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Does consciousness end with the death of the body
by givemejustalittlemoretime in
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apparently, the carvakas in anceint hinduism were materialists and skeptics, arguing that consciousness ends with the death of the body and that therefore we should take pleasure in this life while we possess it and practice compassion toward others.

they also argued that direct observation is the only certain way to know anything, and thus the existence of supernatural forces and realities cannot be established and must be rejected.
James Brown

Another 2 cent possibility is that all our thoughts everything that goes through our brain/mind

goes directy to God.

God is at a big computer where we are all pluged into.

And he takes in all our data to his hard drive. To be dealt with latter.

That 2 cents worth would change the first 2 cents worth explanation of the aura.

But would explain how God created us for his pleasure and amusement.

I guess we are all waiting to see what God does with his toys when he is done playing with them.

If you are strictly a materialist and that is your only black and white JW like view of life,

Then conciousness ends with the death of the body.

Go for it.

But I do appreciate the materialist.

I appreciate eveyone and everything.

And by comparing notes, weighing and evaluating, I shape my view of this journey,

thiis life, this world.
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Does consciousness end with the death of the body
by givemejustalittlemoretime in
1. watchtower
2. bible
apparently, the carvakas in anceint hinduism were materialists and skeptics, arguing that consciousness ends with the death of the body and that therefore we should take pleasure in this life while we possess it and practice compassion toward others.

they also argued that direct observation is the only certain way to know anything, and thus the existence of supernatural forces and realities cannot be established and must be rejected.
James Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFWp_Npk8Cs
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Does consciousness end with the death of the body
by givemejustalittlemoretime in
1. watchtower
2. bible
apparently, the carvakas in anceint hinduism were materialists and skeptics, arguing that consciousness ends with the death of the body and that therefore we should take pleasure in this life while we possess it and practice compassion toward others.

they also argued that direct observation is the only certain way to know anything, and thus the existence of supernatural forces and realities cannot be established and must be rejected.
James Brown

My 2 cents.

The body is surrounded by an aura.

The aura contains all the pertinant data of the body, knowledge and experience

in an aura format, which we do not understand at this time.

When the aura and body combine it is like

a c/d and c/d player combining,

a record and record player combining,

a mp3 file and a media player combining.

When the body dies the aura goes back to God or some God like entity or repository.

For use at a latter date and time.
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Did you ever actually believe the JW fantasy version of "Paradise"?
by Darth Fader The Sequel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am sure this topic has probably been discussed many times before but,......... i would like reassurance that i am not the only one who gagged every time i heard a jw pontificating on their fantasy version of what "paradise" will be like.

particularly when it comes to the animals.

more specifically, that the animals will all become vegetarians.
James Brown

I was born in and that is what I knew and was taught.

The other children were taught and believed they were going to heaven.

There were no atheist that I knew of back in the 50's.

I'm sure there were, but it was a world before the information age.

I did start to doubt all things Jehovahs witness on January 1976 and from that date on

the house of cards came cascading down.
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what is the current procedure for moving congregations?
by solomon in
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2. beliefs
i am moving congregations soon and what is the best way to do it.

do you just show up in the new place and tell the elders you are new there and they will deal with it?.
James Brown

You mean you are moving and changing congregations.

Moving congregations is a whole different matter.
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Breaking News: Five White NYPD Officers neck choke an African American Guy for breaking up a fight
by Scott77 in
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ae_1405660548.

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James Brown

Jam: I agree. Don't resist.

It goes bad no matter what color or sex if you resist.

And I agree we should work to make this country greater.

Nothing to do with you Jam:

I resent the title of the topic 5 white NYPD choke African American guy for breaking up fight.

The title is so wrong and missleading.

And race baiting.

For one thing the video shows he was not chocked. You can not talk or breathe when your are being choked.

He was in a head lock.

I watch the video over and over. He says I cant breathe, I cant breathe, I cant breathe.

