designs
DD- I had an old JW friend and Elder email me a couple of years ago about my future without a resurrection or new system. He told me I would be forgotten, no one would remember I ever lived. I had just given my daughter's wedding talk and in that talk I recited my ancestors going back to Wales on my father's side. I won't be forgotten.
I'm still waiting to hear about YOUR hope. It looks like you are proud of yourself now, is that what matters to you...how you FEEL NOW? I thought hope involves our future, at least mine does.
If there was no resurrection as you say, why would you care if you are "remembered"? If there is no resurrection, do you think that Abe Lincoln cares? He's D-E-A-D dead, gone. If there is NO resurrection why care about what happens to the human race at all, after you die? You'll be gone, and all your loved ones will die, sooner or later.
prologos
DD: you said "one nut-nuke job*" and you are gone, a G-O-N-E-R. why?
as opposed to a resurrection believer? because, using the bible-story antecedent:
The 3 he-brews in Daniel 3:18--- survived fire comparable to the surface heat of an atmospheric a,h bomb blast at ~ 10 000 deg. Kelvin.**
no prior resurrection required. why now?
You need to stop thinking like a JW. If you understood the gospel and grace of God, you would know the answer. The future ressurection of Christ was just as important to them then as the past ressurection is for us today.