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| The "Truth" book was first published in 1968 and was used to lure people into the JW religion. |
Since walking out of that Kingdom Hall door in June of 2006, I have not looked back with fear or longing. I now enjoy my freedom from their ban on reading material that is not published by their corporation and continue to read about various subjects that interest me. I do not look back with any fear, grief or remorse over the JW religion that teaches genocide of its membership and teaches shunning and abandonment of their family and friends simply because they choose to not be a member of the JWs anymore. You don't need any money making religious corporation to have access to the Bible and its teachings; it is free and available to all who want it sans any leadership committee dictating how, when, and where you will read it.
I have found that many deities from various religions and belief systems predate the creation of the man Jesus Christ on earth, who was born of a virgin. Any person or entity claiming to be a god or godlike was born of a virgin, yes, that's the rule if you want followers. There are many documentaries, online sources, etc., that will take you down a very long and compelling path to what this world is really all about including the origin of Christianity. There are a few programs on You Tube about this, such as, the "History of Christianity - How Christianity was Invented" and the "Origin of Christianity - The Piso Falvian Dynasty".
As I talked about briefly earlier in this blog, the Egyptian God Horus predates Jesus yet has the same storyline as Jesus, having 12 disciples, healed the sick, was crucified and buried in a tomb and was raised from the dead, and more. Buddha predates Jesus and also healed the sick, walked on water, fed 500 men from one basket of cakes, spent three days in jail and was resurrected after he died. There are more examples that the invention of Jesus simply mimicked these gods and personas before him and can easily be found if you have curiosity about the origins of Christianity and now have permission to choose your own reading material and what types of programs you will watch, and not continually listen to a bunch of men at the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society that simply promote their own publications and videos to further their manufactured religion and coerce you into giving them a monthly donation to their cause of printing more literature to capture more people into their nets with the promise they cannot keep, that the earth will be turned into a paradise.
There are many belief systems and there is no right or wrong, except the "wrong" ones are those that purposefully teach warfare and murder, much like the JWs who teach genocide of their membership by refusing potentially life-saving whole blood transfusions either for themselves or their spouses or face being ostracized and shunned by their congregation and family members, even facing outright disfellowshipping or forced disassociation from the group.
I had heard many stories in a few of the congregations our family was assigned to since my father was an Elder for many years, and sometimes we would be assigned to go to a congregation outside of the territory where we lived. I heard many sad stories about people dying simply for refusing blood transfusions when doctors felt they could have been saved and some of these stories made it into our local newspapers making the JWs very proud to get press. Yes, they relish in their death-dealing religion. One such story was about a JW woman dying in childbirth due to loss of blood and the baby was saved but not the mother, all because she filled out a medical directive refusing blood [this was before the now changed policy of allowing certain blood fractions, yet still banning the use of whole blood] and the husband enforced it. They view life very cheaply, thinking that it's okay to purposefully die since you will be resurrected to a paradise on earth and live forever [remembering the JWs teach that only 144,000 are slated for heaven with the rest of them slated for an earthly paradise].
I have found that many deities from various religions and belief systems predate the creation of the man Jesus Christ on earth, who was born of a virgin. Any person or entity claiming to be a god or godlike was born of a virgin, yes, that's the rule if you want followers. There are many documentaries, online sources, etc., that will take you down a very long and compelling path to what this world is really all about including the origin of Christianity. There are a few programs on You Tube about this, such as, the "History of Christianity - How Christianity was Invented" and the "Origin of Christianity - The Piso Falvian Dynasty".
As I talked about briefly earlier in this blog, the Egyptian God Horus predates Jesus yet has the same storyline as Jesus, having 12 disciples, healed the sick, was crucified and buried in a tomb and was raised from the dead, and more. Buddha predates Jesus and also healed the sick, walked on water, fed 500 men from one basket of cakes, spent three days in jail and was resurrected after he died. There are more examples that the invention of Jesus simply mimicked these gods and personas before him and can easily be found if you have curiosity about the origins of Christianity and now have permission to choose your own reading material and what types of programs you will watch, and not continually listen to a bunch of men at the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society that simply promote their own publications and videos to further their manufactured religion and coerce you into giving them a monthly donation to their cause of printing more literature to capture more people into their nets with the promise they cannot keep, that the earth will be turned into a paradise.
