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Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Administrator
May 4, 2022 12:56 pm

That is sick.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Administrator
May 4, 2022 12:56 pm

Speaks volumes.
This Easter season, the left Progs and its gaggle of feminists have resurrected their old boogie man, i.e., the Trumpster Republican Hillbilly Conservative Troglodyte, who impose their God and religious morals upon any woman who conceives, but can’t be bothered to take responsibility for her poor decisions, forced to endure the pain, labor, and sacrifice for the next eighteen years.

Ah, but don’t you dare consider the death penalty for habitual rapists and pedophiles. Repeat offenders always have a chance at redemption, so eliminating them is a real social injustice form of murder. Set them free. /s

An infant form of life, that has no cognition of what it even is?
Disposable.
For convenience, and as a humane thing to do, because it’s not wanted.

Yes, Jesus is coming, and
He ain’t happy. There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

GNL
GNL
  Administrator
May 4, 2022 1:10 pm

Get thee behind me Satan.

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  Administrator
May 4, 2022 2:15 pm

“The Party Of Compassion”

ICE-9
ICE-9
  Administrator
May 4, 2022 2:28 pm

It must be getting harder and harder out there to get that 15 minutes of fame.

KJ
KJ
  Administrator
May 4, 2022 4:03 pm

Hopefully, she would bleed to death in the process.

Deacon Benjamin
Deacon Benjamin
May 4, 2022 12:48 pm

Thank you.

It is a rare gift to be able to see the fruit of your prayers in such a way. I was not there in Chicago, but I was present and praying many times in NoVa and DC.

Stucky
Stucky
May 4, 2022 1:05 pm

Let the ad hominem attacks commence!!!!

However … you can’t really refute this, can you?

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Jaycee
Jaycee
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 1:33 pm

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

Persnickety
Persnickety
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 1:48 pm

It’s different when God does it.

“God’s will” etc.

Seriously Stucky, this is a swing and a miss. Although it marginally hints at some very fundamental religious questions that I have yet to see a good answer to. Like why do toddlers get deadly cancer, ever? And the pre-age 5 death rate for kids until the second half of the 20th Century.

motley
motley
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 2:01 pm

This guy just tries to stir up the people who come here. Don’t let him. satan is trying to pull you away from God (and trusting in Him) too.

Persnickety
Persnickety
  motley
May 4, 2022 2:12 pm

@motley, I’m not a regular any more but I go way back on this site to near the start of its current incarnation. I also consider myself friends with Stucky, to the extent that’s possible for two people who haven’t met in person or voice and merely trade barbs via a public comment forum.

FWIW, I have become much more religious in the last few years, but there are still many fundamental questions I haven’t heard answers to.

Stucky
Stucky
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 2:28 pm

“I also consider myself friends with Stucky, …”

Mega dittos.

Motly is full of shit regarding my motives. I have been searching my entire life for answers, sometimes I find them but mostly not, and I expect that will be the case until they shovel dirt on my face.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 4:50 pm

Maybe you’re just asking the wrong questions … I know from personal experience that that happens …

Just a thought, Stucky … 

motley
motley
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 6:19 pm

You language is atrocious. Especially for someone your age

Stucky
Stucky
  motley
May 4, 2022 6:48 pm

I’m getting better. You shoulda heard me in first grade. At this rate I’ll stop with the fucks around age 127. Hope you’re still around to encourage me.

motley
motley
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 8:36 pm

Nope. Its now out of my hands. I’ve said my peace. I’ll now leave it in the hands of our Higher Power. And for the record …. quite a number of your posts are great … entertaining and educational. All the best.

KJ
KJ
  motley
May 4, 2022 4:07 pm

Motley – I love Stucky. I like how he stirs up shit. You think that’s “satanic?” WTF??

motley
motley
  KJ
May 4, 2022 6:16 pm

Absolutely. Anyone who studies the Bible can see this. Not reads the Bible . Studies the Bible . I’m not holier than thou. But I work to keep my tongue in check. And control ‘my thoughts’ and the manner in which I express them. . And for the record …. yes … that is scriptural.

