Lion Cask

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  ...Watchtower World..A place where "Stupid is Better!"...

  by OUTLAW in

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  "watchtower world"... "a place where "stupid is better!"...

  the wbt$ is always doing something stupid..from the begining of the wbt$ to this very day... stupid is on the menu,in watchtower world... .

  it never ends..there is always something stupid happening within the wbt$... these are bethel one liners..bethelites have posted on jwd/jwn... that i have collected over time... .

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  Seriously, was there really a thing about brown eyes turning blue in the new system? I mean, seriously? Is there any documentation anywhere?

  
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  I'm lost

  by Newborn in

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  i feel confused, empty, alone, sad, sensitive, hurt and so on.

  more and more it seems.... will i ever find my place, my home and be content and happy?

  sometimes it feels impossible.

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  Freedom from religion is a process, as some have alluded to. Having someone you love to escape with makes it an easy process, doing it alone makes it difficult. It is as simple as that. You're going it alone. But you've got some support in here. Behind all the faceless text and avatars there are real people who care enough to reach out to you to lend a hand, and you have unlimited access to information right at your fingertips. Explore. Keep your mind open, Newborn, take the opportunity you have presented yourself to learn about all those things that were forbidden you in your previous life. The more you learn and the more you come to genuinely understand, the more that hollowness you feel will be filled up until it is completely gone. It will be gone. Then you will understand what it means to be emancipated.
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  ...Watchtower World..A place where "Stupid is Better!"...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "watchtower world"... "a place where "stupid is better!"...

  the wbt$ is always doing something stupid..from the begining of the wbt$ to this very day... stupid is on the menu,in watchtower world... .

  it never ends..there is always something stupid happening within the wbt$... these are bethel one liners..bethelites have posted on jwd/jwn... that i have collected over time... .

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  Kingdom toilet paper.

  You won't even have to wash your hands afterward! Oh, how wonderful it will all be ...
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  ...Watchtower World..A place where "Stupid is Better!"...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "watchtower world"... "a place where "stupid is better!"...

  the wbt$ is always doing something stupid..from the begining of the wbt$ to this very day... stupid is on the menu,in watchtower world... .

  it never ends..there is always something stupid happening within the wbt$... these are bethel one liners..bethelites have posted on jwd/jwn... that i have collected over time... .

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  Lion Cask

  I'm not allowed to clean up lion shit.

  But, lion shit will not be the same, shamus. Not at all. Trust me, I know of what I speak. The stuff that will come out of the backsides of lions will be really, really nice. It might even be like mint jelly that the lambs can eat themselves, instead of themselves being eaten with it. How wonderful it will all be. Paradise earth, get it? Shit's nasty. There will be nothing nasty allowed in the Kingdom.

  I'm waiting for the WTS to tell us there will be no more shit in the Kingdom. This is kind of a stoopid proclamation preview for y'all.

  You're welcome.
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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

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  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  Economic prosperity in a globalized economy demands trade, and war disrupts trade. We can all either trade, ignore each other, or fight wars. Only the first option benefits all involved. Advanced, rational nations can't fight wars like the old ones any longer.

  Neat graphic. But no more war on a large scale requires cooperative rationalisation and sharing of limited resources and the question is how will that happen? The quick answer is, in the absence of revolutionary developments in alternative energy and raw material utilisation, it won't. Demand for resources will not abate, it will increase exponentially in all sectors. The burgeoning economies of India and China absolutely depend upon traditional resource exploitation and acquisition outside its borders. For the time being, China will continue to use its economic clout to get what it wants. This is a fact of commerce. When manufacturing heats up, China wades in and grabs hold of resources like metals, oil and fibre and it does so by outbidding everyone else in the world. For example, China can absolutely afford to drive the price of copper through the roof (as it has on a number of occasions) because all its other input costs are low. Those other input costs cannot stay low forever and when that happens the dynamic will have to change. Will it be a different economic dynamic? Perhaps not. Nations, in particular superpowers, are not known for their willingness to tighten their belts and reign in their consumption of resources when they can simply take what they want from other nations. Superpowers have always waged war over resources and it is still happening in the modern world, notwithstanding shallow justifications like "war on terror and elimination of WMD". China may not be keen to take on the West to get what it wants, but the world is a big place.
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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

  1. social
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  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  I was so certain Lion cask would not make such a simple error

  To err is human, and so is typing too fastttt.

