My uncle was an elder. He had shots of hard liquor prior going to KH and got wasted after the program. He was alcoholic and unpredictable when he got drunk. Eventually he died from liver failure (liver cancer or cirrhosis).
Posts by kaik
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35Best pills meds or other to take before meeting?
by Crazyguy inthought it would be good to share what ones take to deal with the meetings.
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JW driver dies transporting literature to Honduras 01/09/2016....disturbing comments by local elder!!
by krismalone inon 01/09/2016 a jw driving an 18 wheeler trailer full of jw literature dies as a result of an accident.
the trailer departed from guatemala and heading to honduras to drop shipment.
a local elder is interviewed as he arrives on the scene.
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kaik
So sad. I do not understand Spanish, but I am not surprised with the lack of empathy. 24 years ago, an elder drove his car to local convention and had an accident where he died and so did his grandson. The accident happened less than five minutes from the convention. JWs were driving by, and they did not stop because they did not want to be a late and miss a part of the program. However, everyone in my quarter debated that they had seen the crash, and top of it several people recognized the car of the elder! -
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Best pills meds or other to take before meeting?
by Crazyguy inthought it would be good to share what ones take to deal with the meetings.
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kaik
Just have a shot or two of tequila, whiskey on the rock, have martini.
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How many killed by the 5 Cholera pandemics during the 1800's?
by redpilltwice inyou all know jwfacts (run by paul grundy).
on this website, under “did the last days start 1914” ---> “pestilence”, it says:“during the 1800's five cholera pandemics killed around 100 million people.” .
there is no link to any source of info, so i emailed paul and asked where i can verify that total number?
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Hungarian cholera epidemics in 1830's according to the web infected 850,000 people from which 185000 had died. So there is discrepancies even within one country like Austrian empire. My other probability could be that Asian sources could exaggerate the death tolls, similarly did medieval and renaissance era with outbreak of Black plague. While epidemics of 1348-1352 was indeed catastrophic, so did outbreaks in the 17th century, last major European epidemics in 1711-1713 had comparable death rate to that of cholera. Yet, renaissance did not build as much plague memorials unlike Baroque era, even when more population died in 1600's than century later. When observer mentions that 60000 died in Alexandria in 19th century in city that had 50,000 people than there is something miscalculated. -
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How many killed by the 5 Cholera pandemics during the 1800's?
by redpilltwice inyou all know jwfacts (run by paul grundy).
on this website, under “did the last days start 1914” ---> “pestilence”, it says:“during the 1800's five cholera pandemics killed around 100 million people.” .
there is no link to any source of info, so i emailed paul and asked where i can verify that total number?
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kaik
But also it is necessary to consider that pandemic like cholera did not hit entire country and every community. Even in Austrian Empire where outbreak of cholera is well documented due excellent bureaucracy of the Hapsburg monarchy, there were communities that were not affected. Bohemia down to Vienna were at that time one the most densely populated areas of Europe in 1830's and Vienna was the fourth largest city on this planet. The records indicated on the first outbreak that less than 1% of city population died in matters of several weeks, and cholera outbreak ended with arrival of deep freezing temperatures. In Prague in the same time period had more people infected and more had died, but the rate was 1.5% of total city population. However, Hungarian cholera epidemic involved almost 20% of population and every four of the infected had died. -
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Obey the Superior Authorities God says / God says Satan is controlling the Superior Authorities.?
by smiddy inromans 13 : 1-4 clearly states that the superior authorities are an arrangement from god , defy them and you are working against the arrangement of god at your own peril.. christians are to be obedient to the superior authorities ,"for their is no authority except by god , the existing authorities stand placed in their relative positions by god .therefore he who opposes the authority has taken a stand against the arrangement of god ".
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4 :8-10 shows that all the kingdoms and governments are under satan`s control , jesus never disputed that claim .
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kaik
I had discussion on Satan with my Jewish in-laws and with rabbi, and they both told over the time, they do not believe in Christian interpretation of Devil who torment souls of sinners for eternity in hell. This concept is foreign to Jews. They consider Satan as someone who collect evidence on someone misbehaving and as David Jay said is to argue in the heavenly court on personal failing of humans. It is like court appointed prosecutor. Prosecutor does not sentence you to jail, the judge does. Prosecutor only argues the laws and presents evidence when someone violates it. -
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How many killed by the 5 Cholera pandemics during the 1800's?
by redpilltwice inyou all know jwfacts (run by paul grundy).
on this website, under “did the last days start 1914” ---> “pestilence”, it says:“during the 1800's five cholera pandemics killed around 100 million people.” .
there is no link to any source of info, so i emailed paul and asked where i can verify that total number?
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kaik
Mephis, that is possible, but I think it is on the upper limit scale. If the world population reached 1.5 billions around 1860 and 10% of population was affected, you will get 150 millions people. If 1/3 had died that will leave 50 million death toll. -
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How many killed by the 5 Cholera pandemics during the 1800's?
by redpilltwice inyou all know jwfacts (run by paul grundy).
on this website, under “did the last days start 1914” ---> “pestilence”, it says:“during the 1800's five cholera pandemics killed around 100 million people.” .
there is no link to any source of info, so i emailed paul and asked where i can verify that total number?
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kaik
In school we modeled cholera, Spanish flu, and other epidemics as a case studies for population dynamics and disease propagation. I remember that cholera in 1830's or 1860's infected every ten person in continental Europe. First epidemic had death rate about 40-50% and each subsequent epidemic was less lethal due improved care and sanitation. Third epidemic claimed less than 20% of the victims. But this was modeled on German, Prussia, and Austrian records. I only created a maps for Spanish flu in Baltimore area, due abundance of the records. I still think the estimated death toll would be between 35-45 millions in the 19th century alone. 100 millions maybe high shot, and could lump different outbreaks like yellow and typhoid fevers. -
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How many killed by the 5 Cholera pandemics during the 1800's?
by redpilltwice inyou all know jwfacts (run by paul grundy).
on this website, under “did the last days start 1914” ---> “pestilence”, it says:“during the 1800's five cholera pandemics killed around 100 million people.” .
there is no link to any source of info, so i emailed paul and asked where i can verify that total number?
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kaik
I am not sure about the total counts for this epidemics, but it is generally known that in the 19th century every ten living person in Europe was infected by cholera and from which 1/4 had died in the first three epidemics. Consider world's population in the 1850 was about 1.5 billions, from which majority lived in East Asia and Europe. So even with that number it is possible that as much as 100 million could die in 100 years from just one type of disease. -
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My cat died suddenly!
by Fisherman ini did not realize that they were symptoms that something was wrong with my cat -but i did notice that my cat was breathing a little differently for a period of about a few days.
i also noticed prior and after to that, that on occasion, my cat would cry at the litter box, but that was a very seldom event.. anyway, about a week ago i noticed the symptom that my very loved cat was breathing heavy.
so i called a taxi and i was going to rush him to emergency room for cats.
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kaik
Pets are part of your family. Their death is loss that causes sorrow. When my cat of 18 years died, It hurt. I had a tears in my eyes as he was dying in my lap while struggling for last breath and his eyes fixed on mine. He is buried in my garden in plastic container wrapped in white sheet with his favorite toy, bowl, and brush. I have an angel statue on that spot and white calla lilies planted around it.