KJ
KJ
  motley
May 5, 2022 1:01 am

God help you, Motley. You need to take a chill pill.

Stucky
Stucky
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 2:07 pm

So, you’re saying I’m serving up some Weak Sauce?? Mmmm, you could be right.

If a Human Being did all the things God has done, according to stories in the OT, not ONE person here on TPB, or even in the history of humanity, would excuse that person from justice. The death penalty would be demand. He would go down in history as Hitler+Mao+Kahn+Penguin times a bazillion level of evil. He would be reviled and people would spit every time his name is mentioned. All of it rightfully so.

But, when God does it?

Hey, no problemo! Like you said, it’s different when God does it. All that holiness and righteousness, an infinite amount, apparently covers up an infinite amount of bad acts. Quite frankly, I have never understood that argument, and probably never will.

Persnickety
Persnickety
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 2:18 pm

Now we’re getting somewhere, and yes your first sentence is pretty much what I mean.

This is an old, if not ancient, problem of western theology – but if bad things happen, and God is good and omnipotent, then why? There are several possible answers depending on what you’re willing to consider:
-God isn’t good, as we think of it.
-God isn’t omnipotent.
-Somehow all our suffering is still the best possible situation (Candide theory).
-God doesn’t exist, life and existence is random, and shit happens.

Of those four, #4 is logically attractive but extremely depressing and nihilistic. #3 is by far the most optimistic, yet hard to accept and not exactly roses either.

Not the first one to have these thoughts, AFAIK.

Despite this serious problem, and several others, I have come to believe in Christianity. Of all the religions I’m aware of, it has, to me, the greatest combination of plausibility and hopefulness. A full discussion would run many pages, and I am NOT Reverse Engineer.

Persnickety
Persnickety
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 2:27 pm

Just for your fun, Stucky, I’ll toss in a few ideas I have that may be less common. Consider the possibility that the moral guidance in the bible is accurate, or at least somewhat accurate, but that not all the people you encounter in daily life are truly what they seem to be. You can consider this under:
–NPC Theory, where our society includes some minority proportion of fully functioning humans with souls and intelligence, and some large proportion of people who are “NPCs” with little depth or independence. The NPCs may exist for divine reasons, or as some ironically hilarious incident to the existence of our Universe.
–Truman Show theory, where it just might be that you alone (or I alone, or whatever) are living in an artificial reality for some purpose. In the Truman Show, the purpose was entertainment. I consider the possibility that the purpose is really some sort of education or training for a later existence in some different plane of existence. (This also loosely relates to Dead Internet Theory.)
–Prison Planet theory, which can be taken either religiously (Earth is actually hell, or at least purgatory) or in a non-religious sci-fi approach (Earth is a mental institution for life forms that aren’t fit for the rest of the Universe).

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 3:10 pm

Add solipsism=only the mind is known to exist. Anything of the outside world and other minds might not exist outside of your own mind.

I have heard of all of what you write except the dead internet theory. I don’t think that Admin is a bot, so I don’t subscribe to that, but the other theories are all possible I believe.

Ties in with my two favorite Black Mirror episodes: Hang the DJ and Bandersnatch.

Persnickety
Persnickety
  Svarga Loka
May 4, 2022 3:22 pm

Huge tangent and some questionable assertions, but it’s also a fascinating rabbit hole. Don’t click this link if you need to be productive for the next hour.

https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-theory-most-of-the-internet-is-fake.3011/

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 4:53 pm

My nickname might very well be Mrs. Tangent. I can derail any thread. Prove me wrong.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 4:57 pm

The lost-century-theory is fascinating. Every time I have gone to the Wright memorial in the Outer Banks, it strikes me how we went from the first flight to fighter airplanes in WWII in just 3 decades. Yet, nothing much seems to have happened as far as technological progress since I graduated from high school.

Also, my nickname might well be Mrs. Tangent. I can derail any thread. Prove me wrong.

Stucky
Stucky
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 6:38 pm

That web site is absolutely fascinating. Gonna spend a couple more hours on it this evening. Thanks.

