Are you living your life fully knowing that you will one day die?No! I'm married.
Are you living your life fully knowing that you will one day die?
by JH 29 Replies latest jw friends
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garybuss
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Sam the Man
No, because I once knew a person with that mentality, and it didnt work for him. It might work for you, if so good luck, but it didnt work for him. He took a bungee jump and crashed to his death. Alas, that day was his last!
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joelbear
yes, i think an honest viewpoint of how life works enables us to live life properly. death is part of life. delusions of mansions in the sky, 47 virgins, eternal life in a fantasy paradise confuse our sensabilities and lead us into making bad decisions.
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joelbear
knowing that true worship doesn’t mean you sacrifice everything now because someone says you have to in order to gain everlasting life.
um errr, isn't that the Watchtower Society of Jehovah's Witnesses that says that. I remember talks at Bethel where we were questioned as to whether we were being wholesouled in Jehovah's service.
what about people who don't take blood transfusions.
what about people who pioneer their entire lives and live in a tiny trailer.
what about people who do a thousand different things that alter their life because the society said to do it.
This attitude is basically why I left the witnesses. the society says specifically to sacrifice, which I was willing to do in many ways, then I found out about all the non-sacrificers that were in line for the same reward as me. It just didn't jive man. and it still don't.
There is no unified idea of what a "balanced" life is or how much "sacrifice" is required. in the publications it is always "are you giving every single bit of your life that you can" to the preaching work. is that balance.
sheesh. utter goofiness.
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upside/down
Kinda...
Who doesn't...?
Dubbies don't count.
u/d(of the for a bunch SURE they'll be in pair-a-dice, they sure grieve hard at funerals class)
p.s.- Was an altar boy before being Dubified...served many funerals...none like the Dubs.
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Darth Yhwh
Although I wouldn’t say that I think about dying daily, I do think about it often. You see as being a JW I never really had a fear of death since there’s no hell or opportunity of heaven my view of death has always been of eternal dreamless sleep. So I’m certainly not fearful of death.
I do try to live life for the present moment.
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Caedes
professor said
Thanks for reminding me [edit]. You just trashed three years of therapy.
Your therapist told you that you aren't going to die?! sheesh, I'd ask for a refund.
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professor
Seriously though, I'm not actually going to die, I can just clone myself!
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zen nudist
I have never known a moment when I did not exist and I never will, so I dont think about death in that way at all....
what I do believe in now is that this life is only a temporary part of existance and that I have lived before this one and likely will continue to live after this one.
when I first left JWs, I thought, what the heck, if I mess things up too badly I can just commit suicide and exit stage right...no more problem, right? then I started finding reasons to see that life does not begin nor end here and came to the conclusion that suicides may cause a lot of regrets which can haunt the next life....so simple solution no longer exists