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the subject has got me wondering.. they say buddha when he got enlightened under the the bodhi tree after vowing not to stop meditating untill he reached his goal/enlightenment.durring this momentous time he experienced a billion past lives.. what i'm thinking is that these people that experience this type of enlightenment are reading thier junk dna, which is a file of their evolutionary past that is encoded in the turned off genes of junk dna which is really a step by step recording of our evolutionary past that gets turned on briefly durring our formation in the womb from a one celled organism to a new born baby.. so i think just as their is an evolutionary process to build a human being starting from conception to a fully grown human built into our dna filing system that gets turned on durring conception, and that this proceess is what one is experiencing when one like the buddha meditates himself into an altered state of conciousness and has the experience of having lived many past lives..

John_Mann

Don't try to use christian literalism in buddhism.

Buddhism use a lot of poetry and fantastic telling to explain mental processes. Buddhism copes with subjective experimentation of the world, so you cannot expect to set an orthodox interpretation of the Dharma.

BTW there's no concept of reincarnation in buddhism, neither soul or God.

The oldest buddhist school of thought (Theravada) take rebirths as happening in just one and single lifetime. As you-child it's not the same person as you-old, and there's just an illusory sense of continuity between several "you's" in your lifetime, every you is (in any sense) a different person. Because you are not a single entity (soul) but a dynamic process.

That's buddhism in a nutshell. You can think about reincarnation and junk DNA but there's nothing about that related to buddhism. Try to use something else to support your "theory".

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Another cheery video for the kids on jw.dork

by konceptual99 in

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http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/kids-animated-videos/.

enjoy..

John_Mann

Anthony the Turd loves the (new) lights...

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If you were God, how would you rule?

by What is Truth? in

welcome, to anyone up for a thought experiment and some fun with your inner god complex.

i was inspired with this question while at 7/6/14 watchtower study.

the question is.. if you were to be made god how would interact with your creations?

John_Mann

Involuntary suffering would not even exist.

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Most JWs will be dazzled . . .

by bats in the belfry in

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should they ever go and find this on their beloved website:.

.. .. will they believe it is the start of something big?.

John_Mann

JW mind is setted to always be loyal to JW.org (former WT), they would play the persecution card with that.

The WT is always right to JW's because it's not even wrong in any sense.

It's a good business formula indeed. One can make a lot of money with this game (and they do).

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This will be a GREAT organization!

by Kensho in

when...... 1) we follow christ example not the gb.

2) stop df'ing those for challenging current or past doctrine and allow us to use our god given gift of reason and free wil.

sure kick out the scumbags even the lions club have rules for membership, but not those who just use their brains and consience.. 3) get rid of the nonsensical blood teaching that has cost the lives of thousands and beg god for forgiveness.

John_Mann

It would be WhateverTower.

The world are full of such organizations there's no need to create a new one.

Just shut the doors and say good bye.

You can't reform the WT like you can't polish a turd.

John_Mann

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