Guest
Guest
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 11:39 pm

Here’s a bit too

KJ
KJ
  Persnickety
May 5, 2022 1:04 am

This is an old, if not ancient, problem of western theology – but if bad things happen, and God is good and omnipotent, then why?

Maybe it’s because the Lord of this (Material) World isn’t God?

Georges S
Georges S
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 2:36 pm

Add this to your argument, it will help:
Ancient curse tablet unearthed in Israel,.
Archaeologists In Israel Just Deciphered A Biblical-Era Tablet Inscribed With A Dramatic Curse From God

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-702271

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Georges S
May 4, 2022 2:37 pm

YOU have been MIA! Nice to see you back.

Georges S
Georges S
  Abigail Adams
May 4, 2022 2:52 pm

Simply depressed over the effing situation in Frankistan, the musleeems are taking over everything and the moronic Marine LePen didn’t fight the stolen election.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  Georges S
May 4, 2022 4:30 pm

Marie Le Pen is the french Mitt Romney. She conceded within 20 minutes of the polls closing and the exit poll results being reported. The French election was a total farce.

BL
BL
  Stephanie Shepard
May 4, 2022 6:48 pm

GeorgeS- Between Marine Le Pen and her father, they have lost a total of 18 elections to the Rothschild candidate of choice. I find it hard to think the Led Pens are not just compensated ringers put in as a show pony to look like C/O.

Georges S
Georges S
  BL
May 5, 2022 2:15 am

Actually I’ve noticed how brainwashed the French have been in the past 50 years, from kindergarten to college. Schools such ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration) is totally devoted to Davos and the WEF so it is very difficult to find people who can think clearly 100%.

Georges S
Georges S
  Stephanie Shepard
May 5, 2022 2:21 am

The French dominion machines were connected to servers located in the US, but you’re right, she is a french version of Mitt Romney. In fact some French Freedom Fighters have changed her initials from MLP to LMP (La Machine a Perdre= the loosing machine) (but you knew that because I seem to remember that you read French).
Here is a link to a French News site and if check it out most articles implicate crimes committed by musleeems.

Georges S
Georges S
  Abigail Adams
May 5, 2022 2:28 am

Here is a picture of a French stadium in Tremblay France on the day of Aid (the day ending ramadan) all you see from the air are several lines of butts:
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Leah
Leah
  Georges S
May 5, 2022 3:44 am

Good to see you posting again, Georges.

Stucky
Stucky
  Georges S
May 4, 2022 2:50 pm

Glad I checked one last time before logging off for the day.

Wow … you’ve been gone for a while. Great to see you today!!!

Later GeorgeS. See ya ‘Snicky. Be cool Svarga. Be chillin’ AKJohn. Fuck off down voters! (Just practicing my Waltons signoff routine).

Georges S
Georges S
  Stucky
May 5, 2022 2:23 am

Thanks Stucky, it seems that some people are disappointed when I see how many downvote you got. ( : P

RJ
RJ
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 3:09 pm

I guess you missed the preceding passages where it explains how humanity was corrupted and evil was everywhere…except with Noah.

You Boomers are so tiring sometimes.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 4:51 pm

The OT was written by some of the most hateful people of all time … the ‘god’ that they created from their own hatred is not the God of love and mercy and grace … 

Red River D
Red River D
  Anthony Aaron
May 4, 2022 9:38 pm

Those who would not that I rule over them…

…bring them hither and slay them in My presence.

One Book. One God.

RJ
RJ
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 3:07 pm

Research “the prince of this world” and you’ll find many of the answers you seek.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 4:49 pm

When and where? And what’s your source?

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
May 4, 2022 1:07 pm

There’s numerous forms of birth control for women and men can get vasectomies. We’re no longer living in the 1950’s where there’s no birth control options outside of the rhythm method. We have high-tech ultra sounds that are showing a baby isn’t a clump of cells and saying otherwise is ignorance. There’s fewer and fewer reasons to justify abortions.

Stucky
Stucky
May 4, 2022 1:08 pm

When a woman … no, let’s make it a good and faithful Christian woman … has a miscarriage, isn’t that God’s method of abortion?

