Imagine living in JW's Paradise.

by James Mixon 30 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  James Mixon

  Lets say you are able to go back in time to the first man( their belief Adam) 7000 years.

  Now you are magically transporter back to Adam time with the knowledge you have from

  todays world..Would you make life a little easier for you and your family??? You may move

  the bathroom inside the house and hook up a shower, lay down a nice floor and and few games for

  the kids. With your knowledge from todays world you could accomplish a lot.

  OK , now we move to JW paradise. Working from sunset to dawn I would think. All the comfort you

  have today I think it would be very hard to adjust to that life style. The women where will they shop,

  men making home brew is not easy. No Wal-Mart, vacation the next town over the hill, no Home Depot,

  no lawn mower (no gas).

  The point I'm making It's hard going back in time (standard of living) when you take so many things for

  granted in todays world..The good oh days wasn't that great...

  Hauling water from the stream every damn day to cook and drink is not paradise to me, just ask the

  people in the 3rd world countries today.

  For those JW's that are picking out their homes today I have news for you, it will be very

  hard to live in those homes without AC...

  I may add, I don't believe in their paradise but just to show how dumb the idea of a Paradise earth.
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  nowwhat?

  No phone. No light. No. Motorcars. Not a single luxury, like Robinson Caruso it's as primitive as can be!
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  James Mixon

  I guess no broken legs, no snake bites, no headaches, no colds and no TV.....
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  LostGeneration

  No competitive sports leagues

  No oral sex

  No casinos

  No cigars

  No Facebook/Twitter/Instagram

  No beards

  No Seinfeld

  No internet

  On the plus side....endless fruit platters
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  Wild_Thing

  
  
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  DATA-DOG

  
  
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  James Mixon

  No casinos, hell no. No golf, no ground keepers. No fishing, well maybe you can't

  eat the fish. Eating fruit everyday will get old, people will remember what fried chicken taste

  like when they see a nice fat chicken passing....
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  JWdaughter

  My mom always talks about traveling and seeing "the sights". In this perfect temperate world, will the mountains have snow? Will the desert get hot? How is she getting to Mt. Kilamanjaro or whatever? No planes. . . rowboat? Sailing ship? Who is building the ship=and why should they have to while she is galivanting around the world?

  She whined about the lack of washcloths and towels when she was in VENICE (for crying out loud, the woman finally got to Venice and she complains about that. Hey, mom, there is a bunch of sand surrounding the pyramids, and no shade. . . how you gonna get there? I rode a camel and TRUST ME, you don't want to ride a camel!

  Mom imagines a garden and all these animals wandering about peacefully. That is wonderful until the panda and elephant poop start piling up in your garden. . . she lost her freaking mind when the neighbors dog pooped in her yard. It was a little bitty turd. . . barely noticed it from a teacup poodle or something.

  She hates to cook. She doesn't garden. This isn't because she is decrepit or disabled-she just doesn't enjoy it. She watches theocratic stuff online. She hangs out with old JW ladies watching WT videos and youtube stuff. I'm thinking that it won't be something to do in the new system she envisions. Who is going to prepare her food, where is she getting it? Who will repair her microwave-cause that is pretty much her main food prep tool these days.?

  The only JW in her family is her sister and her dead brother (who was DF'd but probably still believed the teachings) Her paradise is going to be kind of lonely, even if the memory of all her kids and grandkids is forgotten. However much she says she loves us, she speaks of us all as if we are beneath her contempt. She disapproves of all her grandkids and has explicitly stated that she doesn't like pretty much every descendant that she has. She loves us but doesn't "like" us. Fun paradise for her. Many of her dearest JW friends have left or dropped off the map (left, but shes not talking about it.)

  I think her paradise will be filled with literal and metaphorical crap.
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  James Mixon

  Wow JW daughter: that was so funny. "she lost her mind when the dog pooped in her yard".

  They don't think when they talk about paradise....
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  Saename

  James Mixon - All the comfort you have today I think it would be very hard to adjust to that life style.

  Well, yes, it would be incredibly hard. However, it is something that we do even today. When we lose a job, when we get seriously sick, when someone we know dies, when we grow up and go to college or university for the first time... We always have to adjust.

  Now, I personally don't come from a family in which we had the privilege of luxuries. The North American standards were a new thing for me. So, I personally wouldn't mind living in primitive standards. I mean... hauling water from the stream every day? Yeah, sure, why not? If I gotta do it every day, why not make it a journey every day? Additionally, this Jehovah's Witness ideology of the Paradise earth presupposes that animals would not eat meat anymore and therefore would not attack us under God's alleged protection. Of course, it's unrealistic, but would I mind living in primitive standards—without cars etc.—if there were no danger to human life? I would not mind at all.

  Now, of course, there are many problems with this ideology, and we could talk about economy and stuff like that... Those problems are why I, in the end, don't believe in this paradise (along with my lack of belief in God.) But, if we are to talk about only what the question deals with—that is, the standards of living—then, no, I would not mind living in that paradise at all. I say teleport me there right away!

  Keep in mind, though, that I don't believe in this paradise anyway... I'm just assuming another worldview with which I disagree on grounds other than what the question itself deals with—namely the standards of living.