Why did YOU want to live forever?? (page 5)

Dia

This has really been an interesting read.

Funny, but I don't think I ever really thought much about it. Tho I truly believed in God and some other things (can't think of what right now, so I can't enumerate), maybe I just didn't buy all this hook, line and sinker? I didn't NOT buy it.

I think maybe I was just paying careful, scrutenous attention and keeping it filed somewhere, knowing what I was EXPECTED to believe and parroting that on command like a good JW child.

But to sit around dreaming about or wishing about what it was going to be like?

I can imagine that in a group of JWs I might verbalize such musings, with the rest of the crowd. Kind of a little 'what if' game.

But in my heart of hearts? If I thought anything, I guess I just thought that if God was doing this, I'm sure he'd know what he was doing.

And I didn't worry about whether or not I could figure it all out ahead of time.

I'm not sure if this made me MORE of a 'believer' than others here, or LESS.

What do you think?

Sabine

I'm with Teenyuck, lions, tigers and bears, wahoo!!...I love animals, people you can keep.

Plus after my pathetic childhood, never went anywhere or did anything (except field service of course), that's the only thing I had to look forward to....

butalbee

I wouldn't wanna live forever.

Scully

Wow! Lots of really interesting posts here..... excellent stuff!!

I liked the idea of never growing old, but now that Miss Clairol and I have become good friends, it's not as bad as everyone was making it out to be.... yet!

When I was younger, I liked the idea of having my own personal zoo...... what kid wouldn't.... and then we got a dog and it was my job to clean up after him. I realized that elephants and lions and tigers and camels would have had a lot more crap to clean up, so I scaled down my zoo wish. A lot.

The only real reason I thought living forever would be worth-while was the idea that I could meet my own relatives as they were resurrected and find out more about my own family history.

Learning something new all the time, exploring the globe and getting acquainted with the "worldwide brotherhood" (bluck!) would lose its charm REALLY REALLY FAST, imho.

Besides, spending 1000 years with only JWs?? Shoot me. Now.

Love, Scully

breeze

LIVE FOREVER....

Returning to my youth was a big draw for me, and then always being youthful. LIVING FOREVER and tasting all the different food represented by the many countries, and what about sex, and meeting new people, this a big place, the Earth!

How much could you consume mentally if you had forever? Maybe I could live long enough to understand women?

If I had to live forever with this current body or with health problems, maybe not, but offer me youth and health.....WOW?

BREEZE

joannadandy

I didn't want to. I always thought it would get boring, and it sounded like a lot of hardwork cleaning up the crappy earth, and then having no utilities etc. (the way the old folks told it we would all be riding horses and churning butter) I thought it sounded awful and like no fun at all. But when asked I made crap up. Like "I want a tiger" or "I will learn to play the piano" or "I will build a sail boat and sail the earth meeting all my brothers and sisters" GAG!

But once I told my parents I didn't want to live forever and they were mortified.

Gopher

It's MY life. It's now or never! I ain't gonna live forever! I just want to LIVE while I'm alive.

IT'S MY LIFE

Sung by BON JOVI

This ain't a song for the broken-hearted
No silent prayer for the faith-departed
I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
You're gonna hear my voice
When I shout it out loud

It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

This is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina who never backed down
Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake
Luck ain't even lucky
Got to make your own breaks

It's my life
And it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life

Better stand tall when they're calling you out
Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down

It's my life
And it's now or never
'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive

Chorus:
It's my life
And it's now or never
'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life!

scootergirl

I didn't even think about it......I guess it was just what was taught.

As for now......I wouldn't want to live forever. I want to live a long, healthy and happy life (planing on living till I reach 100 at least).......then peacefully drift to the "otherside" and see what it going on over there.

Country Girl

That's true. Living on a paradise earth would be .. well.. inhuman. We are *meant* to experience pain because it's one of the emotions that God gave us. He gave us a full range of emotions so we could experience all of them. Makes sense... If we didn't have death, sorrow, grief, longing, or pain... anymore.. what would our lives be? Part of the rich tapestry of being a human is to experience *all* the emotions.. and rise above them and continue on.. the true nobility of it. That's our crowning grace, I think. From some sad emotions, and some happy ones, our beauty as humans has arisen. What love stories, what art, what music could have emerged without sadness and grief, along with happiness and joy? The two extremes cause the chasm between the emotions to erupt into beautiful plays, paintings, music, sculptures, etc. Our beauty as humans is our art.. and our expression. CG p/s: the above is just *my* opinion.

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