Problem with WT that it run business model established by Knorr fit for 1950's style corporation instead a modern IT driven world. Printing and publishing is obsolete way to distribute information in the 2015. Brochures and books are no more the primary mean of communication even in 3rd world countries where everyone has access to Facebook. WT will need to come with different model, and they will. They are around for 140 years spreading nonsense.
Posts by kaik
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48Where has all the money gone?
by gingerbread ina number of years ago when i was still active, our service group was having a coffee break with the visiting circuit overseer.
during the conversation he mentioned that the "society" was now being run like a business.
being raised in the "truth" i thought that rather odd (and my eyes began to be opened!
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A call from family - Armageddon this month!
by kaik ini very seldom receive a call from my jw siblings, i mean seldom.
i can count them on my hand in past 10 years.
while we talk about mom a lot and i am in touch with her, i was very surprised when i received this call.
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I talked to my sister over the weekend, and very gently reminded her the concern she had over my well being during the October in the case of Armageddon. Since my sister used to shun me for years and it was not until recently that she is opened to me; I did not want to attack her beliefs. It would shut the door and I can lose the contact with her forever. But as I had expected, she went with kids to mountains to take an advantage of the beautiful weekend and see the changes of leaves. She skipped her KH meeting as well. No word on Armageddon, but she tried to explain to me that Jehovah tests his servants to be ready for Jesus arrival. She said that JW are getting passive with spreading the good news because we do not known when the Armageddon will arrive. And JWs need to save more people, etc. Pretty much she talk to me like nothing happened, no sense of urgency. I feel the disappointment will settle in. But the denial and brainwashing from the cult is unbelievable. I wish she could see the BS in that organization and leave. -
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Has anyone tried using gold and metal detectors?
by EdenOne ini'm thinking about trying out a new hobby.
in my country there are plenty of places that are geologically suitable for the presence of gold nuggets.
in fact, several gold mines have been historically explored from the days of the romans until present day.. at the same time, i love archaeology and history and there are many possible unexplored archaeological sites near me that might merit a superficial survey.
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Depending on the country, it can be illegal. It is in the Czech Republic. There are laws which states that all archaeological artifacts older than 50 years belongs to state. I would assume most of EU will have the same laws and regulation. It will also extremely irresponsible devastating archaeological sites just for fun and dig out any buried treasure. Even pottery can valuable. In the Czech Republic this is a huge problem by amateur diggers devastating sites. The main targets are Celtics fortifications as the artifacts are in demand on the black market. In Croatia amateur diggers devastate shipwrecks and in Ukraine Scythians burial mounds. -
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Headline: "Islamic Invasion: Europe now scrambles for guns." How true is this?
by cappytan ina year to a year and a half ago, i would have taken this article at face value and believed it.. now, i realize this article comes from a dubious source.
world news daily has a die-hard right-wing bias.
so, in an effort to get real information, i'm asking my european exjw's, is this article all true?
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There are food surpluses.
You have to consider that most of the European countries are small and can generate very small surpluses. Time when countries had significant reserves of grain, beef, and other food product is gone. It is not economical to store so much food. It is much cheaper to bring needed food from across the globe, but someone has to pay for it. The other issue will be housing. Europeans are renters (like in Germany where 2/3 people rent) unlike USA where majority people pay mortgage or own homes. This housing model will require significant public resources that I do not see it happening without widespread wealth transfers, deficits, and taxation.
Once refugees will leave migrant centers, they will end up in ghettos without any job prospect as is the case across most of Europe. Unemployment rate for young Europeans is already between 25%-40%, and Europe is losing entire generation to people who will never have stable job developing working ethics due persistent unemployment. While current welfare model eliminates extremism, it will not last forever. 83 millions of Europeans are poor. Another 48 millions are socially deprived (EU poverty). This is a huge number of 120-135 million people.
The fate for majority of the refugees will be no good job prospect, poor quality of housing, and social exclusion. Europeans will instead multicultural society promised by their ultra-liberal media and politicians are finding themselves in economic conditions known by 3rd world. Sweden, Belgium will most likely turn into 3rd world country by 2030 (Sweden will be 3rd world country in 2030.). I would say it is too optimistic. Europe is already 3rd world by visiting every capital from Paris to Helsinki or between Dublin and Athens.
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Heroes
by done4good inin jw land having such was verboten.
who are some of yours and why?.
1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.
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Heroes
by done4good inin jw land having such was verboten.
who are some of yours and why?.
1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.
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My list would be
- Jan Huss, reformer who defied Pope and Emperor and died on stake in 1415 as he spoke against abuses of the medieval society.
