Interesting reading..

[curmugeon]

As this household gets regular visits from Jehovah's Witnesses, I, from time to time, read the publications they leave, The latest is a very good analysis of what they call the rise of Babylon the Great, the society we see today. They question the people who place wealth before humanity, they question religions who support warfare, and they talk about Revelations.  Yes, this is but their views, but a lot of what they said rings so true. Are we really in end times?

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[cathy-edgett.livejournal.com]

I clicked on The Watchtower and read a few of the comments, especially as relates to "fact," myth, fiction.

I think we can always view the times as "end times," or "beginning times."

I saw my son yesterday who is very informed and we ate lunch among those who are involved in the computer world today and I felt optimism, joy.

As Charles Dickens wrote in The Tale of Two Cities:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."


Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
English novelist (1812 - 1870)

Re: Listening

[cathy-edgett.livejournal.com]

Well-said!