by Lady Lee 57 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
OMG Nos Not THAT is a scary thought. Just who is going to clean up after the lions and tigers and bear and the odd elephant or ten wandering through those beautiful park-like scenes. Have you ever seen how big an elephant pile of poop is?
I'd hate to be the JW who is assigned that job
I think a lot of mothers get sucked into it because they think it's the only way the world will become a better place for their ruggers. I think a lot stay when somebody they love dies or life gets hard in some way; the resurrection delusion and the persecution complex is so compelling. Other people just don't have the imagination to improve their lives in their own way, and have to be told how, or convinced that xyz is better than what they were doing.
jws are selfish because they disregard the world, take a look at the world. Most americans cant go a week without protesting. You all make these opinions about what jws think of the paradise. Some of you even make it out to be a good thing in how you describe it, and then you poke fun and say how boring it is. This is problem. No matter what peoples beliefs are good things shouldnt be boring or stupid. Why? no porn, everyone getting along, no cheating, no dieing. No matter if you believe it or not what is wrong with these things.
That is the problem anymore people just want to do what they want with disregards to anything.
Maybe I should take another way of life. I can start smoking dope, doing crack, fighting, getting drunk, and then I go to bed that night pray to be saved and Im on my way to heaven. How Dreamyyyyy.
I set there puzzled though, he was still smiling, so I asked, "are you not happy right now though, working on this garden, you look happy?" He laughed, "Do you know what I am doing? I am cutting each blade of grass one at a time to pass the time, I am so bored I spent 50,000 years cutting this grass over and over and over again. Because there is just nothing I haven't done, nothing I have not seen, no conversation I have not covered. We don't even speak to one another anymore, as we all know each others thoughts so well. We end each others sentences, and even tell each others stories. I sometimes don't know what stories are mine, and what stories are the ones I heard a million times before. It is all just done over and over again, nothing new."
"But you are smiling though," I said with a confused tone.
He set up again, "Well recently one of the brothers located something we never cleaned up in South America, in which there was a calender that had a time line as to when the sun would burn out and destroy the earth. It was a great day of excitement and news traveled quickly, we all celebrated the news that soon we would get a second chance to die and get out of this promised eternal life of paradise."
Heh, I've actaully given that a thought, maybe because I have a fascination of vampires(ironically I think my JW teaches may have led to it) cause this always comes up in sappy vampire novels.
Though the thought of total non-existance is quite frightening to me, I admit. Probably because I am one of those people that I fall asleep on the bed and 1 second later it's morning, thought that really does not happen, at least it seems that way.
If there is indeed an afterlife, which I could accept, then maybe our notion of time would be far diffrent from the mortal world. I mean, wouldn't God himself and the angels feel this way? Maybe they percieve time more statically than the way time passes like a train here on Earth. Or maybe it's like the Trafaldamorians in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.
Thinker, I've saved your WT descriptions of Paradise. And I agree with Anti-Christ, it does sound like hell!
Narkissos
12 000 furlongs = 2 414.016 kilometers
That is going to crush a whole lot of people on earth when it lands. And will be jutting out into space.
Thinker's description of Paradise sounds like what Marx & Lenin and those boys tried to create. No wonder that Marxist-Leninist Communism didn't last, they didn't include Jehovah God in their picture.
I like Jehovah's version of Communism better myself. Humans get to train the animals to clean up after themselves, maybe. Technology can become perfect, maybe. We may get to become children again, maybe. And learn how to undo our past mistakes, maybe. We get to have our calendars fixed, no doubt. So there won't be any gods and goddesses like Janus and Maia, to just us January and May. We'll get to have our languages fixed, so that we'll not confuse pronouns, or be missing any that other languages have. We'll actually get to understand all the prophecies properly, because Abel and Enoch and Noah and Abraham and Rahab and Hagar and Ruth and Esther and all the relevant people will be brought back to put all the Bible into chronological order. We'll get to know where Noah's Ark was hid all these years, and where the Garden of Eden was. These are a few of the things I'm looking forward to already. I hope to be able to be able to visit all the Kingdom Halls, and all the brothers and sisters all over the world. And learn what tobacco was made for, and stinkweed; and where asthma and AIDS really came from. And how sleep works. And how manufacturing went from the beginning to where it is now. And how long the Earth has really been around. And how long Eve lived. So many things to keep track of. And that's with my mind closed up from the pollution that has been going on since false religion and false government has been going on since the day that Genesis 3 is all about.
To my way of thinking the "paradise" doctrine is an abheration because it focusses attention on the material world rather than the spiritual; on self rather than Christ. Singly this doctrine shows the marked difference between a JW and a Christian.
"Here we have no continuing city."
Didier:
I'd never thought about the pyramid angle before, so thanks for that
Have you been watching Stargate?
