Living forever with change, growth and evolution, yes. Living forever on earth, as a human, petting lions and obeying the elders for all eternity, HELL NO! It all depends on the conditions you attach to it.
Enishi
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If you could live forever, would you and why?
by Kenneson inthis questions was asked to miss alabama in the 1994 miss u.s.a. contest.
her response was: "i would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why i would not live forever.".
my view.
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God is dead.....and we have killed Him
by logansrun inthere are generally two types of arguments against theism whether we are talking about the judeo-christian-islamic god, the god of deism, the hindu pantheon....whatever.
the "rational" arguments include all scientific, logical and historical problems with a supreme and all-loving being and include such fields as evolutionary biology, deconstruction of "holy" texts, archaeology, formal logic, etc.
science in particular has been eliminating the "explanatory" aspect of theism for hundreds of years now -- from copernicus to newton to darwin to einstein -- all, knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly, have had a share in shattering faith.
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Enishi
If we were to say that God is Infinity, then suffering and evil would be a natural part of that Infinity. Therefore, suffering and heartbreak are part of God as well. In searching for a personal, loving God, you need look no further than your own reflection in the mirror, or the eyes of those close to you.
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Enishi
Even for those few texts in the Bible which do condemn homosexuals, its debatable whether the original wording was even aimed at them.
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The problem of Noah's flood and the origins of the Indo-European languagues
by badboy injehovah's witnesses say noah's flood happened c.2000bc.. interestingly a possible problem arises with the origins of the indo-european languagues b/c, which linguists have calcaluated(sp?
)2 have originated about 8,900 years ago using a cognate database,hittite being near the root of the ie family followed by tocharian ,greek and armenian.. there4 the ie languagues spread with agriculture in2 europe arriving in scotland 5500 years ago.. question?.
how will they explain this?
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Enishi
They'll say Satan screwed around with the archaelogical records, or whatever.
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Yoga - Recent article
by Bonnie_Clyde in.
i'm sure there was an article during the last year or two confirming that yoga is not for christians.
i went back through a bunch of magazines but can't find it.
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Enishi
They think that 'emptying your mind' will somehow allow demons to get in, which reveals just how ignorant they are of this subject (along with most judgemental Christian groups in general). Yoga and meditation make you more and aware and more conscious. They strengthen your mind. The term emptying your mind simply means clearing away the constant unfocused chatter that usually goes on inside our heads. If anything, this would tend to make a person MORE resilent to outside influence and demonic attack.
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Crab vs. Pipe
by Enishi inmy jaw dropped when i saw the clip on this site.
it's scary yet funny at the same time.
poor crab.... http://burningsmell.dyndns.org/crab/index.html
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Enishi
My jaw dropped when I saw the clip on this site. It's scary yet funny at the same time. Poor crab...
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Oiuji boards
by got my forty homey? inok, so we all know that the society if against ouija boards.
but even many "worldy" spirtualist and ufo types say ouija boards are dangerous.. so, have any of you ever messed around with one?.
i did with my wife and sister in law and all it spewed out was meaningless garbage.
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Enishi
Someone should try asking an Ouija board how to bring down the Watchtower.
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Have you ever honestly had Jehovah ansure your prayer?
by Singing Man inyes have you ever honestly, had jehovah ansure your prayer in a way that told you it was from him and not some trick of a wanting heart?
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Enishi
I'll probably get flamed for this, but my prayers have had effect. Once when I was being picked on in middle school, I was in the locker room getting dressed, and almost wished the ceiling would collapse and kill me. I didn't feel like I could go on, and started saying a silent prayer inside my head. At that moment, an amazing sense of peace filled me, and I felt like everything would be okay, even though I still felt horrible. My sense of being lost and alone there at that school vanished, and there was sense of being content with were I was at the time, though it soon faded. It's hard to describe, feeling peaceful when you've never been more unhappy. This happened several other times, though to a much lesser extent.
Thinking back on to those days, my thoughts when I said that prayer were somehow different than what they normally were. I didn't ask for Jehovah to end the situation, I would have felt selfish doing that, rather I asked for his spirit. I would not claim however, that my prayer was "answered", at least not in the sense of a finite God outside the universe miracolously helping me. No, it was much more complex than that, and at the same time much more simple as well. Even back then, I think my conception of God was different than most witnesses.
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Haughtiness And The Witnesses
by shamus ini find that the witnesses are very "haughty".
haughty is described in the oxford dictionary as "proud of oneself and looking down on others"; how well this describes the wtbts.. how many people were very proud of having "the troof"?
how many people felt that they were special.
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Enishi
What really irritated me is how I'd be out in service with an older brother/sister, and when the householder would say they weren't interested. Now, the brother/sister would act all nice at the door like they're supposed to, but then back on the way to the car they would get all haughty and say the householder either had scales over their eyes or would regret sticking to their religion when the GT came around. Generally, it was the "spiritual pillars" of the congregation who seemed to act this way the most. Sometimes I felt like slapping them upside their heads...
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The absolute stupidity of Christianity
by logansrun inso often people here confuse just what the real evil is.
we think it is the theology and practices of the watchtower.
neigh!
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Enishi
Just thought I'd mention, although they are in the minority, there are a growing number of Christians who believe that everyone will eventually be saved by Jesus at some point, and not be condemned to hell for all eternity. They have arguements based off of the scriptures to support their beliefs as well.
I myself was a semi-Christian universalist for a while before I moved started studying mysticism.