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  Algebra

  by HappyDad in

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  what the hell?

  it's after 4 am here in minnesota and my brain just won't shut down.

  of all things....in the middle of the night,algebra is bugging me.

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  JeffT

  I did poorly at math in grade school. My first run at college I majored in English because I knew I couldn't cut it in the STEM classes. Nine years after I graduated college I went back to study something that people would pay me to do. A year later I had a certificate in business managment with an emphasis in accounting. I spent the next tweny-six years of my life doing Algebra every day. Somewhere along the line I got good at it. I suspect that most people on this thread actually use algebra at lot more than they think.
  

  Our college finance system (at least here in the US) is more f****D up that our medical insurance. It's a device for turning the future income of students into the current income of college profs and staff. The loan program makes no distinction between majoring in brain surgery and Lithuanian Art History. So we send people into the world with no job skills and $100k in debt and wonder why they are struggling.
  
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  Special meeting next month (February 2020)

  by Jofi_Wofo in

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  it was announced today that we will have a special weekend meeting next month.

  it will be 3 hours long and will include some streamed content.. no explanation was given as to what the meeting will be about, only that it will be exciting and we will not want to miss it..

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  Don't put colored paper in the fax machine.
  
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  Wow! I'm tripping

  by OriginalFlower in

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  this old place is still around?

  holy moly what a trip stumbling into this place from the good ole days before the 'new' social media😃.

  i used to have tons of long late night conversations with some good friends here...like 15-20 years ago!

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  Been here nineteen years. Don't post as much as I used to, but still drop in to see what's going on.
  
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  New Wuhan coronavirus around.....

  by mikeflood in

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  new coronavirus wreaking havoc.....first case detected in the us one hour ago....six deaths already in china.....hope it gets controlled soon.....

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  JeffT

  I've thought that if anything kills off mankind, it's be microscopic beasts.

  Viruses ARE microscopic beasts.

  If Trump is judged Guilty, people will start dropping like flies and Trump will declare himself President for Life

  The second senator number 67 votes guilty, he's not President anymore. Mike Pence will be sworn in immediately.

  The Chinese are building a new hospital to treat ill people in the affected region and it will be ready within weeks—Wow 😮

  I heard it will be ready next week. I don't think it will be a hospital the way we think of one. Think "MASH" instead.

  I don't trust news outlets, but I trust the Chinese less. The fact that they are quarantining major cities is at odds with their public numbers of the people sick and dead. I believe the problem is much greater than they are letting on.
  
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  Could this be part of the reason for the WT “big relocation” campaign?

  by Hecce in

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  cottage grove, minn. (ap) — a struggling minnesota church is asking its older parishioners to leave in hopes of making it more attractive to young families.. .

  grove united methodist church in the st. paul suburb of cottage grove is closing in june, with plans to relaunch in november.

  the present members, most of them over 60 years old, will be invited to worship elsewhere, the st. paul pioneer press reported.

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  If that's their plan, its a plan for committing institutional suicide. You don't grow your business by dumping on your most loyal customers. I suspect that church is going to go under. I don't expect to see the end of the Watchtower, but its going to shrink a lot in the next few years.
  
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  Would You Ever Go Back To The Witnesses??

  by minimus in

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  every once in a while you hear people say they actually “miss” their old witness friends and or family.

  some would have even stayed in the organization if they became a bit more liberal and open minded.

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  You couldn't drag me back with a team of wild horses.
  
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  147th Gilead prt. 3 - this could stumble people

  by neat blue dog in

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  during gerrit loesch's talk just released, he goes on a long list of the false end times predictions throughout the millennia.

  i didn't expect it, but then he goes into the precursors to the bible students who, when their dates failed, changed christ's presence to have happened 'invisibly'.

  then it goes right into the jws, and he reads the quote from millions now living will never die about how we can 'confidently expect' the resurrection in 1925, and then the life everlasting book that predicted 1975. of course, he doesn't say how it's still going on, namely with the overlapping generation and its' accompanying convoluted chart, but still, this is more than they've ever said on the subject, especially recently.. it almost sounds like a forced statement, to address any backlash from people reading 'apostate lies' online, because he also says how the gb 'humbly' admitted mistakes, referencing the non-apology after 1975 that disturbed raymond franz.

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  I couldn't get through more than about two minutes of that mess. I've got stumps in the yard with more personality. I wonder if they're preparing the flock for an announcement that they are stepping back from predicting the end of the world. They could keep preaching to "keep the world aware that the end is coming" or some such nonsense.
  
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  How Do You Think Eco Terrorists Should Be Dealt With?

  by minimus in

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  recently, some activists decided to interrupt a train that was delivering coal.

  police were called and 10 hours later the activists were dispersed.

  it’s not unusual now to see picketers close down a bridge or a street for “climate change “.

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  shot

  No, it releases toxins. Hang them, the rope can be recycled.

  I agree with comments above, most of these people have no idea what life with no modern materials and equipment looks like.
  
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  What Will Happen To President Trump In Your Opinion?

  by minimus in

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  he has been “impeached “.

  will he be convicted in the senate?

  is he so “damaged goods” that he is ineffectual?

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  OK, here is a democrat and constitutional expert who says the process isn't complete until the House sends the articles of Impeachment to the senate.

  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/20/noah-feldman-democrat-impeachment-witness-says-tru/
  
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  Help with my novel I'm writing

  by pimonotforlong in

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  2. beliefs

  i don't know if i'm submitting this under the proper subject area, but i had a question i was wondering if anyone had any expertise on.. i'm writing a ya novel inspired by my experiences growing up and being a teenager as a jehovah's witness.

  it is a fictional story though.

  however, my critiquing beta readers are torn between whether i should make it the actual jw religion in the book, or if i should make a fictional religion based on the jws.

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  JeffT

  I've written (but not yet published) a novel based loosely on my experience as a JW. I invented my own religion for it, for several reasons. For me the most important factor was that I didn't have to worry about the details of life as a witness, I can put words in the mouths of my characters without having to worry about whether or not a JW would say that.

  I'm currently working on another project by I hope to get back to this one soon. Basic plot line: Armageddon hasn't arrived so the religion decides to take matters in their own hands.