Posts by kaik

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Help folks, class reunion 50 years

by James Mixon in

for the last few days i have reviewing my class photos.

come up to you and said you don't remember me, do you.

at a funeral two years ago a. young lady came up to me and said , you don't remember me.

kaik

My HS gave me excellent education, and we had a lot of after school activities. We had math five days a week, well staffed chemical lab and machinery workshop. Our teachers were dedicated. Once a while we go to near by medieval monastery for excavation or quarry to pick minerals that we analyzed in our lab. Teachers were doing it for free. Only our principal was communist, who was constantly drunk, and polished busts of Lenin, Stalin, and Marx in his office.

The food in HS was really bad. We got military canteen truck that arrived every day, and food was served to us as we were a war enemy. We had cucumbers every day, which is reason, I hate them and I have not ate them for 26 years. Sometimes we got tomato. Meat was only once per week and was often not available at all. We had sometimes mushy peas and boiled egg, bread, and soup. And cucumber. My grandmother had to work until she was 75-80 years, because communist pension would let her starve. She worked in very exclusive restaurant as a cook. Prior WWII she used to cook at the castle for baroness. After class, I sneaked to the kitchen when she was on shift and I could have a decent meal. I ate first mango, dates, kiwis after the fall of communism when I was already adult. It was just crazy political system.

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OF DOGS AND BITES AND BIKES AND THINGS

by Terry in

the thought suddenly struck me plain and obvious: "these dogs won't stop until i'm good and bloody.".

there were two of them; a mixed breed of boxer and pit bull; clean, white--collared, tagged and--for some inexplicable reason, ferociously intent on tearing me to shreds!.

ah, but i'm getting ahead of myself.

kaik

Generally, pepper spray that is used for humans are not very effective against K9 dogs, who are trained and used to tear gas used by military and law enforcement. Therefore, Germany since 1950's produces pepper spray intended for dogs only. It is widely used in Europe, and if it can be purchased in USA. However, the point is to spray the dog and run, because it will disorient the beast for 30s to 90s. Standing there and expecting that dog will give up after spray, will not do anything good.

Stabbing a dog is hard, he must be very close, and there is no guarantee he would not get even more aggressive. Shooting dog randomly just because he is running toward you is not easy and also bring you in conflict with law. If dog is already biting your calves, there is a good chance you will shoot your own leg than hitting a dog. You can ask any LE who will tell you how hard is to shoot dog on your leg.

The best way avoiding this scenario is not get any strange animal close by. Not every animal is friendly and wants to be petted.

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The Old Age

by Caupon in

jw
friends

so now that most of us have come to a semi truthful understanding that the witnesses are wrong about evolutionist, there is a certain question that i have always had.

now if you were to ask any jw, they'd recite a complete fallacy from scientist regarding this.

but what is you guys input of this.

kaik

" Mathematics being 'cut and dried' and 'easily taught' ........ ahaha, you have just betrayed a profound ignorance of the ART of higher mathematics"

If I would pick another field of my study, it would be mathematics. My grandfather who was a member of Academia told me that mathematics is the queen of the science. People who encounter math, get generally burned out after Calculus encounter, and they are not aware of higher mathematics which often works with theoretical models. Differential geometry like Riemannian is hard (at least was to me). I personally dislike statistics and especially spatial statistics, which I have to deal on regular bases. At least we have tools for it to do various modeling and simulations. In previous job, we had team where we built geospatial statistical models and we had to do write ups reports for the clients explaining what these calculations represented. The math behind the processes was established on level that I had encountered at graduate courses.

Any case, measuring the age of geological features are fairly standard, well established by numerous fields in the industry (even insurance companies use it for probability risk like earthquake risk), and is well explained. Radioactive decay detectors are norm in labs around universities around the world, and thousands of people use it every day.

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OF DOGS AND BITES AND BIKES AND THINGS

by Terry in

the thought suddenly struck me plain and obvious: "these dogs won't stop until i'm good and bloody.".

there were two of them; a mixed breed of boxer and pit bull; clean, white--collared, tagged and--for some inexplicable reason, ferociously intent on tearing me to shreds!.

ah, but i'm getting ahead of myself.

kaik

For trained K9 dog, even bear spray wont work, once he goes into attack mode. They are trained for this by police force. However, for untrained dog, it will cause disorientation, which should be enough to get away. Nonetheless, there are special pepper sprays against dogs used by postal workers, etc. Shooting dog... hahaha. You most likely will shoot your own leg than hit the dog.

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OF DOGS AND BITES AND BIKES AND THINGS

by Terry in

the thought suddenly struck me plain and obvious: "these dogs won't stop until i'm good and bloody.".

there were two of them; a mixed breed of boxer and pit bull; clean, white--collared, tagged and--for some inexplicable reason, ferociously intent on tearing me to shreds!.

ah, but i'm getting ahead of myself.

kaik

My father was K9 mountain patrol and he recommended to carry pepper spray. Dogs are more sensitive than humans and this would get them powerless. I witnessed once a dog attacking police officer, who shoot the dog, and the beast was continuing attacking and then run for another 100ft where he collapsed and died. Stabbing dog would be extremely difficult as it will make them even more aggressive once their blood is dripping.

Dogs attacking cyclists are very common. I used to jog a lot until 2008 when I had accident. I run about 20 miles per week on trail, and I was attacked once by dog, which I pepper sprayed and he run away. I was always afraid to get attacked on the trail, so I was carrying spray while jogging all the time. But it was a dog that I used it.

