All three of the possible disasters in the thread's title, are believed by some to be imminent.
All three are the subject of claims that should be verifiable.
But how can we do that?
fulltimestudent
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So you're worried about the Big A, or the North Korean bombs? Sorry everyone, Japan is the one that has likely screwed us all.
by fulltimestudent inheard much lately, about the fukushima nuclear disaster in japan?.
that is until earlier today when i found this article from last year, with dr. helen caldicott discussing the chernobyl disaster and fukushima.
she believes fukushima is uncontrollable and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it.. read the article: .
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Other Religious Denominations
by Plato init’s me again, your favorite greek philosopher xdd.. i was wondering if any ex-jws around here have since indetified with other christian denominations.
if that is the case for you, how has it been?
do you feel more welcome?
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I am not associated with any type of religious thinking, but I have spent a lot of time during the past ten years in a deeper study of Asian (i.e. religions that originated in Asia - which is all of the major religions) religious thought than I had ever made as a JW. (And I became a witness when the old book, "What Has Religion Done for Mankind." was in use).
Here's the study topics I've undertaken as part of my degree (at Sydney's Macquarie University);
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World.
Pagan's Jews and Christians: Athens and Jerusalem.
Myth in the Ancient World.
Early Christian Literature and Thought.
The New Testament in its Times.
Byzantium: East and West.
From Constantine to Theodora: Church and State in Late Antiquity.
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism.
The Classical Tradition of Thought.
Religions along the Silk Road.
As a Capstone Unit in Ancient History, I researched and wrote an essay examining Daniel 7's development of a second divine being in the heavens as driven by the hellenisation of Jewish thought. There are some topics on this site where I discussed that.
(That's out of a total of 30 study units I've undertaken.)
And at Sydney Uni, I undertook some study Units on a cross-Institutional basis, that covered elements of Buddhism and its spread across Asia and the connection between Iranian thought (primarily Zoroastriansim) and Indian thought.
Two other important study units in which I enrolled were, Critical thinking and Why People Believe Weird Things: Making Rational Decisions in an Irrational World.
All that as part of my key interest, the role of Asia in World History.
After all that, a conclusion far different from what I had previously come to believe as a witness.
As a witness, I was taught that there was a line of pure spiritual thinking, given (inspired) by the one true god that is contained in the bible and available to be understood by those to whom the one true god chooses to reveal his 'truth.'
I found however, that wherever cultures come into contact with each other, there is a (consciously or unconsciously) a sharing of ideas. Hence - no pure revelation of a god to anyone! Rather the development of interconnected concepts in fits and starts.
As a med. student you surely will have to understand the scientific method, which advances knowledge by a system of (briefly) observation and measurement, the formulation of a hypothesis and subsequent testing and modification. But as a JW, you cannot (lawfully) test any hypothesis advanced by the sacred and discreet slave. If you question the result they claim to have arrived at, you will be in trouble.
Apparently, (as some have discussed on this site), the only way to escape when you find yourself in intellectual conflict with the organisation, is to say that you can no longer believe the bible.
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So you're worried about the Big A, or the North Korean bombs? Sorry everyone, Japan is the one that has likely screwed us all.
by fulltimestudent inheard much lately, about the fukushima nuclear disaster in japan?.
that is until earlier today when i found this article from last year, with dr. helen caldicott discussing the chernobyl disaster and fukushima.
she believes fukushima is uncontrollable and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it.. read the article: .
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But ... some say Caldicott is wrong!
As here: https://eclipsenow.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/doctor-helen-caldicott-is-a-fraud/
So how do ordinary people like us know who is right?
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So you're worried about the Big A, or the North Korean bombs? Sorry everyone, Japan is the one that has likely screwed us all.
by fulltimestudent inheard much lately, about the fukushima nuclear disaster in japan?.
that is until earlier today when i found this article from last year, with dr. helen caldicott discussing the chernobyl disaster and fukushima.
she believes fukushima is uncontrollable and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it.. read the article: .
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Heard much lately, about the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan?
No!
OK I haven't either. That is until earlier today when I found this article from last year, with Dr. Helen Caldicott discussing the Chernobyl disaster and Fukushima. She believes Fukushima is uncontrollable and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it.
Read the article:
Watch these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=593&v=4ITrXVJMKeQ
and then ............ ????
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Smiddy`s Wedding Anniversary Today
by smiddy3 inhi friends one and all i just thought i would let you know it`s our 57th wedding anniversary today .
and we are setting off this morning for 3 nights in eden nsw i think it has more to offer than the one in genesis.. with a bit { or a lot } of luck we will make our fortune .
have a good day everybody.
