by choosing life 8 Replies latest jw friends
If you could decide what happens to you after you leave this world, what would it be. The reason I ask is I read a book called The Five People You Meet In Heaven. It kinda leaned in that direction. Each person ended up exactly as they wanted, in a heaven that they created.
So, what would be your choice?
Ohhhhhh, good one!
For me, heaven would be a place with all my family and loved ones there. I would like there to be animals and have a country atmosphere. If I had to make my own heaven, I am so limited to the things I know of on this earth....and I think it couldn't be as good as what God could come up with....if there is such a place. I guess I like my little peice of "heaven on earth", those days with my hubby and baby doing little things together, like going to a park. I am simple to please.
Either this... 
, or that... 
fts 
The Muslim idea is good- getting laid by 72 black eyed virgins
"I don't believe in a future life," said Raskolnikov.
Svidrigaïlov sat lost in thought.
"And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort," he said suddenly.
"He is a madman," thought Raskolnikov.
"We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that."
"Can it be you can imagine nothing juster and more comforting than that?" Raskolnikov cried, with a feeling of anguish.
"Juster? And how can we tell, perhaps that is just, and do you know it's what I would certainly have made it," answered Svidrigaïlov, with a vague smile.
This horrible answer sent a cold chill through Raskolnikov. Svidrigaïlov raised his head, looked at him, and suddenly began laughing.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, II, 5
On a lighter tone, I remember the following joke:
What is paradise? -- Old friends sharing memories of their vacations.
What is hell? -- The same, only they have brought their slides with them.
(The second line might be updated to PowerPoint or something...)
Hello again, Choosing!
I really don't have an original thought on this. But the dumping of the two-class system and contemplation of Paradise different from WT dogma has me thinking. Jesus' comment on his Father's house having many mansions and his going away to prepare a place for us to be WITH him is all so new. Need to chew on this awhile. Pretty heavy-duty. Expanding horizons.
Wanting to know my destiny,
CoCo
All I know is that in my after-life I do not, I repeat, I do not want to live next door to a Jehovahs Witness for 1000 years, lol.
- Infinite Progression - Infinite Harmony - Infinite Love
somewhere warm comfortable and safe with no worries or stress ,unlimited broadband, a never ending petrol tank and a car that never breaks down, oh and no bills.
actually i'd like that pre-afterlife cos i'm not actually sure i'd want to go through an afterlife this lifes been quite tiring, and much as i've enjoyed most of it i'm not sure i want another helping.
