My friend there is truth to what you say. However, I will add that to be successful I had to get up and leave my country for a long time. I agree, not everyone can do it but mostly we limit ourselves.
Fangorn
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Stuck in a dead-end job because of obeying anti-higher education policy?
by nvrgnbk indid you refrain from obtaining a degree or advanced studies when you had the chance because it wasn't the witness thing to do?
how has this affected your life?
comments, rants, and personal experiences please.
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Watchtowers Investment in Warfare Technology
by carla inhttp://www.geocities.com/wtgreed/article.htm just a reminder and for newbies
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Fangorn
I get the picture that you absolutely don't know what you're talking about. This issue has been done to death and only morons think it is important. There's nothing there, the Organization does not control the stock and the company in question has not sold one item to the military.
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Stuck in a dead-end job because of obeying anti-higher education policy?
by nvrgnbk indid you refrain from obtaining a degree or advanced studies when you had the chance because it wasn't the witness thing to do?
how has this affected your life?
comments, rants, and personal experiences please.
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Fangorn
I didn't go to university because of the Organization's stance and I regret it. However, I've worked fairly hard in a technically challenging and interesting field and I'm in the top 2% of incomes in my country. I could retire comfortably now but I choose not to do so. It's a huge mistake to blame lack of success on the Organization. Life is what you make of it, throw away the crutch.
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Do you even care about the war of the Muslims?
by free2beme ina man i knew very well at work, who i even traveled to mexico with on a company trip, is a muslim from afghanistan.
he told me once, "never trust any muslim, as they will not tell you the truth about themselves until it is too late.
" i found this interesting as this man was muslim.
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Fangorn
The media has consistently down played the threat of Islam, it is not politically correct for them to address the facts in this matter. And yeah, there's a definite lack of education here as exemplified by needsproof.
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Do you even care about the war of the Muslims?
by free2beme ina man i knew very well at work, who i even traveled to mexico with on a company trip, is a muslim from afghanistan.
he told me once, "never trust any muslim, as they will not tell you the truth about themselves until it is too late.
" i found this interesting as this man was muslim.
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Fangorn
I care a lot, the demographics are getting pretty scary. Not so many years ago the populations of developed countries were about 30% of the total and the populations of Mulim countries was about 15% of the total. Today they are about equal and the birth rate is dropping in the developed nations while it is increasing in Muslim nations. Something like 47% of the population of Yemen is under 15. For anyone who studies history and demographics these are very troubling numbers. For you clowns who think this is all great, I suggest you go live in a Muslim nation for a while and see how you like it. Iran would be good. See how well you do practicing your 'freedoms' there. These people will kill or convert every Westerner if they get the chance, they say it over and over again. It's time people started believing them.
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My son is thinking of joining the Coast Guard , any information.....
by troubled mind inmy youngest is 19 and really confused about what he wants to do with his life .
he goes from being a roadie for a rock band to wanting to be a herpetologist (reptile specialist ).
he toured this summer with a band doing tech work ,which paid nothing ,but was great fun.. in january he moved to indiana, rented an apartment with a friend on the naive idea that jobs are a dime a dozen .now he has bills and no real job.
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Fangorn
The Coast Guard is a good organization, they do a lot of real fine things when it comes to rescue work, drug interdiction, coastal safey and environmental protection. They do work overseas in places where their particular skill sets are needed, like Iraqi coastal waters and where they need to do cargo inspections on shipments coming into the US. It is an armed service, they do kill people and sometimes they get killed. I believe one important Coast Guard saying is "We have to go out, we don't have to come back." For some palatable fiction that might give you some more information you might watch a fairly recent movie called The Guardian or an old comedy called Onionhead which comes from a book by Weldon Hill which is not nearly so funny but probably contains a lot more information.
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Does the WTS create victims???
by Lumptard innow, i'm not talking about victims of child molesters, i'm talking about the seemingly common thought process among jws and x-jws that causes them to beleive that any turn of events that deviates from their idea of how things should happen is caused by something outside themselves.
is it just me, or do many jws and x-jws tend to put blame on other things/people other than where the blame should fall...themselves or at the very least, circumstances?
blaming satan for hardships, blaming worldly people for the trouble in the world, blaming the wts for various choices that people are "forced" to make).
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Fangorn
Absolutely! Faux victimhood is endemic in the organization.
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OH, THE IRONY OF IT ALL.............Global Warming
by Warlock in"blizzard targets northeast".
"record snow falls for date in chicago".
"hearing on 'warming of planet' cancelled because of ice storms".