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 1:12 pm

You’re on a roll today.

falconflight
falconflight
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 1:48 pm

Intelligent design?

Stucky
Stucky
  falconflight
May 4, 2022 1:57 pm

Sounds reasonable.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 3:03 pm

No, no, no. The Devil done it.

AKJohn
AKJohn
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 3:31 pm

God is the creator, not the aborter. The Old Testament calls Karma God. God is not the giver of Karma. Karma is administered through the holy spirit via earths administrators, Satan and his minions the lords of Karma. Karma is never given but earned. Every bit of good I got in this life was earned, also every bad. This is the teacher. Isn’t it a wonderful/terrible world. Just a few thing I learned. Takem or leavem how you like.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 3:51 pm

So, you’ve joined the “I will be as God” crowd. If God can do it; then so can I. If God can judge good from evil and reward with heaven or condemn with hell; then I have a ‘right’ to do it, too.
You may one day get answers to your questions. You just might get them good and hard.
Until then, you just enjoy pissing in the face of Christians for some reason.
Stucky’s version of how to win friends and influence people.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
May 4, 2022 1:11 pm

I remember being in high school and knowing a girl who had an abortion. The public school counselor helped her with the logistics and getting to a facility to perform the abortion. She was advised not to tell her parents. They never knew about it (at least not when it happened). I kept in touch with her after high school and she DEEPLY regretted it. Very sad.

Pretty sick knowing that’s what your tax dollars go to. At the time, I never told *my* parents about that situation because I KNEW my dad would have gone ape-shit & they would have yanked me out of school in a heartbeat…and I didn’t want that to happen, because – friends.

Working with teens now, I’m often viewed not only as their teacher, but as a friend and confidant. They often text & call me and share their problems. Sometimes it gets really hard not to betray their trust and go straight to their parents. When necessary, I always tell them they MUST discuss their problems with their parents and trust that they’ll have their best interests at heart. Not easy sometimes, especially with all the crap these kids have to deal with in today’s world.

Stucky
Stucky
May 4, 2022 1:14 pm

Lastly … cuz I’ve already made too many new enemies …. but, answer me this; where does consciousness reside? Almost everyone would say the brain/mind.

As such, and this is my fervent belief (i.e.; not flinging shit), that until that first brain cell comes into existence then, indeed, all you really have is a clump of cells.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 1:28 pm

By your logic a child wouldn’t exist until it starts talking. Which would mean they wouldn’t be alive until they learned a language. Most of the time while children are talking and know words they’re not consciously having thoughts or opinions. They’re usually just babbling sounds and repeating/mimicking what they hear in their environment. The mind doesn’t start to develop until around the age of 7 years old.

Stucky
Stucky
  Stephanie Shepard
May 4, 2022 1:37 pm

“By you’re logic a child wouldn’t exist until it starts talking.”

Not even close.

Talking isn’t the essence of human-ness. Neither is taking a shit … although that does come close. Neither are any of dozens of other traits. It must be something else.

What makes a human, human? That is the only question.

It’s not solely the brain, either. Dolphins have brains also, but they ain’t human. It’s consciousness that defines humanity. So, by logic, if there is no consciousness, then is that group of cells human? I don’t think so.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 1:42 pm

I really don’t know what you’re trying to argue here.

While consciousness is a defining human attribute it doesn’t define life itself. There’s plenty of life forms on Earth have no consciousness at all. Also, consciousness itself is subjective because different animals have shown various forms of consciousness.

bigfoot
bigfoot
  Stephanie Shepard
May 4, 2022 3:39 pm

I think it is being conscious of being conscious that humans experience and that animals do not.

As for all the mayhem here on earth that seems undeserved, it exists precisely according to karma, and karma exists so that humans after countless lifetimes will one day perfect themselves and become as what the Bible describes “when two becomes one” as in the Garden. Sex is death. Eternal life requires experience to know what to do and not to do and that is our job on earth. For greater explanation see, “Man and Woman and Child” by Harold Percival.

bigfoot
bigfoot
  bigfoot
May 4, 2022 3:42 pm

We are not our bodies! Bodies age, consciousness stays the same. The same “me” wakes up every morning and has since childhood. Our work is to see that we are not our bodies in the way we now see that clothing is not our body.

