Posts by Fisherman

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What was there before the Big Bang?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

Fisherman

energy... void....quantum vacuum...seemingly empty space, etc...

"Get your own NOTHING!!!!"

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Letter # 1 to the Governing Body of Jehovah's witnesses

by WITNESS-FOR-WATCHTOWER-REFORM in

here is my first letter i posted to the governing body.

i also hope that brothers on the writing committee who may be lurking on this site (and have some clout) read my letter and bring in change to this very flawed policy around confession of sins.. enjoy.

the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses.

Fisherman

WT decision and policy makers don't need your letter, they know all about it, and that is why their position stands.

JW confess their sins to the elders for many reasons. The main reason is because of their conscience, self dignity and living with oneself, they do not want live a lie and put on a facade. Being a JW is not a passive thing it involves involvement (sacred service: comments, fs, talks, privileges.association...) Imagine doing all of that with secret sins. I suppose some people can do it but it ain't easy. A lot of JW just confess, they know it will result in df or reproof - both disgraceful so little is the difference, but they know the rules apply to all including the gb and they also knew at the time they decided to sin that there was a price to pay. Some JW confess because they want help whatever that help is and they trust that the brotherhood would never betray them and are willing to pay the price: DF reproof -whatever, they tell those in authority and then it is out of their hands, the elders tell them what they need to do and in a couple of months they are back in business with full backing and support from the org. Some family members can really make it hard (harsh) on other family members if they choose when df happens. It is very expensive in a person's spiritual career to commit a gross sin repentant or not, the rules are for everybody..

And when one holds office it is disastrous and very difficult to confess because of the humiliation -they get caught sooner or later -oh the shame- but some rank are very courageous and confess -oh the shame- but you feel better about yourself and later or else when they get caught they will remember they said a prayer with a gross sin and other will remember tooo, it is easier to confess if one is a low pub.

To me it is about being right with God. He knows our weaknesses and he still gives us his Holy Spirit. BUt if a person has a poblem with porn or sex or something -he cannot serve, lay low and just try to do the best you can. IT aint about how people view you they are sinners too in some way. Everybody is got something. Be honest and true to yourself.

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What was there before the Big Bang?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

Fisherman

Invisible like the kingdom of 1914?

lol rofl -thanks

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What was there before the Big Bang?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

Fisherman

"void"

Satan tells God: "I don't need you, I can create man without you.." So Satan starts to bend over and he reaches for some dirt from the ground... and Gd tells him: "Get your own dirt!"

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What was there before the Big Bang?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

Fisherman

I suspect that the "void" we call outer space, has always existed, because the void is nothingness and you can't create nothing because it is "nothing". It's just empty "space" to put things in.

Empty space is something to put things in. It is not known if ES existed before the bb. I think that it did not exist before the bb but came into existence as part of our universe because it is part of our universe..(Just my guess)

Suppose you were to remove all forms of matter and energy from the universe, could space exist on its own or does it need something?

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What was there before the Big Bang?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

Fisherman

fisherman, Why can't we view God in an heuristic sort of way

I conclude that:

beCause: design, the sign, and proof of not only that he exists but also that he has power over reality (time, space, physics, the universe, events, emotions, thoughts , everything..) As such, he is the eternal substance that is the source of everything in the universe, hence, everything is either part of his person (maybe time: credit to prologos) or created by him.

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What was there before the Big Bang?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

Fisherman

somehow you are qualified to critique the science.

Science fiction about what existed before the creation of the universe is not science.

No

How do you know?

There was no explosion

in terms of matter ( re:pressure temperature density), if no matter existed yet to explode, it did not, but in terms of expansion and dispersion of the contents of the universe suddenly doubling in size every fraction of a second, it is just a matter of semantics -but you are correct, according to what scientists think at this time describes the big bang, it was not an explosion in any physical sense as setting off a bomb. (this is a great point you made.)

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What was there before the Big Bang?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

Fisherman

“nothing” is most often unstable. Not only can something arise from nothing, but most often the laws of physics require that to occur. - Lawrence Krauss

Depends on what is being referred to as "nothing." Krauss is a science fiction writer. He dreams about what existed before the universe was formed.

Did energy (matter) exist before the "big bang?"

Did location or space exist before the big bang?

Did time exist without space before the big bang?

What in the world exploded into the big bang?

Did any laws or information exist before the big bang?

Is there some primordial substance that is the source of of the universe and everything in it?

no one has scientific evidence that shows.........

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What was there before the Big Bang?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuhj98vjoa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik8hj0_t9q.

Fisherman

What about the idea that we have a mirror twin universe where the arrow of time is in reverse? Could be but how do you prove it?

Science Fiction... or the idea that the universe is only part of a bigger picture like cell is part of an organism.

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Another generation....

by joey jojo in

it has been 21 years since the 1995 article that pretty much buried the idea of the '1914 generation'.. remember those guys?

the ones born in 1914 that would still be alive when the end of the system arrived.. i'm glad i'm old enough to remember going from door to door, preaching this belief.

the reason i say that is because i have a lot of 'still in' jw friends and family.

Fisherman

Ucantnome : See WT 1/5 par 14-19 also WT 7/15