Jordan Seager
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Tea it is 😌
Imagining Paradise
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Medi-tator
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I love Oahu, visited there in October 2019. Stayed with my cousin in Kapolei. Went to Sunset Beach, Diamond Head and so many other great spots. Beautiful island! Was nice to get away from cold Canada for a bit lol 😊 ☀️🏝
SusanB
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I live in Makakilo, which is in Kapolei. Did you attend any meetings while you were here? I have always loved the Canadian tourists. They have all been so nice and mild personalities. That‘s why I was shocked to see where Trudeau has led Canada to the situation we see today.
Hi Driven - no I did not attend any meetings while I was there. Us Canadians have always been proud of our reputation as nice people but yes Trudeau has really done a number on the nation. Covid, the Freedom Convey stuff etc has really taken its toll on the country’s psyche. A lot of people here are not happy. Canada (the entire world) needs the Kingdom to come, it’s the only answer:
A New Report Says Canada Is One Of The Most Miserable Countries In The World
Canadians are more miserable than residents in many other developed countries.👇😭
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SusanB
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Who knows, we might of run into each other and have never known it. Next time you visit, give me a heads up.Hi Driven - no I did not attend any meetings while I was there. Us Canadians have always been proud of our reputation as nice people but yes Trudeau has really done a number on the nation. Covid, the Freedom Convey stuff etc has really taken its toll on the country’s psyche. A lot of people here are not happy. Canada (the entire world) needs the Kingdom to come, it’s the only answer:
A New Report Says Canada Is One Of The Most Miserable Countries In The World
Canadians are more miserable than residents in many other developed countries.👇😭
Will do! 😊
Nomex
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You guys are my buddies, so I won't bring anyone with me...oh wait, one brother i would for sure, but he has to be resurrected, he was quite the character and lived in Hawaii for a time. He lived in Naggs Head and used to talk about how awesome the surf is there too. I grew up up there so i have surfed there more than once. Naggs Head is North of Cape Hatteras in the only State that has good waves on the east coast. I'll build a house up there in the New System and we can charge the insider waves of N.C, and you'll have insider info at least for a time...LOL. There's a place up there called Shackelford Banks, I've surfed there but you need a boat to get there so I never caught it really good, but I have seen pictures that look like Pipe...
Unfortunately I didn't know how good it got out there until later. ...and where I lived you could paddle across the channel to Shack if you were stupid, but it wasn't far....but we still had really good surf on the lower part of the outer banks any way.
But on to the subject of this thread. What an awesome article. I got tears in my eyes reading parts of it. The way the WT portrays the paradise is so one dimensional.
I was listening to something the other day, and I don't remember who it was, but I have heard this before, and he said, "if you do what you love for a living, you'll never have to work a day of your life."
Nothing has ever been said that is truer than that statement. What I do for a living I stopped enjoying a long time ago. Not only 6that, I'm starting to wonder if I am going to have to get on disability. All those soft tissue injuries I've suffered from surfing, thinking the end was going to come before I got out of High School...and then the next year, or the year after that, or the next year...and I just completely beat my body to death, and then car accident...and now just regular work I wouldn't mind all that much is torture.
The one thing though I think Robert left out of his article, is that we will have accountability to society. But none of us will be stuck in a unending going nowhere existence where life is just survival. Our lives will be fulfilling, always and forever. We will be able to do what we love, and we won't ever be in pain. Right now just typing this is painful. My back and neck from this car accident 20 years ago had flared up these last few weeks and it has been torture. Just take away the getting old, and I'd be happy. Living where I want to live, surf where I want to surf, and have the friends I want to have.....those three things sound like paradise to me. And throw in work that I love, becasue we will have to "make a living" and we have the quad factor of paradise! And music...man I love music...and maybe when I am perfect I will be able to sing...regardless, imagine Elvis "singing praises to Jehovah" just the things we have to look forward too....and as the thread starter pointed out...even if I don't make it, I know it will be wonderful!
Too bad the WT is so one dimensional when it comes to our hope that it has never written anything even close to the inspirational article RK wrote about the paradise...almost makes one think they don't really believe it!
BagdadBill
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I am beginning to understand why it will take 1000 years.It may have been brought up on this forum before, but I remember years ago reading this article by Brother King on e-watchman regarding Paradise and it has always stuck with me. I beg Jehovah every day for forgiveness and pray that he shows me mercy and compassion and I pray that his kingdom come whether I’m a part of it or not. I hope that I am deemed worthy.
If I’m fortunate enough to be in paradise I dream of being able to experience all these things. What a true blessing. I personally would love to play every single instrument and write amazing inspiring music. I enjoy wine too so would love to have a massive vineyard:
Imagining Paradise
It is not uncommon for persons to suppose that living forever in paradise would be boring. This is an edited reprint of a previous Mailbag question from the week of April 20th, 2003, discussing the topic. I feel really depressed and mixed up because I have this feeling thate-watchman.com
BARNABY THE DOG.
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You are not alone in your thoughts. There is a tangible underlying sympathy and similarity in our weaknesses, fears and hopes on this site, all very similar to your own thoughts. I’m not sure that I see a continuation of our present hopes. We are are acclimatised in our values to this world and probably all of our ways and manners, even our intuition is very likely warped into assuming that what we experience now is normal. If we follow the structure of our body, we can begin to see normality in the physical world, but in our thinking, we have very little to compare it with when compared to the fruitage of the spirit. We are more akin to what we have become, rather than understanding what we once were intended for. Hopefully, we will find out.It may have been brought up on this forum before, but I remember years ago reading this article by Brother King on e-watchman regarding Paradise and it has always stuck with me. I beg Jehovah every day for forgiveness and pray that he shows me mercy and compassion and I pray that his kingdom come whether I’m a part of it or not. I hope that I am deemed worthy.
If I’m fortunate enough to be in paradise I dream of being able to experience all these things. What a true blessing. I personally would love to play every single instrument and write amazing inspiring music. I enjoy wine too so would love to have a massive vineyard:
Imagining Paradise
It is not uncommon for persons to suppose that living forever in paradise would be boring. This is an edited reprint of a previous Mailbag question from the week of April 20th, 2003, discussing the topic. I feel really depressed and mixed up because I have this feeling that
BARNABY THE DOG.
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Well, one or two points: if Elvis is out there leading the singing, I’m going to join the congregation that has within its numbers, Duke Ellington, Sachmo, Glen Millar, Paul Robson, Beethoven etc etc. and if the beach boys were there, well, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice…’. As for surfing, in England the tide comes in like a bit of heaving chewing gum, in fact, the bore running up the River Severn is the best ‘wave’ of any in or around the country. Right now, I would welcome a thousand years on my own - or with my wife if I could wake her up - wandering Russia, Canada, Tibet, Japan, India, the whole shooting match, living under the stars with a bear for a pillow, a tiger at my feet to keep them warm, and a Ground Hog or wolf for a travelling companion. At the end of the thousand years, I would head towards Austria where the hills are alive with the sound of music and I can climb every mountain. I just want to see the world that Jehovah created first. After that, things may start to make sense.