Jesus:

They said to Him: ‘shall we then, being children, enter the Kingdom?’ Jesus said to them: ‘When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer, and the outer as the inner, and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male, and the female [not] be female, when you make eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in the place of a hand, and a foot in the place of a foot, [and] an image in the place of an image, then shall you enter [the Kingdom].’” The Gospel of Thomas, 22

The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, “Lo, here it is!” or “There!” for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you. (Lk 17:20-21)

“The Kingdom of Heaven is within you; and whosoever knoweth himself shall find it”

“Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.’ I John 4:4”

Leo Tolstoy:
“As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.”

Carl Jung “My life often seemed to me like a story that has no beginning and no end. I had the feeling that I was an historical fragment, an excerpt for which the preceding and succeeding text was missing. I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.”

Towards the end of his Republic Plato turned his attention towards the immorality of the soul. For Plato goodness needs to be understood without considering its consequences. Goodness is its own reward – an end in itself and not a means to an end. Nevertheless, Plato argues that the just man is rewarded not only in his lifetime (i.e. by his society) but to an even greater extent after death. Plato believed that the soul was fundamentally pure but becomes deformed through association with the body. Despite this it retains something of its true nature – and shows this through longing for wisdom.

Socrates I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
Benjamin Franklin

AKJohn
AKJohn
  bigfoot
May 4, 2022 3:48 pm

Awesome. I am that I am. Soul, made in the image of God. An immortal being that dwells in many mansions, levels of consciousness.

Stucky
Stucky
  Stephanie Shepard
May 4, 2022 6:29 pm

Yes, there are many and varied forms of consciousness. Eastern religions and even animistic religions believe that even rocks have consciousness.

And maybe that’s not so far fetched. When the Bad Joos commanded the people to be silent, to stop praising Jesus on Palm Sunday, Jesus said that even if the people stopped praising him that the rocks themselves would start to sing!

But, I’m talking about the very highest (as far as we know) level of consciousness —> Self Awareness. Some famous dude once said, “I think. Therefore, I am.”

Only humans (again, as far as we know) have achieved self awareness … beings who can claim “I know that I know”.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 6:45 pm

I think you’re talking about Enlightenment because there’s a vast amount of humans running around these days with absolutely no self-awareness.

falconflight
falconflight
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 1:50 pm

Didn’t I see you walking out of the El Beth El El synagogue last Saturday? ;0

AKJohn
AKJohn
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 2:02 pm

Interesting discussion. But I would argue that consciousness dwells in Soul. When my daughter was born, I go to experience the breath of life. She looked like a lifeless mass until she took that first breath. She went from gray to pink, and then she smiled, and the master whispered in my ear. The breath of life as Gods love flowed through us. She was not consciousness till that breath, Gods love, flowed through her.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  AKJohn
May 4, 2022 2:12 pm

Many mothers say they can experience their child’s personality/temperament in the womb. You’re describing her breathing through her own lunges for the first time and your first experiences with her. Her mother already experienced various characteristics unique to her before she was born.

AKJohn
AKJohn
  Stephanie Shepard
May 4, 2022 2:27 pm

Yes, Soul lingers around the body before it is born, and yes Moms can feel it. But it is not attached to the body until the breath. I have read about this in many different books. The bible confirms this and refers to it as the breath of life.

AKJohn
AKJohn
  AKJohn
May 4, 2022 2:29 pm

Notice I did not say my Soul, or her Soul. This refers to I am Soul with a body. Not a body with a Soul which is wrong.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  AKJohn
May 4, 2022 2:35 pm

That’s your perception of her consciousness. Her mother has a different perception of when she was first conscious from feeling her in the womb. Then she has her own memories of the beginning of her own self-consciousness. My point is you’re describing only one perspective of the beginning of her consciousness.

AKJohn
AKJohn
  Stephanie Shepard
May 4, 2022 2:50 pm

God created the Soul. I knew you before you were the bible quote. Parents crated the body .

