WTBTS Pictures of Paradise

by Skimmer 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  Skimmer

  As has been discussed elsewhere in this forum, the WTBTS has published many images depicting life after Armageddon and the elements and presentation are fairly similar from picture to picture. The text referencing a paradise picture almost always at one point refers to the restoration of the conditions of the Garden of Eden prior to the fall.

  But what about the things which are never included in the drawings?

  1. Never any couples from different ethnic backgrounds.

  2. Never any persons whose clothes obviously do not match their ethnicity.

  3. Never any printed material like books, magazines, or newspapers. (Considering that only WTBTS supplied material would ever see publication, this might be a blessing.)

  4. Never any communication tools such as telephones, radios, televisions, or computers. (How are people informed? Do they become telepathic? Maybe just telepathic receivers.)

  5. Never any agricultural tools such as animal powered plowing gear or motorized harvesting vehicles. (How is all that fresh produce supplied?)

  6. No technological tools, including any needed to manufacture the always present patterned clothing and flower baskets.

  7. No schools or places of work, except maybe farms. I doubt if more than one out of twenty JWs have anything to do with farming; how will they keep busy?

  8. No nude people. Seriously, this is a big inconsistency with the WTBTS premise of restoration of Eden conditions; there have certainly been pre-Fall illustrations of Adam and Eve in the WTBTS literature. Carefully presented, of course.

  9. No sports or other recreational activity.

  10. No means of mechanical transportation, not even bicycles. Perhaps if one is going to live forever on Earth, walking a few thousand kilometers to friends and relatives may not be too bad. Then again, how would a person know without communication where the friends and relatives were living?

  It's all just propaganda, and it's not even consistent or realistic propaganda.
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  Cygnus

  : 9. No sports or other recreational activity.

  Another apostate lie! There was a Watchtower in the mid-90s that had a big picture of Great Crowd Members playing volleyball in the new system of things.

  Just goes to show that nobody should ever trust a lying apostate, hater of Jehovah and his people.
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  ashitaka

  MY lie's better than your lie.
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  Liquidizer

  Cygnus, one or a couple of exeptions won't change the average rule in this case.

  L.
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  blondie

  Actually, offhand I remember:

  #5
  Pictures of tractors, some in older mags and one within the last few years.

  #8
  The older publications depict Adam and Eve nude pre-Fall Paradise.

  #9
  Picture of a boy fishing and boys playing soccer with parents recently.

  But add these:

  #11
  Sisters invariably are in dresses even when in activities where slacks make sense and all the males are in casual clothing, e.g., climbing up a ladder to pick fruit.

  #12
  Food depicted will never include meat or dairy products or alcoholic beverages. All foods are raw.

  #13
  Large swatches of grass are all neatly mown (by whom and how).
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  nytelecom1

  Cygnus, one or a couple of exeptions won't change the average rule in this case.

  except in the case where antis criticize the WTS
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  Moxy

  there is also a conspicuous, almost eery, lack of hamsters.
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  blondie

  They're hiding, Moxy. They heard about you.
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  expatbrit

  Hamsters have been rodenta non-grata since the embarrassing incident with Charles Taze Russell's beard and a horny orange fellow in 1895.

  Hamsters will not survive Armageddon, and anyone who keeps one as a pet is spritually weak and should speak to the elders. Arrangements can be made to correct matters at the next congregation bbq.

  Expatbrit
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  RunningMan

  One thing that always made me wonder was: where did they get the
  building materials. Usually, there is a house in the background with
  huge windows overlooking the vista. If there are no manufacturing plants,
  where did they get the windows and glass? What about all of the other
  manufactured parts of a house?

  I have always assumed that the new system would have no manufacturing
  capacity, since there could be no pollution and everyone would work at home
  (under their own vine and fig tree). Therefore, they would spend all of their time
  doing things that we take for granted - spinning their own wool, making cloth,
  cutting it into clothing, cutting their own lumber, etc. Without the efficiency of
  machines and manufacturing, people would only have what they could get
  for themselves.

  Realistically, they would have no time to pose for idyllic pictures. They would all
  be too busy eeking out a living.