Death isn’t a topic that is easy fro most people to deal with. And there aren’t too many religions that help people deal with the reality of death. Many religions teach beliefs of resurrection, reincarnation or other life after death scenarios.
For most Christians the belief in an afterlife in heaven is the basis regarding what happens when a person dies. The only way to reconnect with the person who has died to wait until you die.
Jehovah’s Witnesses have a very different understanding of death. Few people will actually go to heaven. Most Witnesses believe they will continue to live on earth forever. Those who have died will be resurrected to live on earth. In the meantime they are just sleeping.
In last years January blog article HERE I mention quite a few new good things Free Minds has planned for the future. Our plans have now been updated for your enjoyment and so I will repeat some of the things I said in last year's update and ADD NOTES for how this will change or progress for the year 2012.
"We now are financially within range of updating our websites starting with fine-tuning the graphics and getting a new interface at freeminds.org, that will use up less CPU time on the server."
I was raised a JW, baptised at fourteen, and left a few months before my eigtheenth birthday. And in that short amount of time as a young man capable of reasoning, I heard this gem:
A sister moved into a house that was demon possessed. There was the "usual" of pan-throwing, book-throwing etc (why she never moved out when her own HOUSE was assaulting her, I don't know...).
It seems that a lot of us still have family members in the Watchtower religion and have frequent arguments with them about some of their controversial beliefs and practices. From my own experience and what I've heard others say, when these arguments come up, they will inevitably say something like "the bible tells us we have to preach door to door" or "where is this 'proof' that Jerusalem wasn't destroyed in 607 BCE?" or "we know Jesus did not die on a cross". There's so much information out there that you don't know where to begin. If you say "let me click on the internet to show you what I've found out", the thought stoppers implanted in their brains are triggered. After all the Internet is run by Satan himself, isn't it?. And so they decline your offer. The aim of my project is to solve this problem.
Thanks for the intro. Lots of good advice on this net thing. My friend Lee told me that he used to have to get up to pass water 2 or 3 times every night until he started to drink cranberry juice, now he says he doesn't get up at all. So I thought, "what the heck!" I'll try it. By golly it does work. I've been drinking cranberry juice for about 2 weeks now and the last 3 nights I didn't get up at all to go to the bathroom. I still go to the bathroom, I just don't get up.
It seems that a lot of us still have family members in the Watchtower religion and have frequent arguments with them about some of their controversial beliefs and practices. From my own experience and what I've heard others say, when these arguments come up, they will inevitably say something like "the bible tells us we have to preach door to door" or "where is this 'proof' that Jerusalem wasn't destroyed in 607 BCE?" or "we know Jesus did not die on a cross". There's so much information out there that you don't know where to begin. If you say "let me click on the internet to show you what I've found out", the thought stoppers implanted in their brains are triggered. After all the Internet is run by Satan himself, isn't it?. And so they decline your offer. The aim of my project is to solve this problem.