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Jehovah’s Witnesses Plan on Looting the Dead
Submitted by Teeny on April 4, 2012 - 5:00 am 14 Comments
When I was younger and out on the field service with my pioneering mother, I remember being assigned to knock on the lavish Broadwalk Avenue houses in North London, England. Broadwalk Avenue isn’t your run of the mill avenue as it features some of the largest homes in England. Roger Moore (James Bond), for instance, bought one of the mansions in the early eighties.
It was always a pleasure working the houses on Broadwalk Avenue because I was allowed to pick out which house would be mine after Armageddon struck. Being a youngster, I never really understood the gravitas of the situation. I do remember it well though. Our Book Study elder, Richard Aitman, would stand on the corner of The Green (a lovely patch of grass that sat just at the foot of Broadwalk Avenue) and wait for the rest of the brothers and sisters to arrive. Once all of us congregated on The Green, Richard would normally say “Brothers and sisters, this is your chance to pick out your house.” He would sometimes throw in some non-humorous humour such as “now now brothers and sisters, I don’t want you squabbling over each others house. In the New World that Jehovah will prepare for us, it’ll be first-come, first-serve.”
So there I was, normally accompanied by my mother, walking up and down one of the most prestigious real estate property lots in the UK. I wasn’t preoccupied with the ministry and all that nonsense. Instead, all I could think about was which house I would move into.
Thankfully, I’m all grown up now. I don’t have any imaginary friends and neither do I think about looting the dead – for that’s what it is, right? Without thinking, I was contemplating looting the dead – taking anything within the house that tickled my fancy as well as the house! There’s no other way to put it.
JWB just wouldn’t be JWB without my expected rant, so here it is…
Looting the dead is a disgusting, immoral and selfish action. Think about it – a Jehovah’s Witness first contemplates which house they want to move into. They have their eye on it for quite a while and even (as was the case with me) daydream about living in this house. I personally know some Jehovah’s Witnesses that have walked past expensive furniture shops and said “oh that would look lovely in that house.” ‘That house’ being the home they intend to loot.
I need you to now delve into the world of the imaginary. Are you there yet? You’ll know you are as soon as I tell you that Jehovah has shown his true love for mankind by wiping out 99.9% of human life on Earth. As a Jehovah’s Witness, you’ve had your eye on that beautiful, 14 room mansion. As you approach its vast front garden, you see a man lying on the grass. He’s dead – serves him right too. He told me to get lost the last time I knocked on his door. You approach the front door. It’s opened. “Praise Jehovah” you say. You wouldn’t know how to get into the house if the door was locked. “Oh wow,” you think to yourself as you pass over the threshold. It’s far nicer than you ever imagined. You take a self-appointed tour through your new home and write down the items you want to keep. Not everything in the house is to your liking.
As you make your way up the grand stairs, you hear something scurrying around. You quietly approach one of the bedrooms. “I hope it’s not another Jehovah’s Witness,” you think. You peek your head around the door post. “Oh, thank Jehovah,” you think to yourself. Thankfully, it’s not another Jehovah’s Witness, but a crow, eating the eyes out of a dead girl. She can’t be more than three or four years old. “Oh well,” you think to yourself, “her parents should have answered the door and taken in the accurate knowledge I was willing to share with them”.
You begin the clearing out process. These people must have been so rich. They spent so much money on their daughter. You’ve had to remove truckloads of baby clothes and toys. Silly people, why would a family of three want a 14 bedroom house anyway? You also spent ages picking up all the family photos. You dropped the massive family album and the pictures went absolutely everywhere! Also, you’ve had to repaint the little girls room as her parents kept marking the wall to measure her height. Silly people, didn’t they know Armageddon was coming?
After a week, you’ve finally removed the corpses and cleaned the house. You’ve also damaged the locks on the front and back doors, for you won’t be needing any sort of locking mechanisms in the New World Jehovah has so lovingly provided for you.
Okay people, let’s come back to reality…
If you’re not a Jehovah’s Witness and have read this, you most probably think I am exaggerating. Unfortunately, I’m not. The Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses clearly promotes this line of thinking.
If you’re a Jehovah’s Witness and have read up till here, I have a task for you. Please take a picture of the house you want to move into after Armageddon and email it to us. Tell us the address of it also. Ben and I will try to contact the owner of the house and tell them that their house will be left in good hands after the birds have finished tearing away their flesh.
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Teeny Reply:
April 5th, 2012 at 6:31 am
Well that’s a quote that will stay with me until the crows come calling.
