A faith is really broad concept. I have left the belief in antiquated, irrational text written by Bronze (~Stone/Iron) Age men, who did not had any understanding of science. I do not see any rationality behind the world's religions, they are invention of human fantasy. However, I believe in the Creator of the Universe, but I do not have a specific association to religion. Nobody can verify faith, what happens after we die, nor prove that their beliefs is correct.
Posts by kaik
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What's the story behind Adam and Eve and fig leaves.
by jam inwhere they blind?
nakedness is a sin between married folks?.
that is so silly.
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kaik
Genesis is incomplete recollection of what Jewish believed and been told from one generation to another. This oral history where some of them is mixed with ancient religion and mythology became the foundation for the Genesis. According to Midrash, Serpent watched beautiful Eve making out with Adam, and desired her for himself. He planed to kill Adam by entrapping him eating the forbidden fruit. Adam and Eve did not find see the nakedness as something to be ashamed. However, this changed after Serpent seduced Eve, and probably Adam as well. After threeway sex both humans felt ashamed and decided to cover their nakedness. So they looked for tree that was willing to hide their shame. According Genesis Rabbah, all trees refused to hid the sinners, only fig was willing to help. So they used the leaves and hid there waiting for punisment to come.
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WTS one step closer to "1984" - JW literature rewritten in online versions
by sir82 inlikely everyone here is familar with the novel "1984" - "he who controls the past, controls the future.
he who controls the present, controls the past".. take a look at wol.jw.org, insight book, topic "faithful and discreet slave".. current online wording: http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200001485.
jesus trained the apostles for the role they would have after pentecost 33 c.e.
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My mom has bunch of literature from 1970's ownard. She was severally criticized by elders that she keep hoarding publications and she should get rid of them. She asked me in May what to do with all these books and print, so I recommend to donate them to library or university for research. Some good soul did it with interwar publications printed in Czechoslovakia, and donated them to National archives. These publication became digitized and available for studies which includes Harp of God, What is truth, and Angels. I wish more JWs would bother to read their own old nonsense. My sibling considers almost all old publishing as apostate literature.
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100 Years Ago Today: World War I Began - July, 28, 1914
by Oubliette in100 years since world war i07/28/14 07:44 am by timothy noah and johnny simon.
"one hundred years ago today, emperor franz josef of austria-hungary declared war on serbia in retaliation for the assassination one month earlier of his heir apparent, archduke franz ferdinand, by a serbian pan-slavic nationalist.
what might otherwise have remained a regional conflict between the dying hapsburg empire and one of its former holdings instead became, through a tangle of alliances and a global power imbalance, two world wars that began in 1914 and ended in 1945, with a 21-year intermission for the jazz age and the great depression.".
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I agree with you Steve2. There is a huge idealism of the 19th century, the same as people in the Renaissance looked into past as a golden era of declining prices and stability of the 15th century, void of religious upheaval started by Reformation. 19th century was brutal. Its first 15 years were bled out by Napoleonic Wars which included such huge battles like Austerlitz, Waterloo, Lipzig, and Borodino. Revolutions of 1830, 1848 helped creating new capitalistic orders. Civil wars in France, Hungary, Greece, Poland, or USA caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands people. Great Depression of 1870's lingered well until 1890. There was not such thing as peaceful world before 1914.
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Get well Grace (Mouthy)
by label licker ina loud get well grace from all of us to you.
everyone, grace has been in and out of the hospital and i'm sure she would love to read your get wells.
we miss you grace:) wish i could post pictures.
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I am adding my best wishes and I am glad you stopped by.
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Have you reconnected with ex-JW's after you have left the Borg?
by EdenOne inafter reading from another thread, i felt it was worth asking this question.. if you left the borg on your own, have you attempted to meet others whom you used to be connected with while you were "in", but who have also become ex-jw's before or after you have left the wts?
if that's the case, has it remained a friendship, or the connection grew cold?
just curious as to what keeps friendships "stick" [or not] once you no longer have the borg's doctrinal glue.. your experiences are welcome.. eden.
