Relieved or gutted, which are you?

by sleepy 6 Replies latest jw friends

• 

  sleepy

  Is finding out that Jehovahs Witnesses are not the truth a relief for you as you no longer have to go to meetings etc or does it make you gutted as there is no everlasting life and no new system?

  I started of relieved , then gutted , and whent through cycles of both now I feel that it has to be relief.
  Though I will probably never get over the fact that for 26 years of my life everything I believed was wrong and I will allways have a small longing for that new world, but the relief that I can live my own life outweighs that.
• 

  Englishman

  Sleepy,

  Accepting our own mortality is a major step on life's journey.

  Englishman
• 

  zenpunk

  I usually feel relieved and gutted - all at the same time.
• 

  Englishman

  A bit like a fish does?

  Englishman.
• 

  Francois

  Perhaps the JWs (and others) have got the right string but the wrong yo-yo.

  Perhaps the earth will one day be a paradise, having evolved naturally to that high spiritual estate over thousands of years.

  And perhaps too, there is an entirely different universe career for each one of us. I really never cared for the paradise earth idea when it had to be achieved by mass slaugher. We very well may die here and wake up on another world a little more spiritual and a little less material and continue to spiritually evolve. I mean if evolution really is a technique of Diety, why would it be used only on the first world and not on all the rest? We start out in an animal existence and evolve in life after life after life until the "mark of the beast [animal origin]" has been erased and we become pure spirit beings. That's not really too far-fetched an idea is it?

  Francois
• 

  Undecided

  Hi Sleepy,

  I try not to dwell on it too much, I just try to enjoy each day, but I know the day is comming when something will take all the enjoyment of life away and then I will die. What happens after that I won't know anything about, at least that is the way I feel now.

  Ken P.
• 

  dmouse

  Personally, I felt absolutely gutted.
  For months after I realised it wasn't the truth I couldn't function properly, went into deep depression.

  My God, one minute I was going to live forever in paradise and the next I was facing certain death and a universe that was totally indifferent to our existence. Not only that but the mind boggling suffering in the world had no answer.

  I nearly cracked, crying myself to sleep every night for weeks.

  Then I got over it, sort of.

  I would give ANYTHING for the JW view of the future to be true.

  But it ain’t and that’s that.