perhaps we could post the pictures the wt have presented in their literature that depict their version of paradise here for comment/discussion:.
from: spirits of the dead—can they help you or harm you?
do they really exist?.
Ron W
I see a Raggedy Ann Doll and a box of Crayola crayons survived Armageddon. Cool.
Look at the size of that one lion !!!
All that grass eatin like the second lion is doing, really makes them grow big !!!
Place is infested with animals, I counted 21 living creatures.
Man you would need to be careful where you step with all that fiber from the grass eatin, there's probably shit everywhere !
democrats are always harping on and on about voting rights and how the ability to vote should be easier and access unrestricted.
the most progressive ones want to allow prisoners, and illegals with no voter id the ability to vote along with the criminals, drug addicts, and uneducated low lives who already can vote.. .
after they push for everyone and anyone to be able to vote they then tell us it is a sacred privilege, a duty and honor, and a big responsibility blah, blah ect..... if it is all those grandiose things are true i think it should be harder to vote not easier.
2) Move tax day from April 15 to approx. 10 days before election day.
Great idea !!
Why can't election day be a national paid holiday?
Oh yeah, they don't want to make it more convenient for average working people to vote. Duh
democrats are always harping on and on about voting rights and how the ability to vote should be easier and access unrestricted.
the most progressive ones want to allow prisoners, and illegals with no voter id the ability to vote along with the criminals, drug addicts, and uneducated low lives who already can vote.. .
after they push for everyone and anyone to be able to vote they then tell us it is a sacred privilege, a duty and honor, and a big responsibility blah, blah ect..... if it is all those grandiose things are true i think it should be harder to vote not easier.
my family had several elders, ministerial servants, auxillary pioneers etc, so it certainly wasn't one of those 'barely in' families.
but in certain small ways, i think mine were slightly less hard line than some other families i've heard stories about over the years.
one example was the 'fall dinner'.
Yup, but not on Thursday
Turkey and all the fixings, but it wasn't because we we were doing a Thanksgiving tradition.
It was because turkey was so available and you could get a good deal on it at that time of year, thats all !!! Plus everyone has off work!!
We also had a "kids party", but not on 25th.
All kind of gifts and dinner, but it wasn't that we were doing a Christmas tradition.
It was because there are all kinds of good deals on toys that time of year, that's all!!l Plus everyone has off work!!
not just jw's, but countless others (evangelicals etc.
) are claiming that we're in the "last days.".
but........bible students/jw's have been spouting this fake message since the 19th century!!!!!!.
Well somebody had to do it. LOL
have some time thinking about my recent and less recent personal history because of the summer holiday.. the 90's crossed my mind.
the years i became pimo.
a friend, a room mate during the 1993 moscow international convention, went to university.
have some time thinking about my recent and less recent personal history because of the summer holiday.. the 90's crossed my mind.
the years i became pimo.
a friend, a room mate during the 1993 moscow international convention, went to university.
Longhairgal
I didn't leave instantaneously,, but at that moment I allowed myself to start researching. Joined this site, started visiting "apostate" sites, bought about 10 books on cults, of course Raymond Franz's books. Faded over 4 years
Proud to say our last meeting was the memorial 2000.
Advice for any fence sitters out there,
When you buy a car do you only research the car with the manufacturers information or do you seak out independent non bias sources?
You can't make a rational choice of religion only using the information they provide.
i found out recently that michelangelo's painting of adam on the sistine chapel depicts him without a belly button.
i had never noticed this before and it makes sense that neither adam nor eve would have belly buttons, not having been born in the usual way.
then i realized all the first animals were created rather than born, according to the religious views of the origin of life.
have some time thinking about my recent and less recent personal history because of the summer holiday.. the 90's crossed my mind.
the years i became pimo.
a friend, a room mate during the 1993 moscow international convention, went to university.
The generation that will never die always kept me hanging on.
When that got blown up, my mind got opened up.
I will never forget the Sunday Watchtower study on this .When we got to the paragraph about the subject, I looked around at all the people in the audience and there was nothing.
Zoned out drones half asleep people waiting to go home.
And then it was bye bye for me!
jws seem to firmly believe that before the flood mankind eas vegan or at least vegetarian.. however, in gen 1:24,25 it says that god created livestock (domestic animals) and beasts of the eart (wild beasts).. why would adam and eve need livestock if they were vegan and naked?
wouldn't need wool or hide for clothing, nor meat for food.
possibly for dairy products only?
Animals also could be companions as comfort and support., apparently not enough so Eve was created.
Everything else you mentioned happened after the sin.
The male dominated birth rate could be a result of sin.
Learning to kill animals - God showed the way because of clothes.
No longer Vegan probably did happen after being thrown out of the garden,
no longer having access to easy food production.
