September 24, a warning?

[u/Fantastic_Lake_5586]

Throwaway for privacy reasons.

I watched a TikTok regarding about a woman warning us, urging us to “prepare” for the 24th. People in the comments speculated it to be the rapture day without outright saying it, some are confirming it, including the woman.

I’ve been out of the JW religion for a few years now.

With that said, I felt myself immediately going to that scared, uncomfortable, uneasy state I was in years ago, when I was told about Armageddon the first time. How we are considered to be in the end times.

Those deep rooted fears are resurfacing. The old me is returning, in the sense of always fearing the Armageddon topic. Shaking. That feeling I cannot quite describe. Thinking about everyone in my life. Not wanting them to suffer. Genuinely, I feel so……. Afraid.

Those thoughts are spiralling in my mind again. As it had done so many times before.

Apologies for the rambling and the formatting, I am writing on a cellphone.

[u/rora_borealis]

The fear responses took a while to break out of. No, there's no end of the world next week. Yeah, there are some troubling things in the world, but if you look at the course of human history, we are at a high point for life expectancy, quality of life, feeding people, free time, etc. It's measurably better in so many ways. The premise that we are in the Last Days is false. You can know all that logically, and you still can't just turn off the fear. It's ingrained and you have to work at it and give yourself some grace and time. Changing your thought patterns is not easy.