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Fangorn
1 MYTH Planet earth is currently undergoing global warming FACT Accurate and representative temperature measurements from satellites and balloons show that the planet has cooled significantly in the last two or three years, losing in only 18 months 15% of the claimed warming which took over 100 years to appear — that warming was only one degree fahrenheit (half of one degree Celsius) anyway, and part of this is a systematic error from groundstation readings which are inflated due to the 'urban heat island effect' i.e. local heat retention due to urban sprawl, not global warming...and it is these, 'false high' ground readings which are then programmed into the disreputable climate models, which live up to the GIGO acronym — garbage in, garbage out. 2 MYTH Even slight temperature rises are disastrous, ice caps will melt, people will die FACT In the UK, every mild winter saves 20,000 cold-related deaths, and scaled up over northern Europe mild winters save hundreds of thousands of lives each year, also parts of ice caps are melting yet other parts are thickening but this isn't reported as much (home experiment: put some water in a jug or bowl, add a layer of ice cubes and mark the level — wait until the ice has melted and look again, the level will have fallen). Data from ice core samples shows that in the past, temperatures have risen by ten times the current rise, and fallen again, in the space of a human lifetime. 3 MYTH Carbon Dioxide levels in our atmosphere at the moment are unprecedented (high). FACT Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, currently only 350 parts per million have been over 18 times higher in the past at a time when cars, factories and power stations did not exist — levels rise and fall without mankind's help. 4 MYTH Mankind is pumping out carbon dioxide at a prodigious rate. FACT 96.5% of all carbon dioxide emissions are from natural sources, mankind is responsible for only 3.5%, with 0.6% coming from fuel to move vehicles, and about 1% from fuel to heat buildings. Yet vehicle fuel (petrol) is taxed at 300% while fuel to heat buildings is taxed at 5% even though buildings emit nearly twice as much carbon dioxide! 5 MYTH Carbon dioxide changes in the atmosphere cause temperature changes on the earth. FACT A report in the journal 'Science' in January of this year showed using information from ice cores with high time resolution that since the last ice age, every time when the temperature and carbon dioxide levels have shifted, the carbon dioxide change happened AFTER the temperature change, so that man-made global warming theory has put effect before cause — this shows that reducing carbon dioxide emissions is a futile King Canute exercise! What's more, both water vapour and methane are far more powerful greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide but they are ignored. 6 MYTH Reducing car use will cut carbon dioxide levels and save the planet FACT The planet does not need saving, but taking this on anyway, removing every car from every road in every country overnight would NOT produce any change in the carbon dioxide level of the atmosphere, as can be seen using the numbers from Fact 4, and in any case it is pointless trying to alter climate by changing carbon dioxide levels as the cause and effect is the other way round — it is changes in the activity of the Sun that cause temperature changes on earth, with any temperature rise causing carbon dioxide to de-gas from the oceans. 7 MYTH The recent wet weather and flooding was caused by mankind through 'global warming' FACT Extreme weather correlates with the cycle of solar activity, not carbon dioxide emissions or political elections, the recent heavy rainfall in winter and spring is a perfect example of this — it occurred at solar maximum at a time when solar maxima are very intense — this pattern may well repeat every 11 years until about 2045. 8 MYTH The climate change levy, petrol duty, CO2 car tax and workplace parking charges are justifiable environmental taxes. FACT As carbon dioxide emissions from cars and factories does not have any measurable impact on climate, these taxes are 'just another tax' on enterprise and mobility, and have no real green credentials. 9 MYTH Scientists on the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issue reports that say 'global warming' is real and that we must do something now. FACT Scientists draft reports for the IPCC, but the IPCC are bureaucrats appointed by governments, in fact many scientists who contribute to the reports disagree with the 'spin' that the IPCC and media put on their findings. The latest report suggests that the next 100 years might see a temperature change of 6 Celsius yet a Lead Author for the IPCC (Dr John Christy UAH/NASA) has pointed out that the scenarios with the fastest warming rates were added to the report at a late stage, at the request of a few governments — in other words the scientists were told what to do by politicians. 10 MYTH There are only a tiny handful of maverick scientists who dispute that man-made global warming theory is true. FACT There are nearly 18,000 signatures from scientists worldwide on a petition called The Oregon Petition which says that there is no evidence for man-made global warming theory nor for any impact from mankind's activities on climate. Many scientists believe that the Kyoto agreement is a total waste of time and one of the biggest political scams ever perpetrated on the public ... as H L Mencken said "the fundamental aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" ... the desire to save the world usually fronts a desire to rule it.
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OH, THE IRONY OF IT ALL.............Global Warming
by Warlock in"blizzard targets northeast".
"record snow falls for date in chicago".
"hearing on 'warming of planet' cancelled because of ice storms".
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Fangorn
"I personally have spent the last 2 1/2 years working on my doctorate on glacial retreat." Be interesting to hear your discussion of the glaciers that are expanding.
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OH, THE IRONY OF IT ALL.............Global Warming
by Warlock in"blizzard targets northeast".
"record snow falls for date in chicago".
"hearing on 'warming of planet' cancelled because of ice storms".
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Fangorn
And that hockey stick thing has been completely and repeatedly repudiated so anyone that is still citing it is obviously not a reputable source.