by Pole 21 Replies latest social entertainment
Bruce Willis character and his crew are unable to move asteroid. It is headed right for Brooklyn and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's publishing office. Amazingly, that building and all of the WBTS buildings and KH's are the only ones destroyed, along with anyone in them. Pffftt. Evaporated.
Could happen, uh-huh!
Bren
Realisticly, the younger generation of children will grow up and as their aging controlling dogmatic parents die off, they drift away until there is no one left to "accept responsibility" and no one is lining up to run to Bethel.
Fictionally, a rare disease comes out and the only cure is that everyone has to take a vaccine that is made of a rare animal's blood. All Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to accept the shot and they all die from the rare disease. The few that did get the shot, live and finally are free.
LOL at JustTickled. Although they could just introduce a few changes in the blood policy, like "the blood of some animals is now acceptable".
The few that did get the shot, live and finally are free.
You mean the Governing Body when they finaly decide blood is acceptable?
Brenda,
I guess what you're describing could be called the Inverse of Armageddon.
Take good heed of metatron's test everyone:
The critical moment of change comes when many Witnesses start to criticize the Society openly.
Pole
The year is 2013, one and a half decades since the use of the internet became widespread in schools across Westernized lands. A new generation - Generation I - has grown up with the expectation that any piece of trivia can be answered instantaneously. The source for any citation can be found simply by quoting a paragraph of it to Google. Discussion boards and forums provide young people lively discussion and opposing views.
Amidst this backdrop, the Watchtower continues to offer vaguely worded pronouncenments with little to no substantive content. Dissent continues to be suppressed, even as the Society's unscientific views begin to appear more and more ludicrous. How can we not believe in evolution given the continued discovery of advanced hominid fossils? Why does this organization feel like Stalinist Russia? How can I avoid the fate of being a dirt-poor janitor at age 85? What do I want to do with my life?
Generation I wreaks havoc on the Watchtower numbers by being the first generation to simply walk away en masse, as one would from a street shuckster with phony wares. They don't buy it - and they can explain exactly why. The rate of crumbling occurs roughly in proportion to age; and each age group becomes statistically more likely to hemmorhage members as the group adjacently younger suffers losses. Finally, the membership age chart looks like a steep parabola, making it very difficult to attract and retain new (young) members. And since the only remaining members are the ones that unfortunately failed to prepare financially for old age, the graph of donations over time becomes a steeply declining parabola.
Although it ultimately pants on for some 50 more years, the Watchtower eventually becomes a forgotten piece of religious history, one of many fundnamentalist groups that rose and fell largely in the 20th to early-21st centuries.
SNG
I cast my vote for Lisaobesa - you must have Oz memorized - good job
Just My opinion
Jeff
And these ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
Rev. 17:16
Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix for her double.
Rev 18:6
Therefore her plagues will come in one day - death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who has judged her.
Rev 18:8
The scenario has already been written
michelle
seattleniceguy,
That sounds pretty realistic.
myelaine,
You'd have difficulties finding a producer for this one. Well, on second thoughts, it might make a story for a new sequel of Conan the Barbarian:
Pole
I think there gonna lose so much influx, that there gonna tell dubs to have tons of kids(to support the Org), and all the dubs will lose their jobs cuz they'll be home pokin all day.
Gumby
LOL @ Gumby the Futurologist.
They'll be forced underground during GWB's fourth term, or Jeb's second. "Ridding the land of the false prophets" will be the Religious Right's mantra at that time, after already having succeeded at their goals of outlawing abortion and homosexuality and getting Biblical creationism taught in all schools.
