My mom (a baptized JW who hasn't been to a meeting willfully in years) commented today on how the birds in the neighborhood have been acting more aggressive lately. How they've been taunting and divebombing our cat, being loud and obnoxious, etc..(The probable reason for this is that our cat probably killed a baby bird or something). She said the birds are getting ready to eat animals. Confused, I said '"you mean the dead and sickly ones?", referring to vultures etc. And she said something like "no, Armaggedon is getting close, and the birds are getting ready to eat animals".. "yeah, they're gonna eat all the dead bodies of people Jehovah kills."
I'm sitting there confused as hell thinking "where the #%@* is this coming from?" It was sad to hear how my mom still fears dying in Armaggdon, yet she won't go back to the congregation. One of the two times we've talked about religion at all the past years (about 7) since we ( she mainly, since I only went when she did since I was younger ) stopped going to the Kingdom Hall I simply asked her "why don't you go to the Kindgom hall?" [I asked her this because I was coerced into going to a meeting with a sister I was guilted into studying with; and I didn't want to go alone and have to go through the annoying process of having entire congregation stare at me, then all come and be their fake happy selves w/ me alone] And her reply was "Because I don't want to" in a tone that also said "and because its none of your business." So I get that she doesn't want to go back to the congregation, but she still fears Armaggedon. I asked if she's seen that new movie The Day After Tomorrow (so i could talk to her about how bad and humorous it was) and she commented "no, it might make me have more nightmares of Armageddon"
Her comment about the birds actually getting ready to eat dead bodies was so random and bizzare, and hearing it come from my own mother even freaked me out about Armaggedon coming soon. It is hard to completely make that fear go away, but in all logic, I don't fear it anymore. Out of curiosity though, does it really say that the birds are going to eat everyone killed during Armadeddon somewhere in the Bible? Or was that just more BS from Bethel?