Do Jehovah's Witnesses crave an 'Amish Paradise'? (page 3)

jeremiah

Will Jehovah create a Starbucks in the New World?

hillbilly

Will Jehovah create a Starbucks in the New World?

<g> point made...

~Hill

After I left, I 'craved' simplicity. My pet coined phrase was I want peace of mind, I think I was searching for balance. As many posted, it is a very labor intense way of life that many would not adjust to.

Sassy

I have lived in northern Indiana in a small very Amish and Mennonite (sp?) community.. I was a JW at the time so I also called on many of them out in service...

they really live a different life than the dubs do..

jayhawk1

Who's going to make the plastic for all that lawn furniture, and balls that we see in the mags?? What about all the awful clothes that they are pictured with? Not to mention, all the "cleaning" that will need to be done from the "destruction".

I thought that is what the Angels was created for. Or maybe that's what the 144,000 will be doing. Heh, they just thought they was getting a cushy job in heaven. Wouldn't that have been a twist of fate!

joe_black

I would say that 99.9 percent of JW's couldn't handle the Amish way of life. 2 weeks into their "Amish Paradise" they'll be crying out for the "old system" and all the amenities this wicked world provides,......PS. most wouldn't be able to balance a fruit basket on their head anyways, lol.

new boy

If you ask them...............about it,........... they really all have a different idea on what it will be like.

What they want is each and everyone to have their own concept of of what paradice is to them.

Everbodys "pie in the sky when you die"---------------You fill in the blanks

Religions have been trying to sale this "happiness not now.......... but in the future thing"----------For 1,000s of years.

Stephanus

I've been watching the Canadian TV show How It's Made lately, and getting my youngest to watch it too. It's amazing how much infrastructure, technology and energy goes into some of the simplest stuff we take for granted, eg. bottles of milk and sliced bread. I get the youngest to watch it so that he realises just how much the modern lifestyle he enjoys is tied into our industrial/technological present reality. That "smaller" and "simpler" wouldn't necessarily be "better".

The division of labour was mentioned before. And that would of necessity happen. Dubs growing wheat would want bread, and someone would probably have to specialise as a miller, to grind the flour. Someone would have to tame the tigers and wolves, and such a job wouldn't leave much time for farming.

Tyrone van leyen

If they crave an Amish paradise they should be writing their watchtowers with a feather quills and homemade ink. They should also be doing there door to door work in horse and buggy. Ever notice there drawings of paradise. Whenever there's a beautiful chalet in the hillside they neglect to show the lumberyards, glass factories electrical component manufacturing co.'s and trucks that transport the raw materials and finished products to their destinations. Must be a lot of pollution in paradise.

Do Jehovah's Witnesses crave an 'Amish Paradise'?