Posts by kaik

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California Out of Water Soon

by Village Idiot in

look closely at the figures below and see how much water california has left from its major source of water the sierra mountains:.

my advice, not that any politician would take it, would be to eliminate most agriculture in the state.

almonds, rice and alfalfa, are all thirsty water guzzling crops that neither those in california nor the rest of the nation needs.

Drought will be a major problem for California and most of the Pacific West. However, there is a good chance that this summer in the west coast will be cooler than average, and with it the summer drought wont be as severe. For this water year that started in October 1, 2014 the average rainfall in California is on 55-70%, while year ago there were much lower.

http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/awipsProducts/RNOWRKCLI.php

Couple weeks ago there was article that California maybe entering a period of above average rainfall in 2016-2020 before it experience multi-year drought yet again.

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Hope y'all in Texas are doing OK !

by Simon in

some terrible flooding happening there.. i never realized that texas was so prone to serious floods and flash-floods because of the geography and weather.

it tops the stats nearly every year for flood fatalities.. stay safe, stay dry if you can and don't take any chances.

water is unbelievably powerful - whatever vehicle you have it can sweep it away like a twig.

kaik

Pretty much everywhere in the world you can encounter major flooding. Texas had been prone to flooding, especially after hurricanes, but also suffer with drought. Additionally, some areas are close to sea level or even foot below like New Orleans, because they were built on swamp and are sinking, so even little rain can cause flooding. Another problem which is prevalent to all of USA and Europe is neglected waterway infrastructure. Ditches, polders, dykes, and coastal barriers are neglected, eroded or dysfunctional. Even Germany in past 20 years suffered with huge floods 1997, 2002, 2008, 2010, which could be minimized if the hydrology was properly maintained. In Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, and elsewhere, they issue is environmental protection ideology, which took precedence over saving lives, infrastructure, and property.

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Was it worth it?

by John Aquila in

for those of you who left family and friends and had to start over from scratch just to get out of the organization, was it worth it?.

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kaik

Yes, absolutely. Considering how messed are JWs and how sad life many have, leaving was one of the best thing I have done.

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"Make a list of people you want to meet in the New System!" (New September Watchtower)

by FusionTheism in

watchtower september 2015 study edition, "stand firm in the faith," paragraphs 16 and 17:.

following jesus example, we must read the bible daily, study it, and meditate on what we learn.

along with general bible study, dig into topics about which you may have questions.. you can imitate jesus by meditating on the wonderful promises jehovah has made to you.

kaik

Question is if the other people would be interested to meet up with you at all. I remember my elder dreamed to meet with Da Vinci in the new system.

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How much sediment would have been moved in Noah's flood?

by Zoos in

i flew over this crate yesterday on my return home from las vegas.. .

they say this crater was created by an asteroid about 50,000 years ago.

then about 6000 years ago, presumably, god wiped out all life on earth with a global flood.. how much sediment would have been moved around during that flood.

kaik

Interesting feature of European neolithic is continuous human settlement, while underlying ethnic groups had changed and intermingled as can be evident from pottery and sites. A good example is Beaker culture and Corded Ware culture which existed at the same time as supposed Deluge. These people built Stonehenge and hundreds of sites around continent from Iberian peninsula to British Islands to Central Europe and Carpathian basin. The civilization ended around 1800 BC after 1000 years of continuous existence after introduction of bronze into the culture. Some sites were inhabited for several hundreds of years of continuous human presence and had yield hundreds of skeletons. There are DNA studies done across Europe on this culture to pinpoint ancestry of Indo-european population and they are interest for origin of proto-Celtic and and Balto-germanic nations. None of these studies had ever uncovered a global deluge and total annihilation out of population in the 2200 BC. There was a significant collapse of Bronze age civilization in Europe around 1600BC as a result of Thera explosion and subsequent mass migration of population southward due sudden cooling of the northern hemisphere. Science can pinpoint this explosion to accuracy of 50 years, yet, nobody ever discovered any evidence of global flood in neolithic/bronze age.

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What are Some of your best JW Questions they can't answer?

by 1tMakesNoSence in

i made a thread on reddit regarding questions jw's can't answer.

was wondering what you guys can add to it..

kaik

My favorite is who is the owner of the old light. If the old light was incorrect and replaced with the new light; thus, who was the source of the old light. If God cannot make mistake, then the old light cannot come from him.

