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  Do any ex JW' s/ God believer's, Agnostics or Atheists believe in Karma? And WHY?

  by rip van winkle in

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  just reading a thread and the mention of karma popped up.

  ( it happens, lol).

  a lot of people believe in karma: what goes around comes around.. some months ago, while on another exjw site, karma was mentioned and i thought it a little odd, as they are atheist.

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  Here are 23 examples of 'instant' karma caught on video

  http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/83709059/
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  Meeting after meeeting

  by molybdenum in

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  i just got information that there is going to be a short 10 min meeting.

  with elders and ms after the first meeting of the week during the co visit.. this is in addition to the usual elders/ms meeting.. it might just be for my congregation, but is this something new?.

  i wonder why.. .

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  I think it's to make everyone contact inactive ones, a one week deadline to say how missed they are, etc.
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  There are some questions I have had about the JWs view "post-Armaggeddon"

  by booker-t in

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  i have always wondered how jws believe about "post-armaggeddon" earth.

  question#1 how will jws survivors bury all of the dead bodies.

  with about 4 billion people on earth today how can 8 million jw(1/2 of them children and babies) bury all of those dead bodies?

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  objectivetruth - They do seem to be the same event. On the JW aspect, since they take Ez 38/39 to be about them and really disgarding most of what those chapters say to mean governments will turn on them after false religion then armageddon, is that if they are the same event, then it happens at the END of the 1,000 year reign according to Revelation.

  Also it does not show a wiping out of everybody either.

  In Ez 39:27-28 it says how God had 'concealed' himself. (which would answer those who ask where he is and why isn't he making himself obvious), and he uses this event to 'santify himself before the eyes of many nations'. Other scriptures show only those attacking them are destroyed by the fire from heaven. The world is a witness to this event.

  Revelation 19 is one example of how so called armagedon may not be a one time event. In chapter 19 did that event ever happen? In 19:19 the wild beast and kings of the earth and their armies gathered and when the one seated on the white horse defeats them the wild beast and false prophet are tossed into the lake of fire. Everyone else is killed by the one seated on the horse.

  In Rev 20, it shows after 1,000 years satan is let loose, gog and magog gather for war, surround camp and fire comes down and destroys them, and the devil is tossed in the lake of fire, where beast and prophet from previous worldevent already were at.

  Gotta do more research but that does show 2 events. The specific event of Ez 39 and Rev 20 could be the same at the end of the 1,000 year reign but without digging up a lot of notes I have, I took Ez 39 and Rev 19 to be the start of the 1,000 year reign and Rev 20 to be the end, although still a chance to me they are speaking about the same event. I took into consideration other books such as Zephaniah, Zechariah, Jeremiah, etc.
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  "Jehovah's Witnesses" among most controversial articles on Wikipedia

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  2. friends

  here's an interesting article:.

  http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/08/daily-chart-1.

  among the french-language wikipedia articles, at least, "jehovah's witnesses" is among the most-changed articles on wikipedia.

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  O okay thanks for the info
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  CNN: Does the big bang breakthrough offer proof of God?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  interesting article on cnn blogs http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/20/does-the-big-bang-breakthrough-offer-proof-of-god/?hpt=hp_t4.

  i have a similar belief so far.

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  "then the Christian must explain who created god"

  Science or Religion or Science with Religion, those 3 options will all the have infinite unexplainable loop

  Science - Our universe began with big bang. What created big bang? what created what created the big bang? and infinitely on

  Religion - Our universe began with God creating everything. Who created God? who created what created God and infinitely on

  Science/Religion - Our universe began when God created the stars and planets with the big bang. How did God create the big bang and after or if the start is determined who created God, who created what created God, and infinitely on.

  There is NEVER going to be an answer we can discover by ourselves. If God is real, he may be able to explain it if he chooses to communicate it.

  Each time we find the cause, in this case if it's the big bang, then it will be looking for the cause of what started it.
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  "Jehovah's Witnesses" among most controversial articles on Wikipedia

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  here's an interesting article:.

  http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/08/daily-chart-1.

  among the french-language wikipedia articles, at least, "jehovah's witnesses" is among the most-changed articles on wikipedia.

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  It would be interesting to see the actual changes. See what JW's are taking down and adding and what gets corrected by the honest ex jws.
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  Are witnesses the best behaved people in the world?

  by speargrass55 in

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  hi everyone, i was discussing with a family member recently and was encouraged to at least consider the benefits of being raised in the truth.

  for example,i'm not a drunk, don't do drugs, respect others etc.

  the point is i've found lots of nonwitness friends who have similar behavior.. growing up, when a worldly person does something good like help someone i'll hear things like "that's nice of him, for a nonwitness.

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  Every extreme can have it's good and bad points.

  JW's are bad on loving, shunning, judging, etc.

  True believing JW's however may score higher because of accountability, etc, on not stealing, being honest, etc.

  Here is a non jw example.....

  In Costa Rica it's a very liberal country, you won't get into trouble for premaritial sex, religious freedom, etc, but you better watch all your possessions, thievery is an epidemic in that country. confrontation and violent crime isn't too high but many non experienced travelers will probably get something stolen. Very poor country and thievery is high.

