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  Had any weird dreams recently?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  so, i'll go first.. i dreamt last night that i was still at uni, i said goodbye to one of my lecturers.

  then ulrika jonsson (former weather girl, shooting stars captain, and swedish nymphomaniac) gave me a lift home in her car - wtf?!

  she kept trying to change the cd whilst trying to drive (reaching on the floor, looking for a cd).

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  I get from time to time weird dreams, but generally, I do not remember them after several days. I used to have terrible dreams after my biological father died many years back. Before he died, I spoke to him over the phone, he just checked in at the hospital. I knew he was terminally ill with cancer, but he was recently diagnosed, so I expected him to fight a for a while. The night he died, two days after I talked to him I had dream I was driving with him in the jeep through deep dark forest. We were chased by flying skeleton with a sickle, it was like skeleton of sabre tooth tiger with wings. My father in the dream was encouraging me to drive faster, faster, and faster, but the skeleton got closer. Moment the skeleton jumped on the car, my father next to me told me that he got him. I woke up shaking with sweats, and find out that he died that night. I still remember this dream 20+ years later.

  Other things I find strange, that I have dreams only on one grandmother and not the other, even I spent more time with her. I dreamt about being with her in the vineyards, picking walnuts or peaches, or all the fun stuff I spent on summer holidays in the countryside in old house that my GGGF build in the 19th century. It is rather strange, because as a city kid, the countryside life was a bit scaring me. Yet, I dream about it a lot as something that was nice.
  
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  A call from family - Armageddon this month!

  by kaik in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i 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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  just exactly what section in the bible shows this as a biblical prophecy?

  Because I did not expect the call, so I did not write any references to the biblical prophecies. She was jumping from Daniel to Ezekiel, Gog & Magog, etc. I absolutely do not care about prophecies, as nobody can predict future 2500 years ahead.
  
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  Has anyone tried using gold and metal detectors?

  by EdenOne in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i'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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  A lot of people dig battlegrounds, because there is a chance to find metal like horseshoe or fragment from medieval weapons, and buckles. However, many amateurs will dig some WWII ordinances and manipulate with it. Battlegrounds are generally good choice, because the site of the battles are well known and opened to public. Many of the war dead were buried in burial pits and only discovered by coincidence.
  
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  Has anyone tried using gold and metal detectors?

  by EdenOne in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i'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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  As teen we were helping excavating local monastery in our HS. What was the most interesting to me back then, that bodies decomposed and there was only belt buckles and other metal artifacts. Outside of my hometown there was a hill where legend had it that monks from near-by Cistercian monastery hid their treasury during Reformation. While all monks were tortured and executed, they never revealed where they buried the treasure. So over the centuries, bunch of people dig through the hill and find nothing. We as HS kids, we camped one weekend on that hill to be a part of tradition to look for the treasure, but we find nothing valuable. Only broken pottery, arrows, glass beads.
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  Has anyone tried using gold and metal detectors?

  by EdenOne in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i'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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  Medieval coinage went through development as medieval economy changed between 1000 and 1500. Bohemia and Saxony had one of the largest silver deposits in medieval Europe; so, silver coins were rather abundant. Silver coins are often found in medieval peasant cottages. From 1200 onward it was much easier to collect taxes through silver content over other goods. Medieval cities and markets were established in Holy Roman Empire such way, that no peasant needed to walk more than one hour to nearest market place. Bohemia had 1 million people in 1200 and there was 2 to 3 millions of silver denari in circulation. Prior Black Death the population increased to 3 millions, while coinage barely doubled, which was reason, why so many people in the feudal era had hard time to own coin if ever.
  

  Wealthy landlords did not care much for silver coins and sought out gold coins (ducats or florints). Kingdom of Hungary was the biggest medieval supplier of golden coins in Central Europe from wealthy ore mines in current Central Slovakia (there is a 150km long range called Slovakian Ore Mountains). As population boomed in golden age of feudalism- which in Central Europe coincided around 1350- the circulation of small silver coins plummeted due hoarding. The banking crisis of 1390-1396 in Bohemia was tied to disappearing small coins where poor masses lacked a means to pay taxes, while silver mines produced tons of it. The monarchy wanted to prevent hoarding silver by decreasing silver content, which had exactly opposite effect. Older coins were even sought, prices went up due inflation, and bankrupted merchant homes in Germany demanded silver coins. The creditors even collected army and sieged Prague in 1396 to demand payment in good silver coins. In the 15th century due plagues and constant warfare, population shrunk by 40%, prices decreased, and silver coin circulation returned back to balance.

  Coins are excellent source of economic conditions in country and trades routes. If country was under economic stress, the coinage suffered. This evident in the Roman Empire where silver content decreased in the 3rd century. Scandinavians coinage is often excavated in Central Europe due Hansa trade system. 30Years War was so devastating in Holy Roman Empire that coinage in Hapsburg realm was devaluated by almost 90%.
  
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  Headline: "Islamic Invasion: Europe now scrambles for guns." How true is this?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a 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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  I usually use Eurostats for European statistics which has reference to each country statistical office.

  Home ownership in USA is higher than in Europe because it is a way for Americans to build equity and wealth over time. While the rate matched prior the real estate boom last decade (69.1% in 2005 homeownership), it is still higher than in Europe. Since its peak, the rate decreased not even by 7% in 2015 and is on level of Clinton era.

  Unemployment rate for youth in EU is catastrophic. If you consider the case of Spain and Greece with 50%, Italy 42%, Portugal 33%, Sweden, Ireland and Finland have about 1/4 of youth unemployed, it is horrible number.
  
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  A call from family - Armageddon this month!

  by kaik in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i 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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  My sister is diametrically opposite of me. She will jumped into field service, will not skip any meeting and book study and became almost new born christian, extremely pious and strict to kids. She will throw away anything that she considers demonic. The expectation are high, but once the disappointment settle in because she wants "A" to arrive right now, apathy will settle in. Her visits to KH will be irregular and she will stop doing field service. This will last for year or so until next personal crisis (marriage, job, money, kids), and instead solving them, she flocks back to KH where she see explanation for her problem. She thinks that her problems were cause not being regular JW. And cycles repeats.

  I think she went to mountains because she was in field service through October and I bet kids were getting agitated. I called her twice and she did not want to talk because she was preaching with elderette. Since it was October 31, and Armageddon nowhere on sight; kids restless and angry that they did not had any fun, she went out with them for the weekend. Her in-laws have cottage in Carpathian Mountains, so she could crash with kids there.
  
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  Where has all the money gone?

  by gingerbread in

  1. jw
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  a 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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  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.
  
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  A call from family - Armageddon this month!

  by kaik in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i 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 in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i'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.