Posts by kaik

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When a Witness claim the uniqueness of Bible and its accurate prophecies!

by abiather in

with the bulletin of atomic scientists moving its iconic doomsday clock up 2 minutes on 23.01.2015 (which means we are just three minutes closer to midnight in comparison to 17 minutes to midnight in 1991), and rapturewatch.net/timelines.htm predicting the end of the world as early as 2017, subject of last days is getting heated up again..

next time you have a witness boasts about the uniqueness of biblical propheciesespecially about last days, you can point the following photographic description of our times found in srimad bhagavatam, one of the ancient scriptures written even before the bible:.

1) religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by day because of the powerful influence of the age of kali (age of unrigteousness).12.2.1.

kaik

There was never golden age, it is only illusion of the future generations. Romans thought in their peak time that the golden age was the early republic where there was no distinctive class boundaries, and every Roman had a field around the forum where they meet for discuss tribal problem and judge based on the 12 tablets.

"Government does not suffer from debt. Do you have any idea about US Federal debt? Trillions and Trillions."

You sound like the crazy Charles T. Russell in the Studies of the Scriptures where he analyzed how much the world governments owned in 1880's.

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Will there ever be another campaign like the 2006 one with kn37 ("The End of False Religion Is Near!")?

by Magnum in

remember the 2006 tract campaign with kingdom news 37 - the end of false relgion is near!?

it seems to me that jwdom has changed to the point that there will not be anymore such campaigns.

it seems that the new rebranded jwdom is too soft for such a campaign; it's too feel-good, happy-clappy, and mainstream.. i just can't imagine a tract campaign like that coming from the new jwdom.

kaik

WT fails to understand than democracies around the world have guaranteed freedom of religion and worship established by constitution, and undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia have official state religion. Therefore, no attack on the religion would materialize from either groups.

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Jesus died for US...technically

by enigma1863 in

for god so loved the world he gave his only begotten son and then took him back.

that's not love, its a big legal loophole.

people have technically died in the past, and by the standards of diagnosing death in bible times you could definitely beat 48 hrs and return.

kaik

Ransom sacrifice of human life is foreigner to the Jewish faith; therefore, Christianity never made sense to Jews and is utterly rejected as nonsense. Another problem with the loophole in the Christianity is the bridge (Jesus) over the abyss (sin) to reach G-d. Judaism does not teach this concept because there is no mediator between anyone and the G-d. This was invented by Paul to make Jewish faith obsolete and provide salvation in the mind of the masses only through his invention. Lastly, why would G-d needs to pay a debt to Himself by sacrificing his son or 1/3rd of His existence...

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we are in the 3rd century of the end being sooo close!

by nowwhat? in

it started in the 1870's then throughout the 20th century.

and now here we are 15 years into the 21st century.

how many generations is that?

kaik

Considering my great-grandfather was born in the 1870's, I would say six.

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WHY MONOTHEISM WINS the historical competition among gods and beliefs

by TerryWalstrom in

among the hundreds (if not thousands) of competing religious beliefs, practices, rituals, and faiths in the developing years of early christianity--and arguably against all odds--christian monotheism won.

for awhile, the thoroughly pagan roman empire became officially christianized.. why?.

could it be a simple fact?.

kaik

While ago, I read one reason why Christianity grew through the Roman empire was the role of women in the religion. Roman society was male dominated where women did not had much rights and were treated as a property of their husbands or fathers. They were responsible for running the household choirs while men were either busy on front line, administration, and business. Christianity was a religion of the Antiquity where it deliberately targeted women as their converts. This can be traced to missionary work of Jesus (preaching to Samaritan woman, Mary Magdalene, and other women), which was something neither Jews or Greco-Roman society did. Women were surprised when Jesus approached them and carry the idea of early Christianity toward their offspring. Early Christians legends is full of women who were vital for securing foothold of the new religion. Constantine was probably most influenced by his mother Helena and many supporter of the Christianity during the transition period (300-400AD) had Christian mothers while they followed foothold of their pagan father. St. Augustine was another one.

Women are traditionally more religious and dedicated to the faith than men. Christianity utilized on this by targeting them in missionary works. Roman men were not as acceptable to new religion due social and economic structure. They needed to worship an emperor and Roman gods played a role in the administration as a patron of various institutions. Refusing such patronage would lead to end of their political career, especially in the army. Roman military was the last institution of the empire that was Christianized. Julian Apostate was last successful pagan Roman emperor and military leader (+363) where both Germanic and Persian armies were afraid of him. After his death, there was a huge purge of pagan military from the army, culminating during Stilicho (+408) and thus weakening Roman army during Gothic invasion. Rome was sacked two years later for the first time in 800 years.

