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  ARE YOU SCARED THAT GOD WILL KILL YOU "SOON"?

  by clarity in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just started to research the who's who of gods!.

  really helps to not take any of this 'god' power seriously!.

  http://home.swbell.net/dndylion/paganreligions.html, roots of christianity:.

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  Don't worry about them mate. If they don't learn, then that's their bad luck
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  The Man Who Saved the World - October 27, 1962 (bet U never heard of him)

  by fulltimestudent in

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  october 27, 1962. a soviet submarine was being bombed with depth charges by us warships who had detected the submarines presence in waters off cuba.. in the emergency the soviet submarine captain ordered a torpedo attack on the american warships.

  problem was, the torpedo's were fitted with nuclear warheads.

  the submarine could not contact moscow for authorisation.

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  Thnx Giordano and cofty for reminding us of the parts played by Krusehchev and Kennedy. Yes. they certainly played a role (thankfully) I'd still celebrate Arkhipov over the two K's simply because at the coalface of possible nuclear war, he kept his cool. All his training as a Naval officer, his instincts to preserve his ship and crew, his patriotism, must have been pushing him to say, Yes!

  But he seems to have considered in that split moment of decision making, the greater good of humanity. He's dead now, but there should be a memorial to him, that could become a place for world pilgrimages for peace and bugger all the pollies.
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  ARE YOU SCARED THAT GOD WILL KILL YOU "SOON"?

  by clarity in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just started to research the who's who of gods!.

  really helps to not take any of this 'god' power seriously!.

  http://home.swbell.net/dndylion/paganreligions.html, roots of christianity:.

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  No!
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  The Man Who Saved the World - October 27, 1962 (bet U never heard of him)

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  october 27, 1962. a soviet submarine was being bombed with depth charges by us warships who had detected the submarines presence in waters off cuba.. in the emergency the soviet submarine captain ordered a torpedo attack on the american warships.

  problem was, the torpedo's were fitted with nuclear warheads.

  the submarine could not contact moscow for authorisation.

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  I guess that was the closest we came to the earth being a radioactive wasteland. The other occasion I know of was during the Korean War, when Douglas Macarthur wanted to drop a whole series of cobalt loaded nuclear weapons along the border between North korea and China.

  Was he insane?

  At any rate Truman eventually sacked him.
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  The Man Who Saved the World - October 27, 1962 (bet U never heard of him)

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
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  october 27, 1962. a soviet submarine was being bombed with depth charges by us warships who had detected the submarines presence in waters off cuba.. in the emergency the soviet submarine captain ordered a torpedo attack on the american warships.

  problem was, the torpedo's were fitted with nuclear warheads.

  the submarine could not contact moscow for authorisation.

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  October 27, 1962. A Soviet submarine was being bombed with depth charges by US warships who had detected the submarines presence in waters off Cuba.

  In the emergency the Soviet submarine Captain ordered a torpedo attack on the American warships. Problem was, the torpedo's were fitted with nuclear warheads. The submarine could not contact Moscow for authorisation. The emergency procedure was that the three senior officers had to make the authorisation. The Captain and one other senior officer agreed to blast the US ships out of the water. They turned to the second in command Vasily Alexandrovich Arhhipov for his agreement. He thought a few moments longer ... and said No!

  Can you imagine what would have transpired if he had said, Yes?

  The British BBC is making a film of the incident - look out for it.
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  Is North Korea Changing ?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
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  there's a good chance that a process of change is occurring in nk, which i'll come back to, as first i'd like to briefly explain how korea became divided.. i've spent a lot of time this past calendar year on the history and development of korea, this last semester focussing on modern korea with all its sadness, commencing with the japanese takeover in 1905, and the full annexation and military occupation in 1910. .

  many korean's (naturally) opposed the japanese occupation.

  some actively fought the japanese as guerilla's in the mountains.

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  I agree with you YY2, the Chinese must really worry about North Korea. Their problem is that the legal infrastructure to protect assets just does not exist in NK. One large Chinese company invested a lot of money in NK, and they are still fighting the NK government for control of the assets.

  But how else can the people of NK get a better life? Perhaps at this moment there is enough to eat, but the situation is not stable.

  Anyway, we can keep hoping and try to be informed so that stupid talk does not build tensions.

  I wanted to post this shorter video also. Its called 'We Pledge,' and any ex-Witness/ex-Christian will immediately start thinking of militant Christianity, and songs like, 'Onward Christian Soldiers', and the JW versions like 'Firm and determined in this time of the end, prepared are God's servants the Good news to defend etc, etc, etc.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd3Xd-zW3c8

  If the North Korean people can't see reality because of the fog of propaganda that surrounds them, then we should remember that most of us could not see reality either, and that we were also surrounded by a fog of propaganda.
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  Is North Korea Changing ?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  there's a good chance that a process of change is occurring in nk, which i'll come back to, as first i'd like to briefly explain how korea became divided.. i've spent a lot of time this past calendar year on the history and development of korea, this last semester focussing on modern korea with all its sadness, commencing with the japanese takeover in 1905, and the full annexation and military occupation in 1910. .

  many korean's (naturally) opposed the japanese occupation.

  some actively fought the japanese as guerilla's in the mountains.

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  If understanding the problem of North Korea interests you, this Youtube videos may be of help:

  The first is a production by the ABC (the Aussie one - A corporation owned by the Australian government) made in 2007 - I think this may be a point of reference to note any changes that may appear.

  Its called, Parallel Universe - North Korea.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMQrMV5vcM&feature=related
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  Are the desert wastelands of biblical lands due to man or a curse?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
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  i was looking on google earth the other day, take a look at it, the entire world.

  notice how all of the countries and lands which were involved in all the biblical events are desert wastelands.

  i thought to myself, did they destroy the soil and nothing will grow, well lets see how much rain they get a year.

