The only reason I can think that they don't mention anything about that is because a real burial cost money, and then people might give less to contribution boxes and miss a couple of meetings and field service to pay for burial vs cremation.
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Idiotic WT reasoning for birthdays
by Batman89 inadditionally, birthday celebrations tend to give excessive importance to an individual, no doubt one reason why early christians shunned them.
(ecclesiastes 7:1) so you will find that jehovahs witnesses do not share in birthday festivities (the parties, singing, gift giving, and so forth).
school and jehovah's witnesses p.18.
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Idiotic WT reasoning for birthdays
by Batman89 inadditionally, birthday celebrations tend to give excessive importance to an individual, no doubt one reason why early christians shunned them.
(ecclesiastes 7:1) so you will find that jehovahs witnesses do not share in birthday festivities (the parties, singing, gift giving, and so forth).
school and jehovah's witnesses p.18.
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Birthdays are stretching it in JW reasoning. However, cremation even christian religions, almost all of them, forbid it until almost the 1950's, and some still forbid it I think. Cremation was a pagan practice, a rejection of earthly/bodily resurrection, and belief in immortal soul, etc. It's interesting since WT likes to be extreme, that they weren't extreme with that as well.
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The End of The World Delusion
by cassuk11 inbeing pushed by religion since the 17th century.
my question is why ?.
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What about end of the world by man? It's a fact that the bible lands weren't always desert. Thousands of years of cutting down trees, farming, fishing, hunting, etc, the land just died.
With population exploding worldwide, expansion, more need for resources, pollution, how long really until the Earth dies? or human population gets wiped out then the Earth regenerates.
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Questions to ask God while in a Lucid Dream...?
by EndofMysteries inassume that all 'visions' in the bible, including revelation, etc, were actually real and they happened while those people were lucid dreaming or in a lucid state.
assume that if god or angels were to speak to you, that is the way in which they would do it.
the 3 questions are about anything and the proof question is asking him something so you can verify the answer or the answer will give you absolute proof that it was him you were speaking to and it was not just in your subconscious making him up and the answers.
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The questions I'm going for so far are, 1. What is our purpose and if there is an afterlife when and in what form would it be? 2. If we must do anything, why not make it so clear, appear to the whole world, etc, instead of so much guessing? 3. where will I and family be after death?
For proof question to confirm it's not subconscience - tell me something about a family member or close friend that nobody except them knows I can confirm or a breaking news event for the next day, etc.
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WT admitted "Jehovah" is not God's name...
by Watkins inif i remember right(unlikely, lol) it was a one-page article about the tetragrammaton which concluded by saying that even though "jehovah" was 'probably' not an accurate pronunciation, it is a widely-recognized and accepted english transliteration of the divine name.
i was thinking it was on the last page or maybe the back cover of a wt pub - maybe a watchtower.. can someone please direct me to the publication it was in?
i read it when i was still 'in' and it made me stop and think about how much emphasis the wt puts on that name, all while knowing it's not the name.
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It's in the old "Aid to Bible Understanding" book under Jehovah.
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Questions to ask God while in a Lucid Dream...?
by EndofMysteries inassume that all 'visions' in the bible, including revelation, etc, were actually real and they happened while those people were lucid dreaming or in a lucid state.
assume that if god or angels were to speak to you, that is the way in which they would do it.
the 3 questions are about anything and the proof question is asking him something so you can verify the answer or the answer will give you absolute proof that it was him you were speaking to and it was not just in your subconscious making him up and the answers.
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Replying to Oub - That is where a proof question would come in. For example let's say he told you some detail about a person that they never told anybody before, and you ask them and it's true. Some type of information or detail that your subconscious can't possibly get right. Or something very specific that would happen the next day, etc. At the very least that would leave no doubt you communicated with someone or something.
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Questions to ask God while in a Lucid Dream...?
by EndofMysteries inassume that all 'visions' in the bible, including revelation, etc, were actually real and they happened while those people were lucid dreaming or in a lucid state.
assume that if god or angels were to speak to you, that is the way in which they would do it.
the 3 questions are about anything and the proof question is asking him something so you can verify the answer or the answer will give you absolute proof that it was him you were speaking to and it was not just in your subconscious making him up and the answers.
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Assume that all 'visions' in the bible, including Revelation, etc, were actually real and they happened while those people were lucid dreaming or in a lucid state. Assume that if God or angels were to speak to you, that is the way in which they would do it.
You can ask God only 3 questions and 1 proof question. The 3 questions are about anything and the proof question is asking him something so you can verify the answer or the answer will give you absolute proof that it was him you were speaking to and it was not just in your subconscious making him up and the answers. What would you ask?
The reason for this thread....
I've had many lucid dreams. If you have never had one, it's when you become aware you are dreaming and you are shocked because the world is so vivid. Just KNOWING that anything you can do and want will happen, you can do anything. I've recently though how many of those visions they were probably in a lucid state. They had full consciousness yet they were still asleep. I have never thought to try to summon God while in a lucid dream. If it's possible and he did respond and it was not just my subconscious, then I'd need to already have questions ahead of time to ask and a proof question. The proof question is maybe something about a person that nobody knows that I can verify with them on it, or some event that will happen, etc, something that can be confirmed that you would have no way of knowing prior.
I'm curious what you would all ask and what your proof question would be.
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Has your trust in charity been shaken lately?
by suavojr inexcerpt from the wt article, http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2003401.
jehovahs witnesses today are also quick to help when disaster strikes.
during the summer of 2001, for instance, torrential storms caused major flooding in houston, texas, u.s.a. in all, 723 homes of witnesses were damaged to some extent, many of them quite badly.
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A note on charties 'advertisting' costs. Some charties are major scams, almost all of their money goes to advertisting costs. The charity is set up, the leaders get big salaries, and they have ties if not outright owners of the companies that they pay to do the advertisting.
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An update on shunning (at the store).
by quellycatface ini was called into a meeting by one of the department managers last week.
i had a meeting this morning.. anyway, to cut a long story short.
the people involved in this will be called into a private meeting and spoken to.
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Maybe one day there will be 'new light' on the correct understanding of the scriptures. Mainly, that shunning is only for one who 'professes to be a brother' yet is going against there teachings and those who are 'ex jw's' are to be treated as 'one among the nations'. In summary ex JW's aren't shunned, they are treated just like worldly people. You can talk, interact with them, etc, just not become best friends or too close, etc.
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Has anybody ever inquired about the scripture that says that "EVERYBODY" must die once, THEN a judgement?
by EndofMysteries inhebrews 9:27 and just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, .
that scripture clearly says man must die once.
and if you combine that with .
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Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
That scripture clearly says man MUST die once. And if you combine that with
1 Cor 15:53 and 54 that pretty much say fleshly bodies are mortal and to live forever one must be reborn immortal in a non fleshly body, which goes along with Hebrews 9:27 saying that everybody must die once,
and finalized with Isaiah 28:18 that says those who proclaim they will never die, have invented their own convenant with death and it will NOT come to pass!
It seems to be universally clear that the scriptures teach mortal man WILL die, everybody will die one time.
I wonder what the JW response to those scriptures would be. Actually I know, "I'll get back to you."