jgnat, beautiful! Thanks for sharing
I will not die and unlived life
by jgnat 21 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Cold Steel
Yeah, it's one of those things that work better on paper than in real life.
I beleive man had a rich existence before birth and will have an even richer life after death. No need to rush.
You've got to be careful with metaphors like "open me," making one "more accessible" or to "loosen my heart," bowls or similar. One can be opened up on a rock, accessible in a hospital or have one's heart or bowls loosened in a number of unpleasant ways. Yeeech!
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return of parakeet
My dub brother's life is a perfect example of an unlived life.
He was dragged into the cult in his teens by our parents and took to it like a fish to water. He went to Bethel for four years but doesn't like to talk about it. Heaven only knows what happened to him there.
Then he married a dub, who, over the years, has steadily and quietly gone crazy. Literally. She's a shut-in who covers her windows with aluminum foil to keep out pollutants and demons. My brother has spent a fortune trying to find a (quack) cure for her. Never took her to a shrink, which is what she needed most. She's beyond help now.
He went into business with a dub friend, who bailed on him when the business started to go under.
He's now in his 60s, doing menial work, nursing a mentally ill wife, has no retirement funds, and is exhausted night and day. If he makes it to 70, I'll be very surprised.
His grades in high school were straight As. He could have been anything -- a doctor, lawyer, scientist -- anything.
But instead he devoted his life to misery in order to hold on to a lie.
Am I bitter about the WTS? You bet.
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Xanthippe
Beautiful painting Jgnat. Do you paint fantasy art?
I learned to live in the moment to survive terrible things but when life gets better there is a tendency to revert to former bad habits of fretting about the past and worrying about the future. I shall persevere with it because I know it works, it seals you off from the pain of things you cannot change and helps you enjoy sensory pleasure and the simple joys of each moment.
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jgnat
Xanthippe, not to mention that well-travelled neural paths grow more neurons. Happiness breeds happiness.
No, I don't paint fantasy art. Neither do I paint wolves. Wolves look just fine in their natural coats. (sorry, inside joke). That painting is based on a dry creek bed not too far from here.
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Xanthippe
Yes I have found the recent research on brain plasticity very encouraging.
I like wolves and I do have a painting of a wolf on my wall. It's not a fantasy painting, I know the ones you mean, this is just a wolf.
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jgnat
It's my own private joke. I'm an impressionist artist and my interest is in light and shade. Naturalist paintings of animals don't interest me. I've painted at a street walk and I can't tell you how many times bystanders have asked me if I might paint a wolf. What's next, Elvis on velvet?
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Jomavrick
jgnat, who is your favorite Painter?
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jgnat
I admire many artists for different aspects of their work. Michelangelo for the human form, Rembrandt for his studies of light and shade, Monet as the Impressionist I would model, Van Gogh for his transcendent expressionism, Sorolla, Western artists like Glenn Dean for atmosphere, Picasso for emotional power, and Robert Bateman for composition.
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Jomavrick
How about Bob Ross? (Just kidding) - well you are lightyears over my head with your art understanding. I just have a rudimentary appreciation for some of the classic painters. I fell in Love with Van Gogh several years ago - I would give anything to own one of his works. I druelled all over the Louvre a few years ago and get to go back in a Month to Paris. I was blown away by the Amazing paintings of Jacques-Louis David, they were so magnificient in scale and color. Got to go to Florence - but not nearly enough time there, could spend half a lifetime admiring all the works.
There is too much beauty and not enough time,,,,,,,,
