Posts by breakfast of champions

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Ferguson Shooting (Is my thinking on this all wrong.......)

by out4good3 in

i think everyone here can agree that walking down the street, even in the middle of the street, is not cause for having a clip emptied in your ass......... i can understand how the black community would be outraged by the injustice of seeing another black man dead in the street at the hands of the police under mysterious circumstances....... i hope that i'm not succumbing to the attempts to assinate the already well impuned character of the dead man...... however.

i can't help but think that this could all have been avoided by exercising the proper discretion with fore-knowledge of the disadvantages people of color have when they are dealing with law enforcement in the united states.

it is not as if this disadvantage has only since recently came to light.

breakfast of champions

Against my better judgement I will comment on this, although I am not really taking a particular stance:

In social psych class we learned about experiments done with regards to race/prejudice/violence.

What they found in this one simulation/experiment was that white police officers will shoot a "black suspect" with a greater frequency than a "white suspect."

They also found that black police officers will shoot a "black suspect" with greater frequency than a "white suspect."

I am not entirely sure what this means, but it doesn't looks good for "black suspects."

Honestly (and this is just my gut) I think the "divide" that has emerged in the US is more along socioeconomic lines rather than racial, i.e., a black kid (or any kid, for that matter) simply has a better chance of encountering violence of any sort being in a "poor" neighborhood as opposed to a more "wealthy" neighborhood.

I'm not an expert on this stuff though.

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Anthony Morris III is really Anthony Esposito?

by VM44 in

can anyone confirm that gb member anthony morris iii's real birth name is anthony esposito?.

if it is, that would explain why it has been hard to find his military record, or any other biographical information about him.. .

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breakfast of champions

VM44 - My wife came home FUMING after the Zoned Visit and said,"Who is this Anthony Morris guy?"

She typed the info into google and found what you did: evidently he was born Anthony Esposito and was adopted.

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Earth rotates the wrong way. ( no one even knew that )

by kairos in

i've heard it mentioned a few times.. the rotating earth graphic in the background on jwtv rotates backwards.. i've mentioned it to the active and they are not concerned at all.. my response is, "it's something they are portraying that cannot be more wrong".. .

two gb members have stood in front of it telling us to trust them.

how can you when they think the sun rises in the west.... .

breakfast of champions

You know, for a bunch of guys who claim to have JC as their "Big Brother," you would think HE would have filled them in on which way the world turns.

Hell, even the soap opera got it right!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aI_0lXJU6A

Awkward indeed!

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Earth rotates the wrong way. ( no one even knew that )

by kairos in

i've heard it mentioned a few times.. the rotating earth graphic in the background on jwtv rotates backwards.. i've mentioned it to the active and they are not concerned at all.. my response is, "it's something they are portraying that cannot be more wrong".. .

two gb members have stood in front of it telling us to trust them.

how can you when they think the sun rises in the west.... .

breakfast of champions

College Smollege.

What the hell do those physicists know.

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Earth rotates the wrong way. ( no one even knew that )

by kairos in

i've heard it mentioned a few times.. the rotating earth graphic in the background on jwtv rotates backwards.. i've mentioned it to the active and they are not concerned at all.. my response is, "it's something they are portraying that cannot be more wrong".. .

two gb members have stood in front of it telling us to trust them.

how can you when they think the sun rises in the west.... .

breakfast of champions

I'm upsetted by the fact that they don't portray it as flat!

Oh gosh, I absolutely love this!

Thanks for pointing this out KAIROS!

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Thank Jehovah for Ipads!

by stuckinarut2 in

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friends

seriously, i am so thankful that the org has officially allowed the use of ipads and tablets at the kingdom hall!.

it is the only thing that keeps me sane while sitting there....being able to log on to this site while pretending to follow along with the program!.

i think i would have literally lost my mind without this lifeline!.

breakfast of champions

You must also thank Jehovah for wireless internet.

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Zoned Visit: Who's Calling Who Bloodguilty?

by breakfast of champions in

so at the zoned visit, tough tony remarked how inactive ones had "blood on their hands" for not warning the unsuspecting inhabitants of earth of their impending doom at armageddon.

could it be true that the society is at least equally bloodguilty for the same offense?.

if there was one way watchtower could warn the entire inhabited earth of their sudden destruction all at once, it would certainly be on the internet.. and the perfect opportunity to warn the entire inhabited earth of the impending destruction would be to answer a "frequently answered question" in an honest and forthright manner.

breakfast of champions

So at the Zoned Visit, Tough Tony remarked how inactive ones had "blood on their hands" for not warning the unsuspecting inhabitants of Earth of their impending doom at Armageddon. Could it be true that the society is at least equally bloodguilty for the same offense?

If there was one way watchtower could warn the entire inhabited earth of their sudden destruction all at once, it would certainly be on the Internet.

And the perfect opportunity to warn the entire inhabited earth of the impending destruction would be to answer a "frequently answered question" in an honest and forthright manner. The question is:

"Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Feel That They Are the Only People Who Will Be Saved?"

The answer, according to jw.org is:

"No."

Really? "No"?

You can read the rest of their answer here at http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/who-saved/

So you have the absolute perfect opportunity to warn the entire friggin world that they are about to perish unless they become a JW -- and your answer is "no."

We know they're capable of being "honest" and "forthright". . . . . Hell, our witness friends and family are extolling Tony as a "straight shooter". . . . . at least when it comes to the tightness of your pants.

Yes pants. . . . we're gonna be honest about pants. But 99.9% of humankind dying at Armageddon. . . . . well. .. . . .

So, who is really bloodguilty here?

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Changing Careers: The difficult path to starting over.

by adjusted knowledge in

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friends

i became employed with my current company after high school in 1995. i'm a manager and make decent income for the area i live ($65k).

it provides for the basic and some extra.

i have a wife and a daughter.

breakfast of champions

Yes.

After working almost twenty years at my job, I left.

At the time I had full medical benefits, full tuition assistance, a 401k with an 80% employer match, and was making between $75-$80k a year. Not bad for a HS education.

When I left, I had already started college PT because I knew I didn't want to this for the rest of my life.

The game changer was 1) a modest "incentive" from the company to leave and 2) my professor (one of the top in the field in the world) said it would be a shame to let my mind go to waste. She said, "You owe it to yourself to do this with your life."

So I guess my recommendation would be: if you haven't started classes, start. See how you like it before you do anything drastic, and then go from there.

For me, the signs that it was time to "move on" could not have been clearer. It was almost a non-decision.

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