"A million now living will never die"

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Ok, so I know this title refers to the core belief of Jehovas W's and how some chosen few will be saved or somesuch. Can anyone expand further?

― Baaderonixx cancels each other out (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=jehovah%27s+witness+144000

― huell howser (chaki), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

144000 ≠ 1000000, of course. There are an awful lot of Christian sects that believe that Christ will return in the lifetime of their members, though, especially in the USA. It all started in the 19th Century - search for stuff on William Miller and the Great Disappointment.

(the general term is "Adventist", I think)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

Was that the place in Milton Keynes where they all bought up a row of houses for the elect? And even bought an extra row house for Jesus, so he could have somewhere to live when he returned? Apparently the organisation is fantastically wealthy, even though most of them have died now.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

You're thinking of the Panacea Society - and it wasn't MK, it was Bedford.

The Panacea Society are a group of Southcottians formed in the 1920s, who believe that Bedford will be the only place which will survive the forthcoming apocalypse, and that it will become the new Eden. I think the address of the house they've bought for Jesus is 12 Albany Terrace, but that's just off the top of my head so it could be wrong. At the moment, they're renting it out.

They are fantastically wealthy, because of the amount of property they own in the Bedford area. They also claim to own Joanna Southcott's Box.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that's the story. I knew that you would know it!

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

Gives a new meaning to "Up The Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire," dunnit?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Have I told you about their panacea recipe?

The founder of the Society (who I think called herself Octavia, although her original name was Mabel), whilst she was alive, breathed on several large rolls of linen. These were then cut up with pinking shears into small squares. If you put a square of linen in a jug, then pour water onto it whilst praying, the water becomes a panacea which will cure any illness. The society sends out holy linen to anyone who requests it, so long as you keep in touch to let them know how well it helps you.

Incidentally, the reason Bedford will survive the apocalypse, is that members of the society buried pieces of holy linen in a circle around the town.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

oh well, that explains milton keynes then.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

That is absolutely amazing! Hrmmm. I'm wondering if I can get a piece of linen - corresponding with mentalists might be fun. Especially if it will help me survive the Pocky Clipse.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

> At the moment, they're renting it out.

ha ha. i wonder if the apocalypse is mentioned in their lease?

(i've read this before somewhere. FP's blog?)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

Apocalypse Delayed as Jesus House Tenant Claims Illegal Eviction

Apocalypse Postponed as Believers Ponder Is-Bedford-Heaven Issue

Is Slough Hell? Satan's Bonkers Claim

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

i've read this before somewhere. FP's blog?

Heh, could be

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Is Slough Hell? I thought it was the Slough of Despond?

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

hence "Bonkers Claim"!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't the Grand Master of the Knights Templar live in Bedfordshire somewhere too?

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

No, that was Hertfordshire. Close but no ~~cigar~~ grail.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

"A million now living will never die" - RFI

No, it was Tortoise, not RFI. Sorry, very bad joke. I always wondered why they chose that as a title.

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I was thinking of the Barron Knights.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Interestingly, as I recall, futurists have extrapolated current trends in life extension and probabilities thereof and "concluded"--as best I can remember--that there's a 1% chance someone alive today will still be alive 10,000 years from now. Which yields something like 1,000,000,000,000-to-one odds against it being YOU.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

Panacea Society!" i was just reading about them! they have a terraced house on an ordinary st in bedford, called christ house, where jesus will return and live

typing that out, i was reminded more of bananaman than jesus

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

I had a friend that went to a few JW meetings .. she didn't want to, but a friend of hers made her go. I guess there's some part of the meeting/service/ritual/whatever where everyone is silent, and supposedly, if you are one of the chosen men (women cannot be chosen), "you'll know it" and you are supposed to enter the circle or something like that. She said she always really wanted to get up and exclaim, "It's me! It's me! I'm chosen!"

And then I found $20.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

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