Posts by done4good

Maximize your 401(k). If you can swing it, you are able to contribute $15,500 annually into it. It's pre-tax dollars, so it doesn't really hurt the paycheck too much.

Diversify the investments within it. Try to put about 20% into 5 different equities based mutual funds each. Some large cap, some mid cap, some foreign, and perhaps some in small cap. Most should weigh on the large cap side, though.

Open a Roth IRA, (above and beyond the max in your 401), if your combined family income is less than $150,000. If it is above that, then put the additional money directly into mutual funds.

Don't sweat short-term market slowdowns. They are necessary, and allow you to buy shares more cheaply. It will pay off later.

Typically, if your under 50, the above advice works well. If you are above 50, you will want to diversify a bit more conservatively, (larger amount in bond-based funds.

j

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Your Favorite 1970's Music Groups/ Singers/ Songs ?

by flipper in

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in the 1970's i was a teenager.

i wasn't that big into disco- although i enjoyed kc and the sunshine band as well as earth, wind, and fire.

but my really big love in music was always rock n' roll, blues , stuff like that !

done4good

Jeez..Where to begin?

Any 60's carryovers

Led Zeppelin, (yes, I know their first two albums were 1969, but they didn't make my 60's list).

Genesis, (Also first album, 1969).

ELO.

Steely Dan.

Kansas.

The Clash.

Early Chicago, (first three albums).

A $h1tload of others...

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Your Favorite 1960's Music Groups/ Singers / Songs ?

by flipper in

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although i was just a kid pre-teens in the 1960's - still because of having older brothers and sisters i listened to some 60's music as well !

groups : .

1. the beatles.

done4good

Cream.

MC5.

Jimi Hendrix.

Beatles.

Doors.

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The Very Best "Protest" Songs?

by hillary_step in

hard to believe that jackson browne wrote this piece twenty-two years ago.

hard to believe just how apt it is for the modern america.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpfdbklumqk&feature=related.

laura nyro - save the country.

done4good

Anyway, "Ohio", by CSN&Y gets my vote, hands down. Especially if you knew the "story" behind how they came to write it...

j

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The Very Best "Protest" Songs?

by hillary_step in

hard to believe that jackson browne wrote this piece twenty-two years ago.

hard to believe just how apt it is for the modern america.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpfdbklumqk&feature=related.

laura nyro - save the country.

done4good

Hard to believe just how apt it is for the modern America

Huge Jackson Browne fan here...

I didn't read through all 7 pages of this yet, so forgive me if this has been covered, HS.

Anyway, let's get some perspective. Things were not better in 1986. We we in the middle of the Cold War. Many things Reagan was doing at the time was not all that accepted, (to say the least), by many Americans, including the more "liberal" voices, such as Jackson Browne.

Bush is over the top bad. It is far easier for many, (especially non-Americans), to see where things this country is doing presently is out of touch with what most citzens of the world consider fair and justified. In 1986, many may have considered Reagan's tactics justified, because many still believed the "Reds were Evil". We are a bit more enlightened today, and hence, are in a better position to realize where we ought not to butt into other's business.

Let's not "boo hoo" over what is going on right now. Let's hope, (and vote), for change this November.

Most American's don't support the idiocy our government is preaching today.

j

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BOGUS ORIGINS of Watchtower core beliefs DESTROYS FDS claims

by Terry in

when william miller (baptist farmer turned theologian) predicted the 2nd coming of christ in 1843/44 a large segment of america's population believed along with him.. miller was invited to preach in church after church.

he gave his points in sermons demonstrating the nearness of armageddon.

perhaps a hundred thousand devout christians waited for the end.

done4good

Good info, and great read, as ususual, Terry!

I beginning to believe myself, that CTR was not just some nutty-cuddly professor of sorts, (as many seem to think of him), but a very dangerous man. While I doubt that he was purposely deceptive, he certainly was seriously deluded in a similar manner as we would consider any of the "dangerous" ones, (i.e. David Koresh, Jim Jones, etc). Once someone has that level of delusion, anything is possible...

Thanks again for the research!

j

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Jehovah's Witnesses under consideration as "extremeists" in Russia

by done4good in

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http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1159

done4good

http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1159

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What does your congregation do socially now?

by truthseeker in

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if you're still in or hear about jw social activities through the grapevine, what does your congregation do now socially?.

my hall does absolutely - nothing - with the exception of high school graduations.

i read a few posts about jw socialising in the 70s and 80s and honestly, reading about it is completely foreign to me - i grew up in the 80s and never experienced the "good times" of jwdom.. it seems most people do their own thing.

done4good

What congregation?

j

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So, someone clue me in.

by Blasty in

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alright, so i'm reading on this site, and i'm not 100% sure what it's about.

it appears to be a bunch of former jw people bashing everything they can get their hands on in relation to jw's.. .

i was brought up as a jw, but when i got older and started to think for myself, i began to realize that i didn't agree with their teachings.

done4good

Hi Blasty!

All types here...personally I'm agnostic/borderline atheist, but I gave up trying to convince others to think like I do a long time ago.

At the end of the day, if you search through the information here, you will ahead of the WT game by a long shot, no matter what path you choose. I went through many changes in my personal belief system after I left the WT, and it took a while to come to the conslusions I finally came to.

j

p.s. Don't be too quick to find "all of the answers" though. They will come in time.