Why did YOU want to live forever?? (page 2)

Francois

I want to live forever, but not on this planet, and not as an evolutionary being of animal origin stopped at animal.

I want to continue to evolve, to lose forever this animal body, this mark of the beast, and become a spirit being doing spiritual work throughout a Universe of Universes helping other evolutionary origin beings to cease to resist the spiritualizing effort and to cooperate with the evolutionary plan to make spirit beings of them as well. Vast numbers of adventures yet to be had on worlds undreamed of.

The idea of stopping our evolution, staying on this planet as an animal and living here forever - what a puny, unimaginative idea. God is supposed to show us things that eye has not seen nor has come up in the imagination of the mind. I can imagine a bunch about what life everlasting on this dirt ball would be like...and I don't like it.

Besides, a thousand years with Jehovah's Witnesses? I'd rather be dead.

francois

COMF

Seriously....how long can that last before it gets old?

Well, are you tired of orgasms yet? How about the taste of a freshly grilled medium-rare steak?

The enjoyment renews itself from interval to interval. I personally have no desire to die, either now or in another hundred years. I can picture life getting awfully boring after a few million years; but then, I can also imagine it being continuously renewing. I wouldn't want a life with no challenge, no danger, no tests of my endurance.

But I don't want to die. It's just something I''m resigned to because it's inevitable. I'm just getting started learning stuff. And I like it!

(Editied to change "are you tired of sex yet" to "are you tired of orgasms yet".

Edited by - COMF on 6 November 2002 17:35:25

shera

I'm thinking of it and I donot really know......I "was" scared of death.

teenyuck

Lions & tigers & bears, Oh My!

As a kid, petting animals all day sounded good. And, no field service.

As an older teen, not getting old and becoming "perfect" sounded good. What ever perfect means.

Now, the thought of hanging with all those boring dubs forever is too much to handle. Yes, orgasams forever sounds good, however, after a few hundred years, that might get old.

Unless we could all trade off...might brighten up the days. Plus it might help the gene pool if we had more than one partner.

Heck, now I want to live forever....or for at least another 1000 years. Then, if I didn't make the cut, I could die knowing I had a really good time!

hillbilly

Well no one asked me if I wanted to live forever, it was part of the package deal. The fact is, as I see it now, we all affect the future, so in reality none of us really die. As long as mankind keeps making the circle we all have a chance for eternity.

To echo another post: ewwww life on earth with the Kingdom Hall Klan, I'd rather get poked with sharp stick.

Beck_Melbourne

It was the resurrection hope that finally got me. I wanted to be there when my son woke up. The elders told me that I would be the first one he would see, how lucky was I to have this precious hope. Bah!!

~Beck~

RandomTask

I was deathly afraid of, well, dying. I didn't ever want to die. But then it dawned on me that living that kind of life forever with those people would be pure hell in itself.

Really no one has any knowledge of what happens to us after we die, there could be some sort of afterlife and then again we could just cease to exist. So until then I'll enjoy the relatively short time I have on this Earth.

terabletera

I didn't have a "REAL" family growing up. When I grew up I had my own kids and a good marriage and I didn't want it to end so I guess that much appealed to me. Also, I had a brother that died tragically at the age of 3 (actually he was a half brother but I didn't care, I was 9). I always saw that I some how survived this empty way of growing up and he did not since he had a more dangerous presence enter his life. No one but my grandparents were at his burial. Everytime I go to california, I go to his little grave. I had wanted to be there waiting for him in the new system.

Last saturday, I went to his grave for the first time as a non JW. this time I spoke to him now that I no longer think the dead are unconscious of anything. I sat next to that grave for a long time and watched it get dark in the desert. I'm okay with the fact that he wont' be in some new system needing his sister to raise him. Not sure where he is actually but I can surmise. That part is personal. :0)

Edited by - terabletera on 6 November 2002 18:33:20

DanTheMan

(((Beck))) I didn't know...

It wasn't the prospect of living forever that appealed to me, but the idea of never having to die. Fear of death is a terrible thing. The more I contemplated the idea of living forever as a human on the earth, the more the idea seemed absurd. I expressed this to many elders, their predictable response was that I lacked faith in Jerhover's promises. Whatever.

Bendrr

Why? Well damn! Who wants to die?

I still want to live forever, but not in the world dubs predict. I feel the same way as Francois. If I'm going to live forever I don't want it to be in the same place. I don't know what the dubs teach now regarding technology in their new system but as a dub I always hoped that we would continue to develop science and technology. And that Jehovah would not restrict us to just Earth but allow us to develop and use space travel to explore the rest of the universe. It makes no sense that He would put an infinite universe out there and limit perfect humans to simply look at it from one planet for eternity.

Mike.

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