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  Universal sovereignty on trial

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  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  Monism:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism

  Monism attributes oneness or singleness (Greek: μόνος) to a concept e.g., existence. Various kinds of monism can be distinguished:

  Priority monism states that all existing things go back to a source that is distinct from them e.g., in Neoplatonism everything is derived from The One.[1] In this view only one thing is ontologically basic or prior to everything else.

  Existence monism posits that, strictly speaking, there exists only a single thing, the Universe, which can only be artificially and arbitrarily divided into many things.[2]

  Substance monism asserts that a variety of existing things can be explained in terms of a single reality or substance.[3] Substance monism posits that only one kind of stuff exists, although many things may be made up of this stuff, e.g., matter or mind.

  
  
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

  by Factfulness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  To a persons with very little knowledge of physics everything could sound like mumbo jumbo, it did to me 20 years ago.

  Sheeperdless,

  So I would suggest that persons who interpret psychics as a bunch of mumbo gumbo should realize that governments are spending billions of dollars to find out answers to these very questions about the universe. So it can't be all mumbo gumbo just because you don't understand anything he says except some little sound bites you were able to comprehend but rather poorly. Don't think that he was throwing fact around to impress people with his knowledge.
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

  by Factfulness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  While at it I like to bring up the Many worlds interpretation:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

  The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). In layman's terms, the hypothesis states there is a very large—perhaps infinite[2]—number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes. The theory is also referred to as MWI, the relative state formulation, the Everett interpretation, the theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation, multiverse theory or just many-worlds.

  The original relative state formulation is due to Hugh Everett in 1957.[3][4] Later, this formulation was popularized and renamed many-worlds by Bryce Seligman DeWitt in the 1960s and 1970s.[1][5][6][7] The decoherence approaches to interpreting quantum theory have been further explored and developed,[8][9][10] becoming quite popular. MWI is one of many multiverse hypotheses in physics and philosophy. It is currently considered a mainstream interpretation along with the other decoherence interpretations, collapse theories (including the historical Copenhagen interpretation),[11] and hidden variable theories such as the Bohmian mechanics.

  
  
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  RC Lowell Mass (USA)

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  convention in lowell mass june 15-17 2018...about 4500 in attendance...11 baptized (0.24%)...believe about 6 of those were kids of current jw's..

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  The % should only get smaller and smaller. With the bad news and scandal cover ups of the WT corporation all over the internet.
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

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  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  I think non dually speaking, everything is just one thing and consciousness is it, that's all there is just that. The physical brain is more or less a antenna that receives and broadcast to the universal mind or consciousness for what ever reason. What we perceive as objects are all holograms inside a one or two dimensional sphere. Thus everything is connected because even a small piece of the hologram has information about the whole hologram.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle

  https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/172812-our-universe-is-a-hologram-and-were-floating-inside-of-it-suggests-new-research
  
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

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  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  Cool vid.

  I like his approach to consciousness.

  The universe exist in our consciousness and the brain creates the universe as we perceive it, the universe does not exist without consciousness, they're both are the same thing. We are the Universe and the Universe is us, once we quiet the monkey mind a different picture comes in view they say the nondual experience is life changing.
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

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  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  The only difference is some one wasn't there to hear the sound and so no sound was made. The insects experienced vibration and with their tiny little brains they heard no sound just moved in some programed response to the vibration.
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

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  1. watchtower
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  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?

  Yes of course it does.

  No it don't your mind makes the sound. The crashing tree makes vibrations it does not make sound, sound is made in the mind and does not exist outside the mind. The earthworms and bugs within the area may experience vibration but wont interpret it into sounds we hear, it will be something else entirely.
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

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  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  I think to 2 slit experiment and wave collapse function when making an observation, and other such experiments that prove this point to consciousness being everything.

  There is no such connection You have just gone full Deepak. Never go full Deepak.

  You forgot to throw in the 'q' word.

  So what are the connections to consciousness observations causing the wave to collapse into a particle?

  
  
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

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  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Brokeback Watchtower

  Consciousness is said to be the ground being. What does that even mean?

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_mind

  Universal Consciousness (redirected, here, as Universal Mind) is a concept that tries to address the underlying essence of all being and becoming in the universe. It includes the being and becoming that occurred in the universe prior to the arising of the concept of “Mind,” a term that more appropriately refers to the organic, human, aspect of Universal Consciousness. It addresses inorganic being and becoming and the interactions that occur in that process without specific reference to the physical and chemical laws that try to describe those interactions. Those interactions have occurred, do occur, and continue to occur. Universal Consciousness is the source, ground, basis, that underlies those interactions and the awareness and knowledge they imply.