I taught defensive tactics for my department.

And you can not talk when you are in a choke hold.

The reason people die from a choke hold is because they cant breathe.

When you cant breathe, you cant talk.

The criminals are dumb they don't know you need air to talk.

I believe he was uncomfortable because he choose to resist and the stress might have brought on

a asmatic episode, or a diabetic coma.

But that was his choice and doing on so many levels form being over weight to repeatedly making himself a

target for the police.

So the choke hold is wrong and missleading.

The whole post is race batting.

But probably good for attracting viewers and advertisers.

He was in a head lock from 40 seconds to 54 seconds. On the video not time wise.

14 seconds in elapsed time.

If you want to be a thug, you got to be in shape and you cant have asthma.

We would tell that to all the asmatic thugs at the county jail.

Even if he was in a choke hold for 14 seconds that would not kill anybody.

But he was not in a choke hold because he was talking the entire time.

So the whole video is race baiting.
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Breaking News: Five White NYPD Officers neck choke an African American Guy for breaking up a fight
by Scott77 in
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ae_1405660548.

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James Brown

Jam: I don't know what color you are or are not.

I just know there is a lot of racism against white people on this board.

I agree there are a lot of thug cops.

Especially the ones that shoot dogs.

On the video of this posting I did not see any thug cops.

I saw a criminal who resisted arrest and died.

I do think its a shame that he is a criminal for selling illegal cigarettes.

But the line has to be drawn somewhere.

And if he would have let them handcuff him and not resisted he would still be alive.

I think it is a shame that not everybody can make a good wage and have all of

lifes nice things. That is a problem I don't know how to solve.

I know how to solve it individually but not for a whole population.

I agree it is a shame what this country did to the native Americans.

But my great grand parents were Indians, Cherokees, So I guess I will stay here.

And e mail you when you go back to what ever country you came from where they

dont have white people.

Adios Via condios.
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Breaking News: Five White NYPD Officers neck choke an African American Guy for breaking up a fight
by Scott77 in
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James Brown

Jam: Focus.

We are talking about an incident in New York.

One deal at a time.

If you don't like white people go to Africa.
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Breaking News: Five White NYPD Officers neck choke an African American Guy for breaking up a fight
by Scott77 in
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James Brown

My thoughts being a retired sheriffs deputy in Florida.

He was not in a choke hold.

If you are in a choke hold you can not talk, you can not breathe.

Eric Garner said everytime you see me you want to harrass me at 51 seconds on the video of his being taken down.

He had a record of selling cigarettes illegally.

Once you enter the police/criminal justice system you are a client for life, white or black.

At 106 he ask please leave me alone.

You cannot be a criminal and hang out on the streets in any respectable place and be left alone.

He resisted when the officers tried to hand cuff him.

They have to hand cuff him for his and their own safety.

He could take their guns and shoot them or civilians.

I know of too many cases where the criminals have taken the officers guns and killed them.

This happened a lot in the 90's and before.

Police are more cautious now days and handcuff or in this case attempt to handcuff the suspect

before things go south.

I am saddened and perplexed by so many racist anti white posters here on JWN.

If you don't like living in a free society you can always go live in Africa.

And hang out on the streets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOHOB7abbLM
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YOUNG EARTH?
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
young earth creationists (like dr. john morris) are taken to task in an article producing the following statistics:.

let's begin with today's population of the earth (estimated) 6,623,924,220. call it 6 billion.. now, let's go back to noah and his family after the flood.

but--let's take the baby steps necessary to get from 8 people to our goal of 6 billion.. why?
James Brown

It is something to think about.

I don't think people back then only had 2.4 children.

I think they bred like mormans.

The 2.4 or something like that is an average from the flood till today but not an average from

the flood until Davids census.

I have been in the stock market when for 20 years it averaged a 15% return a year.

During Bush's time in office it didnt make anything or something close to nothing.

The big picture average of anything is not like the short term or small picture average.