Less than 5 years left!

Zico

Hi all! I'm a fading dub, but still active, and still in contact with other JWs. A pioneer JW came up to me yesterday, and invited me over to his place for dinner tonight. I told him I couldn't come as I had night school. His response was 'Well why did you start working full time anyway? If you quit your job and go back to pioneering, like you should be, you wouldn't have these problems.' This annoyed me, I hate it when JWs tell me how I should be living MY life. I didn't want to go to his anyway! So I wasn't going to leave it at that. And so the following conversation took place: Me: 'Yeah, so what happens in the future if I get married, and then have a family, how will pioneering help me to look after, and provide for them?' Him: 'Well, that's not going to be a problem, as there's no way this System is going to last for more than 5 years.' Me: 'And how can you possibly know that?' Him: 'Well, the youngest anointed can't be any younger than 75, so they haven't got long left, and so it can't really go on any longer, can it?' Me: 'How do you know the youngest ones are 75, have you met them all?' Him: 'Well, no, but I'm related to the one of the anointed, and she's in her 90s, but a lot of the anointed probably aren't genuine, but she definitely is genuine, so there probably are people under 75 who say they're anointed, but they wouldn't be genuine.' (He likes to throw his being related to an anointed thing into conversation whenever possible, as if it makes him any more special than any Witness who isn't distantly related to any anointed, or even has anything to do with the other anointed) Me: 'How do you know your aunt is genuine. Have you asked her how she knows she's anointed?' Him: 'Yes, I have!' (He was getting a bit worked up here) Me: 'What did she say?' Him: 'That's none of your business.' (I don't know why?) Me: 'Ok. But what if you asked someone under 75, and they gave you the same answer, how would you know they're not anointed?' Him: 'Well, they wouldn't, because they're not genuine!' Me: 'But what about the anointed who were appointed to the Governing Body last year, they were in their 50s, are they not genuine?' Him: 'I never said that!' (Actually, you did) Me: 'And besides, age is irrelevant now, if you read your Jan 1st 2007 Watchtower, you'll find that the Society say they are no longer sure whether or not they'll be any anointed left on the Earth when Armageddon comes, so even if they are all above 75, it doesn't mean the end has to come in 5 years.' Him: 'Oh. So, you definitely can't come tomorrow then?' Me: 'No, sorry.' Him: 'Ok, well, I have to be off now, I'll see you later.' Me: 'Bye!' Ah, I love putting self-righteous Dubs in their place! And now I've found out that the anointed have gone up by 234! That's just too funny. And, this recent 'new light' really does remove any timeline any JW can put on the end anyway. Have a good day everyone, I'll be off to those evening classes in about 30 minutes. It's hard work, but it still beats pioneering!

megsmomma

Well.....I guess I better get back to Jehoober now...thanks for the insightfull warning Zico!

It is amazing how we know more about their "new light" than they do!

Crumpet

Good on you Zico - am guessing you wont get a repeat invite soon!

Wonder why he couldnt tell you what his Aunt had to say about how she knew she was annointed...maybe it was too out of leftfield!

OnTheWayOut

Zico,

What you did was, take a blind-faith guy who hasn't read his WT, and explain to him why his blind-faith needs to be adjusted according to his own leaders. He needed to stop that conversation, because someone who isn't as righteously faithful as him, pointed it out from the new magazine. He can't be wrong and less faithful than the spiritually weak. That's just too much. Besides, you logic was interferring with his ignorance.

jaguarbass

as there's no way this System is going to last for more than 5 years.'

I heard that one back in 1975. I didnt go to college, consequently never had much direction or control in my life. Stay in school forget the dubs. The Jw's are liars on a dead end street. The ones that are not willfully lying are too lazy to use their brains to think.

daystar

Booyah! In your face!!