OK, I have a few comments/questions I would like to throw out there for someone to answer who is devoted to the WTBTS.
First of all, in light of yesterday's tragedy, we saw horrible destruction. According to the WT manual "You can live in paradise on earth', everybody on earth will be destroyed on the day of Armageddon except JW's. There are a myriad of pictures in their literature, discussing this subject.... of people being pummeled with hailstones, widespread fires, buildings toppling over onto thousands, the earth swallowing up kids, cars, widespread panic, etc. Just really horrendous stuff. My question is, if the JW's will not be wiped out with the rest, just how long do you think it will take all the JW's in the world to clean up the mess? If it takes weeks/months to clean up the remains of a few buildings in NY, how many hundreds of years will it take to clean up every house, office, skyscraper etc in the whole world? How many years will it take to clean up 6 BILLION dead bodies?(Roughly 1,500 bodies per dub) Not to mention the stench that will seldom go away.I have also never seen pictures of the 'New World' in their literature that show anything but wheelbarrows and hand made tools and such. Since Tractors will not be in the New world cause of pollution, and we know there is no pollution in the New World, it will all be done by hand and I guess, according to covers of Awake!, wheelbarrows. (Although I am uncertain who will be in charge of making wheelbarrows). I also wonder who will break up all the concrete, and where all this stuff will go. Trash, buildings, bodies, streets, concrete, etc.
I think we are talking hundreds of years of hard manual labor! Consider this the next time you see the bright cheerful faces in the drawings of Awake! and WT. propagating the blessed New World.
Penn
P.S. Also, if people pay for their own sin by death, and JW's are ushered into the New World without dying, who is going to pay for their sin?!