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RC 2015 Book "Jesus—The Way, the Truth, the Life"

by wifibandit in

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/jesus/.

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Rational Buddhism?

by cappytan in

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does a type of buddhism exist that doesn't include the metaphysical aspects of traditional buddhism?

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Rebirth it's not just something that happens when you die. It happens all the time. At every moment you are a little different from the past moment. We aren't a thing but a bunch of things. The illusion of continuity between one moment to the other it's called rebirth. At the moment of death it's only a drastic change for your karma (cycle of thought patterns ). Buddhism does not say your consciousness will survive the death experience. It says the impulse of your karma will be the cause for another being arise to existence. This new being will inherit the impulse of your thought patterns. But anyway you can use the concept of rebirth to your daily experience and not to something beyond your death. The fact is you die and reborn at every second of this existence. Just try to be aware of that. Forget anything about your clinical death because it will be an event outside of your life. Pay attention to your every second death.

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Rational Buddhism?

by cappytan in

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friends

does a type of buddhism exist that doesn't include the metaphysical aspects of traditional buddhism?

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John_Mann

There's no reincarnation in buddhism.

Theravada school is the less mystical one.

Tibetan buddhism is a kind of syncretism with the Bo religion. They have a different Buddha called Padmasambhava.

I really like all schools of thought from buddhism.

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Introducing myself

by maksutov in

my name is russ, i'm 40 years old, from the uk, and i left the jws nearly 5 years ago.

i've been a member of the yuku board throughout that time, so there are probably some on here who know me already.

there seems to be more activity over here at the moment, so i thought i'd pop in and say hi.i was raised as a jw, started questioning it when i was 16, but there was no internet back then (well, no www anyway) so i got sucked right in and got baptized when i was 18. auxiliary pioneered on and off for a couple of years, then became a ministerial servant.

John_Mann

Seja bem-vindo!

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what are the necessary/more important things?

by sowhatnow in

i always wondered what exactly they were.

now i cant find the right scripture, but its not those spoken of in acts.

15 vs 29, maybe it was the more important things?

John_Mann

The Bible says:

"What is truth?...let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die...[and] physical training is beneficial for... all things." - John 18:38; 1 Cor 15:32; 1 Tim 4:8.

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For God So Loves the Western World...

by Tempest in a Teacup in

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...that only people from those countries can lead 'his organization'.. a few years ago, one conversation stopper people would often bring up to jws in my country is: 'you guys are an american religion'.

the standard answer we were formatted to give to shoot that down was that "god does not favor any nationality over others.

however some countries do possess some advantages needed for the advancement of the divine work.

John_Mann

What country do you live? Seems like a hard place...

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Eyebrows up!... Eyebrows down!...

by Splash in

today... i'm going to talk to you..... about "sisters!!".

now our dear sisters... have a place ... in god's organisation.

they are not permitted to teach!.

John_Mann

Morris is gay. Lett is too much crazy to even bother being gay or not.

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What comforts you when you no longer believe in a ressurrection ?

by EdenOne in

our family just lost someone dear and very close, a faithful jw.

as we went through the entire funeral services and meeting long time brothers and sisters, who in general have been very kind and warm towards us, we realize that the hope of resurrection is a meaningless utopia for us, like a fairytale for little children.

we don't have faith in it anymore, and serves us of no comfort.

John_Mann

We are a possibility in this universe because we exist.

And we are made of stuff from this universe.

There's a possibility to recreate everything again as long as the same stuff is available.

Maybe someday a superhuman artificial intelligence would be able to scan the entire space and time (perhaps through quantum entanglement) in an atomic level and then would be able to materialize anything in the present moment. Including human brains at any time in the past.

I like this idea because is a logical possibility.

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Rise of the Machines a.k.a. Attack of Gog of Magog

by jwleaks in

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the watchtower may 2015 features an image and timeline of the attack of gog of magog to support the new doctrinal changes introduced by gb 2.0.. now i wonder where they got that idea from?.

attack of gog of magog.

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John_Mann

Maybe they are linking the Attack of Gog with the technological singularity.

Gog is Skynet. Gog is Google.

Artificial intelligence is the antichrist!

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Who is Gog of Magog? - Watchtower May 2015

by jwleaks in

here we go again... let's study... news report... comment.... who is gog of magog mentioned in the book of ezekiel?.

for a number of years, our publications have explained that gog of magog is the name given to satan the devil after his ouster from heaven.

this explanation was based on the fact that the book of revelation identifies satan the devil as the leader of the worldwide attack on gods people.

John_Mann

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