How do you deal with the fact that you no longer have the hope as JW does?
I've difficulties reconciling with the fact of growing old etc. and not knowing what will happen...
Thanks
/Newborn
by Newborn 13 Replies latest jw friends
It subsides after a while, and you realise that the hope was artificial.
Focus on the life you have now and do the best with it you can. Not wishing to sound negative, but, we may never be here again…….
Although don’t stop hoping or searching, if it means that much to you. There are no definite answers…..
What is so bad about sleeping forever anyway? Beats getting up for work in the morning……!!
If you choose to have a spiritual side
Might I recommend some reading material.
Order "In Search of Christian freedom"
by Ray Franz, former JW Governing Body Member.
Additionally, read "Crisis of Conscience".
In my view and contrary to JW teachings, being a Christian is
not something that requires any type of religious affiliation.
What it does require us to do though
is to think.
Well you technically you can choose to believe in a paradise resurrection for all......the Bible Students still do.
You just basically have to decide what you believe. Try reading the Bible without WT study aids.
Some become atheist, agnostic and other stay Christian or gravitate to another belief system.
I am a Christian.
Better to lose the false hope and the real burden that comes with it. True, we do not have the hope of living forever on Earth, unless science is able to pull it off (and our leaders at the FDA stay out of their way). But we do not have the burden of "murdering" someone by not going faster in field circus, or of living up to impossible standards.
Use it to motivate you to do something you have always wanted to do instead of reflecting on what you no longer have.