There are many belief systems and there is no right or wrong, except the "wrong" ones are those that purposefully teach warfare and murder, much like the JWs who teach genocide of their membership by refusing potentially life-saving whole blood transfusions either for themselves or their spouses or face being ostracized and shunned by their congregation and family members, even facing outright disfellowshipping or forced disassociation from the group.
I had heard many stories in a few of the congregations our family was assigned to since my father was an Elder for many years, and sometimes we would be assigned to go to a congregation outside of the territory where we lived. I heard many sad stories about people dying simply for refusing blood transfusions when doctors felt they could have been saved and some of these stories made it into our local newspapers making the JWs very proud to get press. Yes, they relish in their death-dealing religion. One such story was about a JW woman dying in childbirth due to loss of blood and the baby was saved but not the mother, all because she filled out a medical directive refusing blood [this was before the now changed policy of allowing certain blood fractions, yet still banning the use of whole blood] and the husband enforced it. They view life very cheaply, thinking that it's okay to purposefully die since you will be resurrected to a paradise on earth and live forever [remembering the JWs teach that only 144,000 are slated for heaven with the rest of them slated for an earthly paradise].
The only attraction the JWs have on the masses of people searching for a way out of a predicament, where we live in a world of much sadness and destruction with some feeling there is no end to the spiraling downward of this mad, mad world, is this fictional paradise on earth. They look for help and may fall for the fantasy world the JWs offer, all based on nothing; there is no foundation for their teaching of a physical paradise on earth where humans would live forever. They made it up to sell their religion and get you hooked on a savior instead of looking inside of themselves for an answer. It might be corny, but you have to look at the person in the mirror first. There is a lot of good in this world and hopefully the good will outweigh the bad if we start with ourselves.
So what does the Bible say about a paradise? Didn't Jesus promise that he is making a way for us where righteousness is to dwell? Jesus resides in heaven, so any paradise would be heavenly not earthly. The word paradise in the JW's New World Translation Bible refers to a heavenly realm. Additionally, the Bible never promises that those who have died would be resurrected to a paradise on earth. The JWs cannot explain the scriptures that reference that God is forming a new heavens and a new earth, with this physical earth coming to an end and will be replaced with a new earth with no reference to any resurrection of humans to take place on earth.
So what can you do? You can choose to live in a fantasy world and sit back and do nothing to improve your environment or help those around you to improve their living situation or offer help and encouragement. I have wasted my entire young life on waiting and hoping for an end to this system of things, sitting stagnate waiting on God to fix everything and usher me into an earthly paradise. Yes, I was one of those blind people who looked forward to the destruction of millions of innocent people on this earth who are not JWs that God would destroy so I could sit in a paradise on earth. I have had to face facts, that this is the life we were given, for whatever reason.
I now enjoy reading about many different belief systems, exploring various types of spirituality, nothing is beyond my reach if I want to research and study about anything I want. A fact of life is that no one has the "truth". If there was any truth, we would all be following it since it would be common knowledge and not a secret. Like the existence of gravity. We all follow that rule since it is a truth, we don't need to be convinced that it exists.
Believe what makes you happy. You don't need a group of wealthy religious leaders to provide you with endless fake reading material thinking it can replace the Bible. If you enjoy the teachings in the Bible, why not collect many different Bibles from many different time periods? If you want to pursue other belief systems, what is stopping you? I am sorry but no one "knows" the beginning or the end of anything, do what makes you happy without harming anyone along the way and dictating how they should or should not live their lives. Stop living on fear and destruction, waiting for a day when the JWs teach of a mass murder of innocent humans. No sane person wants that, and that is what is in question here, the sanity of the devout JWs caught up in the lure of a paradise on earth.
