Alan, you are a nerd! I have to admit that what you said made sense except for your comments about the "charging of a capacitor through a resistor attached to an ideal voltage source." Thats where you lost me.
Toreador
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matter exists.. matter does not disappear from the universe; it transforms, at times, but in some form or other (energy) it continues to exist.. so what is "consciousness"?
it also exists (and we are individually proof of that fact).. can our personal "consciousness" cease to exist?
Alan, you are a nerd! I have to admit that what you said made sense except for your comments about the "charging of a capacitor through a resistor attached to an ideal voltage source." Thats where you lost me.
Toreador
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matter exists.. matter does not disappear from the universe; it transforms, at times, but in some form or other (energy) it continues to exist.. so what is "consciousness"?
it also exists (and we are individually proof of that fact).. can our personal "consciousness" cease to exist?
Interesting comparison Steve, but I thought you were still a christian, thereby believing in an afterlife? I have thoughts every stinking day wondering if "this life is all there is (tm)" but nobody on this earth knows for sure, or do they?
i don?t remember exactly where in jw-land i heard these experiences, but i believe they were passed around through word of mouth rather than through assemblies or publications.
urban legends?
you decide.. experience #1. faithful jw girl is dating a fellow who is studying (or was recently baptized) in order to win her love rather than because he believes jw doctrine.
I have heard of the #2 experience. Dont remember if it was supposed to be true or not.
you know how some of us guys have to put on a bit of an act sometimes, we have to set our faces into our coping scowl, but underneath, we're too well aware of just how soft we are?
well.. what music to the big guys here only, not you wimpy bunch, brings a tear to your eye or which films is it that you need to keep a box of tissues handy by you to wipe away the dampness in your eye?.
for celtic it's a track by dido - white flag and also black eyed peas - where is the love?
Yeah, Movies mostly, the last one was "Fifty first dates"
this may already have been posted, but if not i am sure that carl jonsson will forgive my linking his review of furuli's book from another site,.
http://user.tninet.se/~oof408u/fkf/english/furulirev.htm .
best regards - hs.
The precise details of the beginning of the 70 years are simply irrelevant to this.
Someone enlighten me, why are the 70 years so important to Scholar? Why do you feel that this changes the date for the fall of jerusalem?
Tor
according to the dubs, and other faiths, adam was created with no defects of any kind.
he was created with no sin.
then adam sinned.
I think this is an interesting thread. It is something I have wondered about as well. I think it would have been nice if there is a God that he would have told us whether the stories in the bible were allegorical or not.
Tor
this may already have been posted, but if not i am sure that carl jonsson will forgive my linking his review of furuli's book from another site,.
http://user.tninet.se/~oof408u/fkf/english/furulirev.htm .
best regards - hs.
When it all boils down to brass tax, why would we need to figure out bible phrophecy to pinpoint a date 1800/1900 years after the bible was written and have to use "secular" unearthed archaelogical findings to do it? Is it just me that thinks this is peculiar or do others feel the same way?
Tor
one afternoon a wealthy governing body member was riding in his limousine when he saw two men, on all fours alongside the road, eating grass.
disturbed at the site, the gb member ordered his driver to stop and then got out to investigate.
the gb member asked the first man "sir, why are you eating the grass.
Its actually so stupid its almost funny.
It did bring a grin to my face anyway.
this may already have been posted, but if not i am sure that carl jonsson will forgive my linking his review of furuli's book from another site,.
http://user.tninet.se/~oof408u/fkf/english/furulirev.htm .
best regards - hs.
What say you Scholar,
You squirt in here and other threads and drop a line of propaganda and then run off like a wounded duck. Stand your ground and give us some meat. Something we can sink our teeth into, that makes sense.
You know as well as I do that this chronology stuff is really hard to understand for the average person, like me. Answer me this, why would a loving God kill everyone who does not cower to the WTS interpretation of chronology and give our undying devotion to them thanking God daily for the "Faithful and discreet slave" who gives us the food at the proper time?
I heard that mentioned in almost every prayer we had at every meeting in our hall. When looking at the food provided us over the last hundred years can you honestly say ALL of it was food at the proper time. How are we to know what we are reading is spiritual food at the proper time and which is not since obviously some of what we were taught and we taught others later turned out to be false? Most of what we were taught was just speculation and they thought it sounded good at the time, only to be proven wrong with the passage of time. At the time we recieved this information we were all to look at it as if it was blinding flashes of light provided by Jehovah. What it ended up to be was blinding flashes of pure human speculation.
Toreador
one afternoon a wealthy governing body member was riding in his limousine when he saw two men, on all fours alongside the road, eating grass.
disturbed at the site, the gb member ordered his driver to stop and then got out to investigate.
the gb member asked the first man "sir, why are you eating the grass.
Yes you should JohnR