Hardly anything seem to fill the writing staff in Brooklyn with such joy and gleeful anticipation as the potential for a good old disaster, something that may kill untold billions of people in a very short time and cause a fertile ground for more superstition and mumbo jumbo.
The December 22, 2005 issue of Awake! Magazine is an excellent example of this when it asks the question: “Can it happen again?” I found this in the Norwegian edition.Forever on the lookout for doom and gloom and “signs” of the “end” Brooklyn ever roaming eye is attracted to everything that has the potential to spell death and destruction to mankind, the worse it is the better it is to Brooklyn.
This time (as so many times before), it is the possible emergence of a “superflu” like the influenza pandemic that swept the world in 1918, which these morons with their far fetched insane ideas think was foretold in the Bible. What Brooklyn seems to enjoy more then anything was that that pandemic back then apparently mostly killed was people between 20 and 40, oh if we could have that happen again, what joy! And you know what, science was baffled and helpless, can it get any better then that?
Furthermore to the immense delight of Brooklyn some scientist doing research has been able to dig up victims of that flu in the permafrost in Alaska and Spitzbergen and identify the virus that killed so many people back then. Then follows several pages where the writer with visible excitement and satisfaction goes through how threatening and deadly viruses are and how great the potential threat such future pandemics are.
The article follows the usual pattern of painting a dark and gloomy future for mankind and at the end of the second section they quote someone they call a “respected American authority” which is supposed to have said: “To put it simple, with each passing year we get closer to the next pandemic.” Not a word about who this authority is of course.
Then we get the usual question, “Does this mean that the future is dark and that we are we are without hope? No”
After having started the last part of the article with darkening the future threat of a deadly influenza pandemic further to get the reader in the right mood the magazine launches into la la land full steam with the usual idiotic fantasy pictures of insanely grinning “happy” women in cotton dresses accessorized with fruit/flower basket. Also with manly men in polo shirts playing with children etc, all in a lovely landscape what with snowcapped peaks on the horizon and whatnot. Then they move in for the kill with the usual incredible nonsense about “like the days of Noah”. The incredible bloodbath they all pray and hope for are sanitized and stripped of all blood and gore using the description the “present world order will end”. Then the article asks what life the “survivors” can expect? Nothing is of course mentioned that Brooklyn thinks those will be far less the one percent if the entire mankind. Then after a few more lines offering among other the usual standard out of context bullshit ranting better known as “revelation”. It is quite telling that after having used 98% two measly paragraphs are used on this “good” stuff.
Another thing that is always completely missing from such articles in any Watchtower literature is any discussion about all these horrible diseases caused by viruses. Viruses is really amazing as they can actually be perfectly explained by applying “Darwinian” thinking.
In viruses we can observe evolution at work. Viruses are immensely complex and evolve all the time. It is really comic but people who do not “believe” in evolution should really put their money where their mouth is and use 10 year old virus vaccines because according to them evolution is bullshit.
And of course such complicated buggers and viruses must be designed, don’t you think? And who else can design them then the “Great designer?” Of course God has designed the viruses, e-coli, bacteria erc. After all he is almighty. Isn’t it wonderful to be so loved folks? Isn't it strange that the solution to all problems facing mankind always seem to involve killing as much people as possible?
Norm