"Doomsday May Not Be What You Think" Actually, it's worse...

by undercover 20 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  undercover

  On JW.org they have an Awake article posted entitled, Doomsday - Fact, Fiction and Fantasy.

  They go on to list a few doomsday fears that some people have, namely: Supervolcanoes, Asteroids, Climate Change, Disease Pandemic, Extinction of Critical Species and of course, Nuclear War.

  Each of the preceding fears was given a paragraph or two explaining the impact of such scenerios and the devastation it could bring.

  Now that they've got us all worried about our bees fleeing our bee hives as the asteroid makes impact on a supervolcano, causing an eruption which warms the earth's climate thus giving rise to deadly diseases...all the while some nut in a third world country has developed a nuclear weapon...

  ...They seek to reassure you: Doomsday May Not Be What You Think

  Oh, well... that's good. I was starting to worry there for a minute...

  What reassurance could these prophets of God give me?

  "In contrast, the Bible’s version of what the future holds paints a more reasonable picture. According to the Bible, for a certainty, a great change is coming. But survival is guaranteed to all who do God’s will. Furthermore, the Bible does not foretell that the earth will be blasted to a cinder or frozen like an ice cube. It will be transformed into a global paradise."

  Um, wait a sec... A 'reasonable picture'? I remember 'pictures' of what the WT version of doomsday is. Isn't that what all those illustrations of Armageddon in years and years of WT publications was all about? Doomsday for everyone not doing God's the WT's will? And that's a 'reasonable picture'? It's actually reasonable to expect that God is going to wipe clean 99.9% of the earth's population?
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  james_woods

  Nice slick way of avoiding what they REALLY teach - that God will destroy 99.9% of the people on earth and carrion birds will come down like those in an Alfred Hitchcock movie to pick their eyes out of their heads.

  Then, the full time pioneers and such higher JWs will come first (before the rank & file) and pick out your luxury houses, wear your fine clothes and jewelry, and drive around in your Mercedes unless you convert and sell their magazines from door to door.
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  cofty

  Very good summary James. JW doctrine without all the spin.
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  NomadSoul

  Funny how the article is structured by the topic.

  Facts (Things that can happen): Natural Disasters

  Fiction: Examples from the Bible.

  Fantasy: WT Paradise
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  james_woods

  Very good summary James. JW doctrine without all the spin.

  Thank you, Cofty. The spin stops here on JWN.
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  undercover

  Funny how the article is structured by the topic.

  Facts (Things that can happen): Natural Disasters

  Fiction: Examples from the Bible.

  Fantasy: WT Paradise

  Good catch
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  undercover

  ...drive around in your Mercedes unless you convert

  at least until there's no more gasoline.

  I didn't do it as a kid, and not even as an adult for awhile, but if you really try to envision life without electricity, fuel, transporation, readily available food and medicine, does one really want to live in that situation?

  We hate it when thunderstorms knock our power out for a few hours. And then there are hurricane, tornado, psunami victims whose lives are turned upside down for years. Is this something people really want to live through in the aftermath of Armageddon?

  Don't JWs ever really stop and think about the consequences of what it would really be like to live through Armageddon?
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  sd-7

  Hey, don't worry. The regional prince will come through your area, determine the extent of damage, then provide a report to the Branch King in heaven. He will then dispatch angels to effect electrical repairs, or perhaps use holy spirit to move individuals with the relevant skills to do so in your area.

  Also, with God's curse removed from the plant life, there will be plenty of food available to all. In the meantime, the survivors will be busy with reconstruction work and burying the bones of the wicked, as well as educating newly resurrected ones about God's Kingdom. Is that not a happy prospect?

  --sd-7
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  james_woods

  I didn't do it as a kid, and not even as an adult for awhile, but if you really try to envision life without electricity, fuel, transporation, readily available food and medicine, does one really want to live in that situation?

  And with practically nobody except window washers and commode cleaners left, it is really going to be a big fun time getting the infrastructure running again, right?

  Of course, the good JW waves his hands and declares that Jehovah will just take care of everything - including plenty of gas for that Circuit Overseer's new Mercedes (which he took from a hard-working doctor that Jehovah horribly killed the day before for going to college like the rest of the evil system of things).
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  NomadSoul

  I didn't do it as a kid, and not even as an adult for awhile, but if you really try to envision life without electricity, fuel, transporation, readily available food and

  medicine, does one really want to live in that situation?

  Sadly, you don't have to envision this. You just gotta visit the right part of the world.