Why the JW's mental image of Paradise is a pipe dream

by Sour Grapes 55 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  miseryloveselders

  MLE, actually, you said it. If I was made a perfect human being, why in the hell would I want to sit around petting animals? Collared shirts? Why is every freakin WT article have males in khakis and button down shirts or polos and females in skirts? Seriously? You want me to live like that? HELL NO!

  Perfect mind, perfect body, perfect world, I'll be engineering a space ship and getting off the JW fairytale world ASAP!!!

  LOL Exactly!!! It'll be nice to have a six pack of abs, and a mind that would make Einstein blush. Why would I want to spend an eternity gardening in khakis and petting animals. Seriously WTF?!??!
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  jookbeard

  "new scrolls" these seem to be an even bigger pipe dream then the new system itself, just trying to remember if there is even a scripture that would remotely have any relevance to these scrolls or did it probably come form a publication?
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  Devil_Fish

  The one thing that always got me:

  If I live for ever, and have kids who live for ever, who have kids who live for ever, and so on; There will be an over population problem at some point.

  My dad answered this question with this: "Jehova will take care of it."
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  MrFreeze

  Paradise will truly be a hell on earth.
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  GLTirebiter

  Who is going to make the toilet paper?

  Remember all those "magazines" piled up in the basement? You say there's nobody left to place them with? Sometimes two problems can be turned into one solution!
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  MrFreeze

  But GL, we should already be using those as toilet paper!
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  bulgogiboy

  I always remember looking at 'paradise' with a real uncertain anxiety, to be honest. I didn't ponder so much over the 'how will it work questions' as I just thought, "Jehovah will take care of it", but rather I worried about whether or not I would actually be able to hack it:

  There would probably be a weekly, if not daily, schedule of meetings for 'spiritual food' (yawn), which would be hard to skive off from, especially if there was no disease, ill-health to blame absences on.

  I would have to actually start following to the letter all the ridiculous 'advice' and 'suggestions' (which would then become orders) which I suffered through at meetings/conventions.

  All women would be dressed like 1950s housewives. I would never again be able to enjoy the asthetic pleasures of mini-skirts, bikinis, and low-cut tops. No porn to make up for this either.

  There would be no oral/anal sex. Missionary only, with my 1950s-style housewife.

  I would have to drink in moderation.

  I would be surrounded by the kind of people I had the least affinity for. Fellow JWs. I had come to observe that the average JW has some kind of mental illness. I feared paradise would be full of looney tunes.

  I wouldn't be able to masturbate anymore, as in paradise God wouldn't just be watching and a tuttin', he would be a punishin'.

  All my favourite TV shows/movies would be gone.

  I would have to watch magnificent apex predators like lions undergo the humiliation of being forced to eat grass, and treated like petting zoo piglets.

  Overall though, it was an anxiety that didn't bother me too much, as I was convinced I would be done away with before I even got there (see the list of activities I was involved in at the time).
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  d

  How is our moder way of life going to sustain itself? Clothes, food shelter.
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  Sour Grapes

  I think the Witnesses like to now say the "New Order" or the "New System of Things" instead of Paradise. How would you like to live there with the elders running the show?
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  Vidiot

  The older I got, the more I realized that if WT eschatology was true, I'd be utterly miserable in the world I'd have to live in afterward.

  I've said this before, but in the (admittedly unlikely) event that the WTS were given control over a small country in the present day, I guarantee you that within a decade, democracy would be all but nonexistent, any form of alternative sexual expression would be outlawed, creationism would be mandated in schools, DFed people would be stripped of citizenship and imprisoned or deported, and convicted "apostates" would be sentenced to death without possibility of appeal or reprieve.

  Now picture that regime on a planetary scale.