X-Message-Number: 21164
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:00:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Driven FromThePack <>
Subject: Jackson and the Jehovah's Witnesses(JW's)

I wrote:
> I think that Michael Jackson's thoughts about
> immortalism were almost certainly formed with the
help
> of our own writings on the Net. I think he almost
> certainly has read many of our own cryonet postings.

And Robert replied:

>>
I hope that is true, but I suspect that there is a
simpler explanation.  MJ
was raised as a Jehovah's Witness.  JW's believe that
Armegeddon is very
near and that the survivors of Armegeddon will live on
a paradise Earth
immortal and forever.

JW's believe in this "everlasting life on earth" as
strongly as they believe
the sun will come up tomorrow (I know from personal
experience), and you can
ask almost any JW, and they will tell you without any
irony at all that they
hope to live forever on earth.

So, although MJ is not associated with the JW's
anymore, they are probably
the source of his thoughts.

>>>

Interesting. I had forgotten that MJ had been a JW. I
also was a JW as a chile (sold mags door to door just
like MJ).  However, the JW's believe that when comes
the Resurrection, even those buried in their graves
will be resurrected. I recall an JW magazine
(Watchtower?) with long dead JW's crawling out of
their graves.

So it is an article of faith with them. It doesn't
really matter whether you are buried or not--if you
are a JW, you live forever. Well, it is just like all
the other xtian religions, basically: if you are
believer, you live forever. Well, in that sense, I
guess it is like all religions. My wife is taiwanese,
and she thinks that when you die, you become a ghost.

JWs don't find the grave a fearful place--they know
they will awaken. But when the reporter asked MJ if he
wanted to be buried in the casket, he replied
"No!"...in a certain way. How can I put it? The
subtext, or what MJ did NOT say, in conjunction with
the "No!", might be phrased in the vernacular as "F*ck
that!" Pardon my French....

THe JWs don't have that attitude towards the
grave...they believe it is not really death for them.


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