End Of The World!: It's The End Of The World!............again..............for the umpteenth time.

It's that time of year.............time for trick or treaters coming to your door for some Halloween candy. The weather has cooled off and all the leaves on the trees are changing colors before they fall to the ground..............well..........some of them...........because some of them never get the message that every year at this time of year, it is supposed to be the "end" of their world. In our world..........the human world........it ain't the end until you are dead. Then again.........the jury might still be out on that one.........after all, I was just at the grocery store and there were two women shoppers, not unlike the two old ladies that you see in the photo above, that could barely walk and yet proceeded to load up their groceries into their Buick and speed off across the parking lot. I don't know about you and how you feel about such things, but for me........this kind of thing sends a chill down my spine. Why? Well........because these old women will be on the road at the same time that I am on the road! Personally, I would like to live as much as I can while I can and I don't need no ancient women on the road driving Buicks.

Aside from the previous mentioned event, as I write this I am reminiscing about the past two months leading up to this week. I have written about the trip to Texas and some other things that were on my mind........but I didn't tell you about the Jehovah's Witness visits in recent weeks. Before I get to that, keep in mind that it is the end of the world again..........just like it was in 1999..........remember this?:

Well.........the year 2000 came and went and we all went ahead and opened up our stored canned food and ate so many beans that Al Gore had to announce a newer more surefire "end of the world" ..........you know...........Global Warming...........ahhh yes..........there is nothing better than a potential world disaster caused by..........well...........farting!. That's pretty sensational.........but it's not really knew. Al Gore just knew that those magazines at the grocery checkout counter make alot of money because of what the subject matter was...............the END of the WORLD! And again.......there was nothing new about having magazines try to scare the crap out of people or suggest that the END was near. The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, Inc pretty much cornered the market on such things. The difference, of course, being that they didn't put the magazines in the grocery stores............instead, they just keep sending moronic lemming cult members to fan out through every neighborhood and bang on doors and ring doorbells hoping to find some sucker that will take the bait.

Maybe you remember seeing this magazine laying around at the laundromat or in a doctor's office................but that would be years ago.........look at the cover. See the nice old people?, not unlike those two women in the photo at the beginning of this blog entry.......except that the magazine is dated 1984. Hmmm.........1984.........Holy Orwell! Now let us think about that.......if those people on the cover of that magazine looked like that in 1984.........what would they look like today?...............or..........maybe they all kicked the bucket...........after all........today it is 2009 and only two months away from being 2010............25 years later! Most of you that read this will probably think "so what is his point?"............it's okay.....I understand.......maybe you can do a little research on just how long exactly a "generation" is. Easily, the majority of those people on the cover are at least in their seventies. The even bigger point to ponder is how are we to know just when it was that the photo was taken. It could be a photo from 1975............which, by the way, was yet another specific date set for the end of things as we know it.........and yes.......it was the Jehovah's Witnesses that picked that year.........which resulted in the largest number of new recruits in their history. When 1976 came, the result was the largest depletion of their rank and file in their corporate history.

I remember a Jehovah's Witness woman rattling her spiel on the Paltalk internet community chats. She would repeatedly say "Jehovah's Witnesses never advertise! and do not participate in commercial ventures.".................hehehe........such bilge from cult lemmings is the result of them not knowing their own history. Look at the picture........it speaks for itself. If that ain't advertising, then Billy Mays is still alive and selling magazines in Brooklyn.

I must mention that before Jehovah's Witnesses were Jehovah's Witnesses........they were called "International Bible Students" led by "Pastor" Charles Taze Russell. It wasn't until Russell died
that the corporation was taken over by "Judge" Rutherford. Rutherford coined the name "Jehovah's Witnesses" and the Watchtower corporation separated itself from the International Bible Students. As of today, there are still International Bible Students. If you were to ask a Jehovah's Witness today "Who is the founder of the Watchtower Society?".........they would most likely say "Charles Russell". Needless to say, Russell and Rutherford both saw their personal "world" come to an end and they have been dead as a doornail for years now. You can rest assured that neither of them are tossing beachballs around with lions and tigers in paradise.

