Nostradamus' Future Predictions are Wrong
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CunningCanuk
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Bad Karma
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Fogdog
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He's been right about the end of the world being nigh several times.
Just ask his believers.
This was published at huff po with your therad in mind.
As A Kid I Was Told Armageddon Was Near, So I Wouldn’t Need A Job. Now I’m A BDSM Model.
I was 9 years old and I wasn’t going to grow up. I didn’t need to learn to spell because I’d never need a job. It was 1986, my family were Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the JW governing body was confidently predicting that Armageddon would arrive by the mid-1990s. Everyone who survived that would live forever in Paradise on earth. We were promised this at each of the thrice-weekly meetings we attended. In Paradise, we’d build log cabins, make friends with wild animals and spend our time picking fruit with other Jehovah’s Witnesses. This was all lovingly illustrated for us in the Jehovah’s Witness literature.
I banked on Armageddon coming quickly enough to save me from having to become a window cleaner. I was keen for it to arrive before I turned 16. This, the JW literature assured me, was almost certain.
We collectively closed our minds to the fact that this was not the first time the Jehovah’s Witness organization had predicted the end of the world. They first believed it would happen in 1914. Their subsequent predictions (1918, 1925 and 1975) were similarly anticlimactic, but many JWs still delayed further education, put off getting married and decided not to have children. All these things, we were promised, would be better done later, in Paradise. I was aware of the large number of unmarried elderly ladies in our congregation ― they’d been waiting, lonely and patient, for their entire adult lives. I was also aware, at least vaguely, that perhaps someday I’d be one of those old ladies. That is if the Jehovah’s Witnesses were wrong about Armageddon. Again.
To learn more of her story, (and to see the sfw cheesecake), click on the link above.
I think the point is: people who think they know the future are prevented from realizing their unknown potential.
Just ask his believers.
This was published at huff po with your therad in mind.
As A Kid I Was Told Armageddon Was Near, So I Wouldn’t Need A Job. Now I’m A BDSM Model.
I was 9 years old and I wasn’t going to grow up. I didn’t need to learn to spell because I’d never need a job. It was 1986, my family were Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the JW governing body was confidently predicting that Armageddon would arrive by the mid-1990s. Everyone who survived that would live forever in Paradise on earth. We were promised this at each of the thrice-weekly meetings we attended. In Paradise, we’d build log cabins, make friends with wild animals and spend our time picking fruit with other Jehovah’s Witnesses. This was all lovingly illustrated for us in the Jehovah’s Witness literature.
I banked on Armageddon coming quickly enough to save me from having to become a window cleaner. I was keen for it to arrive before I turned 16. This, the JW literature assured me, was almost certain.
We collectively closed our minds to the fact that this was not the first time the Jehovah’s Witness organization had predicted the end of the world. They first believed it would happen in 1914. Their subsequent predictions (1918, 1925 and 1975) were similarly anticlimactic, but many JWs still delayed further education, put off getting married and decided not to have children. All these things, we were promised, would be better done later, in Paradise. I was aware of the large number of unmarried elderly ladies in our congregation ― they’d been waiting, lonely and patient, for their entire adult lives. I was also aware, at least vaguely, that perhaps someday I’d be one of those old ladies. That is if the Jehovah’s Witnesses were wrong about Armageddon. Again.
To learn more of her story, (and to see the sfw cheesecake), click on the link above.
I think the point is: people who think they know the future are prevented from realizing their unknown potential.
second choice for thread name.
and yet we have Q.
Star Dog
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Budley Doright
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So when’s the next EOD event happening? I’m going to hang out at the temple the next day and pick up a very frustrated JW women.....
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