Here is pic of my snowdrops from couple days ago:
I was successful to get them propagated and planted them around the house. I think in next five years they will fill entire area by my neighbor tree.
Posts by kaik
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4Spring has sprung!
by GrreatTeacher inthough not officially spring, the past two days in the mid-atlantic have been gorgeous!
it's been over 70°f and sunny.
i've opened all the windows in the house and have sunshine and fresh air pouring in.. i walked outside today and noticed that my tulips are pushing through the ground.
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Strange people you have studied WT and Bible with.
by kaik inwhen i look back into era when i conducted bible studies i recall several nice people, but also weird and strange.
my last bible study was with couple who were the new capitalists; people who earned a lot of money often by illegal means.
i am sure they were dangerous, but i have not perceived that way.
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When I look back into era when I conducted bible studies I recall several nice people, but also weird and strange. My last bible study was with couple who were the new capitalists; people who earned a lot of money often by illegal means. I am sure they were dangerous, but I have not perceived that way. The couple eventually helped me to move away from WT cult, and was able to get a job through them in international corporation that was opening office in the capital city. I stayed friends with them for couple years afterwards. I kind feel funny now when I told to them that Armageddon will be arriving shortly. That was more than 20 years ago.
I also conducted study with politically active Nazi sympathizer. His family were right wing extremists where grandpa was a member of Slovak Nazi guard or SS unit during WWII. I felt rather uneasy to deal with self confessed Jew-hater, and I ended the study. The most beneficial study I had was with my Jewish coworker. It started accidentally as I was careful never discuss religion with people I work(ed). Once in the local business trip, we due weather ended in small countryside monastery take cover from the reign. There was a mass, and I and my Jewish coworker stroke conversation on religion. We eventually studied together and he brought me several interesting, antiquated books on OT. Nevertheless, we did not get anything and my elder told me that Jews are cursed and thus condemned to die in Armageddon. Several people in my KH had deep antisemitic convictions as the Nazi guy I studied at the same time and shared their universal dislike toward Jews.
To you, who was the strangest person you ever studied Bible/WT publication with?
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Spring has sprung!
by GrreatTeacher inthough not officially spring, the past two days in the mid-atlantic have been gorgeous!
it's been over 70°f and sunny.
i've opened all the windows in the house and have sunshine and fresh air pouring in.. i walked outside today and noticed that my tulips are pushing through the ground.
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So far, my crocuses, daffodils, snowdrops started to boom past several days. I am ready for spring, I need to be outdoor. -
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How many of you are health nuts?
by Harvard Illiterate 411 inthere was/is a sister in my old hall who was a pharmaceutical sales rep and she was a huge proponent of anything in the drug industry.
when someone had a headache, she was the first to say "take an asprin.
" now my husband and i are what you might call old hippies.
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I am very health conscious, I never smoked and trying to live healthy lifestyle, but holistic approach is BS. My father thought that he can cure a cancer this way. Once he was given by healer a herbal medicine that landed him in ER where he was fighting for his life. Eventually cancer metastasized, and it was too late for chemotherapy or radiation. Question is if it would even help him to survive. My father died just over 50 years old. My spouse is a cancer survivor and listen doctor to the last word. So far 18 years later, the cancer had not returned.
Organic food is BS. I had grandparents who lived on medieval farm surrounded by vineyards and peach orchards that my grandmother inherited. But it was my granduncle and his family who took care of the property and they supplied entire family with food product they grew. We had wine, butter, goat cheese, sausages, goose, bacon all from the farm. It was natural, produced without chemicals and tasty. My granduncle died couple years ago 101 years old. My grandparents were almost 90. Now, when I see organic food, it is something that would be force fed to war enemy. Butter is white, sausages stuffed with soy flour, etc, bleah.. I will take all the products made in the past over the organic food BS.
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what buzz word from the jw's do you hate & why?
by Sabin inso my hubby has been on a bit of a roll about the jdubs, we were talking a lot about them & he said the buzz word he hate's the most is "worldly" why?
because he say's "with that one word they have condemned (according to their believes) a person as being worthy of nothing but death.
