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minus-squarecattywampas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoDepends what you believe but many think of the concept of heaven not as a place where you see your dead family and pets, but more of a state of being including oneness with God. Sort of like nirvana. Or the Nexus if you’re a Star Trek fan.
minus-squarenightwatch_admin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours agoThe Nexus, being a destructive addiction, seems to me more of an analogy to heavy drug use than a happy afterlife.
minus-squarecattywampas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoTo be fair there’s nothing really wrong with the Nexus as long as you’re not destroying a planet with a pre-warp civilization to get there.
minus-squareaaa999@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoI’m pretty sure JWs believe that heaven is like IRL and simply do not ask the obvious follow up questions because they are a cult
minus-squareFerretyFever0@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoThey think that 144,000 anointed ones go to heaven, good JWs stay on a perfected form of Earth, everyone else is completely destroyed.
Depends what you believe but many think of the concept of heaven not as a place where you see your dead family and pets, but more of a state of being including oneness with God. Sort of like nirvana. Or the Nexus if you’re a Star Trek fan.
The Nexus, being a destructive addiction, seems to me more of an analogy to heavy drug use than a happy afterlife.
To be fair there’s nothing really wrong with the Nexus as long as you’re not destroying a planet with a pre-warp civilization to get there.
I’m pretty sure JWs believe that heaven is like IRL and simply do not ask the obvious follow up questions because they are a cult
They think that 144,000 anointed ones go to heaven, good JWs stay on a perfected form of Earth, everyone else is completely destroyed.