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 2:16 pm

Stucky, the first neural cells that will later form the brain are differentiated by gestational week 3, approximately the same time that the precursor cells of the heart form. Most abortions happen after week 3, since the pregnancy is not even noticed until then. Is consciousness present at week 3? Or at week 9, when a round smooth structure is noticeable as a brain? Or whenever it is that you feel pain? When do fetuses begin to feel pain?

By the way, I do not think consciousness resides in the brain or anywhere else within the cells that make up your body. I say that because of or despite being a scholar of the human body. It doesn’t mean that killing the body at any age can ever be taken lightly.

Stucky
Stucky
  Svarga Loka
May 4, 2022 2:35 pm

I have heard/read this concept many times. But, I just can’t get my head around it.

So, where does it reside? (Quick answer is OK … and, no, not trying to stir the pot.)

I hope you are correct. Because if consciousness does reside within the cells of our body, then when a person dies and rots then that is truly the end of that person.

Conversely, if consciousness is not “in the cells” then when that person croaks, obviously he/she is still, well, …. somewhere. Gives me some hope of “seeing” that person again.

Persnickety
Persnickety
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 2:41 pm

If you consider that souls exist, and exist independently of the body, then perhaps they are standing by and get loaded into a fetus at some specific point in time – OR they take months and months to load, and get gradually loaded in as the fetus develops a brain, or whatever it is that the soul needs.

I have no hard answers for any of this. But I am inclined to think that souls do exist, and that a fetus and an infant gradually develop consciousness. I doubt there is any real consciousness at the stage of 1, 2, or 4 cells. But where it starts after that, I don’t know. Some people can reach their 20’s without it, so it seems.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  Persnickety
May 4, 2022 5:02 pm

Gradual download does not make sense to me. If this experience is a test and a conscious choice that we have all made to have an experience in a mortal body here, then an erased memory would be crucial. Otherwise, if you knew it was just a temporary adventure, would you learn the same things? I think that the soul gets implemented into the body at conception all at once. After that, you are on your own (with God by your side). Well, with your Mom at first, who bears you and the responsibility for you in the beginning.

AKJohn
AKJohn
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 2:44 pm

Consciousness resides in Soul. No, you will never see your physical body again. But as Soul, you are immortal. Did you ever have a very vivid dream or came back from your sleep with a jerk. This was your consciousness separating itself from the body. People who have physically died and then survived have written many books about this. We do get to see our loved ones when we pass on. But not in their physical body.

AKJohn
AKJohn
  AKJohn
May 4, 2022 3:08 pm

We experience our loved ones at the different levels of consciousness. Astral-emotional, casual/ memory, mental/mind, etheric/subconscious, or Soul which is just pure energy, light and sound and has no body. These are also the levels of heaven or the many mansions that Jesus talked about. Remember the kingdom of heaven is within you.
I have studied and practiced about consciousness for over 40 years. It’s a real science and the science is called Eckankar, which means coworker with God. Eckankar has been taught by the Vairagi adepts since the dawn of time. Jesus, Buddha, Pythagoras, Saint Francis, Socrates, Saint Paul, Milarepa, and many others taught what they knew of Eckankar to the world. It’s all about consciousness.

B_MC
B_MC
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 3:13 pm

So, where does it reside?

Here’s another theory….

Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics?

Our brains are composed of cells called neurons, and their combined activity is believed to generate consciousness. Each neuron contains microtubules, which transport substances to different parts of the cell. The Penrose-Hameroff theory of quantum consciousness argues that microtubules are structured in a fractal pattern which would enable quantum processes to occur.

https://theconversation.com/can-consciousness-be-explained-by-quantum-physics-my-research-takes-us-a-step-closer-to-finding-out-164582

Quantum experiments add weight to a fringe theory of consciousness

The controversial idea that quantum effects in the brain can explain consciousness has passed a key test. Experiments show that anaesthetic drugs reduce how long tiny structures found in brain cells can sustain suspected quantum excitations. As anaesthetic switches consciousness on and off, the results may implicate these structures, called microtubules, as a nexus of our conscious experience.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2316408-quantum-experiments-add-weight-to-a-fringe-theory-of-consciousness/

