Hi dozy,
Luise Hay, self-help author. used to say in her seminars that if you train your mind giving autosuggestion that you want to die while in sleep, it would happen.
And to everyone's surprise, she herself died during sleep. So what you said " ( if you are lucky ) a comfortable , pain free death in a warm bed surrounded by loved ones" is true.
Hi Hanged Man,
Thank you for that link.
Everything is cycle of Cause and Effect. What science describes in scientific terms, religions describe through mythological characters
Hanged Man,
Nietzsche even wrote a book on the same subject which he named it "Eternal Recurrence."
Truth exists in piecemeal scattered in all isms. Truth is for the seekers. Intelligence [from intellegere, Latin, literally “read between lines”] would actually mean reading between lines, happenings, scriptures, science … and arriving at intuitive discernment.
There are conflicted religions, and also atheism; there are people who remember their past lives and there are people who do not have past lives. Think about the first flower you smelled when you were a child—you can remember its color and even its fragrance now as though you were really there. Yet your body is not the same now as all atoms that made your body then have now been changed which means what holds your body, the immaterial substratum, has not changed! That substratum must be atom-sized because we are called individuals. The word individual comes from Latin individuus [based on dividere ("to divide")] which describes human being basically as something indivisibly and invisibly small substratum on which body is sustained.
Just like our body organs cannot go beyond certain limit, mind, the thinking faculty, can think up to certain extent; beyond this it cannot think. If we stretch the mind’s ultimate limit, we find that the extent of entire cosmos remains still beyond our imagination and intelligence. Therefore, it seems that a greater intelligence than ours must have been working behind the vast, entire cosmos.
Explore in this line—you will reach truth.
... and lose his soul.
" when jws came to my house years ago to instruct me on "what the bible really teaches", i gathered from the text that doctrine made a distinction between humans and spirits such as angels.
the belief in a bodily resurrection made the notion of a soul either redundant or something that would be extinguished.
True Christianity is all about social altruism (Mathew 25:31-46), and true Christians are found scattered in all religions--even among JWs. Interestingly, Jesus rejected all theological exercises (Mathew 7:21-23). Hence if make mistakes in theological details/understanding, it doesn't matter.
i had long held the piece of the jigsaw puzzle which starts at genesis 2:4b – the yahwist’s creation story.
i knew that its authors had never heard of lamarck’s theory of evolution, nor had they read darwin’s “origin of species”.
the authors were addressing their own immediate culture, so i had to transport my mind to their times.
Great post, saved into my computer.
i have friends who are called "worldly people" by jws.
these people are actively involved in feeding the homeless over christmas.
managing thrift shops so they can send financial aid overseas to poorer children.
True Christianity is all about social altruism (Mathew 25:31-46), and true Christians are found scattered in all religions--even among JWs.
just this week i had the jws knock on my door.
sisters from my old congregation.
we exchanged the usual polite conversation.
Why can't experiences of two World Wars alone "wake the rulers up"? What is true of leaders is true of individuals too.
many people of all denominations are beginning to believe that hell does not exist - but the bible supports the claim that it does.
examine this verse, one under nkjv and the other nwt:.
nkjv - matthew 25:46, "and these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.".
Even Hitler understood that we cannot look for facts in scriptures: "Christianity brought conscious falsehood in the religious matters to the world.” From Adolf Hitler - rozmowy przy stole 1941-1944)
http://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/133005/adolf-hitler---rozmowy-przy-stole-1941-1944Hence don't look for proof of hell in the Bible
this may have been covered before but have you noticed the logo design of the "inside story" on this months video the 143rd gilead graduation.
it appears as a pyramid containing the masonic symbol of the compass and square, with this reflected below the text.
the art pieces on the shelf are also interesting and maybe someone has some thoughts on these.
They are not a secret society, but are a society that traces its origin to the times of King Solomon and believes in the Supreme Being, hence stands for the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.