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Nope. I really do not care, it is past. There maybe two or three individuals who I would not mind to be in contanct, but for the rest, it does not matter. I have met several ex-JWs I knew, and some of them are still emotionally messed up. I do not hang with my ex coworkers, schoolmates, and ex-lovers. It is all in the past.
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100 Years Ago Today: World War I Began - July, 28, 1914
by Oubliette in100 years since world war i07/28/14 07:44 am by timothy noah and johnny simon.
"one hundred years ago today, emperor franz josef of austria-hungary declared war on serbia in retaliation for the assassination one month earlier of his heir apparent, archduke franz ferdinand, by a serbian pan-slavic nationalist.
what might otherwise have remained a regional conflict between the dying hapsburg empire and one of its former holdings instead became, through a tangle of alliances and a global power imbalance, two world wars that began in 1914 and ended in 1945, with a 21-year intermission for the jazz age and the great depression.".
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G. Princip was one of many assassins that appeared in Europe before 1914 (and after WWI). Empress Sophia was killed by Italian anarchist, as was king of Greece, French President, American, and so on. If there was no G. Princip, there would be another assassin. However, there is a huge difference between Austrian treatment of Serbia and Italy in both cases. When Sophia was stabbed to death, Austria did not declare war on Italy because of this incident. Serbia was isolated after coup of 1903 and relationship between two countries deteriorated. Prior the coup and decimation of Serbian dynasty, the relationship between Belgrade and Vienna was good. Draga Masin was Austrian-Czech heritage, as was Zofie Chotek. Russia was under leadership of weak but aggressive Tzar who wanted score a military victory after being defeted by Japan. It is well known that Russia had infiltrated Austrian War ministry and had knowledge of all miliary planning and defenses in Galicia from the highest circle of the command. Russia felt it was excluded from Balkans and only country it could successfully threaten on the western border was Austria. Romania was allied to Germany as did Bulgaria. Both Balkan states had treaty with Central Powers. Romania switched sides because France promised a chunk of the Hungarian territory. Russia was determinated to break the German control of Balkans it had since 1878. The Austrian shelling of Belgrade gave Russians excuse to attack Austria even without declaration of war. Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia week after it was invaded.
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were two different cases and totally different entities, economically, socially, culturally, and politically. Yugoslavia was dominated by Serbia and had all state infrastructure, dynasty, ministries, and international recongition before 1914. The Serbian monarchy extended control into the western Balkans. The Yugoslav state was only held by good will of Tito under duress of Soviet fear. Czechoslovakia was created from the scratch, but it was still a smaller version of Austria-Hungary. The laws, the political system, parties, judicial structure survived 1918 directly from Austrian system until WWII. The criminal law was in effect there from 1852 until 1950. The only difference from the past was the democratic structure of the Czechoslovak presidential republic modeled on American system. First lady was American from Brooklyn. Both countries, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia collapsed in WWII and there was very little will to keep the federative republics together. Slovakia wrestled much of independence in 1968 after Soviet occupation of Prague. Eventually entire generation grew up feeling foreigner to the other entity when Czechoslovakia collapsed in 1992.
I see WWI as crossroad of several political waves that held Europe for several decades and they crossed and intersected at the same time. It was not coincidence. Polish and Czech population wanted independence as had Hungary since 1867. Extensive national struggles occurred in both territories before 1914. In Poland they had sign of a civil war like in 1863. Bohemia almost had one in 1890's which was avoided by declaration of Marshall Law. It was also possible that after the death of Franz Joseph, Ferdinand would end alliance with Germany. He wanted orientation on France as was the case in the 18th century. If the war did not happened between Germany and France/Germany and Russia; it would be between Germany and Austria as it happened in 1866.
Last year I was at the castle Konopiste on outskirt of Prague. It was a residence of Ferdinandand his wife Sophie before their death. Decades after the 1914 assassination, the relatives of G. Princip and grandchildren of Ferdinand D' Este met there to close a history that changed life of so many people.
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100 Years Ago Today: World War I Began - July, 28, 1914
by Oubliette in100 years since world war i07/28/14 07:44 am by timothy noah and johnny simon.