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The intcal13 dataset: The best evidence I know of for C14 dating.

by bohm in

carbon 14 dating is often dismissed as relying on the assumption the c14/c12 ratio in the past has been comparable to the present, however what is rarely acknowledged is this assumption can be checked.

the way the assumption is checked is by finding a system which admits dating independent of c14.

popular choices are dendrochronology, where tree-rings are counted and by matching variation in tree-ring width across trees it is possible to build a chronology stretching back 12000 years, or varvas, where yearly variations in sediment deposits in lakes admit chronologies to be build stretching back tens of thousands of years.

kaik

C14 is not only the one that is used in radiometric dating and commonly used for dating material under 50K old. There are dozens others that can be used to measure Earth's age and even estimate the age of the universe. Either way Earth is much older than 6000 years.

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Well folks it looks like September 23, 2017 will be the new date of Armageddon, the Rapture or whatever.

by donny in

well folks you had better get your act together because there is only about 2.5 years before you are held responsible for your way of life.

according to "rapture watch", things are really going to start happening in 2017.. i am already asking the lord for leniency.

http://www.rapturewatch.net/timelines.htm .

kaik

I seen dozen such charts through my life.. Unrest here, there, sign in the heaven, constellations, prophecy, meaning of Revelations. Humans doing this crap for 2000 years. 16th century was full of these charts, graphs and images, some of them became a popular in the yearly almanac. Emperor Rudolph II employed entire office dedicated to it 400 years ago.

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How is Genesis scientifically incorrect?

by EndofMysteries in

i'll add many things in the bible i don't agree with, but the bible is a collection of books.

now to make sure i'm reading as closely to what is written in genesis, i look at this hebrew interlinear, because english translating and rearranging of words can change it.

http://www.scripture4all.org/onlineinterlinear/otpdf/gen1.pdf.

kaik

Genesis is myth and nice fable stories that tribal communities used to share around the camp fire at the night. Nothing more. Earth, Sun, Moon are here because were are leftover of the supernova explosion. Genesis does not say it.

Life on Earth evolve from primitive to complex organism. Genesis did not know that pollen flowering flowers originated in mesozoic era, so there was no fruits bearing trees. Pollen did not exist until middle of the Triassic, yet we have animals and complex living organism. Entire order of the creation is wrong in Genesis.

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The god of the bible doesn't care and here's some proof.

by Crazyguy in

around 600 ad a man named muhammed created a book called the quran.

a few hundred years later the followers of this new religion called islam went on a holy crusade out of arabia to spread their religion.

in one key battle they were met by the ruling government army and were out numbered at least by 3 to 1. they could of easily lost and if god would of made sure of this most likely thier religion would of stayed an insagnificant religion of just arabia.

kaik

Drake, I am not sure where you get your references from but

Ottoman Empire did not exist at the time of I. Crusades
The main sponsor was Greek Emperor
Ottoman Empire did not crossed into Europe until 14th century
Asia Minor which was the foundation of future Ottoman Empire lies in Asia (hence the continent got name from it) not in Europe
I know enough of European history so I don't need a link from wikipedia
Your link from wikipedia does not mention single word of Ottoman empire
Sultanate of Rum which was the main intended destination of the I. Crusade was not Ottoman, but Persian heritage.
Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299, while last IX. Crusades happened in 1271/1272

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The god of the bible doesn't care and here's some proof.

by Crazyguy in

around 600 ad a man named muhammed created a book called the quran.

a few hundred years later the followers of this new religion called islam went on a holy crusade out of arabia to spread their religion.

in one key battle they were met by the ruling government army and were out numbered at least by 3 to 1. they could of easily lost and if god would of made sure of this most likely thier religion would of stayed an insagnificant religion of just arabia.

kaik

So many historical mistakes Jonathan Drake. Crusades were originally called by Greek Emperor to fight Sultanate of Rum which they lost to it at the battle of Manzikert (1071), and they had problem to recapture the their territory back. Constantinople appealed to help to the West, which just recently was officially split between Catholic and Orthodox churches (1054). I Crusades war born. It not against the Ottoman empire as it did not exist as the state entity. Initial success boosted moral and several crusades were waged to either preserve or increase the size of the knight kingdoms in Levant. For the next 200 years, Crusades fought Byzantine Empire (1204), Ayyubids in Egypt, Suljuks in Syria, and so on. When Ottoman empire emerged from consolidation of territories in the Little Asia around 1300, Crusades were in history. Do not mix with Crusades against Ottomans who were invading Balkans in 15th century. Ottomans took large part of Europe until they were defeated in 1683 at Vienna. Ottomans depopulated large part of Hungary, Romania, and chunk of Poland during that time. In Czech Republic more than 100,000 were taken into the slavery in 1666. Countless cities from England to France to Italy were plundered by Ottomans and their population sold to slavery. Ottoman Empire was extremely cruel and one of the largest massacres in Central Europe before WWII occurred due Ottomans. Widespread slaughter of POW outside Vienna is one of them.