Good idea all around, no matter what your eventual goals. It is also worth going into debt for - it is not an object that can be stolen, although it can rust. It builds multifunctional skillsets and pathways. It's upgradable. Some discoveries/life lessons are backwards-compliant. Samuel Adams would say, 'Always a good decision.'
Posts by rmt1
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38I applied to a university yesterday.
by kwintestal inafter a few years of humming and hawing, i decided i would.
it was more of what i would take that held me back then if i should go.. i'm only 28, so i'm not too far behind.
we'll see how working full time and going to school will go.
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Anyone from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area?
by AuldSoul inplease pm me if you would like to meet up.. auldsoul.
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rmt1
Born and raised. Harrisburg North from 73-85. Halifax @ Elizabethville KH from 85-8?. Halifax @ Halifax KH from 8?-98. Swatara from 98-99. Graduated JWs in May 1999.
Is there a protocol for asking after someone to see if they are still in or are considering leaving?
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Evolution and Self-Sacrifice
by IW indoes the theory of evolution supply the genetic answer to the self-sacrificing nature of many animal parents as well as that of many men and women in general?
when a man or woman risks their life to help someone in danger is their response simply a response to the natural processes at work due to evolution's effect on their dna?
if so, can this self-sacrificing gene be isolated?
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Whoever wants to: Look up Reciprocal Altruism, Tit for Tat, Social Contract Theory, and Pioneer Species/Climax Species in ecosystems. Ponder: 1) The U.S. is a pioneer species. 2) Corporations are the new evolutionarily superior being. (Per nautilus growth model of neurons:brain, citizens:nation, knowledgeworkers:multinationalcorporation)
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Evolution and Self-Sacrifice
by IW indoes the theory of evolution supply the genetic answer to the self-sacrificing nature of many animal parents as well as that of many men and women in general?
when a man or woman risks their life to help someone in danger is their response simply a response to the natural processes at work due to evolution's effect on their dna?
if so, can this self-sacrificing gene be isolated?
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Look up anything with Hamilton's Rule, such as: http://www.brembs.net/hamilton/
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A Very Convenient Liar - Al Gore
by MegaDude into counteract the hysteria which i personally believe is more al gore lying.
inconvenient truths indeed by dr. robert c. balling jr. .
al gore's "an inconvenient truth" opens around the country this week.
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I don't suppose this arctic discovery causes anyone to pause and consider: If the north pole had tropical biota, then how hot must the equator have been? Does everyone want to live in the humid and malarial Congo? The north pole discovery might be just fine for whatever biota there were at that point, but humans won't stand for any nonsense: the energy output to make 6 billion humans comfortable (present a/c standard of living) in a Congo environment would be sizable.
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Brain Science Teaches You How to Fade Away As a JW!!!!
by metatron inso, you feel trapped as jehovah's witness and want to get out, but don't know how?
you keep agonizing about your witness family.
and "friends" ( trust me, very few witnesses are really your friends, since their friendship is entirely conditional on meeting attendance.
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Cool. Do you have any sources? I've been reading up on Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist who has done brain scans on Tibetan monks during meditation: the feeling of self-lessness, unity, oneness, ("one united shoulder"), as well as the suspension of the awareness of time ("he has put eternity in their hearts") has to do with the brain's ability to shut down the processing of incoming sensation which gives you your sense of time and bodily self, oneness, or distinction. I particularly remember the old "oneness" "moment" during the good songs at the District Assembly at Landover stadium, Maryland, where the dark distance gave the air a misty quality. That, and 10k people cannot sing on key or in time, so they slow the song waaay down into a sort of chant. This other neuroscientist, Michael (M. A.) Persinger, focuses on the right temporal lobe as a sensory processing area that is susceptible to electromagnetic disturbance of so many minimum Teslas, although every individual has a different sensitivity. The effects are too many (and too cool) to list but include the idea that the left hemisphere speech-processing center receives "voices" from the creative right hemisphere and interprets them as external to the self. The left hemisphere can also receive impressions that it interprets as a "presense" external to the self, such as in a haunting or a 'being next to God' experience.
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Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century
by MegaDude ini am going to challenge you today to revise your thinking, and to reconsider some fundamental assumptions.
assumptions so deeply embedded in our consciousness that we dont even realize they are there...
speech by michael crichton
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In a sober moment, right now, eating a carrot, it occurs to me now that what stings the most is that people who can find even the least bit of scientific absense of data, fact, consensus, truth, take that as carte blanche to utterly disregard any idea that the consideration of more long term ways of living might be of use now, before such an absense of scientific consensus were to go away. It appears to me that it kills or hurts a number of people to consider the idea of thinking deep future, which subsequently instinctively causes me to ponder whether or not they voted bush or whether or not they are NRA, or whether or (carrot done, now a beer) not from an evolutionary standpoint they represent the Darwinian instincts to take what they need from those who might now only be anticipating a democratic distribution of resources: this is what my Darwinian instincts make me wonder on an instinctual level. I do sympathize with the sensation that the media has jumped onto some kind of Gore-wagon. I don't like hype and cathexis and I can see how some are convinced that the simple concept of 'thinking about how one's consumption requires X resouces and produces Y waste' has turned into some kind of self-flagellating child-sacrificing jihad fatwa upon the last beleaguered bastions of rationality. If perchance anyone has dealt with Greek tragedy, one of the cornerstones of Western modes of performing "truth," one may have come across the idea that true knowledge is epimethean, epitaphic, hindsight, tragic, and de facto useless except for warning the next character, telling the story, foregrounding how history repeats itself. Premonition, promethean foresight, is what can get someone off the track that leads to tragedy. Those who demand a scientific consensus for even considering the utilities of changing certain aspects of lifestyle are, at least in the rubric of Greek tragedy, falling into the trap of Oedipus, and do not have the self-knowledge to evade the fall. However, in the Darwinian sense, it is entirely possible that those who cannot consider this idea of taking stock are the ones who will take stock in a far more physical way. (beer) This is what occurs to me after having run into human nature a few times.
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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
by Elsewhere inhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&ssheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html
there is a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 .
by bob carter .
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This guy does not appear to know about or understand the thermohaline cycle. starters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circulation
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HAS AN EVOLUTIONARY LINK BEEN DISCOVERED?
by badboy inscientists have claimed to have found the missing link between fish and land animals on ellesmere island ,canada.
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NPR had a piece on this. The oldest scientist in the party was fairly absolute that this *IS* the ancestor of tetrapods; another scientist did not believe so but was firm that it represents a "cousin" (his word) of whatever missing link 'did' perform the same service. I'm happy enough that JWs will have to squirm around this one, again again again.
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No Natural Affection
by misspeaches ini was talking to jh about this the other day.... this year will be the 3rd memorial i will have missed.
i've faded not disphellowshipped or disassociated.
to date i have not recieved an invitation to come along to the memorial for any of them.
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"I often wondered how the WT and Awake mags could have articles about the Pharisees, and not see the clear connection to the philosophy of the organization. They operate on the same principles as the Pharisees." Projection (dictionary.com): "Psychology. 1. The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others: “Even trained anthropologists have been guilty of unconscious projectionof clothing the subjects of their research in theories brought with them into the field” (Alex Shoumatoff). 2. The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt." Evolutionary Psychology (http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/epfaq/ep.html) offers some explanation for the phenomenon of how *normal* people DO have natural affection for their genetic relations. Google "Hamilton's Rule".