No candidlynuts, I don't believe I am talking about the same God. If anything, it is the JWs who are talking about the same God. I do not buy into that nonsense of the bible. I see a large gap between a God of love and a God that kills on a large scale out of "anger" or "frustration" or to "send a message". If the God that controls my ultimate destiny is that twisted I would prefer to have no part of that thank you very much. I am perfectly content going about my life trying to be a good person and kind to others. Let the chips fall where they may.
You know it seems to me, from my experiences with the JWs, and I am sure many of you can identify with this but many of the JW practices require the individual to mean (shunning for one example). I have seen so many JWs who are prepared to go through life being mean just because their God will reward them with eternal materialistic hedonism. Yes I recognise that they occasionally do nice things for others (mostly JWs) and they seem to think that compensates for being mean the rest of the time. From what I read at the SL website they couldn't even foot the expense for the Mesa family funeral. Ya worshipping a God like theirs in exchange for eternal hedonistic bliss where I am sitting next to my palace and my flawless wife is tossing grapes into my mouth all day - tempting for my ego, sure gets me thinking in a self serving materialistic greedy kind of way but no thanks. The price of being mean, arrogant and rejecting others is just too large.