- Maria Antoinette. Yes, it will be strange for many of you, but I admire her. She was unfortunate victim of the French politics. She could leave France to save her neck, but she stood by her husband until his death. She lost everything and everyone who she cared about, but unbroken and defiant dies under the blade without compromising her position. She was extremely dedicated mother and loved her children dearly.
- Woodrow Wilson, he was idealist, but he put foundation toward international cooperation and understanding. Much of his visions were not fulfilled.
- Emperor Diocletian who wanted to preserve Roman Empire and was the only emperor who resigned and lived in retirement. He choose life of solitude in Salone over greed, power, and wealth of Rome and with it entire Roman Empire. Very a few in the position knows when to step down unlike him.
- Emperor Julian Apostate. Last non-Christian emperor, great supporter of Jews and propagator of religious tolerance of the Antiquity. Within twenty years after his death, Roman empire suffered large defeat in 378, pagans were purged from army, and pagan educations was outlawed.
- Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, assassin of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, the mastermind of Holocaust. In the peak of the German war machine, deep within occupied territory, they carried one of the boldest resistance attack of WWII.
- Gorbachev. It was extremely brave to disintegrate extremely brutal communist system and lets millions of people to be free.
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Headline: "Islamic Invasion: Europe now scrambles for guns." How true is this?
by cappytan ina year to a year and a half ago, i would have taken this article at face value and believed it.. now, i realize this article comes from a dubious source.
world news daily has a die-hard right-wing bias.
so, in an effort to get real information, i'm asking my european exjw's, is this article all true?
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Returning to the topic of the original post, apart from the long term political, moral and ethical considerations of migration, there are more immediate logistical problems to consider.
The main problem will be economic and social integration. European Union is broken. Economy never recovered to 2008 level. Almost all countries operates below the economic peak achieved prior recession. There is not only Greek economic collapse, but even fast growing economies are still underperforming. There is not enough jobs for educated Europeans, and now you deal with people from Yemen, Syria, Eritrea, who are 20% to 40% illiterate. Very a few will be able to integrate in European economy and will live off welfare until the welfare system collapses. Government cannot rise significant taxes without facing widespread opposition from its public.
Once refugees will realize that they will not get 2000 freebies monthly and they will live in poverty with the rest of Europeans, they will riot. Without significant improvement in economy, EU will cave in under this immigration invasion. This is already happening in Sweden and Germany where social nest, housing, welfare are already strained. Netherlands and Sweden already singled out Visegrad 4 for their internal economic problems.
So, the outcome of this multicultural social engineering will make every European poor. Democratic principles are already undermined by silencing opposition to immigration. We are witnessing disintegration of Schengen agreement. What will Europeans do when their find in their economies fragmented and localized, while living through 1970's income and choice of goods?
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What history have you seen in the makeing???
by karter ini saw:.
neil armstrong say those famous words...this is one small step for a man........... muhammad ali win and loose the world title 3 times.. the 1st women prime minster of the uk..
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My mom was born in the 1930's so she lived through WWII, air raids, her school being bombed out, public executions of partysans, Red Army, Red Terror, Soviet occupation in 1968. My father watched as school boy to see his hometown to be bombed, they were at that time evacuated to the mountains in 1944-1945, and when the bombers came, entire city center was burned. The explosions were heard couple miles away. Human remains from front coming through on the streets and backyard. I remember we had photo collection as my grandfather was taking pictures. I also saw pictures of people being executed, and hanged outside city hall in 1945.
My grandparents were born at the turn of the century, and my grandmother lived almost through entire 20th century. My grandpa fought in WWI. People in that generation had so much events, tragedies, and sad stories to say.
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Huge chasm opening in Wyoming Mountains
by EndofMysteries inhttp://www.cnn.com/2015/10/30/us/wyoming-crack-earth/index.html.
in just a matter of days this has appeared.
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I have seen this on news already, but events like these are not uncommon. While I would suspect underground water that would wash away sand deposits or landslide below the range and the weight of the gravity push the ground down. In eastern Africa, gashes like these are quite common due ongoing splitting of African continent on two along the Afar triple junction.
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What history have you seen in the makeing???
by karter ini saw:.
neil armstrong say those famous words...this is one small step for a man........... muhammad ali win and loose the world title 3 times.. the 1st women prime minster of the uk..
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kaik
For me, it was Velvet Revolution of 1989, which I participated. Fall of Berlin Wall. Unification of Germany. War in Yugoslavia, Collapse of USSR. 9-11