AKJohn
AKJohn
  B_MC
May 4, 2022 3:21 pm

It’s interesting, but wrong. It does not switch consciousness off and on, it only changes the measurement off consciousness off and on. You cannot switch off Soul. Soul as a divine spark of the creator is immortal. Even Satan cannot destroy Souls.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 3:56 pm

If consciousness is the key … are we free to dismember you if you pass out drunk?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 3:54 pm

By that logic, you’re a clump of cells and ready for abortion yourself.

Anonymous
Anonymous
May 4, 2022 1:47 pm

As I have written before; I am adopted. I only have non-identifying information on my birth mother and nothing on my biological father. I contend that if Roe v. Wade had been the law in 1950 there is a good possibility that my “cellular blob” would have wound up in a trash can. I may never know who “mom” was but thank God she didn’t kill me. I have sons and three beautiful grand-daughters that are thankful too.

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
May 4, 2022 2:16 pm

A very moving account.

James
James
May 4, 2022 3:14 pm

Why in todays age with condoms/the pill/tubal ligation/vasectomies(been there,done that!)is there such a huge number of abortions in the country,I really do not understand.

Persnickety
Persnickety
  James
May 4, 2022 3:28 pm

The numbers of abortions have been declining for decades, and are heavily concentrated in two minority groups. The white college types who scream so loudly about how it’s a fundamental right are not generally the major users of baby murder, and from what I’ve seen they are composed mostly of militant lesbians, who shouldn’t have any reason to seek abortions, and far-left yuppie women who use birth control and often have a couple kids on purpose, often with some rather neutered but technically male “partner.”

Abortion was pushed a century ago for racial eugenics, and it’s really ironic to look at which politicians are so loud in support. The same ones whose potential voters, by demographics, are being eliminated before birth.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
May 4, 2022 4:47 pm

Nancy Jo … I can only hope that your daughter loves God and you … thanks for saving the life of a very courageous and special woman … and for saving the life of your daughter, too …

Meg
Meg
May 4, 2022 6:47 pm

Beautiful testimony. Beautiful daughter. This is another example of how God honors our obedience.

I’ve fought for the unborn (even though I was unable to have children of my own) for decades because it is the right thing to do. I’ve been attacked by pro abortion radicals who clearly hate themselves but support pedo s rights. But I am also in favor of my body my choice, so there’s that. We all have to answer to our creator at the end of the day.

I’m not sure why TPTB are trotting this RvW out right now. It’s a distraction. So is the gala, as well as EM Twitter purchase. I think it’s to keep the average person from knowing and preparing for the difficult times ahead.

Thank you all for your perspectives.

Stucky
Stucky
May 4, 2022 6:59 pm

Posting here because it appears to be the most active thread right now. These two websites, I can’t get either of them.

— rt.com

— sputniknews.com

Can someone please try it on your computer? Does it work for you??

TIA

BL
BL
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 7:06 pm

Stucky- rt.com comes in but there is a DOD guard on it. Sputnik is ok also.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Stucky
May 4, 2022 7:55 pm

RT coms right in but sputnik has always had an overload problem with their server. During peak times I can’t get them.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
May 4, 2022 7:08 pm

I think God says, “Mess around and find out”.

Similar to when someone in a crowd says “fucked around and found out” after some punk gets his ass beat.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
May 4, 2022 7:39 pm

I have a great step son because his mom couldn’t go through with it.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  Mary Christine
May 4, 2022 8:07 pm

I couldn’t be happier for you.

I have 2 grandchildren even though my stepdaughter never wanted kids and she herself had many social issues growing up.

My grandkids are the highlight of my life.

Guest
Guest
May 4, 2022 8:15 pm

Don’t forget it’s not just your regular old abortion. It’s abortion at 9 months (they had a party in NY) and post BIRTH ABORTION. Not to mention selling of baby body parts.
It’s so gros, like pedophilia, we can hardly think it much lesss speak of out.