Posts by TonusOH

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What Will JW's Do If They Find Themselves Still Conscious after Death?

by Sea Breeze in

we all know that despite many scriptures to the contrary, jw's believe that when they die, their consciousness will cease.

my question is this: what will be the likely reaction of jw's if they find themselves conscious after death?.

TonusOH

I think it would depend on what they see. I always thought of it as closing your eyes and losing consciousness for a brief second, then waking up in a field somewhere with JWs welcoming the newly-resurrected.

If I awoke and it was clouds and winged angels taking me by the hand, I guess I would have been confused. But Heaven is unlikely to cause any anxiety and understanding would arrive soon enough. I suppose Saint Peter would chide me, pointing out that if God was as I thought of him, I'd be walking towards a very different gate.

If I awoke and I was in hell... it might take me a few moments to realize that I wasn't in the 1970s Bronx.

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What novels would you recommend?

by LoveUniHateExams in

i used to have a large-ish novel collection but my current collection is scaled-down because i was forced to move back to bolton 4 years ago and didn't have enough room for them all in my suitcases.. i currently own just 9 novels.. salem's lot (stephen king).

three by john ajvide lindqvist:.

let the old dreams die.

TonusOH

LUHE: What is Jerusalem's Lot about? Is it set in the same universe as Salem's Lot?

I think it is, though only the names give any indication that it might be related. There are no vampires, but it has more of an 'old gods' vibe to it. Perhaps it is his attempt to show that the site itself is evil, or attractive to evil.

The story is depicted through the letters and journal entries of a man who moves into a large estate he has inherited. An estate with a strange and terrible past that is linked to a nearby deserted town that the locals refer to as Jerusalem's Lot.

There is another short story (I don't recall the name or what collection it's in, but I can find out) that is set in Salem's Lot after the events of the novel. In that one, a man stumbles into a local tavern after his car gets stuck in a snow drift on a cold winter night, and the locals must help him find his wife and child, who were left in the car when the man went for help. What they find is... predictable. But it's also a decent story.

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Index of Evidence for Evolution Threads

by cofty in

re-posting this for reference.. #1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

#2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

#3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

TonusOH

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds just doesn't seem all that scary anymore. :anguished:

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Mass Shooting at Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany

by EdenOne in

mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.

at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.

single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.

TonusOH

I always understood it as: God gave us life, and He can restore it if we lose it, and we have no way to repay Him for a gift of such magnitude. Thus, He also has the right to take it back. That covered any scenario in which God killed (or ordered the death of, or allowed the death of) any person. I always found it troubling, because it seemed like we were looking for an easy way to explain why He killed (or allowed the killing of) so many people, including in circumstances where it seemed unfair or excessive. If there is no scenario where God's actions could be considered unfair or excessive, then we can dismiss those examples.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

TonusOH

Did he ever chide the WTS for their "we're not soliciting donations, but..." videos? I think he even made a t-shirt mentioning it.

...and there he is now, asking for more money while insisting that he's not asking for more money.

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Most children of Jehovah's Witnesses followers in Japan have been whipped, survey shows

by Rattigan350 in

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/15/national/jehovahs-witnesses-whipping/.

the most cited reason was “napping or talking during congregations.” others included “answering back to parents” and “playing with a schoolmate.”.

some respondents said they have been suffering depression as a result of whipping.. “i still cannot forget the sight of children screaming after they were taken into a large room at a congregation when i was a child,” a 44-year-old victim said, stressing that jehovah’s witnesses should reflect on what followers have done.. in february, a group of lawyers started supporting those second-generation followers.. in a statement issued on march 1, the japanese branch of jehovah’s witness said it does not accept child abuse.. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230315/p2a/00m/0na/006000c.

TonusOH

They would mention the term "discipline" and the verse about "spare the rod and spoil the child." I know that, where I grew up, pretty much every parent understood this to mean that they had to use physical punishment in order to raise a child the right way. Which, for us, usually meant belts instead of rods. I suppose I am grateful that my mother didn't take it too literally...

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

TonusOH

Now that I think about it, the WTS could shut him down by telling him that if he has a problem with their teachings and coverups, he needs to explain why he doesn't have a problem with other religious organization's teachings and coverups.

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Jehovah’s Witnesses President Robert Ciranko dies of coronavirus

by Balaamsass2 in

fyi.

this showed up on my google feed.

i couldn't find an earlier story in the search box.

TonusOH

Robert Ciranko since 2014, according to Wikipedia.

Harold L. Corkern since 2019, according to a JWTalk topic.

https://jwtalk.net/topic/40577-new-wt-president/

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How many still getting boosters?

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

either you think the governing body was correct giving direction to be fully vaccinated and do you will keep getting the boosters, or.... if you don’t think the boosters are safe and you decide not to keep getting them then you are admitting that the direction was wrong.. if the direction was indeed harming brothers and sister who kept going to get these injections because of the covid updates then this is a huge wake up call?.

how could this direction from the gb who are i doubt jehovah give such harmful direction?.

TonusOH

Correction to my post above, where I said "My doctor still recommends that I get the boosters, but he does insist." I meant to write that he does not insist. He'd rather I get them, but is not concerned that I have not gotten any of them after the initial shots.

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Index of Evidence for Evolution Threads

by cofty in

re-posting this for reference.. #1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

#2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

#3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

TonusOH

As I understand it, the current model states that birds are dinosaurs. I'm not sure what that makes Archaeopteryx. Just another dinosaur?