by Tower Man 4 Replies latest jw friends
Hi Everyone,
I have written an article about the Watchtower's teaching on death vs. what the bible says. If you're interested in reading it, here's the link:
http://www.towertotruth.net/condition_of_the_dead.htm
Take care and remember the annual Witnesses Now For Jesus Convention is next weekend in New Ringgold, PA, USA. More info on that at www.pfo.org
Tower Man
thank you for interesting article. I always felt more inclined to believe that something of us survives death - to me that was the most comforting tought when someone dear to me would die, it was even more comforting than jw idea on resurrection
take care.
invictus
: What Happens After I Die?
Your body definitely gets into the rotting mode. That is a fact and has been a fact since the time that man noticed that bodies rot when someone dies. We know this.
What happens to your essence when you die? I haven't a clue. Anyone who DOES think they have that clue should be carefully questioned and maybe even shot if they cannot stand up to some serious scrutiny. If they can't, they are manipulators and evil people, bent on using religious beliefs and superstition to their own advantage: to harm other people. This is how I define EVIL, folks.
Farkel
Your body definitely gets into the rotting mode. That is a fact and has been a fact since the time that man noticed that bodies rot when someone dies. We know this. Farkel
For some of us the rot sets in while we're still a liv'n breath'n thing! I know this.
What happens to your essence when you die? I haven't a clue. Anyone who DOES think they have that clue should be carefully questioned and maybe even shot if they cannot stand up to some serious scrutiny. If they can't, they are manipulators and evil people, bent on using religious beliefs and superstition to their own advantage: to harm other people. This is how I define EVIL, folks.Farkel
Well said Mystic Farkel. Plumbing the mysterious depths of life, death, the hereafter and the gonebefore is best only done for sport and not ever to be taken too seriously. Heated debates go nowhere. (navel circumnavigation? ..)Thinking in terms of relative rather than absolute truth is the begining of wisdom and the path to freedom. To stop worrying about our own passing is a key to much happiness. .. now mind the rice paper on your way out bro!
cheers, unc
ps: does towerman = bibleman?
Dear Towerman,
I've only had time to quickly scan through your work but a major premise in your article seems to be that; your engagement with modernist Watchtower Theocracy redirects our attention to your supposedly higher symbolic constructions of christianity coupled with your own sociopoliticising of human experience to create a superior philosophy (similar to how JW's got into their "kill GOD by rationalising the eternally mysterious" problem in the first place). So rather, than develope a cogent and relevant form of realist essentialism to move folks in an emancipatory direction, as happy free folk are bent to do, you attempt to reinforce the enslaving normative christian narrative so thoroughly discredited and rejected on this site and everywhere else it has sought to engage with truly righteous men.
Is this so? (I'll head back for a slower read and see... :)
unclebruce (of the anti-prostelisation league)
Dear Towerman,
Solomon knew nuth'n! He lived in unenlightened times when men thought that Gods ruled men from above and men ruled women down below. Poor ol' Solomon was as confused about death as he was life. (mind you, against all my better judgement, I think a thousand wives come in handy sometimes) You, just as a live person is better off than a dead hippo, are in a much better position than Solomon - you live in a time free of superstion and bible induced trauma (if you so choose)
goodluck, unclebruce
ps: I've just read the adventures of Thor Hyadal - now there was one wise man!
