I Keeping Thinking of the Pictures of Paradise

by TooBad TooSad 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  TooBad TooSad

  I remember one picture of a pretty little girl holding a plastic bucket in paradise next to a tame lion.

  I asked my wife if there is going to be polution in paradise? Of course the answer is no!!!!!.

  I asked her where did the plastic bucket come from? To make this bucket you will need plastic

  injection molding machines. The cast iron castings that make these molds can weigh up to 3,000#.

  Which means that you will need foundries to make the molds which means that we will need pig iron,

  manganese, iron ore, magnesium, silicon and sand. Who is going to dig up the paradise earth to get

  all of this stuff out of the ground? Who is going to make the earth moving equipment to dig these minerals

  out of the ground? Who is going to process the ores to get the final elements foundries need to make the castings

  that will be machined to make the molds to make the plastic bucket? Who is going to make all of the machines

  that do the machining? How are we going to transport the 3,000# castings to get them to the machine shops?

  Will there we trucks and roads? Who is going to maintain the roads? Who is going to make the road paving

  equipment? I doubt if elephants will just use their trucks to pick up the castings. Then we have the problem of

  what are we going to use for power to melt the castings for the molds and to machine the molds for the buckets?

  Are we going to have electricty or oil? Will there be oil refineries or coal fired electrical generators. Who is going to

  drill for the oil or mine the coal not to mention who is going make all of the eqiupment to do this. The picture I just

  painted sounds like what we have now. Maybe we are in paradise. Mayabe it will just be easier if we don't

  have plastic buckets in paradise. The final answer my wife gave me of where did the plastic bucket come from

  was "maybe Jehovah will just snap his fingers and it will be there." Now you can see why you can not reason with

  witnesses. They have a fairytail dream. I also wanted to know why doesn't the Watchtower show the inside of

  the beautiful houses in paradise ? Maybe because there won't be refigerator's, stoves, or running water without

  the old fashion hand pumps with outhouses behing the house. I hope that I won't get stuck with the job of picking

  up all of the lion and elelphant crap in the neighbor hood. I wish that God would hurry up and kill 99.9% of mankind

  so that I can see how that plastic bucket gets made.

  TooBad TooSad
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  cawshun

  too bad too sad,

  That was great, I bet your wife is really thinking about all you said even if she did give you a fairytale answer.

  Also, it was hillarious, the elephant crap in the neighborhood, love it!

  I know that no matter how nice they make paradise sound, being there with nothing but jw's, I would rather be dead.
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  WTWizard

  The same for the houses. Won't they need to cut down trees to construct them? And what will they build the windows out of, that is if there are going to be any windows? And how will they be heated in winter, or will they freeze?

  Those pictures look so crappy that I never believed in them. The vegetables look like they are not even real--and the plants did not match the vegetables that supposedly came from them. Not to mention, how is there going to be all that open space with the 37 billion people that the Washtowel Slaveholdery claims are coming back?
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  Kudra

  yeah yeah yeah-- but the standard answer was always that we'd have perfect brains and be able to devise ways of doing all these things with no pollution and everybody would be happy working blah blah blah.

  Perhaps those "new scrolls" they were always talking abot opening up in the new system would have the instructions on how to make earth-friendly plastics...
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  Quirky1
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  Finally-Free

  The plastic bucket was left over from this system of things. Because of the lack of technology in the new system there will be a shortage of plastic buckets though, so not every kid will get one. Only children of elders will get plastic buckets.

  W
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  VIII

  "Jehovah will Provide" TM
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  GoingGoingGone

  I don't think they use plastic buckets in their pictures anymore.

  My kids were in a "photo-shoot" for a WT article years ago, and it was done on the beach. They needed different props, and we were asked to bring what we had if we wanted to - for example, beach blankets, wicker baskets, large shells, fruit, stuff for the kids to play with on the beach, but nothing plastic! Try to find a kid's beach toy that's not plastic... nearly impossible! I asked my husband, "What are they supposed to play with, a chunk of wood? A coconut?" Sheesh!

  So I guess the WTS has gotten too many questions about plastic, and the Jehovah-will-snap-his-fingers-and-make-it-disappear answer wasn't working anymore.

  GGG
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  Dagney

  Yep. JW paradise can't work.

  My thing with the pictures were the clothes, swiss chalets, and serving ware. Who is going to pick the cotton or grow the silk worms to make the various clothes? You might drink from your own vine and eat your own figs, but what are you going to wear?

  I know. Just like Jah is going to save all the best houses from destruction for his faithful to live in, he is going to save the clothes and goods (including plastics) in the stores. Maybe that is how it's going to work.

  I know I just don't have enough faith.
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  Finally-Free

  You might drink from your own vine and eat your own figs, but what are you going to wear?

  Clothing did not exist until after the first sin. That would make clothing a reminder of sin and our former sinful state. Jehovah says the "former things would not be called to mind". The obvious conclusion is that everyone in the new system would be naked. The wearing of clothing would in itself be a sin, as it would be an attempt by the wearer to remind perfect humans of their former sinful state. Anyone attempting to wear clothes or promote the wearing of clothes would be stoned to death.

  My mother used to get really pissed when I explained this to her.

  W