that picture and not know that the WTS taught that children were to be executed at Armageddon.
When my mother wasn't going to the meetings, my brother and I were worried that God would kill us because of her.
Blondie
Jesus blondie - I'm glad I never thought like that between the ages of eight and fifteen. lol. Yes, not that JWs are superstitious, but until we were baptised our 'getting through armageddon™' depended on our parents faithfulness .. I wonder what sicko oracle dreamed up all this stuff.
As if demonic nightmares and falling down jahs crack weren't enough for a kid to worry about.
unclebruce
Wasn't there another picture in the Paradise Lost book about all the people drowning either at The Flood, or maybe it was the picture of Pharoah's army drowning in the Red Sea, I can't remember. But I do remember of the victims that looked like they had a crown on their head......weird how you remember such things eh? Does anyone have those pictures? I also remember that horrifying picture of the foot squashing the snake's head in the Paradise book and I remember thinking that was why we hated snakes...........ah, the lovely, warm, fuzzy feelings that the Paradise Lost book instilled in us!!
UB, it bothered us that the dogs died too...they couldn't serve God, why did they have to die. Very educational that book...too bad it took over 40 years to sink in.
Blondie
It makes you wonder about the "artists" who actually draw those illustrations for the books..To actually think of them sitting and drawing adults and children being swallowed up in cracks in the earth.. But at one time I was one of the Dubs reading these books and looking at the illustrations and vaguely accepting it all.. Even at that time.. I thought it seemed excessive and morbid.. If God is really watching the Dubs like "Big brother" , I don't believe a loving god would condone advertising mass destruction of men women and children at his hands..Its really all so twisted and wierd..I can't believe I used to go along with all that crap..
