Besides having my childhood and youth stolen, I moved on. It is past that cannot be changed or erased. I have been living a life as I want now I am not regretting leaving KH. Would be my life better without cult? Or Worse? I do not know, but is better now without it.
Posts by kaik
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27How Have You Been Affected By Having Been A Jehovah's Witness?
by minimus inis your life over?
are you totally screwed up?
are you able to move on?
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History of the church/Christianity, etc.
by Joe Grundy ini have learned a great deal from some of the very erudite posters on this site (thank you).. for many years i've been interested in the history of the development of christianity, not only from its earliest days but through the reformation, etc., and through to the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries when denominations, sects, cults took off in all directions like exploding fireworks.. i was aware, in broad terms, of luther, calvin and the development of protestantism from which so many denominations and sects (including jws) arose.
i was vaguely aware of the schism (1,000 years ago) between the western (catholic) and eastern (orthodox) churches and was tangentially interested as to why it happened (if the 'east' was the home of christianity, how come the 'west' disagreed with it?).
i was quite interested to read, while living in cyprus, a greek orthodox english language bible which had a large section in the back about the schism.
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I have read good deal of books on Roman and Greek history, christianity, and philosophy from Penguin Classic and from Loeb Classical Library. My father used to collect a lot of books on christianity, we had hundreds of books on this topics, on life of saints, catholic church, etc. I heard that he got them from a monastery that commies closed down in 1950's and wanted to set them on fire. My father read every single of them. I remember my elders were extremely displeased with the collection and we had to double stacked books so only approved showed upfront.
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Autumn...
by new hope and happiness ini've just glanced out my window and i saw the most picturesque countryside.
i do believe we're entering autumn.
so summer has had its day and like an old friend slipped away and we moves on...how do you feel about entering autumn?.
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kaik
September and May are my favorite months. Perfect temperature, blue skies; I love it. In Czech language the word for September can be translated as sunshine. It is dryest month of the year and almost ready for wine harvests in southern Moravia were temperature is still around 20C. Thousand miles in my new country, we still have summer. Temperature were yesterday close to 90F, today they cooled off, and in weekend they will be back to 80F. I hear bugs and cricketts, azaleas and camellias are about to bloom. Cannas and crape myrtle slowly finnishing their bloom season and nature is getting ready for a fall. I spent fall weekends doing lawn, seeding, fertilizing, putting mulch, and adjusting edging. It is great distraction from office work.
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Has anybody ever co-related what Jewish scholars beleive about the Hebrew scriptures and what jehovahs Witnesses beleive ?
by smiddy ini`m just curious as to how different they may be.. smiddy.
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kaik
1) According to Middrash Rabbah: Evil is sometimes allowed by G-d in order good to be known and manifested. G-d appointed a specific angel, Satan to perfrom this function and it is a function of Satan to challenge good. Jews do not believe in Devil. This is invention of Christianity. Satan or Sammael is someone who does not oppose G-d, but someone who is hired by Him to collect evidence on anyone misdeed.
6) The war between two seeds was between descendant of Adam and Samael, Serpent, who seduced Eve and concieve a child with her. There is no conflict between seed of Jesus and Satan as defined by NT. IT is again a conflict between two descandants who had the same mother. Depending on the source, the fall of humans in the Eden was caused by sexual immorality, not by disobedience eating forbidden fruit. There is no future conflict between two seeds, as Jewish Messiah will bring a peace to humanity.
7) No, I have not said that. Angles do not have inclination to do evil, they are good by the nature and presence of G-d. Angels who materialized on Earth and committed sin did it as a humans because they got free will (or freedom of choice). Angels who destroyed Sodom were punished on Earth because they bragged carrying the punishment on their behalf, not on behafl of G-d. Genesis 28:11-12 mentions a ladder between Heaven and Earth which is used by angels back and forth.
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Has anybody ever co-related what Jewish scholars beleive about the Hebrew scriptures and what jehovahs Witnesses beleive ?
by smiddy ini`m just curious as to how different they may be.. smiddy.
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menrov, I am not sure where I would support it except that I had read Midrash and some books that were written before WWII by various Eastern European rabbis. There are tons of material and even you can ask any Jewish person where to study a Jewish faith. Jews do not have centralized faith and there are different opinions based on different interpretation of the OT.
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Has anybody ever co-related what Jewish scholars beleive about the Hebrew scriptures and what jehovahs Witnesses beleive ?
by smiddy ini`m just curious as to how different they may be.. smiddy.
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Yes, I did. I studied with rabbi in Eastern Europe for a bit and later went for classes that were conducted by Jewish teacher explaing OT and was done also by rabbi and professor who was Jewish and married to one of them. I am married to Jewish person, but the faith is not relevant as the second half is secular, but my in-laws family have some orthodox members. Jewish beliefs are different from Christianity, and it is also crucial do make distinction between Jewish faith and Jewish culture and life as part of cultural, social, and national identity. What Jews taught me:
- Satan is God's helper, he collect evidence on your misdeed, and is like a public accuser. He works at will and under supervison of G-d and does not oppose him, nor torment damned in hell.
- Everyone is responsible for his own sin. What you saw you reap. There is no idea of original sin, nor Adamic sin. Life is created sinless and holy. Person became sinfull due innability to hold Torah.
- Nobody can pay out for your sin; thereofre, Atonement of Jesus, is invalid in the Jewish books. You are responsible for maintaining good relationship with G-d and no other person can bridge between you and Him.
