Posts by kaik

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Terrorist attack in Belgium

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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friends

check the news.

there was a terrorist attack in brussells, couple of bombs detonated in the brussell airport and the metro.. 36 dead so far.. i send my sincerest condolences to the people of belgium.. the motive seems to be revenge for the capture of the last surviving member of the paris terrorist attacks..

kaik

It is crucial to mention that every single country in the EU and Europe enabled these terrorist attacks. From London and Madrid, the political correctness of the liberal-left refused to acknowledge any problem and actually made the situation even worse. Currently there are hundreds of ISIS trained terrorists in Europe who welcomed everyone with open arms without any background check. There will be more deaths and more attacks, but it will change absolutely nothing on the ground.

The liberal-left have to acknowledge they are facing a hostile ideology that is based on religion. They are refusing to see the problems and will rather sacrifice such crucial piece of democracy like freedom of press and speech. They will blame Americans, Russians, and single out everyone who disagree with them as a racist and nationalist. More people will die. I already said under the Paris attack board, how many lives are acceptable for EU left in order to build their multi-culti utopia?

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I COLLECT QUOTES. . . Here are some of my favorites

by Terry in

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please post your favorites too.

my favorite quotations:.

you cannot change what you refuse to confront.. sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.. don’t think of cost.

kaik

My grandmother wrote her quotes into notepad. Some of my favorites were:

In your old age is fully revealed how hard did your work on yourself through the life.
Small children are stepping on your lap, grown children on your heart.
For every swine, there is a butcher.
If I have to go to hell, lets ride there on the nice horse
If you are angry at God, beat up the priest.
Bad doctor makes grave digger happy
Sickness arrives on horse, crawls out on turtle
Guest to your house, God to your house, guest to your house, club to your hand
What is not given from above, it can't be purchased in the drugstore
One father can feed ten children, ten children can't feed one father

Last one was:

For money you can buy a house, but not a home; food, but not a taste; bed, but not a sweet dream; whore, but a not a love; wine but not a conscience; book, but no wisdom.

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Terrorist attack in Belgium

by ILoveTTATT2 in

jw
friends

check the news.

there was a terrorist attack in brussells, couple of bombs detonated in the brussell airport and the metro.. 36 dead so far.. i send my sincerest condolences to the people of belgium.. the motive seems to be revenge for the capture of the last surviving member of the paris terrorist attacks..

kaik

It is just tip of the iceberg. Couple months ago, Czech police was tipped by Ukrainian authorities that they had indication that people of ME descent with French and Belgium nationality were shopping for weapons in Ukraine. Ukraine is full of weapons that spilled there from the conflict in Donbas. Four men were arrested on the way back on Czech/Slovak borders per news with stockpiled weapons in their car. There are indication that weapon smuggling into Western Europe is increasing through borders. Because Hungary is sealing borders left and right, these leaves Poland, Lithuania, and Slovakia opened to Schengen. Question is, how much intelligence can each country process and have sufficient LE on field to deal with the problem. France recognized last year that they do no not have sufficient resources to handle all the potential threats. Visegrad4 had been increasing LE spending since last summer, but it is not enough. It will be matter of time when European Union will turn into Israeli like security apparatus society with guys (and girls) with guns on every corner.

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Terrorist attack in Belgium

by ILoveTTATT2 in

jw
friends

check the news.

there was a terrorist attack in brussells, couple of bombs detonated in the brussell airport and the metro.. 36 dead so far.. i send my sincerest condolences to the people of belgium.. the motive seems to be revenge for the capture of the last surviving member of the paris terrorist attacks..

kaik

I was last time in Brussels 2.5 years ago on my way to Prague. It was one of the many visits I had in Belgium, but one thing that struck me immediately back then is how this city felt like the Middle East. I was pretty much only the white guy there walking with a laptop bag. I did not feel safe. The airport is even worse. When I waited for a flight to Prague, I was surrounded by gypsies and whatever strangely looking existence, where someone tried to rip a laptop from me.I was glad to leave.

After Paris attacks, it was clear that something else is brewing and Brussels was mentioned multiple times that it is a hotbed for terrorist attacks. There were several arrests of French and Belgium citizens with ME descent who were smuggled weapons from Ukraine into Schengen zone via Slovakia and Poland. This will be very difficult summer as European LE do not have government backing to deal with the crisis. The liberals will try to sweep everything under the carpet.

