Enjoy the time you have. I am thinking of you, with many warm thoughts
and good wishes....from the heart.
The Freedom of Accepting Death
by erynw 53 Replies latest members private
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Happy Harvester
Nothing left but to live as well as you are able and as ably as you are well.
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changeling
You are such an inspiration to us all!
Thank you for helping us along in the journey that is life.
changeling
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LongHairGal
Eryn,
That was a beautiful post you made. I wish you many more days than you think you have coming.
I have also accepted the idea of death, whether or not there is anything beyond it. Once I got over the religion's paradise earth teaching seven years ago it became easier and easier.
Best wishes,
LHG
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Gringa
I am new to the forum and have not yet had the opportunity to get to know you through your posts. However, just this one I have read shows me the beautiful spirit you have. You believe as I do. I have no words to share but thank you for expressing yourself and your private thoughts to the rest of us to grow by.
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Gringa
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nvrgnbk
Glad you're in a better place, eryn.
To accept reality as it is and not as we would have it be is a huge step in finding inner peace.
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Gill
Yes! There really is nothing to fear! I suspect that we may never really lose our loved ones either. They are always with us.
When finally leaving the WT Society 'broke me' yet again, the counsellors I saw asked me what it was I was afraid of.
1) Being shunned by all my relatives
2) Death.......My reasoning.....now that I am no longer a JW I am going to die and not live forever like everyone else who is still a JW. To realise that we are all going to die, FULL STOP was my final liberation.
I was very angry with having been deceived for nearly forty years.
Anger replaced Fear and of course anger is a much more useful emotion!
Gradually, anger is disappearing and is being replaced by a mild amusement at Jehovah's Witnesses and other such cults.
Once you accept that death is inevitable for all of us, you do become free!
That may well be the ultimate and only truth available to us.
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R.Crusoe
As an ex JW living in a JW family I would daily revisit mindcompressing depression in the company of thoughts that were not mine but which had a web around my kids and whole life I had no ethical way of escaping. My mind cried to sleep thousands of nights dreaming of death! When I did this my mind felt overwhelming sadness but freedom from the snares of life. On divorce I had a window of a few months in which I felt but was afraid of the utter freedom that descended on me. Since then family ideology has returned me to my former state. I truly am unafraid of death. It is the womb I can enter which takes away the pain of life to me! Death is my birth into a nothing that I sprang from. A nothing higher than the life that I'm in!
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aligot ripounsous
To remember my divine spark and nothing more.
Eryn,
Nobody knows, really, what lays beyond our earthly days, we just hope. At one time in our lives, as JWs, we have nurtured hope that Jehovah has loving provision in store for us. Now, those among us who haven't given up faith would add " Whatever this provision will be". Through our personal experience, we have learnt, sometimes the hard way, that there is no self proving evidence in this domain as many of us feel they have been deceived by men who pretended to be prophets of God. Since you gently imparted your profound feelings to us, I would like to share with you this -hopefully-comforting encouragement, namely " let us trust Him", He must be a caring creator. Please, accept my most heartfelt feelings and may Jehovah support you. With christian love, to you whom I don't know.
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greendawn
I was never particularly worried about death due to the belief in the resurrection, death is only a transient reality in the human world and will at one some future time be destroyed though at present it appears to be overwhelmingly powerful.
For the dead time ceases to have any meaning so whetever the time length until resurrection whether long or short becomes irrelevant. What really matters is the certainty of resurrection.