Peace and Security, Great Tribulation, Armageddon

[chuck83]

11 minutes ago, LeslieDean said:

Oklahoman here. Was living in California at the time. A study was still years ahead of my time. But oddly I felt 'extra grief', felt like I could  identify more closely for some reason. Years later, having been baptized now 5 years I felt extremely close to the situation. I could recognize it was because of the world HQ being there and all our spiritual family. Now, wherever a disaster strikes that is the first feeling, how are the friends? I immediately pray for them. This closeness I fell now is due to Jehovah alone broadening my empathy for the brotherhood mostly then mankind in general. 

 

yup. i had spiritual aunts and uncles in bethel from cong. it was one of our first concerns. they had only visited whatever tower(s) from time to time but did lose people they knew. was sad. it was a hard time for sure. we instantly think about our friends.

[Roxessence]

2 hours ago, Dhanyel said:

September 11, 2001  🏙️💐

What a horrible day! I’ll never forget it. I was at work, and after that day, it felt like a whole series of events had been set in motion.

Where were you guys that day?

Impossible to forget…(This was shortly after I had begun drifting away.)

Driving to work as a portrait studio photographer, heard all of the Shocking news on the radio.  Arrived to many multiple shoots scheduled All day - had to compartmentalize my grief to get little ones to smile while their parents shuddered in horror outside the camera rooms.

My husband was a professional firefighter with our city, had come home at 8 am & just went to bed after a tough night.  He woke at 10:30, turned on the TV & Immediately called me sobbing his heart out.

Our oldest son had just started his senior yr in college - called me sobbing as well, asking if This was Armageddon!   I reassured him that it was merely another aspect of satan’s wickedness & that unfortunately, we’d see much more of the same before the end came.   He has since moved purposefully away from the Truth BUT the seeds were planted early & I'm confident that Jehovah knows his heart.

2 hours ago, Dhanyel said:

September 11, 2001  🏙️💐

What a horrible day! I’ll never forget it. I was at work, and after that day, it felt like a whole series of events had been set in motion.

Where were you guys that day?

Impossible to forget…(This was shortly after I had begun drifting away.)

Driving to work as a portrait studio photographer, heard all of the Shocking news on the radio.  Arrived to many multiple shoots scheduled All day - had to compartmentalize my grief to get little ones to smile while their parents shuddered in horror outside the camera rooms.

My husband was a professional firefighter with our city, had come home at 8 am & just went to bed after a tough night.  He woke at 10:30, turned on the TV & Immediately called me sobbing his heart out.

Our oldest son had just started his senior yr in college - called me sobbing as well, asking if This was Armageddon!   I reassured him that it was merely another aspect of satan’s wickedness & that unfortunately, we’d see much more of the same before the end came.   He has since moved purposefully away from the Truth BUT the seeds were planted early & I'm confident that Jehovah knows his heart.

[Osprey]

I was driving in the car and heard news over the radio. I loved following news and geopolitics back then already, so when I heard about planes crashing into wtc I immediately knew and said to friend that was with me in the car: "Osama bin Laden". He didn't even know who that is.

Edited 3 hours ago by Osprey

[sully313]

From my view as a raised in the truth but not baptized person or even close to dedication
 

I heard about it at like 1pm est hung over getting ready to go to work at 3pm at the ice arena I worked at. Just spent the night skateboarding and drinking with my friends till 4am. Mind you I was not baptized yet but still had a group of friends who were witnesses or raised in the truth like me but not baptized yet

 

I logged on aol instant messenger (AIM) and had brief chats about it but we were focused on what college or Uhaul building we would skate at that night and getting beer and when we all got off work etc

 

To us we knew this type of stuff would happen and were just focused on the same things we did prior, skating, punk rock, girls. Being 20 and being caught up in nonsense didn’t allow world events to affect me/us. I’m kinda thankful as this system and what happens in it traumatizes people

 

Now as a 45 year old man everything traumatizes me lol. But back then I was in my own world and it was just another blip on the news

 

I look back now and see how changed the world is due to that event, and It hurts me thinking about all the badness around it and have total empathy. But I just don’t recall it like everyone else. It felt like everyone around me, outside of my group of friends, was going crazy and I was still in a “pre 9/11” mindset

Edited 1 hour ago by sully313
Clarity

[Tortuga]

6 months before 9/11, a new TV series called The Lone Gunmen had an episode about a remote hyjacked plane hitting the World Trade Center..

[Ms. Piffle]

5 hours ago, Dhanyel said:

September 11, 2001  🏙️💐

What a horrible day! I’ll never forget it. I was at work, and after that day, it felt like a whole series of events had been set in motion.

Where were you guys that day?

I was out in service.  Did not know it was happening until we met with the group that morning at the KH. 

 

Every householder home that day was glued to the TV. We had some very good and/or interesting visits at every at home door.    

[Dolce vita]

I was at work; school had just started a week earlier. I think it was around 3 p.m. when the news broke. I found out about it when I got home that evening.

 

Exactly 10 days later, on a Friday morning, an explosion occurred in the city where I lived, at a SEVESO-classified chemical plant. The result: 31 dead and 8,000 injured, 2,500 of them seriously. Everyone thought it was a terrorist attack carried out by the same group that had struck the United States, but in the end, after a seemingly endless trial, the conclusion was that it was a chemical accident.

 

Dozens and dozens of children were deeply traumatized; they were in class at the time of the explosion. Some didn’t return to school for an entire year, traumatized and/or injured.

 

Brothers and sisters were injured, some seriously.

 

I was working right at the site of the explosion, but that morning, I didn’t have class.

Life…

 

So I’m not ready to forget 9/11 and the 21st, and I understand to some extent how Americans felt on September 11.