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- imminent arrival of Jesus.
- Armageddon is just behind the corner
- marrying in the lord or truth
- lifestyle of the world
- out in the world
- It is written in ...
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Things we an say on our death bed...
by The Rebel in1) i am glad i had the courage to live my life true to myself and not the life others expected of me.. 2) i am glad i had the courage to express my feelings.. 3) i am glad i let myself be myself.. 4 ) and i hope i have so many days, and years to live those thoughts, because surely the most wonderful thing about having left our " watchtower death bed" is to start living?.
in my case at 50 !!.
but the important thing is when we leave, to start living.. any experiences worth sharing?.
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I was not there when my dad was dying, I talked to him just two days earlier, but my sister was by his side until he went to coma and never woke up. His last word was "damn these doctors..." -
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Ten years out.....
by snare&racket ini'm not sure how useful this post will be, but i feel compelled to write it.
with many of my older posts, i wrote them with a younger jw version of me in mind.
with this i write it with a younger newly ex jw in mind.. ten years ago i went to my presiding overseer and told him my concerns about wt owning 'rand cam' military stocks, about unfulfilled prophecy and human error in the governing body and the theocratic consequences of such.
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In April, it will be 22 years for me! -
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Safe sex for seniors, Pasadena senior center discussion.
by James Mixon inthe fun informative talk will cover romance, myths (myths at this age) about sex and aging, tips.
for enjoyable sex and safe sex precautions (may throw your back out) to help prevent stds.. a boxed lunch will be served to the first 50 people with confirmed reservation.. pasadena ca senior center.. i love this place california, but the wife and i missed out.
lol.
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Elder population has sex, but it is a topic that people do not want to debate. HIV is a huge problem where is estimated almost 50% HIV+ people in industrialized countries are over age 50. The safe sex is message is dedicated to younger population, but it totally misses elderly who often are the biggest consumers of prostitution and sex services. Middle aged and elderly women do not use protection because they are not afraid to get pregnant, but they are exposed to STD risks. -
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YOUNG PEOPLE ASK Should I Grow a Beard?
by neat blue dog inok, ok, so the actual title of the article released today on jw-org is "young people askshould i get a tattoo?
", but i thought i'd replace some words and phrases from the actual article, as follows:"regardless of the motive, you should think long and hard before deciding to have anything growing out of .
your skin!
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Beards are very cultural. In the 19th century majority males in Austria-Hungary grew beard, and they became unfashionable after WWI. In Russia and most of Eastern Europe man without beard was not considered manly enough. I have pic of my GGF who served as a Calvary officer around 1890-1900 and had well groomed beard; but my GF who served in WWI did not had any. Past 20 years, beards became fashionable. Many troops deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq have to grow beard in order to have a respect with the local population.
WT is again overstepping over something that was never defined in NT and attempts to regulate something that is not defensible by bible.
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The Watchtower Org will die.
by Freeandclear ini was just reading through some posts and had a startling realization.. the comment that sparked this went something like this: why oh why when i started into this in 1989 did i not research the history of the wtbts?
etc....... i too was studying and moving towards baptism around that same time.
i got dunked in dec of 1990.. my thought.
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Young people with age and will get old. There is sucker born in every generation. WT has a niche on religious market and no amount of available information will change that. It the same for people who go to Syria from Europe because they are enticed by radical ideology. It is the same when people who never experienced communism, they horrors are known since 1930's show trials, yet they find the ideology enticing and acceptable. No amount of information will persuade these people that they believe in BS. I heard that WT will be gone 20 years ago when I left KH. It is still here, it has several millions of followers. WT outlived several of its prominent figures, and it has not moved into obscurity. Generation that is IT savvy is already approaching middle age, and like any generation before them or afterward will experience some problems where the WT will offer nice escape. WT will be here long after anyone on JWN posting today will be long gone.