What Did you Plan On Doing In The New System? (page 3)

joannadandy

I remember once a CO came and had all the kids draw a picture of what they thought the new system was like. We all got to go up on stage and show our pictures...pretty intense for a four year old lemme tell ya~

Of course when I was young I only thought about all the animals I was going to have. A Tiger to be sure, maybe a lion too.

As I got older, as some others have said, I was pretty convinced I wasn't going to make it to the system, and that if I did, once they let satan out after the 1,000 years I would muck it up. How awful is that? You get a taste of paradise before you burn for all eternity...happy happy joy joy!

Then when I was 13 I held the romantic notion that when John Keats was brought back to life, I would get him to fall in love with me, I'd tell him what a loser Fanny was and that I was so much better for him. Then we'd build our own sailboat and sail around writing poetry. Yeah...laugh it up! Go ahead!

FlyingHighNow

Then we'd build our own sailboat and sail around writing poetry. Yeah...laugh it up! Go ahead!

Noooo, this sounds romantic and wonderful, Jo. I used to wonder if J would make the land mass into one long strip circling the world so lots of people could live on the coast. And I thought about sailing. I just didn't want to do this with my ex still a jw husband. I thought it would be cool to learn about ship building from the Phonecians and the Vikings.

Heather

greven

Being bored. An eternity is long and lasting. Think about it! At a certain point you are done petting animals, know all there is to learn and have done all that can be done. You get bored everlasting! It would be hell on earth.

Greven

outbutnotdown

I swore/dreamt that I would/could run headlong into a tree or jump from 50 feet up and never have to worry about it. (I was a very agressive and active child and when I finally realized that gravity would still be a factor in "the new system", I quit)..... Kidding.... teehee... I wish it were that easy.

That's part of what gets JW's hooked, eh, the dream of things being better than they are now. Humans forget sometimes that ALL things could be BETTER or WORSE.

Thanks for the question min

Brad

medstudent

well first of all: i always wanted to be a doctor so paradise kind of blows if you are without the job you've always wanted to do.....

second of all: i'm not so fond of nature...i mean i like it and all, am a vegetarian and always buy biological stuff, but if i have to live continuously in some kind of farm i would kill myself....

third of all: God kills a lot of people right in armageddon....so aren't we suppose to clear all the rotting bodies first.....and clear all the mess of the destroyed buildings.....that would take us about 100 years to do anyway....

medstudent

Maverick

I wanted to build big and small bridges and dams all over the Earth. I figured the guys in charge would give me a plot of land and I would build a house on one end and every thousand years or so build a new one on the other end and just go back and forth. Every ten years or so I would work for the government for a year and that would be my taxes. That way one in ten persons on the Earth was working for all of us at any given time. We would have a kind of co-op in our village and look after each others places when we were gone off somewhere. Each village would have their own power and water/sewer station and we would trade with other villages for goods. The only part I had a hard time with was having a K-Hall in our village. Even as a dud this thought always made me cringe! Maverick

smurfette

This is a great question, I remember this coming up all the time.

I was into the whole lion for a pet idea too when I was really little.

I was also keenly interested in the non believing neighbor's giant house, dirt bike, and snomobile. He was a major jerk to me and I used to think how great it would be to "inherit" his stuff courtesy of a vengeful Jehovah! Pretty twisted, but it was a really cool house, and if it was Jehovah's will, all the better.

When I got a little older I noticed every time we did chores for our elder landlord like brushing, weeding, etc.. we were "practicing for the new system". That pretty much got me re thinking the whole the new system is going to be great idea.

I love Joanna's answer. Sailing around with Keats sounds pretty cool!

drawcad_1

I guess, that I did not think a lot about what I would be doing for that eternity. I knew that I would get bored and at some point try to get free. My wife, on the other hand, had all kinds of work. She would be cleaning up all of the dead bodies, cleaning the pollution and kissing some serious Elder butt.

What worried me the most was the idea of perfection. We were always told that we would receive perfect bodies, no more disease and paradise would be perfect. But, to whose standards would all of this be judged. My idea of a perfect body might be a lot different than someone else?s, at what age are we perfect. Maybe at 60 years old we have come to a perfect state of enlightenment and we would not have to worry about sex. Would we need to worry about disease, would they also become perfect, they were created by God (he created everything).

Maybe I just looked into it to far. Beer and sex.

Aztec

I planned on eating lots of fruit and giving birth to all of the aborted fetuses. I actually prayed to that effect as a child. "Dear Jehovah, if I am a good girl and get to live in Paradise, I will happily give birth to all of the aborted babies...Amen".

~Aztec

PS I just like fruit.

RAYZORBLADE

Dumb-dee-dumb-dumb...ever heard that song?

No...well I wrote it, and it wasn't a hit.

But I honestly was dumb and naive, and thought I'd hopefully have an opportunity to do space travel. Did someone say: *Rayzorblade is a space cadet* ?

Uh huh, dumb as a stump.

Oh well.....it was great as a teenager, but I am not going anywheres up that way.

Earth is just A-OK for me.

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