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  For those seeking information on the climate conditions of the past, a good source of information are the writings of the early geographers.

  For example ( and this is not a comprehensive list):

  First, there is Herodotus (5th Century BCE)- and, yes! some of his information is fanciful, but not more so than usual for the time.

  Second, Strabo and his Geography. Strabo lived (circa) 64BCE to 20 CE.

  Third, we could list Ptolemy ( 100 - 178 CE) and his Geographike Hyphegesis.

  And in the Islamic era, we could look for the writings of very scholarly works by Al Idrisi, Ibn Battutah and Ibn Khaldoun.

  Geographical information is found in lots of other sources also. In written Chinese records we can find descriptions of the climate etc, in the Tarim basin (in modern Xinjiang), as the early Han dynasty (BCE) were exploring this area. The early Silk Road trade routes had to cross this area and the feared Taklamakan desert in the centre featured in lots of travel stories. Two main routes to miss the desert developed, one to the north and one to the south, skirting the edges of the mountains that bordered the basin. Conditions today, are much the same as described in early writings.

  Better to base your understanding on the writings of men who attempted to describe the world around them, than on semi-religious writings threatening divine retribution to political enemies.
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  Is North Korea Changing ?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's a good chance that a process of change is occurring in nk, which i'll come back to, as first i'd like to briefly explain how korea became divided.. i've spent a lot of time this past calendar year on the history and development of korea, this last semester focussing on modern korea with all its sadness, commencing with the japanese takeover in 1905, and the full annexation and military occupation in 1910. .

  many korean's (naturally) opposed the japanese occupation.

  some actively fought the japanese as guerilla's in the mountains.

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  fulltimestudent

  There's a good chance that a process of change is occurring in NK, which I'll come back to, as first I'd like to briefly explain how Korea became divided.

  I've spent a lot of time this past calendar year on the history and development of Korea, this last semester focussing on modern Korea with all its sadness, commencing with the Japanese takeover in 1905, and the full annexation and military occupation in 1910.

  Many Korean's (naturally) opposed the Japanese occupation. Some actively fought the Japanese as guerilla's in the mountains. Kim Il-song's family, who were Christians were among the opposers, so we can assume that anti-japanese talk was part of the families conversation. When Kim Il-sung turned 14 he left school and attempted the establishment of a patriotic youth group with leftist tendencies. When the Japanese eventually caught him he was jailed for 17 months. On release he took to the hills and joined an anti-japanese guerilla group in Manchuria. This brought him into contact with the Chinese Communist Party that by this time was organising the Chinese anti-japanese war in the North of China from their HQ in Yenan in N.W. China. (Officially, the Japanese had taken over Manchurua also and set up an independent government and appointed the former Chinese Emperor, Pu Yi as head of state.)

  The Japanese Kwantung Army which was very powerful, both politically and as a military force, gradually made life very difficult for the guerillas and eventually forced these groups, including Kim Il-sung's, out of Manchuria into Russsian Siberia. Here for the first time, Kim came face to face with the power of an industrialised socialist state. The Russians (never sure if Japan would attack) maintained a very strong army on its borders with Japanese forces. That Army fought two actions against the Japanese prior to WW2 and won both of them, quite interesting to know that when considering the ease with which the Japanese over-run the Philipines and S.E.Asia.

  As WW2 progressed and the tide turned in favour of the western Alliance, Churchill and Roosevelt pressed Stalin to declare war on the Japanese, which Stalin agreed to do, after the defeat of Germany. After Germany's surrender Stalin assembled a huge Army on the borders of Manchurua. Over 1,000,000 soldiers, 20,000 field guns, 5000 tanks, and 5000 aircraft. All this was done under cover of darkness and when Russia finally declared war on August 8, 1945, striking in three large pincer movements the Japanese crumbled. In just 6 days the Soviet armies overrun an area the size of Europe, including penetration of the Korean Peninsula. The American administration had hardly given any consideration to the future of Korea. An emergency meeting of Army Generals decided a partitioned arrangement may be agreed to by the Russians, which is what happened and which act was the real commencement of the current situation of two Koreas.

  Kim Il-sung and his band of guerilla's had been inducted into the Soviet Army and he was brought back as part of the Soviet adminstration, along with other Koreans who had been fighting against the Japanese with the Chinese Communists in Manchuria. In reality many Koreans stayed on in China to fight against Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Army - the beginning of a debt of blood that eventually forced the Chinese government of the new Peoples Republic of China into the Korean war (among some other reasons).

  From the end of WW2 until the beginning of the Korean war, Koreans migrated to the side with which they felt most affinity, leftist sympathisers went north and rightists went south.

  Out of that came the current situation and a major tension point in world affairs.

  So is the tension between north and south going to wane ? - Too early to say that, but many observers who travel to North Korea (which may not be what many in the west imagine) are noting signs of change.

  In particular, our lecturer for the last few months, sent this web reference out today:

  Its published by Cankor, a Canadian organisation that claims to seek a rational solution to the NK/SK divide. The author is Ruediger Frank who was in North Korea in April and has just returned from a second visit.

  find his story at: vtncankor.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/an-atmosphere-of-departure-and-two-speeds-korean-style-where-is-north-korea-heading-by-ruediger-frank/
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  What is the purpose of your life as a human being and what are your plans for the future?

  by Healthworker in

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  2. friends

  thanks!.

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  love healthworker.

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  fulltimestudent

  Life has only one purpose -

  SURVIVAL