Maybe I don't want to live in Paradise

by pratt1 36 Replies latest jw friends

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  Abandoned

  Dr. Evil in paradise? Yes...yes...now it all makes sense. Now I understand all the weird rules that they've come up with over the years...
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  Brother Apostate

  Dr. Evil in paradise? Yes...yes...now it all makes sense. Now I understand all the weird rules that they've come up with over the years... Perhaps it could be just a <tiny> bit evil? Perhaps we could sometimes be allowed an ill temper?
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  LongHairGal

  Pratt:

  There are too many holes in their idea about a "Paradise" and I always wondered if it was true. First of all, right after "Armageddon", if everything is destroyed then any survivors will be scrounging around. Just think of old films of bombed out cities after WWII and stragglers and orphaned children walking through ruins foraging for food, etc. Their idea just doesn't work. I once had a discussion with a bro. about how it makes no sense to destroy everything now because it may be needed soon after the big "A". He, rather angrily, told me "Jehovah doesn't NEED anything from this system....." So, he believes everything will be blitzed and nothing will be used from this "system". Whatever. I also had a problem with the idea of all the dead bodies lying around and the explanation that they will "miraculously be cleaned up" or "atomized". Also, if communication is wiped out then what? We all know from events in recent years that this isn't too far fetched. It wouldn't take much to wipe everything out in one swoop. As for your thought about people who need help immediately (such as those with serious conditions), I remember hearing somebody say that they may die and get an early resurrection (??) Also, none of this accounts for who is "in charge" and what abuses may occur. And, last, but not least, I have a problem with their belief that resurrected ones will not marry. The problem with this is that there will be two classes of people: those that do and those that don't. It all just doesn't add up to a peaceful, just society.

  Hey, whatever.

  LHG
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  jaguarbass

  The whole paradise deal is make believe. 1975 came and went. But in my make believe world pre 75. I made believe God had a lot of power and his power addressed the problems you mention. The main deal about paradise was getting rid of all the worldly people. If you were on Gods side at armeggedon, you would survive. For someone like me who was a teenager, I had to worry wheather I ate to many Milky way or 3 muskateer bars or not. I was concerned that eating them would be a mortal sin as they contained lethicin, which was spoken of as a blood derivative back in the 60's. In the 60's the society was against all blood derivatives or fractions. And when I was an adolesent I always fond myself sneaking up to the deli and buying Milky ways and 3 muskateer bars. And sometimes my non witnoid grandparents would sneak me out to tricker treat at halloween. So I was sweating bullets when we would talk about the fantasy of Armeggedon. Of course they were fantasy bullets.

  Actually, I'm pretty sure Armeggedon came to pass. George the dingbat Bush, decided to conduct it in Iraq. He'll tell you himself he's here to do God's will. He's kind of like a make believe fantasy president. I guess really the make belive part would be the votes he made up so he could have the supreme court believe he was the president.
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  Dagney

  Who's going to plant and pick the cotton and weave the fabric the people are wearing in the paradise picture?

  Who is going to tend the fields, mill the lumber, run the factories to make the dishes on the table of the feast in the picture?

  All things are possible with God, but man does the work.
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  pratt1

  Good point, Dagney
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  Warlock

  Well, I'm going to hell, so whatever..........................................

  Warlock
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  Dagney

  Good point, Dagney

  Don't get me started.
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  Crafty Lady

  It always sounded like a boring existence to me. How many lions can you pet before that gets old anyway? I always wondered if it would be like the mini-series The Stand, with people gravitating towards jobs they did before. Or would there be no modern conveniences and everyone would go back to a very simple lifestyle.

  Crafty
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  blondie

  Time again for

  Diary of an Armageddon Survivor

  The Diary of an

  Armageddon Survivor

  The following is not fantasy, this is what we were taught to expect

  when we were Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Michael Pendley

  http://www.macgregorministries.org/jehovahs_witnesses/armagsurv.html