Why Paradise Would Drive JWs Insane (page 2)

Paralipomenon

I love this aspect of their beliefs.

Have they ever looked at Amish people? They work hard, day in and day out. Plowing fields, harvesting crops, building structures, preparing food, landscaping, making clothes and above all, worshiping.

Imagine doing that for an eternity. Somehow the witnesses think they are going to be off chatting and riding lions all day while angels wait on them like servants.

heathen

The WTBTS paradise is to clean up the earth for a thousand years . Looks like they also like the idea of playing with lions and beach balls . They don't seem to think they will be jesus and listen to his infinite wisdom. The bible itself states that there will be new things so to think we know everything we can expect is not the way it is.

worldtraveller

They should live in Mexico City next to the Basillica and watch 10's of millions of humbled Catholics enter on their knees 24/7. These people have only love of family and little if any possesions.

greendawn

They are too backward to enjoy anything as magnificent as paradise though the way they perceive paradise is too naive and earthly. Biblically all Christians are destined for heavens and none for the earth. There is no such thing as an earthly class. There are believers and non believers but no two classes of believers.

jaguarbass

To me paradise is the JW version of heaven.

The way I like to think things work is kind of like the Robin Williams movie "What Dreams may come"

We die and we go to heaven which is like paradise.

But we finally get bored when everything is good nothing is going on, just peace and tranquility.

When we get to this point in our heavenly paradisaic lives we sign on for another trip back to the pleasure planet, earth.

Some people call it reincarnation.

lfcviking

The thing is, you simply don't know how you would react if you we suddenly placed in a paradise world free from corrupt goverments and supposed 'bad' people as the JW's perceive it. Obviously it would be something totally new to them, they would not have experienced this before, this would be completely new surroundings, new situation, new laws, new people etc. So how can you say they would react to this new environment by saying they would go insane?

Sorry, i disagree with you.

Elsewhere

I'm of the opinion that adversity inspires humans to greatness. If life was completely safe with absolutely no threat of harm due to inaction people would settle into a state of lazy sloth in-which they will aspire to and accomplish absolutely nothing.

bluebell

A Witness doesnt even know they're presently lost in delusional patterns of insanity -- nor do most other people -- so if they did happen to step into paradise it would not be long before a deep unease set in. Their entire identity before was based on focus of a time and place unreal, and a paradise real does not support or give comfort to an identity based on fantasy. So paradise could come to seem like a valley of death threatening my life and wellbeing. Never satisfied with what IS, we reach into make-believe and set up home.
For most people the moment is only something to get past. Real paradise is not about reaching or getting past, but rather meeting with the bottomless richness and depths of nature and beingness in this moment. Paradise is not so much a place, as it is simply being acutely aware of life here and now.

so true!

Honesty

The Watchtower shows the prospective JW a picture of lions and tigers and big baskets of fruit and vegetables to get them in the proper mindset.

The prospect converts to JWism and is baptised into the 'organization' for life.

One day, the JW dies.

He wakes up in a horrible hellhole out of the pages of a Stephen King novel and sees the JW who studied him into the 'truth' so he asks, "What about the fruit and pet tigers, where are they?"

The Jw who studied him into the 'truth' says, "We were campaigning when we showed you that stuff. You voted our way so now you get to see and live the real thing, sucker."

That is why the Watchtower's real 'paradise' is going to drive the JW's insane.

choosing life

The jw paradise is a very materialistic dream. They talk about the nice homes they will claim from the deceased after armegeddon. How long will it take them to set up a corrupt system that mirrors their covetousness? As greed sets in, who decides which people get to live in the most beautiful places? And the "princes will be crtain to bask in their newfound glory.

It would never work because it is based on material things and has nothing to do with real spirituality.

Why Paradise Would Drive JWs Insane

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