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The Original Sin - Emperor’s New Suit

by learnaway in

introduction: most religions based on the bible, have been teaching paul’s propagated doctrine for thousands of years which claims that human beings are born with the original sin, inherited from adam, thereby redemption is required.

it is not enough to be described with a few lines of explanation that paul’s doctrine is false, because this examination goes against the faith of the redemption doctrine, which cultivated by tertullian, augustine, calvin; and gave a source of power and enormous wealth for the church for many millennia.

however, hopefully readers could grasp the undeniable truth regarding original sin and redemption..

kaik

The Hebrew Bible belongs to the Jews, who understand it very well, and do not believe in original Sin.

Exactly. Jews do not believe in original, Adamic sin. Life is created perfect, but it is a human inability to uphold laws to stay without sin. Sin is not inherited either; person is only responsible for his or her own sin. There is no redeemer from the sin, and nobody can invalidate anyone sins on someone else behalf. Original sin is Paul invention to make Jewish scripture obsolete and create a new beliefs where salvation through Christ is only one possible.

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How to find someone you lost contact with

by rebel8 in

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is there an app for that?

seriously, in this day and age, there has to be a way to find someone you lost contact with.

i know, facebook...but i'm having no luck there.

kaik

Also some people can be deceased. While there is possibility to search people by various Death Index record, etc, it will not always turn a result if person remarried and died in different state. Also in this age, people move outside their native countries, or retire abroad.

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I like the fact that XJW's are passionate about politics

by minimus in

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the fact is we could never talk about politics or of use toward political issues as witnesses now we can and we can disagree without being disagreeable .

kaik

Political discussions are always heated and everyone can look into French Revolution where disagreement was solved by guillotine. Robespierre said that even if person does not make any choice, he already did showed his or her political views. When I go to foreigner boards, the political discussions are far worse than on JWN.

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Memorial mixed emotions...

by Tornintwo in

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does anyone else feel 'pulled back in' at this time of year?.

i still consider myself to a believer, believe in god and jesus christ, on the whole i think he taught tolerance, love, acceptance and i think we can benefit from following his example.

i love ray franzs book in search of christian freedom.

kaik

I am still annoyed with conversation I had over the phone with the family last weekend. They just get too much excited but at the same time inflict guilt feeling that I am not there. They accept the WT dogma, and on memorial they just are observers instead of participants of the ritual. It never made sense to me even back then when I was in WT. I knew one elder (he is already DF) that he was partaking at home secretly with his family. JWs outside 144K are just observers, and do not really celebrates Jesus sacrifice.

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Memorial mixed emotions...

by Tornintwo in

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friends

does anyone else feel 'pulled back in' at this time of year?.

i still consider myself to a believer, believe in god and jesus christ, on the whole i think he taught tolerance, love, acceptance and i think we can benefit from following his example.

i love ray franzs book in search of christian freedom.

kaik

I get irritated by my family because they get hyped -up, and will try to inflict a guilt feeling that I was not there. I do not see a point why would anyone outside 144K to bother to go to memorial, even as JW. I remember back in the 1980's and 1990's that there were brothers and sisters, who had second memorial in the privacy and they partake because they thought that WT was excluding them from something that they should be part of it. Back then, I agreed with these people. Since I became involved with Judaism by association in marriage, I understand that memorial does not make a sense for Jewish faith. Jews (or at least the one I am married to) do not believe that anyone can redeem other person for his or her sins. Everyone is responsible for their own sins, and Jesus sacrifice just does not make sense and is not valid in their faith.

When it comes to Easter, I loved it. In many European countries, it is the second biggest holiday in the year after Xmas. In the Czech Republic it is an equivalent to Thanksgiving in overall atmosphere: entire families get together. The time of the year and the weather is always good to see relatives, because in winter, not everyone wants to travel, and in the summer, many people are vacationing. Easter associates with me one of the warmest memories, special food and baked cakes. JW memorial is far off from festivities that Easter is, and it is rather pitiful as the only holiday they celebrate.

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The official relationship between Jehovahs Witnessses and the Watchtower? I'm confused.

by Joliette in

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can anybody answer this for me?.

whenever i tell people i'm ex jehovahs witnesses, they always assume that i'm against the jehovahs witnesses, but i am more so against the watchtower then anything.people assume that i'm anti-jehovahs witness, but now that i've done more research i've realized that its the watchtower thats more harmful then the jehovahs witnesses, even though theres a lot of jehovahs witnesses i dont like, i'm not against jehovahs witnesses as a group.. can anyone explain this to me?.

kaik

The WT is a subset of JW. One cannot exist with the another. While the den mother/imperial aristocracy vs slaves view holds, it is rather a symbiotic relationship where one justifies the existence of another. WT cannot survive without millions of its followers, while JWs would not follow indoctrination if they did not had WT to sign up for. It is like distinguishing between communist Politburo and masses that were in communist party. Every member of the Politburo was a communist, like everyone in WT all they way to the top is a JW.