Long Hair Gal
Amen to everything you say! Unfortunately, I was more or less raised in this religion, so didn't even have much of a normal childhood. When I was raising my child, I had a difficult time instilling the Armageddon fear and maybe that was actually the start of a semi-awakening, that unfortunately took far too long to bear fruit! It was only through God's providence that we even had a child, because we were of the mindset "not in this sytem". When I look back at that, I thank God again for the miracle of unplanned pregnancy! Even with my efforts at not instilling too much of an Armageddon fear, my child has confided that they got plenty of that just from the meetings alone, to the point of sleepless nights, which they never told me about and suffered through silently ... wow, was that an eye-opener to me about how this religion can mentally wreak havoc on a child's mind. The slow beginning of the end for us...
So, yeah, we got TIRED with a capital T of waiting for Armageddon. All the hoopla and continued harping on about it won't bring it one iota closer and frankly, I couldn't give a damn!
You would think from the Witnesses' constant Armageddon yammering that the whole point of the Bible is Armageddon preparedness - yech! But they must be wising up to the fact that this is counter-productive because in a recent Kingdom Misery, I chanced to read that the latest 'suggestions' for the field ministry were not to go on too long about Armageddon and current world conditions...DO YA THINK??
Heaven help them!