the watchtower society and many other fundamentalist christian faiths believe that god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent.
in other words he is almighty /all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good.
his omnibenelovence though, clashes with his omnipotence in that if he is powerful enough to change the human condition, and he is willing to do it, why does he permit suffering?...
Precisely considered, foreknowledge and foreordination is the same.
God is not omnipotent. Omnipotence would let emerge paradoxes. For instance, God cannot change laws of mathematics or logics. He cannot create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it.
we're all gonna go someday.
for witnesses, they don't even have to worry about eternal hell----so what's the big deal?
jeffro
The only difference between dying at Armageddon (an unsubstantiated future event based on mythology) and dying before Armageddon is that someone dying before Armageddon has a hope of resurrection (another unsubstantiated future event based on mythology).
I personally do believe in a social, cultural and political cataclysm. One may call it Armageddon, or the total change of the system, or the mother of all revolutions, or other. Thats not the question.
The problem is: Nobody will ever know the begin of A. Nobody will ever know the "nature" of A. . Nobody will ever know whether A. has just begun or not. Nobody will ever know - if A. indeed has begun - how long it will last. Nobody will ever be able to determine, whether a person died BEFORE or WITHIN A. And nobody will be able the say, whether a person will have resurrection or not.
some of us are addicted or simply curious or have been referred to, to see what these boards are all about.
even when people say that they're done, they're never coming back, they reappear......what's wrong with us?
hello all.
This is only board I know where I can discuss all sort of topics one can imagine. With people all around the world. If it is a JW-problem, I find a JW answering me; if it is about WTS-critics, I find a WTS-critics answering me; if it is a scientific problem, then I find a scientist; and if it is an odd question, I certainly find an odd guy answering me;-) Same in all other matters.
This board is really a singular one. Nothing compares to it.
since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.
throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.
from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.
Auld Soul
I do know that in the U.S. there is an increasing tendency toward consensus science, where opinion of the majority holds quite a lot of sway.
We can see this tendency in Europe too. It is because Popper`s criteria are too rigorous for the scientific society. They more tend to the epistemology of Thomas S. Kuhn (1922 - 1994), an US-philosopher.
He was the creator of the term "paradigm". In contrary to Karl Poppers "falsification", Kuhn postulated that paradigms cannot be falsified. A paradigm has to be abandoned not before it can be replaced with another. Abandoning a "reigning" paradigm through the scientific community without substitute would mean - according to Kuhn - the END of the scientific activity per se.
Carefully considered, In the sense of Kuhn`s epistemology, there are "paradigms" (like Einstein`s RT or Planck`s QM) reigning until doomsday, because any approach regarding substitution and/or replacement would endanger the recent university system.
For instance, the ET (Theory of evolution) is just such an example too.
since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.
throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.
from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.
Mixing physics with theology does not make any sense.
The only way allowed in the eyes of scientists, is to try to explain supernatural phenomenons by natural laws. If there are no laws, you can try to discover new one. But science always demands Popper`s criteria of falsification. This means that a new theory has to be both verifiable and falsifiable. If it does not fulfill these criteria, the theory is no scientific one.
i bumped into a jw at the store the other day.
he doesn't know i'm df'd (apparently) and i didn't decide to enlighten him.
he banged on for a bit about people we both knew, how service was that morning, etc.
Ohhh...Mhm.., Texas is a special place with some weird inhabitants. They are able to reduce the earth`s population at first so they fit properly.;-)
since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.
throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.
from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.
Danny Bloem
As I see it, the collapse of the wave function is not dependend if there is a observer or not. It depends upon the possibility that this information could be known, if you measure it or not. So in some cases a single elementary particle can in my opinion be enough.
No, the collapse of wave function is bound on immediate observation btw. measurement. Otherwise, the elementary structures had to have a sort of telepathy-abilities. I do not believe this;-)
since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.
throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.
from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.
Danny Bloem
That sounds like you believe in some kind of conspiracy, to keep things complicated. (or maybe I am reading it wrong)
"Conspiracy"is not the right word. Fact is, that the global university system must keep on functioning. That means the number of "paradigmas" has to be zero; or at least very very low. People like Einstein or Planck would not be successful with their important theories (RT; QM) if they were living in our days. Our world today cannot cope with any new paradigma. Consider, that in Einsteins days perhaps 500 dissertations (Ph.D) in physics got written every year, today the number is more than thousandfold. Of course, it is impossible to write 500 000 new dissertations per year, if they had to admit that there someone has found a GUT (great unified theory) which is relatively simple. The entire university system would collapse. And in other scientific branches it is the same problem;-(
What would Jesus be like today?
(if in flesh): He would be an unemployed guy, too weird to get a job, with no money, no mates, homeless. He would be coerced to a psychiatry treatment and finally, he would disappear in an unknown asylum. If he were a JW, he promptly would be disfellowshipped.
would he change any of the following?
blood, .
christmas, .
Auld Soul
He would change nothing. He would be promptly disfellowshipped for apostasy.
Russell: absolutely. But listen: if Jesus Christ himself would appear tomorrow (in flesh) he would be promptly disfellowshipped too.