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How much sediment would have been moved in Noah's flood?

by Zoos in

i flew over this crate yesterday on my return home from las vegas.. .

they say this crater was created by an asteroid about 50,000 years ago.

then about 6000 years ago, presumably, god wiped out all life on earth with a global flood.. how much sediment would have been moved around during that flood.

kaik

Some of the sediments in Northern America are up to two miles deep. This is especially true for central part where intracoastal seaway connected Hudson Bay with Gulf of Mexico, but over the time it was filled with deposits. Therefore, it is also difficult to understand what is the cause for Madrid fault in middle of the country, due the rift being filled with sediments. Northern America has a lot of craters (Catskills, Chesapeake Bay, Yucatan, Manicouagan), which are well studied cases.

It's very likely if humans originated in that general area of the world that it would be completely flooded without it everything

Nope, humans originated in Eastern Africa and the migration is well documented from numerous evidences in archeology, biology, paleontology,... Israel is in the middle of rift between several tectonic plates that pushes African Plate northwest and Arabian plate south east/east. There are also microplates like Anatolian, which have own direction of movements. One point Mediterranean sea was closed, causing a huge issue with global climate as it almost dried up. Water level in enclosed area can fluctuate by several hundred feet, and this also evident by Booneville lake. Israel topo features are not unique.

Earth potentially having had a ice ring similar to Saturn

No, there are not evidence to , it is another pitiful attempt of evangelical creationists to come up with explanation of Stone Age myth as a scientific proof. Last time Earth was significantly covered with ice was 550 ma when most of the surface was covered with glacier with the exception of equator. This is known as snowball effect, and the ozone layer is the legacy of this glaciation.

ancient civilizations living in both North and South America at the time of the supposed flood occurring

Not only there, but also in China. There is no whatsoever any evidence of global flood around 2200BC. Not single one. Egypt was already advanced civilization, and human population was already distributed everywhere around the globe even in Australia. The number of people around the time was close to 30 millions. European neolithic is well studied subject for last 200 years, and there is nowhere a break of population habitat in Europe around the time of flood.

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Is Prophecy important?

by EA916 in

hello, i am certainly new to all of this.

i have recently been studying the prophecy's, and i was wondering if they are of any importance at all?

kaik

Welcome to the board. When I was still associated with JW, I had debated the prophesies with one unbeliever. His question was very simple at that time which really shocked me, "Do you know what all biblical prophesies have common?" "None of them ever came true". Once I have analyzed various prophesies, they seems much of BS than proof of divine intervention.

Any Jew will tell you that Jesus did not fulfill role of Messiah, as he did not restore kingdom of Jews nor brought to peace to the world. Jerusalem was destroyed in 70AD, but Jews were not banned from Jerusalem until much later around 115-130AD.

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Spiritual AMNESTY -- Return to Jehovah

by FusionTheism in

basically, from what i can tell from the new return to jehovah brochure, is that the governing body is now offering amnesty to anyone who has been gone from the congregation but now wants to return.. it claims it doesn't matter what sins you've done, or what caused you to leave, if you repent to jehovah and ask the elders to help you, and return to the meetings, you'll be warmly welcomed with no disciplinary action or judgment against you..

kaik

So, the WT attempts to impose another cultish outreach to people who are out, but still partially in the WT. Amnesty can be defined as a pardon for offense, so the WT wants to say that we are the offenders, and they will forgive us! How loving.

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Did judge Rutherford piss off Hitler

by greenhornet in

the jws at the time in germany where considered part of the aryan race, (since they were not jews).

then things changed for the jws after rutherford mailed a letter to hitler bragging about jehovahs kingdom on earth.. so can we add this to the bloodshed that that the watchtower corp is responsible for?.

kaik

Thanks OrphanCrow for a clarification, I haven't considered dual covenant doctrine, but it make sense. During the evangelical movement of the 1900s, the perception of Jews and Judaism was much different than in interwar period with the rise of totalitarian movements. Russell would be affected by the fundamentalist pro-Zionist Christianity that was defined around his lifetime, while Rutherford would shift toward anti-Jewish policy after 1925. It is hard to justify Jerusalem to be the future seat of Jesus kingdom with WT building mansion in San Diego.

Welcome Finkelstein, I only read some chapters of it. Some Rutherford ideas showed lack of knowledge of Jewish faith, culture, and religion. Average scholar with university degree would write such nonsense as he did in that book. He failed to understand why Jews do not accept Jesus, he did not know that Jews do not believe in Original Sin, and Jesus redemption does not make whatsoever sense in Judaism.