Jehovahs witnesses. Have you really contemplated immortality on this planet?
If (and I stress"if") you are right and after armageddon you are the only ones here. Have you gave any thought to how boring life will eventually become? After so many centuries. You will have done everything there is to do. Seen it all. Experienced it. Tasted it. Heard it. Eventually at some point in time there will be nothing new for you to discover or learn. Because you've done it all. And if you really a perfect person now. You will have complete and total recall of every event. Down to the last detail and emotion you felt. So there will be no need to experience it again because you have the vivid detailed memory of it. There won't be new people to meet since members of your religion will be the only ones here. So eventually you will run out of new people to meet. I already covered in an earlier post how it will be a population of nothing but adults. Once this planey reaches population capacity and all of your children grow up.
Even though they don't exist. This is the main reason why vampires immolate themselves after a few centuries. What is the point of being alive (or undead in their case) if there is nothing new to learn of experience? Immortality gives them the opportunity you believe is awaiting you. After doing things over and over. Won't you eventually get bored with life? How much happiness in paradise can one person endure? Remember, its eternity (or so you say).
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It may take awhile for them to look up what they think.
Only small minds can see limits that are not there.
I once worked at New Mexico Tech, in Socorro, NM. The school's main field was geology, and the students discussed with me the future of the Rio Grande Rift. It is expanding about an inch a year. At that rate, some 200 millions or so years, the Gulf of Mexico will come all the way up to what is Albuquerque. I look forward to seeing if they were right, and I will have beach front property!
Since I also trust that Jehovah God when he created man, had already planned to provide his intelligent and physical sons and daughters with many wonderful things to do and explore. His angels, who are billions of years old already, are not dying off because of boredom, and so I am sure, we will not either.
Just a note. We will not be immortals. We will have everlasting life, which is dependent on Jehovah to sustain us. Only those going to heaven are given immortality.
For the anointed Christians called to reign with Christ in the heavens (1Pe 1:3, 4), the promise is that they share with Christ in the likeness of his resurrection. (Ro 6:5) Thus, as in the case of their Lord and Head, the anointed members of the Christian congregation who die faithful receive a resurrection to immortal spirit life, so that “this which is mortal puts on immortality.” (1Co 15:50-54) As with Jesus, immortality in their case does not mean simply everlasting life, or mere freedom from death. That they, too, are granted “the power of an indestructible life” as fellow heirs with Christ is seen from the apostle Paul’s association of incorruptibility with the immortality they attain. (1Co 15:42-49) Over them “the second death has no authority.”—Re 20:6;
I think the whole 'you'll get so bored if you live forever!' sentiment is a bit silly. My life has been more or less the same over 24 years, and I love the hell out've it. I play retro games from my childhood occasionally, or board games, or new games. I jog, reminisce, repeat lame jokes I've heard...
And this is a life featuring a very small number of surprises or adventurous ventures. I never understood boredom on any scale outside of being forced to sit in a chair quietly for an hour. :P
Funny idea, though, being forced to rule over a planet as your afterlife. :P
Well. I just now seen this, and it didn't take me long to pull out a bible and read a few scriptures.
Recall that god Rested on the 7th day. who is to say that he wont creat again, giving us more and more to discover. Even now, scientists still haven't unlocked a fraction of what the earth has to tell. I often keep that in mind. When the resurrection does occur, there will be a lot of cleaning to do, and a lot of teaching
You asked a personal question. So I will give a personal answer. I close my eyes, and I see myself in paradise. I see my loved ones resurrected. I am walking, and I see a fimilar form. He turns around and it is my dad, restored to youth and alive again. He calls my name as I call his. The tight hug would not be tight enough. I love my dad. I miss him. It is this hope that I cling to, it is the reason I believe in paradise on earth.
People who have happy lives stay busy and fulfilled. I'm 48 years old and have been serving Jehovah all of my adult life. I have experienced "same things" over and over many times and do not get bored with them, ever! I'm not alone in this either. People of other religions do the same things over and over too and aren't bored. Non religious people do things over and over, and aren't bored. An example is going on the same vacations year after year. Everyone always has their favorite places and things to do. I could never get bored worshipping my wonderful God Jehovah and living on an earth free from suffering and violence. I look forward to it in the very near future.