Ok, this is something that happened many years ago that has stuck with me. It's before the Covid madness but it seems to fit with the recent posts of demon vs. god.
I used to work a late night shift and would fill up my truck at a closed gas station (the pumps would still operate with credit card purchase) at the end of my shift which was around 1-2 AM. Usually no one but me at this deserted gas station in the middle of the night but a few times over the years someone would pull up. I'd eye them to make sure they weren't gang bangers or something that might be trouble, but usually they wouldn't even glance my way.
One night, a car pulls up, out comes a middle aged woman, we briefly make eye contact. I turn away as she seems harmless and I don't want any awkward interaction. Then, after a pause, me waiting for my truck to fill up and her starting to pump her gas, out of the blue she says to me (paraphrasing from memory)
"You know, God is taking over"
Me: "I'm sorry, what did you say?"
"We are in a time when God is taking over. You see, He goes away and lets man run things for a time to show us we can't run the world, then he comes back. That's why things are bad, but He's coming back to fix it."
Then she walks over to me and hands me a business card that says 'JW' which is apparently the new hip way Jehovah's Witnesses are branding themselves. Now, maybe JW's say this to all the people they meet at gas stations late at night. I don't know. But the coincidental part is that I was thinking about the same thing at that time. Specifically why is it so hard for people to transition to a world that is sustainable and not so obviously self-destructive. Why are we destroying our selves, our future? Admittedly, I think about this topic a lot. And Yes, I understand the irony of thinking such things whilst filling up a truck with gas. I'll just say in my defence that I have made efforts and continue to do so while most people in my life do not even think it's real. Just as the danger of resource depletion doesn't register with many people I know, it is much the same with the current danger of taking experimental drugs for a certain flu like disease. It doesn't register as real to a lot of people, it can't be talked about. Instead, let us all plunge toward that cliff. Nay, let us accelerate toward that cliff enthusiastically with all haste. It's the same vibe except heightened, multiplied.
Is it faith in the pseudo religion of Progress driving this? Does this anger the gods? Or after so much time of man trucking things up, is it just time for the gods to come back and set things right? (as only they can). I've never thought of demons playing a role, but they also offer an explanation.
I don't know. This was before the Covid madness and maybe JW's say this to everybody all the itme, but it seems to tie in with the return of somethng powerful beyond human control.
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branchandroot
Late night JW
Date: 2022-02-22 11:26 pm (UTC)I used to work a late night shift and would fill up my truck at a closed gas station (the pumps would still operate with credit card purchase) at the end of my shift which was around 1-2 AM. Usually no one but me at this deserted gas station in the middle of the night but a few times over the years someone would pull up. I'd eye them to make sure they weren't gang bangers or something that might be trouble, but usually they wouldn't even glance my way.
One night, a car pulls up, out comes a middle aged woman, we briefly make eye contact. I turn away as she seems harmless and I don't want any awkward interaction. Then, after a pause, me waiting for my truck to fill up and her starting to pump her gas, out of the blue she says to me (paraphrasing from memory)
"You know, God is taking over"
Me: "I'm sorry, what did you say?"
"We are in a time when God is taking over. You see, He goes away and lets man run things for a time to show us we can't run the world, then he comes back. That's why things are bad, but He's coming back to fix it."
Then she walks over to me and hands me a business card that says 'JW' which is apparently the new hip way Jehovah's Witnesses are branding themselves. Now, maybe JW's say this to all the people they meet at gas stations late at night. I don't know. But the coincidental part is that I was thinking about the same thing at that time. Specifically why is it so hard for people to transition to a world that is sustainable and not so obviously self-destructive. Why are we destroying our selves, our future? Admittedly, I think about this topic a lot. And Yes, I understand the irony of thinking such things whilst filling up a truck with gas. I'll just say in my defence that I have made efforts and continue to do so while most people in my life do not even think it's real. Just as the danger of resource depletion doesn't register with many people I know, it is much the same with the current danger of taking experimental drugs for a certain flu like disease. It doesn't register as real to a lot of people, it can't be talked about. Instead, let us all plunge toward that cliff. Nay, let us accelerate toward that cliff enthusiastically with all haste. It's the same vibe except heightened, multiplied.
Is it faith in the pseudo religion of Progress driving this? Does this anger the gods? Or after so much time of man trucking things up, is it just time for the gods to come back and set things right? (as only they can). I've never thought of demons playing a role, but they also offer an explanation.
I don't know. This was before the Covid madness and maybe JW's say this to everybody all the itme, but it seems to tie in with the return of somethng powerful beyond human control.