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The Old Age

by Caupon in

jw
friends

so now that most of us have come to a semi truthful understanding that the witnesses are wrong about evolutionist, there is a certain question that i have always had.

now if you were to ask any jw, they'd recite a complete fallacy from scientist regarding this.

but what is you guys input of this.

kaik

Christian religions do not want for humanity to improve, they thrive in suffering. They need ignorance and poverty, because this give them a reason to exist. Improvement will come either afterlife or with Armageddon. If science can cure diseases, feed more people, prolong quality of life, and minimize impact of natural disasters, it makes Christian religion obsolete. Therefore, religion opposes science, because it fears losing its importance.

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Kick Back and Relax to Some Music

by Finkelstein in

that's right folks time to kick back , pour a cold one and in take in some tunes.. what are you listening to right now ?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu87294pvx8.

kaik

When I am stressed at work due tight deadlines and people are harassing me with questions, I listen to classical music. I listen to Vivaldi, Smetana, or Bach.

I like techno. When I am in Europe, I try to get to some techno music gathering. I also like 1980's music.

I have childhood memory of good Hungarian Czárdás because of my biological father.

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Help folks, class reunion 50 years

by James Mixon in

for the last few days i have reviewing my class photos.

come up to you and said you don't remember me, do you.

at a funeral two years ago a. young lady came up to me and said , you don't remember me.

kaik

I went to HS under communists. Because my father was stanch anti-communist who disliked Russians with passion, I was unable to go to HS anywhere in the county. I have to go to neighboring county because commies in my town would not let me graduate. My HS had excellent teachers. We had teachers who were anticommunists, and were unable to perform their job due government repression or purges. Our English teacher was a lady, who studied in UK, after her return she was forbidden to teach at the university and was shoveled into my HS. We had a scientist who was part of the team working on developing microwave ovens, but refused to collaborate with communist regime, and ended as our science teacher. We had these teachers who were extremely brilliant, but due political system, were forbidden to be in their field. Eventually, this HS was used as staging ground during Revolution. One of my teacher was arrested by secret police during the lectures, was hooded up and taken away with handcuffs, never seen there again by his students in the city.

If I would go to my HS reunion it would reminder me these turbulent years. Otherwise, I am not much interested to meet with my classmates and I do not think much about the place. Food was horrible, we had to carry our own mess tin and most of us were hungry during the classes. Sometimes we only got soup and bread for lunch. We had to work after HS. Definitely, I am not missing anything, except to be 18 years old.

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The Old Age

by Caupon in

jw
friends

so now that most of us have come to a semi truthful understanding that the witnesses are wrong about evolutionist, there is a certain question that i have always had.

now if you were to ask any jw, they'd recite a complete fallacy from scientist regarding this.

but what is you guys input of this.

kaik

But when we are talking about something that they say is possibly 65 million years old, and I meant million not billion, you cannot test that

Sure you can. Using numerous scientific approaches, you can estimate a time when KT extinction event (when "dinosaurs died") happened 65 million years ago with accuracy being already narrowed to +-8000 years since this impact. The argon-argon dating is pretty much standard, but not only one. 10 years ago the best universities in USA estimated the impact that caused KT extinction to +-40000, but we have better equipment to measure radioactive decay. Also these dating are based on statistical calculation after numerous measures to ensure a confidence interval easily explained by mathematics.

I am in Earth Science field although I am not geologist, but developer of IT systems used in this field, I can tell you that there is nothing much complicated to date geological features old 65 million years.

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The end of the age or the end times what did the Bible writers mean?

by Crazyguy in

there are plenty of scriptures pointing to the idea that the end was near according to the scriptures way back then.

example at act chapter 2 peter states were in the last days, at 1john chapter 2 in the last hour.

jesus stated he would be back before some of that generation died and of course the famous quote 'this generation'.

kaik

The end of the ages, or end of time is Greek concept; it is not Jewish origin. Jews believe in Time to Come, or arrival of the Messiah King and the start of Messianic age. There is no violent end of the world. The belief of humanity divided into ages and its violent age, is Greco-Roman. Greeks believed in golden, silver age, and these invented lost past times where in their mind destroyed by clashes between gods, which eventually destroyed the Earth. This belief was known to early Christians who transformed the idea of lost golden era of humanity into their Christian theology, and they believed that the violent end at the hands of Christian god will user another golden, righteous era for humanity. I am not sure who was the original proponent of this idea outside John of Patmos, but the idea of end of times and end of age is well resonated in the writing of St. Augustine in his monumental work City of God.

Since late antiquity, Christianity was obsessed with the idea of end of age and end of time, until Catholic church forbade it as heretical teaching. The crackdown against doomsday beliefs started already during Schism in the 14th century, and was finally considered as heresy by the time of Reformation. However, the torch of the doomsday scenario was transferred to Protestantism which produced numerous doomsday cults in Anglo-Saxon world including JWs.

If anyone studies the end of time hysteria and hypes since the Roman Empire to the end of the Middle Ages, there was a strong belief that the End is here and new Golden age of humanity will arrive shortly. When Alaric sacked Rome in 410 hundreds of thousands Christians saw it as a sign of the End. Similar mass hysteria happened in 1000AD or 1419. At the end, the end of age and end of time means nothing. Catholic church knew it already 500 years ago.