Update on Nuclear War coming June 12th

Well, it’s June 28, 2008 and no nuclear war. Damn!! Now I have to pay off the Ferrari!!!  Shit!!

That God Damn Yisrayl ‘Buffalo Bill’ Hawkins asshole!!  You owe me $138,000 !!!  Pay up, Bitch!!

I am anxiously awaiting “The Hawk’s” explantion and the new date for the end of the World. This is twice now that he has been wrong. Jehovah’s Witnesses have him beat by four. They were wrong 6 times to the Hawks two. 

Come on Hawk, you can do better, you fucking deranged conman. I’m serious about the 138K, by the way. My lawyer will be in touch.

All the assholes who changed their name to Hawkins. What fucking morons!

By the way the Witnesses were telling me this in 1974 form “Our Kingdom Ministry”, may 1974, page 3:

“Yes, since the summer of 1973 there have been new peaks in pioneers every month. Now there are 20,394 regular and special pioneers in the United States, an all-time peak. That is 5,190 more than there were in February 1973! A 34-percent increase! Does that not warm our hearts? Reports are heard of brothers selling their homes and property and planning to finish out the rest of their days in this old system in the pioneer service. Certainly this is a fine way to spend the short time remaining before the wicked world’s end.—1 John 2:17.”

Hey, assholes that 20 acres I sold in 1973 for $10,000 had a million dollar mall on it by 1983. But I sold it like you said, lived in a camper and door knocked my brains out.

I want my money back!!!

How many people have put REAL faith, REAL money and devoted a good part of their REAL life to the likes of Hawkins and Jehovah’s Witnesses, with nothing to show for it, except failed prophesies, beliefs that change at the whim of the governing body and hours of free toil door knocking, constructing buildings that belong to the Watchtower Society or working for Hawkins companies? 

There is no way to know, but it’s a safe bet to say too many. 

Another Anti-Jehovahs Witness Rant

Could there be any group that is more arrogant and ignorant than Jehovah’s Witnesses? Well, yea the Democrat Party, but we’re talking religion.

 

 

I know I said that this was not an anti Witness blog, but since they are my experience I will tend to pick on them more than other religions.

 

 

The Witnesses change their beliefs so frequently and subtly it’s hard for the membership to keep up.

 

 

All my Witness life I was taught this, from the Awake,  Oct 8 1968 13-4:

 

“Jesus was obviously speaking about those who were old enough to witness with understanding what took place when the ‘last days’ began. Jesus was saying that some of those persons who were alive at the appearance of the `sign of the last days’ would still be alive when God brought this system to its end. Even if we presume that youngsters 15 years of age would be perceptive enough to realize the import of what happened in 1914, it would still make the youngest of ‘this generation’ nearly 70 years old today. So the great majority of the generation to which Jesus was referring has already passed away in death. The remaining ones are approaching old age. And remember, Jesus said that the end of this wicked world would come before that generation passed away in death.”

 

Well, they changed that. And in 1995. I was still a Witness then and they slipped it by me. The references to it were very subtle. They didn’t have a headline that read “Hey, we fucked up on the 1914 generation thing”. They just slide it in here and there.

 

I didn’t realize it had changed until 2003, after I had left.

 

I looked up all the Watchtower published info on the subject and yes what I believed and they taught for decades as shown above is no longer “the truth”. If I had disputed this Watchtower article when it was first published, I would likely been excommunicated or “disfellowshipped”, in Witness speak.

 

The “Truth” according to the Witnesses changes so much, you don’t know what to believe.

 

The interesting thing here is that I still converse with many Witnesses. I am supposed to be shunned, but I have a lot of Witness friends. As a little experiment, I asked five of them if they were aware that the Watchtower Society had changed its teaching about the 1914 generation. Four said no. They were not aware. One said that he was aware, but he didn’t exactly know the new “teaching”.

 

The irony gets better with this from little quote. The undisputed champs of the religious change up have the balls to critique the Mormons:

 

From The Watchtower 9/15/78, page 11:

 

“The recent Mormon “revelation” that blacks of African ancestry may now enter the religion’s priesthood has left many persons honestly wondering: Who stopped discriminating . . . God, or the Mormon leadership? Church president Spencer Kimball’s letter of explanation to Mormon officials apparently blames God for allowing blacks to remain second-class members of the church for so long: “[God] has heard our prayers, and by revelation has confirmed that the long-promised day has come when every faithful, worthy man in the church may receive the holy priesthood . . . without regard for race or color.”

“However, observers reasonably might ask if the change had a human, rather than divine, motivation. A former Mormon lay high priest who, in 1976, ordained a black to the priesthood and was excommunicated for his action, labeled the recent change a “revelation of convenience just as the decision to stop polygamy [in 1890] was politically inspired.” Indeed it must be asked whether human rights pressure both from within and from outside the church did not influence church leaders, who had based their former race ban on passages in Joseph Smith’s “Book of Mormon” and “Pearl of Great Price.”

“Certainly when religious dogmas are based on man-made, non-Biblical sources, they are bound to be exposed, revealing the very unGodlike qualities of the human source—very different from “the word of the Lord [that] endureth for ever.”—1 Pet. 1:25, “Authorized Version.”

Notice the above says “However, observers reasonably might ask if the change had a human, rather than divine, motivation.”

 

The inventors of “New Light” have the gall to question the Mormon’s change up.

 

You can’t make this stuff up. All from Witness Literature. Look it up.

 

 

A further comment on the above article that says “Who stopped discriminating . . . God, or the Mormon leadership?

