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  Evidence of life after death?

  by little_Socrates in

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  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/life-after-death-largestever-study-provides-evidence-that-out-of-body-and-neardeath-experiences-may-actually-be-real-9780195.html.

  "experts currently believe that the brain shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds of the heart stopping beating and that it is not possible to be aware of anything at all once that has happened.. but scientists in the new study heard said they heard compelling evidence that patients experienced real events for up to three minutes after this had happened and could recall them accurately once they had been resuscitated.".

  how are people having "experinces" while there is no evidence of heart or brain activity?.

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  The Scotsman

  A good book on the subject is Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander.

  He is a neurosurgeon and was not a believer of NDEs - until he had one.

  His experience was exceptional in that they had him hooked up to every monitoring device imaginable and zero brain activity was proven - and yet he was off somewhere else having an experience he describes as hyper reality - more real than what we currently experience.

  I for one believe them to be real experiences - their are just too many of these NDEs happening for it to be easily dismissed.
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  Scottish independance in two days what do you think?

  by barry in

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  one thing i would like to say is will the union jack be changed because the scottish flag is incorpreted in it.

  if the union jack is changed will we change our australian flag because the union jack is in our flag?

  even hawawi has the union jack also fiji and many other commonwealth countries.. .

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  The choice is hope or fear.... I place my vote later today...
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  PART TWO of AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE BY A PRACTICING JEHOVAH'S WITNESS

  by Sparks in

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  while you are sitting there reading this, there are literally hundreds of thousands of young males and females all over the world [ mostly in america / canada and england] sitting in their grotty little smelly bedrooms or flats, designing computer viruses that they will up-load onto web-sites to cause anonymous innocent peoples computers to malfunction.

  these creeps spend literally weeks,months or even years hoping to make a computer viruses that will get into peoples computer bios to completely destroy their computers.

  they never see the peoples anger, frustration and distress.... the damage can cost each person about 1,000 [ $1,660.74 ] or more to replace a basic new laptop or tower.

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  Sparks - by being here you are an apostate as well - welcome...
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  An important message from a PRACTICING Jehovah's witness

  by Sparks in

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  hi, i am also a practicing jehovah's witness and very proud of it,to say the very-very least..!

  i am a middle-aged man with many decades of being a witness of jehovah god in england.. this important letter is personally to you, just as many of the bible's 88 letters are to be taken personal by you the reader.

  i am writing to you to urge you to take stock of your life, think what your future holds for you.

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  Bad news Sparks - you have broken direct guidance and direction from the FDS by being here.

  I was an elder when I started coming here and tried defending the WTBTS at first but when all is considered the whole thing collapses.

  I resigned as an elder - last meeting was March 2009 - Mrs Scotsman followed me out 6 months later and neither of us have looked back.

  To be honest I am glad you are here - you are obviously questioning "something" about the whole JW/WTBTS belief structure.

  The Scotsman.
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  Stagnant JW growth at international convention

  by kneehighmiah in

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  so at the international convention 235 were baptized.

  the attendance was 34k.

  that's resents less than 1% its about .6%.

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  The Scotsman

  My wife was talking to one of her neice's the other week who still goes to meetings. She was part of a group of 6 young sisters who hung out together, went out in ministry together, sat next to each other at the assemblies etc etc.

  Anyway it transpires that one of the 6 revealed that she had been doing external research of the org and was stopping attending meetings.
  Fast forward 6 months - my wifes niece is the only one still attending - and even she is beginning to look like a free thinking adult.

  I am cautious to get overly excited at the JW.ORG demise - but you know what - I think we may be at a turning point.
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  Athiests: Do you ever wonder... what if?

  by toweragent in

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  i'll start by saying, i'm a ministerial servant who is trapped in the religion.

  my wife is hardcore...but i've slowly been getting her to lighten up, so i'll take it!

  all my friends and family are jw's, and i am employed by a jw (who is actually a great boss).

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  The Scotsman

  Based on the facts around us - the existence of a creator makes perfect sense to me...
  
  But no need to be in a religion though...
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  JW article on BBC website.

  by The Scotsman in

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28166192.

  mostly about the new preaching tactics - i.e.

  - standing in the street holding up magazines.. i have seen them many times in and around glasgow..

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28166192

  Mostly about the new preaching tactics - i.e. - standing in the street holding up magazines.
  I have seen them many times in and around Glasgow.
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  Where do we go when we die?

  by bsand20 in

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  my best friend of 14 years and maid of honor passed away 2 months ago at age 32 after battling breast cancer for 6 years.

  i haven't been the same since for many reasons.. as a jw kid i believed 144,000 chosen went to heaven, the good people would be resurrected including those who didn't have a chance to hear about jehovah, and the rest, which were of other religions and bad people, died and would cease to exist.

  again, because i was a kid when i left, i never really understood the jw position on death and why they came to their conclusion.

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  The Scotsman

  We go somewhere - of this I am convinced. For me the evidence supports this conclusion.
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  Question for believers in the Bible/God

  by not bitter in

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  my question basically is - why believe?.

  now as a non believer i find it hard to understand how anyone in their right mind can believe in the supernatural and more to the point, live their lives according to an old book.

  not just christians obviously.. my intention is not to offend people.

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  Plenty of evidence out there to support the existence of the supernatural - thats why I believe.
  
  I have not read the bible in ages but still believe in the existence of God.
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  My wife is never going to wake up.

  by marriedtoajw in

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  what do you do when you believe in your heart that your spouse is never going to wake up to the tatt?

  when you're sick of the cherade of pretending you can deal with the spiritual division when you dont think you can anymore.

  when you're convinced that your spouse is so decieved she is lost in a desert and is fine with living by the mirage.

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  The Scotsman

  My experience was similar though not exactly the same.
  
  Look at some of my earlier posts / discussions.

  My last meeting was March 2009 but my wife kept going.
  But she attended her last meeting in July 2009.

  Long story short - for me it got unbearable and I confronted my wife about TTATT. A deeply emotional moment, most stress our marriage had ever been under. She was shocked, fearful, but also agreed on some points.
  
  Then in July 2009 the elders took her aside asking if I was apostate. That was the nail in the coffin for Mrs Scotsman - she never went back.
  
  Its difficult with no easy answers but as I think you have already discovered - you cannot keep living in a dream world - things need to change.
  
  I thought my wife would never leave, never understand - but she did.
  
  good luck...