Discarding of plastic objects by the thoughtless creates problems and is handily pointed out by the WTS and besides it must be a real pain to trip over plastic bottles and stuff , particularly if you’re in the countryside…………………
*** w93 2/15 3 Paradise or Garbage Dump-Which Do You Prefer? ***Crossing the spacious sand dunes bordering the seashore, he carefully picked his way through a litter of discarded bottles, cans, plastic bags, chewing-gum and candy wrappers, newspapers, and magazines. Clearly irritated, he wondered if this was the paradise he had traveled to reach.
But witnesses are different……………………
*** w93 2/15 5 Rooting Out Pollution From Heart and Mind ***What motivates Jehovah’s Witnesses to be different, while the world in general shows such little appreciation for cleanliness and order? …………..A personality characterized by love for cleanliness, order, and beauty has no room for polluting tendencies.—Colossians 3:9, 10; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Philippians 4:8; Titus 2:14………The new personality requires that Christians be pollution conscious, not wantonly polluting or disobediently ignoring antipollution laws that governments enact. It helps them to avoid adopting the throw-away, selfish, and lazy attitude that leads to littering.
And those who have ‘polluting tendencies’ are likely to be destroyed by God.
*** w93 2/15 5 Rooting Out Pollution From Heart and Mind ***Anyone who still had polluting tendencies tucked away in his heart or mind would threaten the restored paradisaic beauty of planet Earth, much to the sorrow of those who desire to maintain it. God’s decision “to bring to ruin those ruining the earth” is both righteous and loving.—Revelation 11:18; 21:8.
So we can look forward to happy days…………………
*** w93 2/15 7 Rejoice in the Clean Earth Ahead! ***A cleansed earth is bound to come, spearheaded by the greatest clean-up campaign of all times, accomplished by God’s Kingdom. All traces of pollution will be removed. Nowhere any graffiti. No more discarded bottles, cans, plastic bags, chewing-gum and candy wrappers, newspapers, and magazines to clutter any beach or paradisaic spot.
Rejoice in the clean earth ahead!
Hey but wait a minute what’s this in the April 1,2001 WT page 18 , talking about the preaching work, we have officially blessed pollution!
“Determined to keep supplying interested ones with Bible publications, the witnesses decided to float the message downstream. They wrote letters and placed them with copies of The Watchtower and Awake! Magazines inside empty plastic bottles. They then threw the bottles into the river. This continued for four and a half years until the river was again opened to civilians.”
Yup throwing plastic bottles for four and a half years into rivers is definitely not pollution if you’re a JW - anyone else it is and you liable to have your guts spilled out in front of you at Armageddon. Well that’s life’s rollercoaster I suppose.
ISP
Edited by - ISP on 11 March 2001 17:30:22