This seems to me like the idea of knowingly taking out a fresh loan at 1.05 * x% in order to pay off an outstanding loan at x%. Think of the mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, psychic energy, as well as gas money, logistics money, field service food money, and other opportunity costs you'll be able to put into the bank. This is not saying that some probabalistic cross section of getting through to your family is not worth all that - but it is still only a lottery's chance of getting through. (Do some fast reading on tunnelling in Quantum Mechanics, and the probabilities involved.) And you're still on the hook for all the aforementioned costs. Science, which in the absense of some angels with trumpets and kazoos coming down and personally giving you a singing telegram in barbershop four-part harmony, says that you get one life. One life.
Posts by rmt1
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30I regret my disassociation.
by Zoos inif i knew then what i know now, i might never have disassociated myself.
i realize all i can do is speculate on what could have been.
however, when i consider the number of people i might have been able to help by dropping little thought-provoking seeds, i really regret having jumped to the decision to disassociate so quickly.. ive read the accounts of several people on this forum telling of how stressful it is to be in the position that i just described above.
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Nervousness While Commenting?
by schlick inwas always shy about public speaking of any kind.
when i commented, my heart would beat as rapid as a moving train.
and oh if it was something i tried to remember then it would be forgotton the second being put on the spot.
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Is there an official name for this comedic device?
by Island Man inis there an official name for the comedic device where one replaces one word with another word having a similar pronounciation but a different (usually derisive) meaning?.
for example, some skeptics deride the bible by spelling it "buy-bull".
same or simliar pronounciation but entirely different meaning.
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If a theo exists it wouldn't have the first thing to do with that gang of fools. How about, real-estate-ocracy, or edict-ocracy, or dogma-ocracy. And real-estate-tese, edict-tese or dogma-tese.
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Help me...!
by OneDayillBeFree inlost my job, just a week before making the final arrangements to move into my very own apartment.. got a speeding ticket on the following sunday for trying to make it to the meeting "on time", (never made it to the hall, just parked in the back of a shopping center for 2 hours in silence).. marked by the elders for quitting pioneering, no more commenting and "failing to adhere to bible counsel".. jw family sees me as a disappointment.
non-jw family is too far away to care.. found out ex-girlfriend got df'ed and is now pregnant.
puts some of the blame on me for how things turned out.. realizing that she's not entirely wrong as i was still an ignorant, kiss-ass, die hard jwdub when we started dating, always putting the "kingdom interests first" never having time for her since "the end was so freaking close" and then warping her up in the mess of me learning ttatt.. dwelling night after night in "what could have been" if i had never been a jw.. alternating between being a theist, atheist and agnostic on a daily basis to the point where i don't care anymore yet getting creeped the f*ck out when facing my own mortality and the thought of me dying alone.. always coming to the same conclusion, when i find myself alone on friday nights and weekends, that i have no actual friends, only two conditional jw "friends" which are both currently out of town for about a month and 0 real, non-jw friends.. haven't been able to sleep well in literally weeks now.
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"Dwelling night after night in "what could have been" if I had never been a JW."
If you are getting unplugged right now, what is it in your 'could have been' category you can still do? You sound like you have fifty years at least.
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Update on Ark Encounter (YEC theme park): creationist Ken Ham offering junk bonds
by adamah inseems the ark encounter project is having a hard time raising funds, but ken ham doesn't miss a chance to bash obamacare to help raise funds.
ham is pushing junk bonds to help finance the project:.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/ark_encounter_finances_obamacare_sank_ken_ham_s_creationist_theme_park.html.
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Magic box bigger on the inside than on the outside.
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Do you look like the apostate they warned you about?
by Angus Beef inafter waking up and wanting to get out of this nightmare, the word apostate is really bothering me.
if i quitely become inactive, fade away will i just be looked at as "always weak".
i want to scream out how big a fool i was.. and now telling my poor young daughter how wrong i was to bring her up as a jw.
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Apo means against. Sto means stand. The GB continue to harvest centrality, relevance, context, reinforcement, and numbers from people who are ex-JWs who still answer to the GB's leash, """"apostate"""". The operative conceit is that whatever it is that an apostate is standing against is the very Ptolemaic, entrenched, inextractable center and origin of the coordinates or references of all reality. It is you and you alone that decide what is central in your context and your universe. The JW concentration camp experience may be a driving origin for born-ins, but that does not make the teaching, the doctrine, the interpretation, the philosophy, center to anything. It is a spun-off suite of ideas from the late 19th century.
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They all laughed when I insisted that the Yellowstone caldera was a threat...
by Nathan Natas instrangely enough, jesus never warned that "there will be wars and rumors of wars, but if the yellowstone caldera blows, we're toast.".
...and jesus' composite bride through the pages of the watchtower, never suggested that deeply-dipped dubs ought to move out of the area downwind of yellowstone, lest they be transformed in the twinkling of an eye into crispy monoliths.. but up here in the uadna orbiting space platform, things are different.
we're rational.
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One of my finest cinematic nightmares was right after 9/11. I was living in Tucson in the future, California had fallen off the map, I could look out on Pacific beachfront property, and the wife and I lived in a spacious futuristic glass house. I took the freeway to the coast, and lo, an event of Biblical proportions. I looked north and saw beyond the horizon mountains of fire leaving earth; I looked upper and saw a (basically an asteroid-size) chunk of burning rock heading down at me from its parabolic arc. If I had to date it it was late this century. Nightmares are a free movie and you don't have to pay those jackasses a cent for popcorn.
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Goodbye and Thank You Jw Net (Last Post)
by Brother Mike ini would like to thank everyone for the discussions that we've all had.
after all of them i have realized, all of you have made me realized that after all of the stuff i have been through, i just need a good friend.
and regardless of how hostile our discussion could get i have felt that you have all shared something with me that have helped me.
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There's some coffee left.
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I Want Your Thoughts On This: A 80 Year Old Man Lost His Wife....
by minimus inand within a month, he has been seeing a 69 year old woman who lived upstairs from him.
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the wife has been sick for a year and she passed away in october.. now, the 80 year old man is like a teenager with this woman, making out in public places with this woman and introducing her to family and friends as his new girlfriend that he "loves".. the father's family thinks this is weird and are concerned about it.. any thoughts?
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Kubler Ross timescale, not uniform.
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Paul Walker killed himself, right, carelessly, needlessly? How does that prove God exists?
Using what leverage do flaming sanctimonious back-clapping kangaroo court fraudulent newscaster circus showmen on a sound stage expect their viewer to find conviction that the physical world was personally designed?