by Bryan 8 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I remember back in the mid 90's seemed like, my non-jw step-sister told me her jw mother said at some time all jws could be asked to eat a certain diet or perhaps move to a certain place in preperation for the big A.
Anyone else hear of anything like that? Just curious.
Bryan
Have You Seen My Mother
I remember something called the Grape Diet that many older JWs follow saying it is a cure for cancer. One said it was in the Consolation magazine (precursor of the Awake).
Blondie
I imagine my non-jw step-sister got her wires crossed. I've never heard of it accept through her.
Thanks Blondie.
Bryan
Have You Seen My mother
I remember something called the Grape Diet that many older JWs follow saying it is a cure for cancer. One said it was in the Consolation magazine (precursor of the Awake).
I believe that is the same magazine that said that Aspirin causes heart disease.
The Grape Cure
One of the strange cures advocated in The Golden Age included The Grape Cure which was purported to cure cancer. It was a fasting diet favored by Naturopaths and others consisting solely of grapes. Grapes for breakfast, grapes for lunch and grapes for dinner for weeks. This was about all that was needed to cure your cancer. The philosophy and ideas behind it were strange, some would say occultic. The grape cure worked, according to its founder, Johanna Brandt, because grapes were "magnetic" and pepped up your mind with the sun?s healing "vibrations." Needless to say, there are many stories of unfortunate individuals who tried this "cure" and died of cancer. How many of those included Jehovah?s Witnesses who followed The Golden Age?s endorsement is anybody?s guess. [19]
So it was cancer that was eating gilbert grape, I always wondered about that.
Bryan,
In the early to mid 90s there was talk of how much we are to submit to theocratic rule. One of the things mentioned from time to time from the platform was whether we would go somewhere if directed, eat certain foods if directed or buy/sell our household goods if directed. All of this was mentioned as "what-ifs" for the coming of armageddon. It wasn't a we will do this but a "what will each of you publishers do?" type of thing. As far as I know it was a purely platform thing not necessarily a WT or AW type of thing.
Never heard anything like that in my whole JW life.
DY
I heard of the moving-to-a-certain-place one, but not the diet one.