- Hell is not defined, and if there is, it is not a permanent place of torment. Even citizen's of Sodom were released from the tormemnt. There is not justice to punish someone for eternity.
- Messiah is a king of the future brining peace to the world.
- Adam is not father of all mankind, but Eve is a mother of all humanity. Kain was a product of relationship between Satan and Eve.
- Angels can materialize on Earth even after the Flood. Angels who destroyed Sodom were banished on Earth for 130 years and could not return to heaven. However, they do not have evil inclination, this is only given to men by freedom of choice.
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US World Power: Time Running Out
by metatron inhttp://www.businessinsider.com/chart-rise-and-fall-of-modern-empires-2014-9.
tick tock...... forget about that daniel image/prophecy stuff.
the process is being accelerated by trying to sanction russia, as they draw closer to china and thereby build an alternative economic system( including a swift banking arrangement of their own).
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DJS, great observation. It is tiring to read all these American bashing posts. Without USA were would be world under A.H. or who stood up to cancer of communism. All the same posts where Americans are responsible for everything bad that happened in humanity since the fall of Rome. There is Ebola outbreak in Western Africa, who is there helping? Americans! Where are these Chinese, Russians who constantly bash Americans? Who sent help to ravished Haiti, to Indian Ocean after tsunami.... This hypocricy of the anti-american crowd is so annoying.
Metatron, I was born in Eastern Europe and spent 20 years under communism, so I know very well how horrible was this cancerous ideology that radiated from Moscow to 1/4 of humanity and killed 50 million people. I do not need you to tell me what is it, as I have a personal experience from it. I was all over the region during my lifetime, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and afterwards. I was at Ukraine as well and around the Black Sea. Several times. I know what shape was Warsaw Pact troops as my dad was a military guy in 1950's and 1960's. I do not need to hear from you. And I have also witnessed arrogancy of Moscow goverment and its conquest and rusification of my ex-native country. As long I live, I will never forget it. It is also reason why every single Slavic country has a distrust of Russia. They do not share totalitarian nature of such government that is completelly foreigner to every non-Russian Slavs. In August 30, 1848 after first Pan-Slavic congress in Prague one of the honorary member said: "Russia could be the foremost country in the world if would be free and ruled by law. Unfortunatelly it is a despotic country and for us free Slavs [in Austrian monarchy] it must be treated as our possibly the worst enemy."
I believe in democracy, personal freedom and responsibility, and civic duties. So does majority of my former countrymen. We do not need egoistic tyrant in Moscow telling us how to live our life. Additionally, you completally mix terms. Again, you do not know much difference between NATO, EU, and West. Not every country West of Russia is member of NATO, nor in EU, nor every Western democracy is in Europe or Northern America. You clearly showing deep deficit of overall common knowledge and you try bashing others. Indeed very sad.
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My jw mum threw us out.
by abbasgreta inmy brother (non-jw but became a christian 6 months ago) and i nursed my aged jw mother back to a semblance of strength over the last three weeks.. the elders were happy to pass the buck on to me, her da'd daughter and my bro.. he has been living with her for 3 months and has transformed her ill-kept home and garden and literally nursed her like a professional alone.
before i stepped in to help him care for her.
he repeatedly told her how much he loved her and was so caring, it brought a lump to my throat.. he has been going to church sunday mornings, telling her he 'was meeting up with friends' so as not to cause friction.but she knew where he had been.. we noticed a shift in her demeanour towards us (she knows i'm a church-goer) over the week-end and she started to.
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Sad story. This is not only problem for JW, as such situations happens many families, but the organization increases bad straits and they seldom get reparied.
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US World Power: Time Running Out
by metatron inhttp://www.businessinsider.com/chart-rise-and-fall-of-modern-empires-2014-9.
tick tock...... forget about that daniel image/prophecy stuff.
the process is being accelerated by trying to sanction russia, as they draw closer to china and thereby build an alternative economic system( including a swift banking arrangement of their own).
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Russia had option to be a part of EU, NATO, and any world's organization. They decided not to, instead driven by ambition of madman recreating USSR. It became a lost possibility to be accepted as normal, democratic country. It is becoming the same as interwar Germany and looking to confrontation with every its neighbors.
Every corner of this planet was invaded by one or another. Russia invaded every country east of France, and every Slavic capital in the past 200 years. Austria-Hungary was attacked by Russia in 1914 even without declaration of war fueling WWI. France was agressor during Napoleon, Germany under A.H. not to mention all these crazy bloodthirsty tyrants in Asia, Middle East, or Ancient past.
What has EU to do with NATO enlargement? EU never wanted to expand into East at the first place. NATO and USA had an agreement with USSR, not with Russia. EU had not invaded anyone either and neither has a capability to do so. EU does not equal USA, nor West equal EU and NATO. If you cannot make any difference between these, all debates are pointless on this topic.
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What is the wackiest or strangest teaching that Witnesses adhere to?
by stuckinarut2 ini guess there are many, but what would be the strangest teaching, or "wackiest" ?.
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kaik
I do not even know where to start.
- Jesus rules for 100 years or since 1914
- Jesus selected Rutherford and his pack of crazies as a bride in 1918/1919
- Revelation's trumphets are unimportant district assemblies held in 1920's in USA
- New light replaces the old light
- Blood transfussion
- If woman did not scream during rape, she was compliant
- Borg is only God's channel with humanity