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Have a great time, Smiddy! I love Eden, used to go there often when I was a kid. Many years since I've been in the area, but last visit I can recall sitting on the beach at Boydtown (opp. Eden) looking out to sea. Beautiful!! You may not make your fortune, but you'll enjoy your visit. If you've never been here before. Take a trip on one day across the border to Mallacoota - also wonderful.
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A World so different to the one I grew up in.
by fulltimestudent inin the early 1950's i changed my life.
i started to study the bible with a jw.
big mistake!
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scratchme1010 : "I don't lament my JW past, nor do I celebrate it. It just is. Since I left I am in sync with the world and all it changes, the good ones and the bad ones. I hope you can embrace the world. It's not pretty all the time, but it's the only one we have."
Thank you for your advice! I did not have a 'bad time' as a JW either, in fact had some good times (though based on a silly illusion). That is, until the parting of the ways, when, of course, anyone leaving will be denigrated.
My reflections on yesterday's two signs of change were positive - unlike some, I long ago realised that change is part of life, whether its the physical changes we undergo as we age, or the changes in the world as communities age.
eyeuse2badub: "I cannot complain too much because my life has not been racked with too much in the way of extraordinary pain and suffering. However, like so many here, there has been much in the way of unfilled dreams and aspirations that we gave up to be 'good' jw's."
Even those unfulfilled dreams and aspirations can be met. I honestly do not know what kind of life I would have had, if I had never had anything to do with the YHWH/Jesus mob. But sometime soon I will go to my graduation, and get the scrap of paper (a BA with a major in ancient history and a minor in Japanese history) that is my reward for spending 10 years roaming through time and space and countless books to understand Asia's key role in the human past and probable future.
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The Korean Situation
by fulltimestudent inagainst a background of continued usa leaks threatening a 'surgical strike' on the dprk (north korea), a move that does not have complete support in the south, the north invoked 'charm' as it's next 'weapon.
here's how the republic of korea's (south korea), government owned news agency (arirang news) saw the north's charm offensive:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lif_mkr-ovy.
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_Morpheus: "Your bullshit propoganda will never change the facts"
I've referenced most points I make. Which point do you claim to be "propaganda.?"
Explain that to me, and I will justify my comments.
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A World so different to the one I grew up in.
by fulltimestudent inin the early 1950's i changed my life.
i started to study the bible with a jw.
big mistake!
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Wasanelder Once: ith the passing of my father (80) recently, it has become plain to me that we fall like dominoes. One generation after another and along comes another with its quirks and societal idiosyncrasy's. There is nothing unique to any generation, its all variations on a theme. One thing that doesn't change is the older generation becoming the dirt which the next generation grows their vegetables. ...
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moreconfusedthanever: I was just saying to my husband today that we are just a part of the circle of life. Just like the rest of the Earth's creatures. We live we multiply and we die and that's it.haha! an acquaintance of mine loves telling people we should all be composted when we die. He's not popular at dinner parties.
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A World so different to the one I grew up in.
by fulltimestudent inin the early 1950's i changed my life.
i started to study the bible with a jw.
big mistake!
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Sorry - I was just interrupted, so posted my last comments before I'd finished.
The article I quoted from was the Economist of March 30, 2017.
It also pointed out that,
"This is impressive and unprecedented. Economic historians reckon that it took Britain about a century, from the 1820s to the 1920s, to cut extreme poverty from more than 40% of its population to below 10%. Japan started later, but moved faster. Beginning in the 1870s, the share of its population who were absolutely poor fell from 80% to almost nothing in a century. Today two large countries, China and Indonesia, are on course to achieve Japanese levels of poverty reduction more than twice as fast as Japan did."
I do not want to claim that the fight against poverty is over. That may never happen as there are many factors involved in poverty. But what we are seeing is something we should feel pleased about.
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A World so different to the one I grew up in.
by fulltimestudent inin the early 1950's i changed my life.
i started to study the bible with a jw.
big mistake!
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Unimagineable also, is the reduction in extreme poverty. The Wt and Awake kept us asleep to real world efforts to reduce poverty. We were all going to starve to death in the view of the Awake.
But recent figures show the opposite. Not that third world poverty is no longer a problem. But the facts show a reduction in extreme poverty.
This issue of the Economist demonstrates the progress made:
Quote: "Until recently the world’s poorest people could be divided into three big groups: Chinese, Indian and everybody else. In 1987 China is thought to have had 660m poor people, and India 374m. The concentration of destitution in those two countries was in one sense a boon, because in both places better economic policies allowed legions to scramble out of poverty. At the last count (2011 in India; 2013 in China) India had 268m paupers and China just 25m. Both countries are much more populous than they were 30 years ago."
The Chinese government though suggests the real figure for extreme poverty in China may be about 50 million, and is conducting a current campaign to eliminate the last pockets of poverty in the nation.
How different to the early 1950's .- In those years, China had a population of 400 million and 80% (over 300 million) lived in extreme poverty.