"one hundred years ago today, emperor franz josef of austria-hungary declared war on serbia in retaliation for the assassination one month earlier of his heir apparent, archduke franz ferdinand, by a serbian pan-slavic nationalist.
what might otherwise have remained a regional conflict between the dying hapsburg empire and one of its former holdings instead became, through a tangle of alliances and a global power imbalance, two world wars that began in 1914 and ended in 1945, with a 21-year intermission for the jazz age and the great depression.".
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I lost great-grandfather from my father side who died during the siege of Premysl. I think all my male ancestors who were between 18 and 45 fought in WWI. My great-grandfather lost his baby brother there, he was the youngest and were not train for the war. Just regular draftee. My great-grandfather was trained officer and had survival skills. When the WWI started he was almost 40. There was a huge shortage of manpower in A-U and many labor intesive work was done by women like operating trains something that was not heard before. My grandparents were the Gen of 1914 and lived through both wars, they all equally told me that poverty and starvation in WWI was real, but WWII was worse due extremely brutal condition of occupied country. WWII was a combination of a total war and oppression of crazy, brutal, hostile foreigner power that intended to decimate civilians deep in the occupied territory.
Generally the victims of WWI were forgotten with the outbreak of WWII. There was also a huge complain of preferential treamtent of WWI veterans and their families after 1945 from WWII victims, which was probably reason why they were forgotten.
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Scientists Can Now Cut HIV Out of Human DNA
by Dis-Member inhiv is a sneaky virus.
its mo involves integrating its own genes into your dna, so that even as antiretrovirals hold everything in check, hiv lurks quietly inside your cells.
now scientists have found a way to edit the virus straight out of the human genomea potential cure for even latent infections.. genome editing is powerful technique that has really come into its own lately, thanks to a remarkable dna-cutting protein that easily and precisely cuts out a particular dna sequence.
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I do not believe that cure for HIV is still achievable. I heard about them for past 30 years. We are nowhere near to find cure for it and in 2034 we will read how cure is just about to be find. Sounds so similar.
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100 Years Ago Today: World War I Began - July, 28, 1914
by Oubliette in100 years since world war i07/28/14 07:44 am by timothy noah and johnny simon.
"one hundred years ago today, emperor franz josef of austria-hungary declared war on serbia in retaliation for the assassination one month earlier of his heir apparent, archduke franz ferdinand, by a serbian pan-slavic nationalist.
what might otherwise have remained a regional conflict between the dying hapsburg empire and one of its former holdings instead became, through a tangle of alliances and a global power imbalance, two world wars that began in 1914 and ended in 1945, with a 21-year intermission for the jazz age and the great depression.".
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Quendi, thank you for kind answer. I do not want to argue, and I appologize if I sound that way. I would only post my view and point on it. My great-grandfather was an officer of Austrian army and thought in Galicia. We have a pics of him in the charge of calvary from the turn of the century. My paternal grandfather was drafted in 1918 as a teen and sent to Italian frontline and from there to the War of Independence lasting till 1920.
Austrian monarchy was failing because it did not react on changing demographics. The war only speed up disintegration process that started in 1866. However, it is crucial to say that WWI was waged with modern technology under napoleonic leadership. Most of the men in Austrian military command were in their 80's and witnessed last war in 1866. Austria considered Lombardy and Venetia as own historical land which was lost in 1856-9. Europe in 1914 was ripe for larger war, and the war was already happening in the Balkans among Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, and Albania. These Balkan conflicts were extremely brutal and eventually had spilled out to the rest of the Europe. I would recommend movie Dust from Milcho Manchevski describing this conflict. WWI did not happened in vaccum, the stress among European alliances were there. France in 1914 wanted payback for its defeat in 1870. Russia for Crimean and Japanese wars. Polish population wanted independence. WWI happened in the crossroad of various conflicts. Similar crossroad happened with 30 Years War (religion), 7 Years War (for resources), and Napoleonic Wars. Napoleonic Wars had more important battles shaping the future of the human race than had WWI.