Here's something I've never been able to share with some x-jw's, but I am glad someone posted the "what about the earth filling up" thing. And, amazingly enough, I didn't have this conversation until AFTER I was DF'd.
One day me and my df'd friend Dan were sitting in our apartment, we'd just smoked some pot and we started talking about the Bible, and Ecclesiastes, and then we started rattling off some post-Armageddon theories. This was a conversation that was based on JW doctrine but loose and inclusive in a way that never would have flown in the JW KH setting.
We started talking about the earth eventually being filled up, because we were taught that humans would not stop pro-creating during the millenial reign and on into eternity. Then we started thinking, right now humans are said to only be using a small portion of our brain's total capacity. What if (a question JW's don't like much), What if, during the 1000 year reign as we progress toward perfection we learn how to travel faster and farther distances, interstellar travel. We were also taught that man would not revert back to a lower level of technology so that fit in the realm of JW doctrine. So, once the earth gets filled, then we make preperations and move to another planet. we terraform the planet, make it livable and then people go there and eventually THAT planet gets filled up. And so on and so on until humans are on every planet in every solar system in every galaxy in the whole universe. But that would take a LONG time, would it not? Who cares!? It's eternity, right? And what if, during that expansion and colonization process, as we continue to grow and expand our minds, we begin to develop into beings that can accomplish things by thought, by will, maybe we can fly? Maybe we've learned how to teleport? What if we advanced SO far that we ceased to exist as we do now and became beings of pure energy? Like angels? ANd what if, once that happens, we all, an entire UNIVERSE of energy beings, coalesced and became a part of this once immense, unfathomable universal being known as God? Jehovah? Would it not make you realize why the bible calls God "a happy God?" And who's to say that would be the first time that such a thing had ever happened?
Again, who knows, right? IN the uncertainty of it all, one eventuality is just as likely as any other, but it sure made sense at the time, and since that time, I've never looked at things quite the same. It was nice being able to just rattle of possibilities and just to speculate and that, I think, it something that is missing from JW's and other organized religions everywhere. In that moment, Dan and I regained some of childish wonder and our enthusiasm, and that, to me, would be what I would want my creation to do, if I were God. I would want them to be happy trying to make sense out of the mystery of their lives, not being instructed and browbeaten and de-humanized. Just some of my thoughts.