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  Self Driving Vehicles

  by TD in

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  i was so stoked about the whole idea a few years ago, but am having serious misgivings at this point.. what are your experiences / impressions / opinions?.

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  Car automated system: "Sir, we will not be able to park in the spot you requested due to spacing of the vehicles in front and behind."

  Me: "Do it anyway, there will be a 2 ft space in the front and a 2 ft space in the rear."

  Car automated system: "I'm sorry Sir, but I cannot allow this maneuver. The local jurisdiction says a vehicle must be at least 2 1/2 feet away from other vehicles while parked."

  Me: Hits manual over ride and parks my car the way I want.

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  Me: "Auto car, see that street cart at the next corner? Please run over the cart."

  Car automated system: "Sir that maneuver is not legal."

  Me: Hits manual over ride and wipes out the brochure cart on my next right turn. LOL

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  Me: "Auto car, turn into MacDonald's 1 block ahead."

  Car automated system: "Sir your diet app says you have already exceeded your daily intake of calories today. I will pull into Jamba Juice instead, so that you my have a smoothie."

  Me: "Never mind Auto car, Pull into the next junk yard." (Drops off car and walks to nearest Chevy dealership and buys a pickup.
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  Divorce/Terms of Agreement

  by SFSDGUY in

  1. jw
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  i'm a first time poster and i apologize if this topic has been discussed before.

  when i met my wife she was disfellowshiped and were happy, got married, and had a kid.

  after we had our daughter she got reinstated so her family and her jw "friends" could spend time with our daughter.

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  @SFSDGUY- You wrote -Long story short the JWs have created a void in our relationship and I have filed for divorce for a couple reasons, but I'm worried about the JW upbringing being inflected on my daughter. We are currently in the process of divorce, and trying not to get a judge involved.

  Not getting a judge involved? That can backfire in so many ways. Someone will have to pay childcare. Courts usually do not honor verbal child support agreements, and that's just the beginning. Whether you like it or not the courts WILL get involved. At least do some research man. The consequences of not knowing exactly what you dealing with will knock you down. The cards are stacked against you on both sides. I'd really hold off trusting doing this yourself with a jw soon to be ex-wife, coming out okay and it all working out in the wash. I guess you haven't experienced the 'jw flip a bitch, in a nano second' scenario.

  This makes me sad. I smell trouble.
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  Divorce/Terms of Agreement

  by SFSDGUY in

  1. jw
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  i'm a first time poster and i apologize if this topic has been discussed before.

  when i met my wife she was disfellowshiped and were happy, got married, and had a kid.

  after we had our daughter she got reinstated so her family and her jw "friends" could spend time with our daughter.

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  @carla -You could let her know that if she insists on bringing kids to kh then you will be bringing kids every other weekend to various faiths of the world. One week will be Catholic, Temple, Hindu, Protestant and so forth....

  That move could quite possibly end all contact with his child. I've sen this card played way to many times with disastrous results. Jws do not play fair! At. All !!! At best he'd be labeled as 'under demonic influence', and as such the child probably told to pray privately non stop while in your care. Or something of that nature. What a way to make the child have mental issues on top of navigating mommy and daddy's divorce.

  @SFSDGUY - I have a some questions.

  1. Do you have a family beyond your wife and child, meaning a support system?

  2. Do you realize, based on what you wrote, the gravity of your situation?

  3. What does your wife say with words and between the lines about shared custody?

  4. Has she openly judged you about not joining her in the "truth"?
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  Do You Think Prostitution Should Be Decriminalized?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  in the us there is a bill in the house of representatives to decriminalize prostitution.

  what do you think about that?.

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  LV101-Many are into weekend prostitution and fly in and out of Vegas returning to their home states and careers on Sunday night - hard to believe but it's true. This is nothing new - don't know how it could be decriminalized.

  That is a round about decriminalization of sorts. What I wrote is a round about decriminalization of sorts.

  Why are people talking about "Legal" prostitution? The title says "Decriminalization". Huge difference.

  So are we talking legal prostitution, decriminalization, or both?
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  Divorce/Terms of Agreement

  by SFSDGUY in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm a first time poster and i apologize if this topic has been discussed before.

  when i met my wife she was disfellowshiped and were happy, got married, and had a kid.

  after we had our daughter she got reinstated so her family and her jw "friends" could spend time with our daughter.

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  I'll be implementing this clause into our agreement.
  

  "Accordingly, the Mother and Father shall not directly or indirectly influence (child) so as to estrange them from the other parent. Each parent shall also not do anything that might prejudice (child) against the other parent or impair their regard for the other parent. To further support this commitment, each parent shall do everything in her or his power to prevent any of their respective family members from doing or saying anything might prejudice (child) against the other parent or impair their regard for the other parent."

  How could the courts possibly come up with real "proof" to enforce this? You'd have to literally be a detective 24/7. May as well stay.

  This situation sucks. Unless your wife/ex wife wakes up and leaves the jws she will sneak all around this. Its part of the programming. Which is well in place since she has "gone back to get reinstated so her friends can see her daughter."

  I did what your wife did. Personally, I was dfed for marrying out of the "truth". Went back for my son and support. All it did was drill the brainwashing in even further into my head. Point being, your going to have to get ruthless. It sounds like you may have a glimmer of hope about the possible "honest" intentions or kind nature about jws. The culture breeds and has a certain thinking that once you are out of the immediate picture , you are nothing more than the walking dead, that legally she ,your soon to be ex, will have to let you see your daughter. Twist, the custodial parent may /can and could take you back to court at anytime and come up with her own list of amendments, ect, rendering the "clause" moot. Yet in the eyes of jws its already moot.

  You will have to fight to get anywhere or even remain in a position to see your daughter at all.

  There is however another route, but its drastic and I don't know which country you live in , to see if you could get away with it legally (I'm in the US). It probably would work just about anywhere. I wish I would have done it with my son sometimes. But I learned of it years later. You would have to have balls of steal man to do it. But if keeping you daughter safe from the jws is important to you, because they WILL teach her that you are dead basically, then pm me. May need more content first though.

  Conversely, I don't mind typing it out here if others want to know , that might be in a similar situation. Warning: its all kinds of messed up yet legal in the US at least. I lost my battle due to not knowing I could have done this , doesn't mean others have to lose theirs.
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  Department Store Santa Claus - Do They Still Exist?

  by RubaDub in

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  i remember when stores would advertise that santa claus would be there from 2-4 pm on a saturday or something for several weeks before christmas.

  you would see them everywhere.. do they still exist in your area?.

  maybe parents finally realized that having a drunk guy with a white beard getting his jollies off with young children on his lap was not a good idea.. just my thoughts.

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  @sir82 - Love Cheech and Chong, Just found an old vinyl of C&C at a thrift shop for a buck last night. Anyone seen "The Corsican Brothers" by C&C? That's my favorite.
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  Upon learning of a terminal illness would you return to being a JW to appease your family?

  by NVR2L8 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is an hypothetical question...i am doing well.

  but i was thinking about how my jw family, grandchildren and all will feel when their inactive grandfather dies with no hope of being reunited in paradise.

  of course there would be immediate rejoicing if i came back to the "truth" and a surge of conditional love from the "friends".

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  No, I would rather throw myself into a burning dumpster of elephant shit.
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  Do You Think Prostitution Should Be Decriminalized?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the us there is a bill in the house of representatives to decriminalize prostitution.

  what do you think about that?.

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  Yes I think prostitution should be decriminalized. @ minimus LOL

  I literally logged in to bring this up. And there it was. HA.

  I went to a "red light district" and payed a fee to go into a club. 12.00 dollars. I don't care what anyone thinks. Its been years without human touch.

  The last 4 dates I went on cost 500.00 bucks combined, plus weeks of my time while getting jerked around.( Just not the right kind of jerked. lol ) So 12.00 buck plus gas was great. No names, safe, and no bullshit.
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  The Holidays Are No Big Deal Anymore

  by minimus in

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  you used to hear christmas music blaring on every radio station.

  not anymore.

  people used to jam the roadways and malls to do their christmas shopping and now it’s no big deal.

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  I think its highly dependent on where one lives. I live in a small rural town and most everyone says Merry Christmas.

  The neighboring town is super liberal, I used to live there and now it makes me want to vomit. People there go out of their way to "educate" people about the many 'folly's' of saying Merry Christmas. Its disgusting. The far left sucks ass.
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  Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

  by minimus in

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  she certainly is passionate about climate change.

  🤔.

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  @Cadellin 'as attested to by the mean-spirited and, frankly, ignorant comments on this thread.'

  No, its just not sugar coated for you.

  Even the far left liberals I know, say she's just a tool.

  The other far, far, far, off in fantasy land 'Peter Pan liberals', that elevate dog rights above humans are the ones that hijack this girls brain and use her. Because they do not know any better. That's why they put their dogs in charge by giving them human rights. lol