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The System is Down
Sep. 14th, 2004 02:28 pmKnock knock.
...
You're thinking "Who's there?", aren't you?
I had similar programming for the word "system."
Although I now think of Strongbad's techno song, for decades I appended "... of things" to the word "system."
The actual phrase is "this system of things." For Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs), it's a catch-all phrase used to describe the imperfect world in which we live. Anything "bad" that happens, whether it's same-sex marriages, earthquakes, breast lumps, or Ron Jeremy, all happens because of this system of things. Basically, it means everything bad happens because the earth is under the Devil's reign.
After this system of things comes Armageddon, when all the swords are beaten into plowshares and the bad people (ie. all who choose not to be JWs) are killed off in an exciting array of devastation. Shortly thereafter, survivors enter into the new system of things, one which will be much better than now because there won't be anything like Catholics, dildos, feminists, or politicians. All dead, good people (ie. JWs, Biblical heroes, and anyone who never got to hear the word of God as spoken by JWs) get resurrected.
Anyone who was resurrected who doesn't want to help out with the post-apocalyptic housecleaning, or who thinks this new world without Jews, Hallowe'en, vibrating butt plugs, and Mexican soap operas just plain sucks, gets a thousand years to whinge and suck it up. Then, the Devil and his demons will get one last chance at gaining converts. For a "little while" (there's no numeric value assigned to this), Satan gets to run amok. Then, the second and final Armageddon happens, killing Satan, his demons, and everyone unhappy with the new system of things. The survivors will then live in a homogenized new world devoid of stress, sex, pain, and unhealthy foods of any sort. Forever and ever, amen.
...
You're thinking "Who's there?", aren't you?
I had similar programming for the word "system."
Although I now think of Strongbad's techno song, for decades I appended "... of things" to the word "system."
The actual phrase is "this system of things." For Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs), it's a catch-all phrase used to describe the imperfect world in which we live. Anything "bad" that happens, whether it's same-sex marriages, earthquakes, breast lumps, or Ron Jeremy, all happens because of this system of things. Basically, it means everything bad happens because the earth is under the Devil's reign.
After this system of things comes Armageddon, when all the swords are beaten into plowshares and the bad people (ie. all who choose not to be JWs) are killed off in an exciting array of devastation. Shortly thereafter, survivors enter into the new system of things, one which will be much better than now because there won't be anything like Catholics, dildos, feminists, or politicians. All dead, good people (ie. JWs, Biblical heroes, and anyone who never got to hear the word of God as spoken by JWs) get resurrected.
Anyone who was resurrected who doesn't want to help out with the post-apocalyptic housecleaning, or who thinks this new world without Jews, Hallowe'en, vibrating butt plugs, and Mexican soap operas just plain sucks, gets a thousand years to whinge and suck it up. Then, the Devil and his demons will get one last chance at gaining converts. For a "little while" (there's no numeric value assigned to this), Satan gets to run amok. Then, the second and final Armageddon happens, killing Satan, his demons, and everyone unhappy with the new system of things. The survivors will then live in a homogenized new world devoid of stress, sex, pain, and unhealthy foods of any sort. Forever and ever, amen.