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*** w83 11/15 p. 6 Life in Paradise—Will It Be Boring? ***
This building and planting program will last for a long time because housing will be needed not just for the Armageddon survivors but also for the billions who will return progressively during the resurrection. What endless possibilities there will be for architectural initiative and variety of design!—Revelation 16:14-16; 21:3, 4
Note it says “Armageddon survivors”. If those who survive Armageddon will only be 1 – 10% (guessing) of those who have housing currently, why would we need to BUILD houses, if there are already those built we can live in?
*** kl chap. 19 p. 184 par. 10 When the Knowledge of God Fills the Earth ***
There will be plenty of enjoyable work to be done by Armageddon survivors. They will transform the earth into a paradise. Any vestiges of the polluted old system will be cleared away. Parks and gardens will emerge in place of slums and ruined land
Note it says the old system will be cleared away. I am guessing that means the old houses.
Unless you have official teachings quoted and cited, I think you should make a note or something saying this is only your experience or something. I think it was just a UK thing or a brother who thought that up and then it spread.
I am just saying this, because as ex-JWs we should be known for searching for the real truth on every matter, and we should not stoop down to the JW level by promoting lies or half-lies, etc.
If someone reading this wants to check official doctrine and they see no validicity of these statements, how will it look on ex-JWs as a whole? We may be leading people to JWs instead of steering them away.
It is important to not cross the fine line of helping people find the real truth and just being mad and aggressive at the WTS by any way you can. This will only prove the JWs right by the stigma that Apostates are angry people mad at the organization and wants to take their revenge with lies, etc.
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Ben Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 6:05 am
Jehovah’s Witness Blog takes a look at not only the official beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses but the behaviour of its members as well. As you can see by the comments, hearing people talk about looting the dead is not a rare thing. In fact, not one thing we have written on this blog is a lie – we have the JWB promise which says that if you can show we have lied about anything, we retract it. Can’t get fairer than that.
I don’t understand why you think post-Armageddon will be clean and happy – Jehovah’s Witnesses have taught from the platform that the dead will be everywhere and need cleaning up. A talk from a Governing Body member in 2007 discusses this clearly and next week we’ll be putting the audio clip up.
Thanks for your opinion though.
Regards,
Ben
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Teeny Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 6:34 am
You said, and I quote – “Also, speaking about those destroyed. 99% of the population being destroyed is still awful, but everyone assumed that the bodies would disappear.”
Not wanting to be rude or anything like that – can I ask what religion you grew up in? If you were brought up as a Jehovah’s Witness in Cyprus, I could understand (as JW upbringings on this island are lax) your reasoning. But you were brought up in the States, right?
This is taken from the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures:
The above scripture obviously wasn’t detailed enough for the scholars in Brooklyn, so they had to add their own little charade.
Note: Change “millions” to billions…
I don’t want to sound as though I am bragging, but I can come up with Watchtower quotes all day if you like. If you like, take a look at this thread on JWN. It discusses the article I wrote. I think you’ll find you’re in the minority (of one) – http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/224009/1/Jehovahe28099s-Witnesses-Plan-on-Looting-the-Dead.
Kind regards,
Teeny
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These are things that were taught both in my congregations in Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Many of the elders came from other states as well. These are clearly widespread beliefs and behaviors that have found their way into other countries like the UK and Cyprus at the very least.
Lacy
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Ben Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
The fact of the matter is that the death of so many billions of people from a so called ‘loving’ god is disgusting and Jehovah’s Witnesses are told to pray every day for this to occur! When they are taught to yearn for the horrific deaths of innocent children, their neighbor and colleagues, and they work a minimum wage job because the Society told them not to get a good education, many Jehovah’s Witnesses slip into losing touch with their humane side and looking forward to the spoils.
Ben
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Ben Reply:
April 8th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Also, who’s to pick and choose which scriptures are symbolic or not? When it suits an agenda? 144,000 literal. 7 day creation symbolic. It’s a joke. You’d think an almighty god could make sure his book would be understood easily, at least by his so-called own people!
Regards,
Ben
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Merri-Ella Reply:
November 16th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
if it helps I don’t recall ever “picking” out a house I wanted to live in after Armageddon. But I know some of my friends from other halls would eye certain houses. I just assumed it was their personal thing. But I also know that often times things are drastically different from one congregation to another.
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Again, thank you for the well, well written blog! Love this so much! =} <3
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If only birds could talk i`m sure right now they must be counting days , months or years as for animals like lions and tigers their feast is right now for come armageddon too bad they go vegetarians.
Doesnt make any sense at all, predatory birds eat flesh while predatory animals go vegetarians in paradise.
If animals could talk they would go on strike in paradise.Not taking part in the big feast is unfair for all predatory animals.
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Veronica Reply:
August 13th, 2012 at 4:28 am
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