Posts by kaik

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Leaked Elder's Video: How to deal with a suicidal sister

by cappytan in

this video will be played at one of the clam meetings in march 2016.. the content is kind of old news because it is a recut version of a previous video produced for the elder's school.

however, it's still significant because it shows that the organization still has dissenting brothers in positions of leadership.. my thanks to the leaker.

feel free to claim credit here.

kaik

Drama here, drama there, drama everywhere. Were all works in progress are we not?

This is one the most sociopathic remark on this discussion. Here are people debating such grave issue, such as suicide, which touched many people personally. In my time in KH, I knew wonderful, loving sister, who was also close family friend for decades, who committed suicide. This is a drama and tragedy. Considering that this nice lady had one unsuccessful suicide attempt, elders in the KH should at least have a courtesy and provide true missionary work and channel her through mental facility. After her attempt, she was wheelchair bound and except me and my mom, nobody from my KH even bothered to visit her. So, any progress you should be concerned, is only yours, because there is a lot of things that needs be done.

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Why was it so hard for Jesus to convince the Jews that he was the Messiah???

by James Mixon in

??????

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kaik

Real, practicing Jew will not accept Jesus as a Messiah. It is not possible to reconcile both religions due different theology. Jews do not believe in Jesus sacrifice for paying out for sins of the humanity. However, Jews recognize that one point in time there was a guy name Jesus, who was a Jew, and had done great deeds. But he did not fulfill expectation to be a Messiah. Messiah would usher a new period of peace for humanity, which did not happen 2000 years ago.

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I have too much crap!! How to declutter/dehoard.....

by Muddy Waters in

some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.

and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.

and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.

kaik

Hoarding can be dangerous. It possess health and fire hazard, and can make house unsafe. I know two separate incidents when hoarders killed due their impulsion several other people and they never faced even criminal charges. Many years ago, there were hoarding couple in my hometown well known for patrolling all dumpsters and filled their house from basement to roof with trash. They never threw even a newspaper. Once they managed to break to chemical waste dumpster, and brought several containers with unknown chemical in it in to their house. Chemical reaction cause a huge explosion that was seen from every part of the city. They lived in medieval center of the town and they destroyed the house. One firefighter, a my friend, died on the scene. Due unknown number of chemicals in the house, the military had to tear down the house. There was empty lot for years. Both received fines, but not a single day in jail. Another time, an elderly woman collected newspapers and cardboard that filled her apartment to ceiling. There was only narrow corridor to get through. Short curcuit set the place on fire. She survived, but woman living above her burned to death.

The best way to go through staff, and regularly throw items away. Put them by the curb, sell them on ebay, donate them, set them on fire on your backyard.

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Leaked Elder's Video: How to deal with a suicidal sister

by cappytan in

this video will be played at one of the clam meetings in march 2016.. the content is kind of old news because it is a recut version of a previous video produced for the elder's school.

however, it's still significant because it shows that the organization still has dissenting brothers in positions of leadership.. my thanks to the leaker.

feel free to claim credit here.

kaik

Pioneer woman, close friend of my mom, committed suicide. KH solved the problem that they never talked about her like she never existed. I do not think one promotional/educational video will change it.

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Why would anyone choose to support Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by Half banana in

what is the point of supporting a belief which began as a bronze age ox-headed idol called yahweh... in a religion designed for illiterate peasants now appropriated by a money-driven cult with a one hundred and forty six year unbroken record of total failure of its bible based predictions?.

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kaik

Some may be too old to start over and they are content with their social life.

This is the case of my mom. She has many friends in various KH, so she also travels pretty much every other weekend, and it becomes a part of her life. She knows TTATT, but she really does not care about it at her age. Plus, I have half of family in WT, so she feels interconnected with relatives. Leaving WT would severe her social life, so she continues to go to the KH.

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It is the thought that counts

by Fisherman in

spain was one of those countries that was more catholic than the pope.

and back in medieval times people had no choice but to go to mass and confession and be good catholics –or else.

anyway, back in them days, in spain, when someone went to confess their sins to a priest, it was face to face.

kaik

Confessions in late medieval and early modern Europe had tremendous potential for blackmail and was used extensively by ruling elite to coerce population into compliance. Public confessions by priest in front of the community were popular in Frankish Empire. Once parish churches became established everywhere, Church through confessions acquired opinion on public mood and social issues, while at the same time got a personal file on anyone wrongdoing. Protestant reformation in Central Europe removed confessions as one of the grave violation of biblical doctrines. Poland on the other hand did not experienced Protestant Reformation, and confessions and even pilgrimage to specific confessions became very popular there till 20th century. In Bohemia, Hungary which experienced both Reformation and counter-Reformation, confessions did not had much prominent role in the church and spiritual life.

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It is the thought that counts

by Fisherman in

spain was one of those countries that was more catholic than the pope.

and back in medieval times people had no choice but to go to mass and confession and be good catholics –or else.

anyway, back in them days, in spain, when someone went to confess their sins to a priest, it was face to face.

kaik

In medieval Czech society, the Catholic church accepted payments for any sin regardless what people committed. This was also a reason for Bohemian reformation that started 100 years earlier than in Germany. Back in medieval times, people could literary pay for anything wrong doing, and they were forgiven by the Catholic church. Confessions had also a huge political influence, because church knew much about people's background and use it for blackmail and intelligence gathering.

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how do most of you now feel about the military?

by sowhatnow in

was not sure where to post this, but i was curious, how do some of you now feel about the military?

would any of you let your children enlist, or would you yourselves join any military field?

how do you feel about the idea of women in the military?

kaik

I have a high respect for military. My father was professional soldier in the 1950's and 1960's, and my FIL is former marine who served in WWII till Korean war. To be a soldier is not certainly easy and it can affect relationships due deployments and long time away from the family. My mom had to travel to base to see him for years before they decided to have kids and settled in. For my dad, military was a way to escape postwar misery and I do not think he ever regret it.

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Start A Butterfly Garden!

by Bonsai in

jw
friends

time to take a break from debating religion.

take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

kaik

Snow has melted, and garden looks fine. Only damage I see is my daphne where a branch from tree landed on top of it. I will see if my camellias will bloom in March and April because their buds were covered with snow. If we do not get a snow this weekend, it will be a pruning time (chaste tree, crape myrtle, hydrangea, visteria, and summersweet)

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Start A Butterfly Garden!

by Bonsai in

jw
friends

time to take a break from debating religion.

take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

kaik

Rhododendron grow well under tree canopy and filtered sunlight. They grow well in Czech Republic. The castle garden on skirt Prague is UNESCO heritage site and had one the most beautiful rhodos I seen in my life:

Last summer I went to mountains there too cool off during the European heatwave and I was surprised to see rhodos growing in higher elevation there. Some of them must be over 100 years old considering the size of them. I heard Smoky mountains in GA/TN have many beautiful areas with wild rhododendrons.