  All it would take would be a few nukes detonated at around 100,000 feet or one giant solar flare to fry the electrical grids world-wide and there would be instantaneous mass starvation. There might be some empty seats at the Super Bowl.

  Well now, that's a little less optimistic.
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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

  1. social
  2. current

  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  However, if you step up to 40,000 feet and gaze down, whatever the problems that have arisen in history, the general arc of it is upward and forward.

  Yes, BTS, but is it sustainable? Under current conditions I would say not. There is also the question of who will be in charge. China and India are emerging as the two new world economic superpowers. But who will be the world's military superpower 50 years from now? A hundred years ago it was the British Empire. The British Empire gave way to the USA and the USSR. Now there is only the USA, and if you extrapolate the arc of advancement in asia out 50 years the USA will have given way to China.
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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

  1. social
  2. current

  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  Lion Cask

  7,000,000,000,000 I think that's three too many zero's.

  The above figure would be 7 trillion

  Quite right, I've used too many zeros. It should be 7,000,000,000. Seven milliard British scale. My bad for not proof reading my OP before hitting the submit button.

  I, too, like BTS's optimism because I believe it to be directionally correct. One needs only extrapolate scientific advances that have happened even over the past 20 years to expect there will be wonders we can't even imagine 50 years from now. There will also be challenges we can't imagine.

  The single largest unresolved issue is energy. There's hope for fusion, but it's by no means a slam dunk. Green energy alternatives like wind and solar and tidal are fine, but they are only capable of supplementing more traditional supplies, not replacing it, and even then at much higher cost.
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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

  1. social
  2. current

  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  Lion Cask

  Something's going to happen, moshe. Maybe that 1919 thing.

  Edit. No, I'm not talking about the bogus annointed org schtick, I mean the Spanish Influenza pandemic.
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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

  1. social
  2. current

  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  Lion Cask

  According to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year. That's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet. The world is about to change, again. Putting that number into context, the estimated population of the entire world at the time of Christ was 200,000,000 people.

  We didn't hit our first billion until around 1804.

  Two billion wasn't reached until 1927, 123 years later.

  Three billion happened in 1960, only 33 years later (and that was after WW2 wiped out great chunks of the population)

  Four billion was hit in 1975, the world's population had doubled in 48 years. The older members of this board will remember the year well.

  Five billion. 1986. The world added one billion people in a mere 11 years.

  Six billion everyone remembers. It was in 1999.

  In 2011 we will hit the next milestone and then we'll be at 8 billion by 2024, as long as the UN's projections for improved birth control measures in third world and developing countries come to pass, otherwise it will be reached a year earlier.

  Those of us in the western world (in particular the North Americans) consume great gobs of resources. There is little doubt if the world's population suddenly consumed like we do, it would result in the collapse of the planet. That hasn't happened yet, but there's another profound dynamic at play besides rapid population growth and that is consumerism. People in the two most populous countries of the world are just starting to consume the way we do. They're not even close yet, but that is their ambition. The American Dream has become the Chinese Dream and the Indian Dream and that's why their economies are red hot while ours cool on the back burner. We are pushing the envelope, and they aspire to be like us. The world's consumption of resources has shifted into high gear and there are clear indications it is about to go into overdrive.

  Here's an economic indicator. Wonder why big screen TVs have come down so drastically in price this year? It's because they're everywhere. Companies are making more and more of them to meet demand, and the more units produced the greater the dilution of fixed costs until the total production cost of the unit comes down to its variable input cost. Big screen TVs are made with components supplied by contractors, which produce their component parts under the same fixed cost/variable cost model as the people assembling the TV - in other words, cost to produce is cut to the bone.

  But all those TVs take resources to make and, more importantly, they also consume energy resources. Every additional big screen TV that finds its way into every household in the western nations and in the developing world chews up electricity. That means more hydro, more oil, more natural gas and more nukes. And that's just TVs. We are consuming resources, many of which are not renewable, at a greater and greater rate.

  So. How do you think the world's going to change in the next, say, 50 years?

  http://www.metafilter.com/94959/We-Are-Running-Out-Of-Helium-and-Its-Worse-Than-You-Think

  http://www.worldometers.info/population/

  http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption