I had 20k buried in my dads backyard by the time I was 21 in ‘84. Not a bad nest egg for working a sales job. Anyway, could be a solid goal for an 18 YO.

I should have spent every penny on a DP on my own house. Didn’t do it and it slowly disappeared.

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For Born-Ins - If You Were 18 Again, What 7 Things Would You do Differently?

by Sea Breeze in

jw
friends

here's mine:.

1. go immediately to college and study construction management.

2. set up an ira and start contributing every year.

Sea Breeze

Here's Mine:

1. Go immediately to college and study construction management.

2. Set up an IRA and start contributing every year

3. Invest in as much income producing real estate as possible

4. Leave the JW's for good, join a local-run church & get saved asap.

5. Write a book about what it was like growing up JW

6. Never Get baptized as a JW

7. Except that I am an orphan and don't feel bad about it. Sh*t happens.

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Virgin or whore complex that Witnesses have made my married life difficult!

by Witness 007 in

so was a virgin when i got married but my wife studied later in life and had been married for 6 months and had two boyfriends in her past.

my strict witness mother hated my wife and thought she was not good enough for me.

she thought all worldly women were dirty whores who cannot keep their vaginas to themselves.

Sea Breeze

“I heard of more sexual affairs in a kingdom hall then work.”

Me too. Totally different than the fake picture they put up front and center.

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My Prediction Regarding New Space Telescope That Will See Back to 100 Million Years From the Big Bang

by Sea Breeze in

a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.

wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.

that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.

Sea Breeze

The early universe looked slightly different than one model predicted

@anonyMous, I appreciate your perspective.

But I do think it fair to say that it looked quite different than expected. The Space Telescope Science Institute leads the science and mission operations for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). (This is a quote from them (not some bobble-head) :

“We thought the early universe was this chaotic place where there’s all these clumps of star formation, and things are all a-jumble,” Coe said.

Here's another astrophysicist quote:

“With the resolution of James Webb, we are able to see that galaxies have disks way earlier than we thought they did,” says Allison Kirkpatrick, an astronomer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. That’s a problem, she says, because "it contradicts earlier theories of galaxy evolution".

But it doesn't contradict a creationist model at all.

The experts are saying that there is hardly an empty space to be found.

field of stars and warped galaxies

Just a week after the release of the first science images from JWST, astronomers were reporting the detection of galaxies at redshift 13, equating to about 300 million years after the Big Bang. Now, a new wave of scientific results is smashing past that record, with some astronomers reporting the detection of galaxies up to a redshift of 20. If true, then we are seeing these galaxies as they existed about 200 million years after the Big Bang. - Space.com

The problem is that there are galaxies everywhere they are not supposed to be. It is impossible for stars, much less galaxies to form this early according to the BB model. The reality is of course that physics do not allow for them to form on their own at all.... but that is a different topic. - "Decades of observations have yielded a variety of empirical rules about how it [star formation] operates, but at present we have no comprehensive, quantitative theory."

All this is a very big deal.

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Stupid WT Q's : Is It Wise or Safe to Keep a Dog? Demons—How Can We Resist Them?

by Sea Breeze in

yes, that is an actual question in the awake magazine.

jw kids lives are already miserable enough trying to obey all the ignorant rules of the wt.. no sports, no school dance, no holidays.... just field service.

as if that isn't enough.... let's take away their puppy dogs too!.

Sea Breeze

You got friends here hopeless1. I think angry people with an ax to grind are attracted to the WT. We don't get to choose the families we are born into. But we do get to choose the family we are born-again into.

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My Prediction Regarding New Space Telescope That Will See Back to 100 Million Years From the Big Bang

by Sea Breeze in

a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.

wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.

that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.

Sea Breeze

Here's my original prediction:

"I would like to make a prediction from a Creation Model:
Instead of finding a big mess as the big bang predicts; they will find fully formed stars, spiral galaxies and black holes. I further predict that scholars adhering to the Big Bang model will use words like: surprising, amazing, uncanny, astonishing, and will admit that stars must have formed far earlier than previously thought."

This recent article from Scientific American uses the exact words I predicted : surprising, amazing in describing my key prediction: stars and galaxies..."formed far earlier than thought".

Article Quotes:

"his algorithm dug through early images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) late one night in July, Naidu shot to attention. It had sifted out an object that, on closer inspection, was inexplicably massive and dated back to just 300 million years after the big bang, older than any galaxy ever seen before".

“Everyone was freaking out,” says Charlotte Mason, an astrophysicist at the University of Copenhagen. “We really weren’t expecting this.”

"The article ends with this:

"Now the question is, if we can truly believe what we are seeing, is it time to reappraise our understanding of the dawn of time? “We’re peering into the unknown,” Mason says."

Laughing.... It is not unknown!

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Stupid WT Q's : Is It Wise or Safe to Keep a Dog? Demons—How Can We Resist Them?

by Sea Breeze in

yes, that is an actual question in the awake magazine.

jw kids lives are already miserable enough trying to obey all the ignorant rules of the wt.. no sports, no school dance, no holidays.... just field service.

as if that isn't enough.... let's take away their puppy dogs too!.

Sea Breeze

Here's another. Everyone knows how irresistible demons are. So, the faithful and discreet slave lovingly wrote an article titled:

Demons—How Can We Resist Them?

Personally, I've struggled with resisting demons and this article was very helpful (not). Does the WT have any similar advice for those that struggle with other hideous attractions?

**** sigh *** The WT is one twisted man-hive.

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Stupid WT Q's : Is It Wise or Safe to Keep a Dog? Demons—How Can We Resist Them?

by Sea Breeze in

yes, that is an actual question in the awake magazine.

jw kids lives are already miserable enough trying to obey all the ignorant rules of the wt.. no sports, no school dance, no holidays.... just field service.

as if that isn't enough.... let's take away their puppy dogs too!.

Sea Breeze

Yes, that is an actual question in the Awake magazine.

JW kids lives are already miserable enough trying to obey all the ignorant rules of the WT.

No sports, no school dance, no holidays.... just field service. As if that isn't enough.... let's take away their puppy dogs too!

Quote:

Dogs—Always Man’s Best Friend?

“Killer Dogs Tear Gardener Apart”

‘Dog Attacks and Kills Girl’

“Dog Kills Baby”

HEADLINES such as these suggest that a dog is not always man’s best friend.....

In the three cases cited above, there was no provocation on the part of the victims to give rise to such vicious action by the dogs. In view of such unwarranted attacks, it is appropriate to ask: Is it wise or safe to keep a dog? What makes some dogs turn vicious? How should one deal with dogs?

--------------------- end quote ---------------------

So there you have it. JW's shamed for enjoying another one of life's simple pleasures..... man's best friend. And just look at the violent graphic language chosen... doubtless to install fear, especially in kids.

What other stupid WT questions do you remember?

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Honest Hearted Ones

by Sea Breeze in

there are certain wt terms that sound biblical but really just puff up the pride.

hundreds of times the wt has used the term honest-hearted in their literature.

it sounds biblical, if for no other reason because we hear it so often in jw circles.

Sea Breeze

“Honest and good hearted” appears once, thanks for that VH7.

Still using it over 330 times in the WT literature is certainly an over emphasis.

Jesus once said that he didn’t call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

That was the contrast I was trying to make.

Sea Breeze

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