I would ask who said Armageddon would come in 1914, the end of WW1, 1925, 1975, within the 20th century and before the 1914 generation died, God or the Watchtower Society leadership?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Update on Nuclear War coming June 12th

The Hawk may be on to something!!

An Israeli Cabinet Minister says he sees no way other than war to de-nuke Iran.

Cool!!! Nuke the fucking shit out of Iran and I will change my name to Hawkins!!

Fred “push the button” Thompson

Doomsday Begins Next Thursday, June 12

“Nuclear war will begin next Thursday, June 12, or sooner, according to the latest prediction of self-proclaimed prophet Yisrayl “Buffalo Bill” Hawkins, the founder of a religious sect in Abilene, Texas.”

“It could be turned loose before then,” Hawkins told 20/20 for a report to be broadcast tonight. “You’re going to see this very soon, really soon,” he said.”Unfortunately for Hawkins, it is not the first time he predicted the outbreak of nuclear war.

“Most recently, Hawkins set Sept. 12, 2006 as the beginning of the end.”

“His followers produced an on-line video with a countdown to doomsday.”

“In Kenya, hundreds of his followers actually hid in basement bomb shelters and donned gas masks on the date.”

“They went home in humiliation when there was no war.”

Did that stop “The Hawk”? No way!! Now it’s June 12th.

To read the full article go to: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5008225&page=1

I am not surprised that there are still people who buy this bullshit. There are a couple things that we can observe and that stand out to me and that seem to be reoccurring themes in these “dooms day scenarios.

There is always the money. From the article:

“Other former members say they are required to buy doomsday food and supplies from a company that Hawkins owns personally, Life Nutrition Products.”

“Everything that he preaches has to do with people buying something,” said former House of Yahweh elder David Als of New York city.”

Pimping God for money is the basis of most of these charlatons and their idiocy.

Also, it seems making up your own religion is a great way to get laid:

 ”In addition to dealing with the beginning of the end, Hawkins is also dealing with some serious legal problems.”

“The Callahan County district attorney has filed felony bigamy charges against Hawkins, alleging he has multiple wives.”

The sex theme is a common thread. Recently, that idiotic Mormon offshoot group, where the men would “marry” 14 year olds and have multiple wives. David Koreshhad sex with multiple members of his organization as did Jim Jones, etc.

But I think the most interesting item of all here is that this guy has predicted the end of the world before. Remember the followers in Kenya and the Sept 12, 2006 prediction?

Why, in any reasonable stretch of the imagination would seemingly sane people, still follow this guy, give him money, put  up with whatever sexual shenanigans are going on in the group and actually change their name to Hawkins?

Oh yes, most of his followers have changed their name to Hawkins. I’ve always thought that Hawkins was a cool name. If my name was Hawkins. I would go by “The Hawk”. Fred, “the Hawk” Hawkins. Very cool. I would probably have to change Fred to something cool, like Lance, or Jake. I could be Jake “the snake” Hawkins or Jake “the hawk” Hawkins” I could wear snake and hawk outfits. Very cool!

Back to reality. I was a Jehovah’s Witness for 50 years and in my case, I was indoctrinated as a child. In my early 20’s I got the religious fervor that groups like this look for and cultivate in their membership, but I had my upbringing which set the stage. I doubt seriously that if I had been brought up in any other religious environment, I would have converted to the Witnesses. My fervor waned as they steadily lost their lusterwith false prophesies and change ups, contradictions in their literature, etc. By 30 or so I was just along for the ride as my family were all Witnesses. Finally, at 50 I just couldn’t stand my situation anymore and I left.

I do understand somewhat what these members are feeling now, before the big June 12 war. And I understand how they will feel after it doesn’t happen. Jehovah’s Witnesses predicted the end of the world or Armageddon would come at 6 separate and distinct times: 1914, the end of WW1, 1925, 1975, before the end of the 20th century and before the generation who was alive in 1914 and understood the events that took place that year, passed away.

I was in the “fervor” phase when the 1975 prediction didn’t happen.

None of these happened and presentlythe Witnesses have no date or time period. Now it’s just ”shortly” it will happen, along with “if you’re not one of us, God is going to kill you”. which is the theme or at the very least the implication of all religious group.

The Hawk is with that, big time: “”No one else has the right to the tree of life, except those that keep the laws of Yahweh,” Hawkins has said in his sermons, which are broadcast around the world” Those laws include buying food from his company.

I think it is significant because we have a real live opportunity to observe “Cognitive Dissonance” at work here. This is the behavioral state most of these groups depend on, weather they realize it or not, to keep most of their membership.

Cognitive Dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and any new, conflicting information or interpretation. It therefore occurs when there is a need to accommodate new ideas, and it may be necessary for it to develop so that we become “open” to them.

 

Stated differently, Cognitive Dissonance is a psychological state that describes the uncomfortable feeling between what one holds to be true and new conflicting “facts”.

 

If you look in the April archives of this blog, I have a whole post on this type of behavior. I reference a book and research done Leon Festinger His book is entitled “When Prophecy Fails”. Mr. Festinger observed and studied counter intuitive beliefs and  persistence among of members of a UFO doomsday cult. The members of this cult had come to believe that aliens were going to destroy the earth in 1957. Well, this “cognition” didn’t happen, And yet, strangely, their proselytizing increased after the leader’s prophecy failed.

 

What are the members of this group going to do on June 12? Some will leave. Most are likely to accept whatever reason Hawkins cooks up for the failure of the prophesy and continue to “believe”. 

 

In the interim, just in case, I am going to be wearing my tin foil suit that day. Hey, better safe than sorry.

 

Fred “the Tommy Gun” Thompson.