by Atlantis 11 Replies latest watchtower bible
WT-63-4-15-p.-242
God will implant the exact impressions and memories of all things that happened during the person’s previous consciousness, his power of recognizing people and scenes and locations, and all his personality traits, and everything that displays his mental growth or retardation.
Sure, buddy. Every Tuesday and Thursday night. Don't you know?
God will implant the exact impressions and memories of all things that happened during the person’s previous consciousness, his power of recognizing people and scenes and locations, and all his personality traits, and everything that displays his mental growth or retardation.
i think that there is more of an issue here than just the fact that god would reimplant retardation.
the watchtower society, and other creationists, do not have the answers to these questions, along with all the other questions they do not have answers for. their only answer is not really an answer, but rather a formal statement based an article of complete faith: god is all powerful (for which they have no evidence AT ALL as well).
so basically, the WTS *and* other xian and muslim creationists, are talking out of their ignorant blow-holes when they say shit like this!
this really irks me, as you can see, because it is a willful neglect and denial of the knowledge that science has uncovered for us, in a natural way. oh, and btw, science cannot answer the above questions because to begin with: they can find no evidence for the existence of god.
the rest is magical thinking at it's finiest.
TS
tetrapod.sapien:
That whole article is quite a laugh old chap! They go on to say that brain molecules will be replaced with "not" the same identical brain molecules, but yet the person is supposed to be the very same person!
The "faithful slave" have got to be making this stuff up as they go along, or dictating this rubbish just before they have taken their prozac. Sounds like stories out of "Theater X, Outer Limits. or Twilight Zone.
These "governing body" chaps need medical attention!
Cheers!
LOL, yes. they should be worrying about their own synaptic connections before wondering how joe hoba will pull it all of in the paradise. he he.......... man, to think i used to eat this stuff for breakfast lunch and dinner.
cheerio mate,
TS
Probably the writer having a little laugh. He put in that word "retardation" so that the GB-members wouldn`t feel that they had been left out.
Here is what Charles Russell wrote in Zion's Watch Tower, FEBRUARY 1, 1896.
The Phonograph, recording our words and tones, preserving them if needful for years, and repeating them with their original emphasis and intonation, reminds us, suggestively, that similarly our brains are much more delicately constructed, and can not only record words but also thoughts and feelings, and classify these, and lay them away for future use, subject to the call of memory. It gives us a hint, also, of how simple a matter it will be for God to resurrect the dead, by creating new bodies with brains having similar convolutions to the deceased, which, thus revived by the breath of life, would reproduce beings which would recognize and identify themselves by the memory of their past thoughts and experiences.
Note that Russell considers memory to be contained in the "convolutions" of the brain, and that resurrection would "reproduce beings" who would use this memory to identify themselfs.
--VM44
people aren't born retarded, they choose to be retarded.
All the resurrection is would be God creating billions of clones who are the exact duplicates of people who had long ago died, and these replicants will completely believe they are the original people even tho they are not.
A bit of an Invasion of the Body Snatchers scenario to me.....
Of course, the logical collorary of this is that Jesus never really rose from the dead, he was just replaced by an exact duplicate. What's to stop God from creating two or three duplicates in the resurrection? How would you like 100 Jesuses? Or 144,000 Mao Tse Tungs?
