If something sounds too good to be true...........

by Gill 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  Gill

  Most relatively intelligent people usually understand that if 'something sounds too good to be true, it usually is too good to be true.'

  So why do normal people lose their common sense when it comes to the beliefs of the Watchtower society?

  In a nutshell, the WTBTS claims that if you go to all their meetings, study all their literature, spend numerous hours trying to make new recruits, and just believe without thinking all of their doctrine, you stand some sort of chance of never dying.......living forever in paradise on Earth, and should you die, you should be resurrected into such a world.

  Now, I'm not saying that doing all those Watchtower things is 'easy' in any way.....in fact they're incredibly tiresome. However, to believe, as I know many JWs do, that doing those things gives them a deposit in the Watchtower Fantasy World of tomorrow is pretty shocking.

  So, why do people lose their common sense to a Fantasy that does not stand up to a serious examination?

  And why do they refuse to seriously examine such an obvious nonsense?

  Remember, 'Millions now living will never die?'

  Well, millions believed that and most of them are dead!
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  lilybird

  I guess its sort of like how people always buy lottery tickets and scratch tickets..Its always nice to believe that you can win the big one!! Many people feel the need to belong to an organized belief system and lots of people obviously can't think for themselves and need other people to set goals and beliefs for them. I still buy lottery tickets and dream of winning the big one but at least now I am free thinking enough to be able to establish my own belief system about life and the afterlife.
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  compound complex

  Hey Gill,

  Funny how 40 years ago I was newly converted and preaching to my best gal friend about the "Paradise." It was so real to me, just a new and better version of what I had learned in Sunday School. She responded that she didn't need a carrot on a stick dangling in front of her as motivation. I had no idea at the time what that expression meant. Well, now I see COAS used everywhere. It's gotten old and moldy. My friend went to university, traveled the world, and landed prestigious and fulfilling jobs. We're in constant touch and she is fascinated by my deconversion process. We are again on the same page and loving the real world. I hate that I was made to hate everything that never actually ceased being good. My vision was clouded by an unreality.

  Now I can see.

  CoCo
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  blondie

  There's a sucker born every minute.

  Blondie
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  Gill

  lilybird - someone always wins on the lottery. No one wins in Watchtower land except those at the top and even they won't be living forever in paradise earth!

  ((((( CoCo ))))) - I know what you mean. I wonder what my school friends are doing now or what they did all the years I was a foolish JW.

  Blondie - Too right!
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  avidbiblereader

  The difference here that I see is; these are man made promises and conditions which I no longer believe or need to follow

  However the one that I do choose to follow is the promises of God and His Son, but the bigger question is already posed by Christ, not in some fantasy world but rather the promise of what God has in store which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and the mind has not thought up, so the question to mankind is

  Luke 18:8 But when the Son of Manreturns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?”

  abr