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  Why the JW's mental image of Paradise is a pipe dream

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yesterday during the witchtower study, every one was.

  talking about how wonderful paradise will be with no food.

  shortages, perfect weather, no pollution, no disease, and be.

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  I like the Paradise pictures where the women wear pretty dresses

  and no slacks. Everone looks so happy with all of the food on a blanket

  on the ground ready for a big picnic. However, I never see garbage

  bags or trash bins for the corn husks or other scrap left overs.

  Maybe we will just throw the garbage into the always near body

  of water and let the fish it. What the heck are alligators going to

  eat? Why did God give those animals such large teeth and large

  mouths big enough to bring a deer down? In paradise will they

  still kill dear in front of the children riding on the elephants?

  Maybe they will need those big teeth to eat the corn husks

  and apple cores thrown into the water.
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  Why the JW's mental image of Paradise is a pipe dream

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yesterday during the witchtower study, every one was.

  talking about how wonderful paradise will be with no food.

  shortages, perfect weather, no pollution, no disease, and be.

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  Yesterday during the Witchtower Study, every one was

  talking about how wonderful Paradise will be with no food

  shortages, perfect weather, no pollution, no disease, and be

  able to play with lions and tigers. They do not even stop to consider

  the following:

  Why doesn't the Witchtower ever show the inside of the pretty houses?

  (perhaps no refigerators or gas stoves)

  They never show factories with smoke stacks. What is going

  to be used for power? Oil, gas, coal? Who is going to make

  cars or are we going to all have our personal elephant, donkey,

  or horse. I would hate to be in charge of cleaning up all of

  the elephant crap in my garage or stepping in lion crap in

  the back yard. Who is going to make all of the tractors and

  bulldozers that will be required to turn the earth into a paradise?

  We will need foundries, machine shops, electricity, coal mnes,

  oil wells etc. ( Maybe BP will survive the Big A)

  Maybe we will till the ground with plows pulled by horses.

  If one has bad eyesight and wears glasses, with ones vision

  become perfect overnight? If not and your vision gradually

  gets better how many pairs of glasses will you have to go thru

  as your vision improves? How long will take all of the joyus

  survivors to bury the billions of dead people and to remove

  all of the debris left after the defastation of Armageddon?

  Look how long it took the clear away just two buildings after

  9/11 with plenty of heavy duty equipement.

  When the powergrid is knocked out and there is no power

  to run pumps and our toilets no longer have water to flush

  we will go back to outhouses. Who is going to make the

  toilet paper? Who is going to make the shoes that we will

  need to do all of that walking since we may not have cars.

  Who is going to kill the cows to make the leather for the shoes?

  I have got to stop my brain is begining to bleed.

  Sour Grapes
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  New Elder instruction book

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  friends,.

  how good and great it is, to see that the new elder instruction book can be downloaded from the internet in the same month of release.

  an example that people inside the organization are changing.

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  Where can the new elder handbook be downloaded from?

  Thanks.

  Sour Grapes
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  These words really made me mad!!!

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a couple of months ago the brother giving a talk was bragging about all of the good work.

  that the wtbts does thru their missionaries.

  he said that all that the christendom's missionaries.

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  A couple of months ago the brother giving a talk was bragging about all of the good work

  that the WTBTS does thru their missionaries. He said that all that the Christendom's missionaries

  do is feed the hungry, distribute clothing, and set up hospitals to take care of the sick.

  He said "not that all of those things are bad things, they are good things, but what do

  our missionaries do? They give spiritual food that can lead to everlasting life, where there will

  be no hunger or sickness." I thought that the only trick is not to have your

  Bible student die on you from starvation or sickness while they enjoy learning

  about the Bible.

  The Witnesses are a sad bunch of people. Tell a hungry person here you can eat

  my Bible or tell a cold person here you can wear my Bible.

  Sour Grapes
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  "New Generation Teaching Proves How Close the End Is"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  recently a circuit overseer said in one of his talks that the new light.

  on the generation teaching shows how very close the end is because.

  there will be a time when the over lap will end.

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  If the Witchtower Babel and Trick Society stopped talking about how

  close the end is many JW's would do the slow fade. Once they saw

  how refreshing it is not to have to stay on the JW treadmill they would

  stop all together.

  It is the same reason why they turn in their time. If they did not have to

  turn in time they would stop going out.

  Sour Grapes
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  "New Generation Teaching Proves How Close the End Is"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  recently a circuit overseer said in one of his talks that the new light.

  on the generation teaching shows how very close the end is because.

  there will be a time when the over lap will end.

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  Recently a circuit overseer said in one of his talks that the new light

  on the generation teaching shows how very close the end is because

  there will be a time when the over lap will end. He said that the older

  anointed who saw what took place in 1914 are now a very small number

  and that those of the younger anointed who are in the overlap have a limited

  life span and the great tribulation has to occur before their death so

  we should not think that the end is pushed off because it is closer than

  we think. I just sat their thinking that the WTBTS added 30 to 40 more

  years to when the end can be here and then when that time approaches

  there will be more new light. The light is getting so bright now that even

  with sun glasees my eyes hurt.

  Sour Grapes
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  The light is getting brighter and brighter

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am going to start taking my sun glasses to the sunday meetings.. the light is getting so bright that it hurts my eyes.

  the new light.

  on the generation burned a hole thru my skull like a laser beam.. sour grapes.

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  I am going to start taking my sun glasses to the Sunday meetings.

  The light is getting so bright that it hurts my eyes. The new light

  on the generation burned a hole thru my skull like a laser beam.

  Sour Grapes
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  Did You Attend the "Big" Generation Watchtower Study Today?

  by UnDisfellowshipped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did you attend the meeting today?

  this is a thread for anyone who attended the "big" generation watchtower study today to post their experiences/stories.. let's hear some wholesome, upbuilding encouragement from our brothers and sisters out there today!.

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  One of the comments made was that "since the generation started in 1914, the overlap

  just proves how close the end is." A drone is a drone. They have just tacked on 50 to

  60 more years until the generation dies off. The WTBS will make reference to this article

  20 or 30 years from now.

  Sour Grapes
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  A Generation Comes and a Generation Goes

  by UnDisfellowshipped in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  to everything turn, turn, turn...... a generation comes and a generation goes:.

  first, it was god's promise that some of the generation of people who witnessed the events of 1914 would still be alive when the great tribulation starts.. it was speculated that a generation could be 40 years, 70 years, 80 years, 100 years, or even possibly 120 years long.. then, as the years went by, year after year after year passed by... no end in sight.. finally in the 1980's and 90's, it was announced that the generation would include all of those people who were born in 1914. that bought them another few years.. for decades, each and every issue of awake!

  magazine featured this declaration at the beginning:.

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  Thanks for the post. It was well written.

  Sour Grapes
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  THIS GENERATION - again! Who belongs to "This Generation"?

  by Titus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what about dan sydlik and henschel milton, for example?.

  they were born in 1919 and 1920 (after 1914), and both died before the "great tribulation".. .

  the definition of wt says:.

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  Most JW's can only describe the first meaning of "this generation". My Mom is

  in her 80's and this is what she still believes. She doesn't understand the

  last two flashes of "new light" and she sure as hell won't understand the

  latest change. Most JW's will not be able to explain the change and the

  ones that do will say that this is further proof that we have the Truth because

  the light is getting brighter and brighter. Some who are really deep thinkers

  will even state that this is another sign of how close we are to the end even

  though the Witchtower Babel and Trick Society has just added another 70 to

  80 years of waiting until the Great Tribulation.

  Sour Grapes