For over a hundred years the Jehovah’s Witness Watch Tower has been arbitrarily predicting the end of the world.

Like any religion, as a business, J-Dubs need to make money; they need to keep membership high, therefore, the Jehovah’s Witness organisation promotes ‘fear of the unknown’ to give their adherents reason to keep holding on.

Through extensive research I have been able to ascertain that the world, as we know it, has yet to end.

Through the J-Dub’s renowned information pamphlet, Watch Tower, this religious organisation has been prophesising the apocalypse/Armageddon since before the start of the 20^th century; at that time rumour had it, since 1874 Jesus had been among us, working towards his fabled ‘Kingdom on Earth’, where he would provide salvation for J-Dub adherents, also “bring to ruin those who ruin the Earth” – completion of this undertaking was set for (according to Watch Tower) 1914.

This kind of ignorance could, over a hundred years ago, almost be forgiven; a lack of comprehension of the world and its inherent features/basic principles, given the lack of worldly knowledge available at that time, was understandable.

Problem is, worldly Internet, along with sources of general information outside the spectrum of what the J-Dub community perceives to be reality, is akin to the Devil’s work; admittedly, the Jehovah’s Witness organisation https://www.jw.org/en/ does have an online presence but, as before, it’s not reality.

Like Google, J-Dub websites effectively tell readers where to look, what to believe and how to behave; unlike Google and its estimated 80/20 believability-falsehood ratio, the Jehovah’s Witness website https://www.jw.org/en/ is largely farcical – more like 20/80.

Jehovah’s Witnesses have for generations been exploiting the vulnerable and brainwashing the naïve; come 1914, despite desperate families of the era having likely pledged their last thruppence to their blessed J-Dub community leader in the belief that their saviour Jehovah will afford their hitherto abject lives a semblance of goodness, there was no trace of that Jesus-led Kingdom on Earth or otherwise.

In fact, in 1914, there was little trace of progression of any kind; devastation caused by Earth’s First World War would account for the next four years.

Notwithstanding the first ever Jehovah’s Witness Watch Tower prediction having failed, J-Dubs kept pushing, first extending their initial prediction by a few years then, when that too failed to eventuate, by establishing a new date; in 1920 the Watch Tower prophesised that 1925 would be the inception of God’s Kingdom on Earth and by implication, again, the banishment of the iniquitous.

Still before my time but I’m told this didn’t happen either.

In 1938, due to another end-of-the-world prediction, Jehovah’s Witnesses stopped marrying and/or procreating (as pointed out in the last instalment, cessation of breeding is the standard J-Dub reaction to impending worldly doom); of course, according to Jehovah’s Witness protocol, if there is no marriage there shall be no breeding (also notable, under J-Dub guidance, nor is there ever masturbation).

Similar predictions were made in 1942, 1961, ’66, ’75, and ’84, all without resulting apocalypse, appearance of godly kingdoms, or kings of gods; of course, the turn of the millennium was a big time for apocalyptic prophesies and, you better believe, the J-Dub Business Centre did its best to cash-in on that farce, too.

For over a hundred years, Jehovah and his Witnesses have orchestrating a brazen scam; swindling money from gullible souls who genuinely believe that goodness will come from it yet offering no tangible benefits.

Same can be said for any of the major religions – cults, sects, communities as they call themselves – and, from their seemingly untouchable positions around the world, they are the parasites on the lives of good, trusting people.

I am all for people being good to one another but, I’ve said it before, religion ought to be outlawed.

 

 

Article by Tim Walker

Edited by Perry Sate

Photography by Sonya Bach