Jimroot
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Religion does seem a bit of a comfort blanket. What rankles is when people insist it's all 'true' 'the only way' etc. based on a book that was wirtten after the events, thousands of years ago. It's no truer than believing in fairies cause someone wrote about them once upon a time. It might be true. It might not. There's no way of ultimately proving either, it's just less likely that not
Information gets corrupted after just a few copies, let alone all this time and people and politics getting in the mix.
Be good if a JW could come on and correct this, but I was once told by a guy very into it and not a junior in their organisation, that only a certain number of followers (20,000?) get into the afterlife realm where they live with lions and other animals (vegetarian lions?) That's not much incentive to new comers?
Like, if I want to get in, do I have to be 'better' than you? And just by wanting to be better to get something and deprive you of eternal happiness doesn't that make me 'worse'?
Also, I asked another 'deeply religious' person, 'what's if I'm really good as a person, but I just don't happen to have heard of or been exposed to your religion, can I get into heaven?' 'No' was the answer. That kind of sums up religion, not spirituality, it's a club, with a status, usually a patriarch, dues to pay, sacrifices to make on the promise of afterlife unprovable reward.
Information gets corrupted after just a few copies, let alone all this time and people and politics getting in the mix.
Be good if a JW could come on and correct this, but I was once told by a guy very into it and not a junior in their organisation, that only a certain number of followers (20,000?) get into the afterlife realm where they live with lions and other animals (vegetarian lions?) That's not much incentive to new comers?
Like, if I want to get in, do I have to be 'better' than you? And just by wanting to be better to get something and deprive you of eternal happiness doesn't that make me 'worse'?
Also, I asked another 'deeply religious' person, 'what's if I'm really good as a person, but I just don't happen to have heard of or been exposed to your religion, can I get into heaven?' 'No' was the answer. That kind of sums up religion, not spirituality, it's a club, with a status, usually a patriarch, dues to pay, sacrifices to make on the promise of afterlife unprovable reward.