Bible scholars eh?...........hehehe..........gotta love it. I bet those bible scholars are.......well.......now on Al Gore's payroll.

"The World Has Ended!".......that's what the sign says........imagine that...........and the picture is from 1922. You gotta love those wacky cult groups. Somebody made alot of money hawking this stuff.

So this brings us to the past few weeks that I mentioned at the beginning. A few weeks ago I had a visit by a Jehovah's Witness on a Saturday morning. It was a very black gentleman with a heavy foreign accent and he was with two small children. One of the kids handed me a magazine and I began a discussion with the man. It turns out that he was from Nigeria. He told me that because I thought he had a Jamaican accent. Anyway, I immediately challenged him with getting him to acknowledge and explain his beliefs that Jesus is the fallen angel of the abyss named Abaddon and why Jehovah's Witnesses reject the symbolic flesh of blood of Christ every year in a Watchtower ritual entitled the "Memorial". Well...........it got real interesting and the two kids were sent to the car to be with their mother. The man had to admit that yes indeed, they believe that Jesus is Abaddon. At first he danced around it until I cited the Revelation:It's Grand Climax Is At Hand! book and the Insight book. He proceeded to divert from the subject that I brought up and attempted to rejoin his pre-planned agenda of the day. I, of course, would not let him continue on that path and kept bringing him back to the Abaddon stuff. All in all......our discussion was a polite one and we both smiled alot. It got to the point where it was time for him to get going and our conversation came to an end. Before he could leave, I reached out and shook his hand and said "God Bless and Have a Nice Day". The Jehovah's Witness said "Goodbye". I then stopped him before he could get to the car and said to him "Why is it that a Christian can say God Bless to a Jehovah's Witness, but a Jehovah's Witness never says God Bless to a Christian in return?" He looked at me and smiled and said "I don't know......why?" and I responded with "You're asking me? YOU are a Jehovah's Witness and you didn't say God Bless either" He then just simply left in the car.

A week later, there was a knock on my door but I had not heard it. The Jehovah's Witness man had returned and left me a note. The note said that he would return at another time to continue our discussion and that he would answer my questions then. Huh? I never gave him any homework.........hehehe..........maybe he was confused. So two weeks go by and it is a Saturday and there is a knock on my door again. It was that same Jehovah's Witness man with his kids and his wife sitting in his van in front of my house. I think we spoke for about 45 minutes and had rehashed the Abaddon stuff and a few other things. I mentioned that I knew he was an elder and I had to explain to him how I knew that..........."because you speak more than an average JW".........hehehe. I rattled off quite a bit about his organizations history and we went toe to toe about blood transfusions............and then..........finally..........he finally started to get to the those questions that are most important to him.

What could those questions be? Maybe you wonder eh?

"Were you ever one of Jehovah's Witnesses?"
No
"Have you ever attended meetings?"
No.
"Are you disfellowshipped?"
I responded with......How do you disfellowship someone that has never been one?"
"Did you disassociate yourself?"
No.
"Are you married to one of Jehovah's Witnesses?"
No way.

Gotta love those questions.

With that, our conversation came to an end. As he walked to his van and got in his car, I followed him. I reached out my hand through his window and shook his wife's hand and greeted her and the kids. I then, once again, reached for his hand and shook it and said "God Bless and have an nice day!"..........and once again.....he said nothing in response. So I did what I had to do and said to him "There you go again.............Jehovah's Witnesses just can't seem to ever say "God Bless" to anybody"

He smiled up at me and stuttered momentarily and then let go with a "God Bless" from his mouth in that Nigerian accent of his.

I looked over at his wife's face and she just smiled at me...........but I could see another look on her face........one where I would have loved to have been a fly on the rear-view mirror on their way home.

Hehehehe.

So now......Halloween in fast approaching.........in fact.......this coming weekend. The past two Saturdays have come and gone and I haven't seen the Nigerian Jehovah's Witness elder any more. Maybe he will come back one day but I doubt it...........I know way too much about his organization and teachings and because he cannot figure out how it is that I know these things, it just doesn't compute with him. That's why he asked those questions.

Hmmmmm.........and to think that I never got to tell him about the "end of the world".