I will leave you with this bit of wisdom that I have found comforting when I think about what I lost after leaving the JWs. What was that? That I had lost nothing, but found an expansion of knowledge, hope, joy and a belief that everything in the end will work out okay.
Please don't make your heart sick being caught up in an endless waiting game because of the lure of living forever on a paradise on earth. I am suffering financially and emotionally from waiting on this fantasy land of a paradise on earth that I was raised to believe, but I am no longer trapped in that fantasy. I now learn new things everyday as life is an adventure and not a waiting game, as everyone has the permission to let life take them by the hand and see where it leads. You have to accept the good with the bad and that acceptance can be a good thing [and channeling a bit of Martha Stewart here and there].
#ex-JW #activism
#jehovahswitnesses
#paradiseonearth
So what does the Bible say about a paradise? Didn't Jesus promise that he is making a way for us where righteousness is to dwell? Jesus resides in heaven, so any paradise would be heavenly not earthly. The word paradise in the JW's New World Translation Bible refers to a heavenly realm. Additionally, the Bible never promises that those who have died would be resurrected to a paradise on earth. The JWs cannot explain the scriptures that reference that God is forming a new heavens and a new earth, with this physical earth coming to an end and will be replaced with a new earth with no reference to any resurrection of humans to take place on earth.
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| This book is a publication of the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society and is used to lure innocent people into their religion. However, the references to a paradise in the Bible meant heaven not earth, a Bible truth that the JWs ignore. For further reading, reference: http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/earth-forever.php |
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| We could all use a Mame Dennis in our lives. |
So what can you do? You can choose to live in a fantasy world and sit back and do nothing to improve your environment or help those around you to improve their living situation or offer help and encouragement. I have wasted my entire young life on waiting and hoping for an end to this system of things, sitting stagnate waiting on God to fix everything and usher me into an earthly paradise. Yes, I was one of those blind people who looked forward to the destruction of millions of innocent people on this earth who are not JWs that God would destroy so I could sit in a paradise on earth. I have had to face facts, that this is the life we were given, for whatever reason.
I now enjoy reading about many different belief systems, exploring various types of spirituality, nothing is beyond my reach if I want to research and study about anything I want. A fact of life is that no one has the "truth". If there was any truth, we would all be following it since it would be common knowledge and not a secret. Like the existence of gravity. We all follow that rule since it is a truth, we don't need to be convinced that it exists.
Believe what makes you happy. You don't need a group of wealthy religious leaders to provide you with endless fake reading material thinking it can replace the Bible. If you enjoy the teachings in the Bible, why not collect many different Bibles from many different time periods? If you want to pursue other belief systems, what is stopping you? I am sorry but no one "knows" the beginning or the end of anything, do what makes you happy without harming anyone along the way and dictating how they should or should not live their lives. Stop living on fear and destruction, waiting for a day when the JWs teach of a mass murder of innocent humans. No sane person wants that, and that is what is in question here, the sanity of the devout JWs caught up in the lure of a paradise on earth.
I will leave you with this bit of wisdom that I have found comforting when I think about what I lost after leaving the JWs. What was that? That I had lost nothing, but found an expansion of knowledge, hope, joy and a belief that everything in the end will work out okay.
Please don't make your heart sick being caught up in an endless waiting game because of the lure of living forever on a paradise on earth. I am suffering financially and emotionally from waiting on this fantasy land of a paradise on earth that I was raised to believe, but I am no longer trapped in that fantasy. I now learn new things everyday as life is an adventure and not a waiting game, as everyone has the permission to let life take them by the hand and see where it leads. You have to accept the good with the bad and that acceptance can be a good thing [and channeling a bit of Martha Stewart here and there].
#ex-JW #activism
#jehovahswitnesses
#paradiseonearth
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