What would the world be like if everybody was a Jehovah Witnesses (page 6)

jgnat

When hubby's eyes glaze over considering the wonderful future world, I ask him who is going to fill in the pot-holes? Besides, does he really think is dad would want to live in a world run by book-studies? His father would make himself a cheroot out of pampa grass and light it up just to get permanently removed from such a place.

Such a world would be run by bureaucrats. I have twenty-five years experience in a bureaucracy. I can tell you what it would be like. Lots of supervisors, committee meetings, and nothing would get done. Innovators would be persecuted to the limits of the law. Gossip would be the chief pastime, along with subsistence farming.

Because the glorious infrastructure which includes highways, water purification, nuclear power plants, transformers, engineered steel, plastics, refrigeration, sewage treatment, and chemical production would peter away to nothing. One needs talented engineers with a college education to run stuff like that. The best and the brightest will be sucked in to the elder's machine. You might think all that industrialization is nasty, but just try and live without it.

Not to mention the decline in health care. Hubby dismisses the entire profession as useless in the new order. How many Jehovah's Witnesses are working in the medical profession now? That's an awful lot of education getting in the way of field service. Blondie points out that even immortals can break their arm. Who will set it?

WTWizard

And what if the whole world were witlesses? Even supposing they solved the pedophile problem and quit hiding the baby killers (and baby eaters), instead they were to correct those super whopper problems.

It would still be dreary. First, what is there to celebrate? Once a year, they gather at the Kingdumb Hell to reject Jesus, making a big party out of a boring 45 minute talk. They also have weekends where they waste the whole time (the equivalent of three full weekends a year) discussing the same crap. Would you want that to be the highlight of your life? There is absolutely nothing good--just look at the calendar of the witlesses. Start with pio-sneer drives, that last 4 months with an a$$embly somewhere in that period. You then get assigned a location for the summer a$$embly, pick up your annual littera-trash, and look forward to the REJECT Jesus season. That comes, usually along with another a$$embly. You pio-sneer during the period, punctuated with the REJECT Jesus Party. After that season, you get ready for the summer a$$embly, and then repeat. Better?

And so many things would be banned. Where would the world be if the Internet died tomorrow? Supposing everyone was out in field circus when the electricity went out because of a system failure? Even without field circus as we know it, there would be something else to waste all day, every day. And, who would distribute the food? Does the public realize that there is less than a 3 day supply of food at your local supermarket? How does it get there? Technology is responsible, along with people that spend vast amounts of time and energy processing and transporting it. If that time is usurped for field circus or its equivalent, you are not going to have food.

Needless to say, innovations would be lacking everywhere. What happens, for instance, when we run out of oil? What happens when the cars we drive become outdated? If this were before cars became widespread, we would still be using horse driven carriages and bicycles to go from door to door. We would still be hand-writing the rags--printing presses would never have been invented. And, things you take for granted--basic telephone (never mind cell phones), TV, radio, and recordings would never be invented.

Lifestyle? Look at what goes on in monasteries. Your lifestyle would be very similar--the technical rules would of course be different, but it would feel similar to what is expected of monks. They are sequestered from the world. Imagine the whole world being one big monastery, with Washtowel rules instead of the Rule of St Benedict. That is what life would become.

And that is enough to make things miserable.

bobld

For those who are apologists:What about Memnonites,Amish,Hutterites,Born again,Seven Day Adventists and others.The world would be better under them then JW'S

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jgnat

bobld, I don't think the world would be better off with any one religion in charge. Too uniform. The extremes are made manifest. I did a major review of the 2010 Yearbook against the Human Development Index (HDI), and religious makeup of the country. Countries where 90% or more are of a uniform religion (Catholic or Muslim) got problems, man.

Theocracy is no better than Dictatorship in leadership quality.

Karen Armstrong in "The Battle for God" holds out a sliver of hope. A fundamentalist religion, once in power, begins to soften their stance. She gives the example of the developments in Iran, "It could be that if a radical religion movement is allowed its head, works though its aggressions and resentment, it can learn to interact creatively with other traditions, eschew the violence of the more recent past, and make peace with former foes..." (p. 333)

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/204755/2/SCAN-2010-Worldwide-Service-Report-Via-2011-Yearbook

Maze

If everyone were one of Jehovah's Witnesses (those that live up to their name), there would be no more;

terrorism
war
greed
business fraud
theft
violent crime
drug abuse
alcohol abuse
immorality
hate-campaigns

In other words, there would be no need for Armageddon, because humanity would already be on the progressive road to perfection. Apostasy is a hate-campaign toward Jehovah's Witnesses so you couldn't possibly begin to fill their shoes.

jgnat

terrorism
war
greed
business fraud
theft
violent crime [i.e. domestic abuse]
drug abuse
alcohol abuse
immorality
hate-campaignsIf the whole world were Jehovah's Witnesses, where do you disfellowship your mistakes? You're stuck with them.

SEC Halts $16M Scam Aimed at Elderly Jehovah's Witnesses CCH Wall Street/July 21, 2006 By Aaron Seward

ziddina

What if everyone in the whole world were Jehovah's Witnesses???

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

That gives me the CREEPS!!!

I think that, despite the Watchtower propaganda to the effect of how "happy" everyone would be, it would actually be a repeat of the heathen/heretic/witch burnings/(UN!)Holy Crusades/religious wars/Inquisition/Salem Witch Trials/McCarthyism/Muslim jiddahs/Christian "moral majority" - and any other version of a totalitarian society that you'd care to mention...

Zid the She-Devil - who isn't EEEEEEEE-vil enough to feel comfortable in a world ruled by Jehovah's Witnesses and their "Governing Bodies"...

If the whole world were Jehovah's Witnesses, where do you disfellowship your mistakes? You're stuck with them.

SEC Halts $16M Scam Aimed at Elderly Jehovah's Witnesses CCH Wall Street/July 21, 2006 By Aaron Seward

This was an imposter, some fraudster that targeted innocent people within the congregation.

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2006/comp19764.pdf

Using contacts within Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations, Defendants recruited many elderly victims and fellow Jehovah’s Witnesses.

They were disfellowshipped.

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