  In Egypt - very poor country but thievery is very low. Islamic countries are very strict w/ their religion. The benefit of low thievery, but religious freedom, pre marital sex, etc, can get you in big trouble there.
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  CNN: Does the big bang breakthrough offer proof of God?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  interesting article on cnn blogs http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/20/does-the-big-bang-breakthrough-offer-proof-of-god/?hpt=hp_t4.

  i have a similar belief so far.

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  I'm posting all the text from the article here for future references, incase the link is bad one day if anybody is lurking or finds this thread.

  he remarkable discovery, announced this week, of ripples in the space-time fabric of the universe rocked the world of science – and the world of religion.

  Touted as evidence for inflation (a faster-than-the-speed-of-light expansion of our universe), the new discovery of traces of gravity waves affirms scientific concepts in the fields of cosmology, general relativity, and particle physics.

  The new discovery also has significant implications for the Judeo-Christian worldview, offering strong support for biblical beliefs.

  Here's how.

  The prevalent theory of cosmic origins prior to the Big Bang theory was the “Steady State,” which argued that the universe has always existed, without a beginning that necessitated a cause.

  However, this new evidence strongly suggests that there was a beginning to our universe.

  If the universe did indeed have a beginning, by the simple logic of cause and effect, there had to be an agent – separate and apart from the effect – that caused it.

  That sounds a lot like Genesis 1:1 to me: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.”

  So this latest discovery is good news for us believers, as it adds scientific support to the idea that the universe was caused – or created – by something or someone outside it and not dependent on it.

  MORE ON CNN: Big Bang breakthrough announced; gravitational waves detected

  Atheist-turned-agnostic astronomer Fred Hoyle, who coined the term “Big Bang,” famously stated, “A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics."

  As Hoyle saw it, the Big Bang was not a chaotic explosion, but rather a very highly ordered event – one that could not have occurred by random chance.

  We also need to remember that God reveals himself both through scripture and creation. The challenge is in seeing how they fit together. A better understanding of each can inform our understanding of the other.

  It’s not just about cracking open the Bible and reading whatever we find there from a 21st-century American perspective. We have to study the context, the culture, the genre, the authorship and the original audience to understand the intent.

  The creation message in Genesis tells us that God created a special place for humans to live and thrive and be in communion with him; that God wants a relationship with us, and makes provisions for us to have fellowship with him, even after we turn away from him.

  So, we know that Genesis was never intended to be a detailed scientific handbook, describing how God created the universe. It imparts a theological, not a scientific, message.

  (Imagine how confusing messages about gravity waves and dark matter might be to ancient Hebrew readers.)

  As a modern believer and a scientist, when I look up at the sky on a clear starry night, I am reminded that “the heavens declare the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1). I am in awe of the complexity of the physical world, and how all of its pieces fit together so perfectly and synergistically.

  In the Old Testament book of Jeremiah, the writer tells us that God “established (his) covenant with day and night, and with the fixed laws of heaven and earth.”

  These physical laws established by God to govern interactions between matter and energy result in a finely tuned universe that provides the ideal conditions for life on our planet.

  As we observe the complexity of the cosmos, from subatomic particles to dark matter and dark energy, we quickly conclude that there must be a more satisfying explanation than random chance. Properly practiced, science can be an act of worship in looking at God’s revelation of himself in nature.

  If God is truly the creator, then he will reveal himself through what he’s created, and science is a tool we can use to uncover those wonders.

  Leslie Wickman is director of the Center for Research in Science at Azusa Pacific University. Wickman has also been an engineer for Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space, where she worked on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and International Space Station programs. The views expressed in this column belong to Wickman.
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  CNN: Does the big bang breakthrough offer proof of God?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  interesting article on cnn blogs http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/20/does-the-big-bang-breakthrough-offer-proof-of-god/?hpt=hp_t4.

  i have a similar belief so far.

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  O and before anybody tells the author of the above article to "read a basic book" here is a little bit about her....

  Leslie Wickman, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Research in Science (CRIS) at Azusa Pacific University (APU). She is an internationally respected research scientist, engineering consultant, and inspirational speaker.

  For more than a decade Wickman was an engineer for Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space, where she worked on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and International Space Station Programs, receiving commendations from NASA for her contributions and being designated as Lockheed's Corporate Astronaut.

  She currently also works part-time as a research scientist with government think tanks on technical and political aspects of national aerospace and defense issues. Some of her recent projects include climate change research, assessment of future human spaceflight missions and technologies, human factors problems for extreme environments, fighter pilot proficiency training, and sustainable water reclamation and agriculture.

  Dr. Wickman has lectured around the world on satellite servicing, spaceflight physiology, astronaut training and operations, as well as various topics in astronomy, environmental stewardship, and the interface between science and theology.
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  CNN: Does the big bang breakthrough offer proof of God?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
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  interesting article on cnn blogs http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/20/does-the-big-bang-breakthrough-offer-proof-of-god/?hpt=hp_t4.

  i have a similar belief so far.

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  Interesting article on CNN blogs http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/20/does-the-big-bang-breakthrough-offer-proof-of-god/?hpt=hp_t4

  I have a similar belief so far.