by Scully 48 Replies latest jw friends
I was living in anticipation of Armageddon, not because I wanted to live forever, I was anticipating Armageddon because I was resigned to die. When Armageddon didn't come in 1975, I was pissed because I didn't die like I was promised. I never wanted to live forever under the conditions they described.
gb
The Way I See it http://www.freeminds.org/buss/buss.htm
Hey Jesika, I like your comment.
Lots of good comments here.This topic made me think of the end of Star Trek:Generations when Will Riker tells Picard "I plan to live forever". Personally, I still like the idea. Though I am preparing myself mentally for my eventual death (of course, I could step in front of a bus tomorrow), I still hope to live forever. Just because I am not a well-performing Witness right now does not mean, to me, that I have to give up on it.
I wanted to meet my grandparents. I wanted to be able to swim deep under the sea without drowning. I wanted to be able to run right around the world without stopping. I wanted a lion like the girl in the Bible Stories book picture.. I wanted to be a kid forever and just have fun all the time (and no school!)
I didn't think very much about meeting all the other JWs, I just wanted to have my family together forever.
Then somebody told me resurrected people wouldn't remember what life was like before, and wouldn't remember us. Seemed pointless then. Didn't want my dad to not remember me. Also didn't want my dad's girlfriend to get resurrected.
Simon said "we're all forgotten in a couple generations"
He's so right. isn't it sad? I just went and saw my grandparents, once vibrant busy people. Gramma was asleep with her head on the table and didn't recognize me. Grampa is in a wheel chair and half of his face is paralyzed from a surgery. his biggest task that day was getting an entire glass of milk drank. You know, I do not know what their grand parents names were. My kids kids won't even ask about mine I am sure.
I like being alive and wanted to live forever too. With all it's ups and downs, life is pretty wonderful. I like to travel and see other parts of the world and having eternity to walk about the earth, eating fresh fruit and seeing the rest of the world just appealed to me.
I also wished to be able to see past ancestors that I had heard about and never knew.
But overall, it was the thought of total freedom and no worries ever again in a paradise earth, being able to freely roam about and meet peole and see new things that most appealed to me.
Ah, if only it were true
Lew W
I wanted to pay off my VISA & MASTERCARD bills!
Outaservice (Stay alive til 75)
I was thinking at the time that the best thing I could give my children was the gift of life.When I learned of this living forever on a paradise earth like the Garden of Eden at that time so long ago, I thought this is the best gift I could give to my children.Their future was secure ,death would not claim us.That was back in the day way back.My children ,now they are all grown up and married and are not thinking about living forever on a paradise earth.Neither are their parents,however, they have told us that they know we love them and were looking out for their future when they were not able to.OH! If we could ever know if these words are true "Death where is your sting!"??Blueblades
Why Not?
Why, Francois, honey, I'm just beginning to appreciate the animal body properly.
Back when I was a good little dubbie, I wanted to learn every musical instrument, every aspect of several arts, also math and science (Algebra I alone would probably require fifty years ;)).
And then I wanted to hear the truth about all those six thousand years of human history from the lips of the resurrected ones. I was in no hurry to meet Moses and David; what about John Muir, George Washington Carver, Elizabeth I, Harriet Tubman? I wanted to -- once we got PBS up and running again -- host a TV show similar to Steve Allen's A Meeting of Minds -- but with the real personages, not actors.
And, 151drinker, shame on you ;) of course eternal youth was a given. How could you forget?
I'm with COMF, actually. Wasn't it Farkel who declared that all experience would eventually pale and all enjoyments crumble irretrievably to dust? I don't think so. I don't think it would be possible to remember a thousand years of experience all at once. I can well imagine picking up a book you yourself had written, so long after the publication date that it had begun to crumble -- and saying: "My god, I'm going to have to brush up my English before I can read this again."
Actually, what I most looked forward to in
Cloud-Cuckoo Land
the Kingdom was the feeling of being taken care of. I still miss it.
GentlyFeral
Lots of reasons. But put simply: I've always wanted to see what happens next.
