by fearnotruth22 27 Replies latest jw experiences
Things were different when you were active in the org. Meetings, talks, service, assemblies, elders meetings, congrgational duties, busy with the hope of a reward of living forever and serving God with eternity in view. All of your efforts and goals related to being a JW, your thinking, your views, your life, your future all revolved aroung the org.
With all that aside, what are you doing now?
what are you doing?
I am enjoyng the life I have now without feeling the burden of savibg the world.
Watching a georgous sunset over the Pacific Ocean! Realizing how lucky I've been to only have 15 years in the Borg, rather than the decades many others have endured. Life has been full with education, travel family career and the delight of knowing I'm a part of an ever-advancing civilization rather than one than is spiraling into destruction by Yahover!
Sitting here reading and writing about Meetings, talks, service, assemblies, elders meetings, congrgational duties, now we used to be busy with the hope of a reward of living forever and serving God with eternity in view.
Why?. . . got an idea for a party?
I', doing as much as I can. I believe I ave this life and no other, so I've got to have fun now. So I do what I want as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else.
I believe the purpose of life is to learn to love more ably and more deeply. This includes loving oneself, something the Borg greatly frowned upon. Giving myself permission to love myself, flaws and all, as well as allowing myself to charitably serve my fellow man (as opposed to bookselling) is very liberating.
outnfree
Life a rough business, and nobody will get trough it alive.----Herbert Frankel
Everyone seems to have an opinion?
The Mormons
http://www.mormon.org/learn/0,8672,1121-1,00.html
David Kyle Foster
http://www.gospelcom.net/mlm/purposelife.html
The Buddhists
http://www.tipitaka.net/ebooks/pageload.php?book=0004&page=07
Jehovah's Witnesses
http://www.watchtower.org/library/pr/
Islam
http://www.islam-guide.com/purpose-of-life.htm
The Bahai
http://www.interlog.com/~m9/purpose.html
and so on, and so on
By the time you check out everyone's explanation, your life will be over.
Blondie
The JW definitely gave me a clear purpose, supposedly honoring God, vindicating his name. And then there was the preaching work a "life-saving" work.
Well all that's gone. No such lofty purpose as saving people's lives now. Like others, I'm just trying to enjoy the simple things in the finite life I have. I do feel that I am providing some benefit to society. I have a couple of personal hobbies that I put a little more time into now, but honestly, I have had no problem filling up all the time that I formerly used in JW activities. I do feel less time pressure now.
