Recycled Good Experiences

by WTWizard 2 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    You probably heard it before (for sure, if you go to the Witchtower study, you will soon be hearing it). It is about benefiting from Bible experiences.

    What they will not tell you is that the benefit is all non sequitur. You are supposed to act the same way the Bible character did in a given situation, and Jehovah is supposed to bless you. At least that is what the Watchtower Society prints. But, usually nothing of the sort actually happens. People who got persecuted back then got out of the mess. Then, someone who is persecuted does the same thing now and ends up dying for it. There are numerous cited examples in the scriptures where Jehovah has helped people out. Then when you try it, He just sits there like a dope and does nothing useful.

    The usual admonition is to read those experiences. You are then instructed to be moved by the same experience as if you were the one receiving it, even though nothing of the sort is going to happen to you. I call this recycling positive experiences, so Jehovah doesn't have to repeat doing them afresh. Why give people new good experiences when they are all written in the Bible for reference? And, it's a horrible sin if you fail to react as if you were receiving the same experiences.

    Also, I have noticed that they are all themed around doing Jehovah's will! The whole blessing is that you have helped someone else. The cited experiences were invariably about some facet of Jehovah's will that was about to be choked off. Developing the lineage to the Messiah, parting the sea to allow the nation to escape, helping that nation usurp value and destroy it and then sit in the land that previous heathen value creators had occupied, building temples, getting people back in line, having the Messiah born and brought into proper adulthood, and preaching around Asia Minor are all the objectives.

    I have not seen even one good experience in the Bible that isn't directly connected in some way to this. Not once has someone's personal needs been fulfilled just because Jehovah loved the person enough to do it, even if its being done isn't necessary for the Kingdumb advancement or the Messianic lineage to be preserved. And, nothing is noted about people that are suffering today. There is no mention of the single person that remained single for the Kingdumb, upon reaching 80 years of age, having their clock set back so they can enjoy another 80 or 90 years (or double, which would be 160-180) of having fulfillment in a rewarding marriage, complete with the children they gave up, at the end. You will not hear about people that gave up college in 1969 or 1970 and are nearing retirement age being given another chance and their youth back. They don't even support them!

    Yes, recycling is good for the environment when you are recycling resources that otherwise would be depleted and pollute. But, I do not appreciate Jehovah recycling good experiences because He is too damn stingy and cruel to create new ones. Creation of new ones would in no way pollute the environment or deplete His infinite resources. I sure hope that, later this coming March when these articles are up for discussion, that you have your puke buckets ready!

  • nomoreguilt
    nomoreguilt

    Interesting subject wizard. If I may, I would like to carry this thread parralel to the subject. What ever became of the people that were so lovingly resurected? Are they still living amongst us? Are they enjoying perpetual youth somewhere? Why, they must be, for why would a loving creator bring a person back from the dead only to have them suffer the anguish and pain of death once again? That would amount to double jeopardy, would it not? If jesus was resurected, not to taste the sting of death ever again, then why not them?

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    Those that were supposedly resurrected were not placed on the earth. They got their resurrection in the mystical minds of the Watchtower Society (that is, in heaven). The reality is that none of them ever got resurrected. They are still dead. You just have to use your imagination and the Bible accounts of those who were resurrected in Bible times (when all the blessings happened).

    And, no none of those people resurrected in the Bible are among us. They had to die twice. The good news about that is, that if you die, it's like going to sleep. If you are resurrected, you just wake up. No, it's not the death itself that hurts but what happens just before. You are often in pain, and always regretting that there are things you never got to do. If it happens suddenly and in your sleep, you don't have the time to worry about those things. However, that still doesn't answer the question of why a loving God would have people resurrected only to die again. (However, if God wasn't as loving as He claims to be, that would answer the questions).

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