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  What I wish I had known at 18

  by NewYork44M in

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  the financial times had an article with the above question.

  the author asked various people to answer the question.. https://www.ft.com/content/169705e4-b4dd-11e8-b3ef-799c8613f4a1.

  while i was not interviewed, if i was asked this question i would say that i wish i had known in 1975, when i was 18, that i was raised in a cult and that the continued focus on armageddon over my lifetime was a cruel joke.

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  I wish I'd known that we live in the most peaceful, politically secure and financially rich time in human history. That I could have earnt enough through education and a half decent job to have pursued painting and travelled the world from a young age.

  People are always going on about how bad the world is, obviously it was a big part of my upbringing too, but never before in history could an ordinary person, without huge wealth or nobility actually decide what to do with their life. I wish I'd known that.
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  Blueblades Pacemaker Update.

  by Charles Gillette in

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  well,to all who had wished me good health before i went for my procedure,thank you.

  9/14 pacemaker was inserted below my collarbone successfully.check up will be 9/18.. so, since 2012 when i was 67,i had open heart surgery to replace my aortic valve with a bovine tissue valve.

  now at 73, i have an implanted pacemaker with two leads,one for the upper chamber, right atrium and one for the lower right chamber,ventricle of the heart.. so, my heart beats should now be steady and not in and out of afib.. both of my brothers died of heart attacks.

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  That's great news Blueblades! Rest up and recover, it sounds like you're doing well.
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  Saint Jeremy ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  ^^^ he cares about *oppressed minorities.

  *except for south african farmers ... egyptian copts ... saudi shia ... iranian sunni ... syriac christians ... the yazidi of iraq ... kurdish people ... the ainu of japan .... .

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  Taxpayers are to be asked to help fund a £20bn a year injection of extra cash into the National Health Service by 2023-24 that will pay for thousands more doctors and nurses,

  Yes I remember this back in June. Taxpayers will be asked to fund extra cash into the NHS?? I also remember the electorate's reaction. What, hang on, this money for the NHS is coming out of leaving the EU surely? Not out of our pockets!

  Don't quote the Guardian in one of LUHE's threads, he hates it you know.
  
  
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  Saint Jeremy ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  ^^^ he cares about *oppressed minorities.

  *except for south african farmers ... egyptian copts ... saudi shia ... iranian sunni ... syriac christians ... the yazidi of iraq ... kurdish people ... the ainu of japan .... .

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  If claims were made and people didn't verify them, then the media failed in their job and responsibility.

  That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard. If the government can't deliver on promises, that's nothing to do with the media.

  Who is whining about Brexit? Pointing out this government made promises about NHS payments it had no right, knowledge or ability to make merely to get into power is simply my democratic right.
  
  
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  Saint Jeremy ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  ^^^ he cares about *oppressed minorities.

  *except for south african farmers ... egyptian copts ... saudi shia ... iranian sunni ... syriac christians ... the yazidi of iraq ... kurdish people ... the ainu of japan .... .

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  Democracy, giving people a choice? You mean telling the electorate millions saved from EU payouts will be handed over to the NHS? Deception of the most despicable vote-grabbing kind, they'll be lucky to have a penny left after the Brexit divorce payment.
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  Saint Jeremy ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  ^^^ he cares about *oppressed minorities.

  *except for south african farmers ... egyptian copts ... saudi shia ... iranian sunni ... syriac christians ... the yazidi of iraq ... kurdish people ... the ainu of japan .... .

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  He cares about votes, that's it. The rest is just empty limp dick rhetoric.

  You mean as apposed to the Tories who only got into power by promising a referendum on EU membership and got us into the whole Brexit mess?
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  wt on education..

  by zeb in

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  i have just watched the glass smashing on the wt video on education.. please consider these experiences from the opposite side of that "coin".. i have heard young ones say out-loud on the mike in the kh that "jehovah is my special friend.."these ones who were at the top of the wt 'tree' pioneering, putting in the hours etc but, it followed that soon saying that pivotal statement they dropped their pioneering, faded, picked up the girl/boyfriend and suffered being dfd.. so where did their wt "education" leave them?

  it left them as young adults naive to the world, unskilled, with no qualification to offer any employer and having to replace their former family/associates/friends with new ones.. ( dont get me going on shunning) in some cases with little success as we have read here where they moon about for months or longer unable to emotionally heal after the leaving or df'ing and also others with such a turn around they would never have believed it possible... there was a wt that related how a brother (!

  ) followed an interest in history and left the truth.

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  I started reading history when still in. Then after leaving I had only completed my first year of a distance learning degree when I got a temporary job on the strength of my studies, in a technical library working with scientists. After that I had a baby then went back to work when she started school. The reference I got from that first job when I started my degree got me the job I still have now! Education is valuable.
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  My Dead Mother Called Me This Morning!

  by minimus in

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  i woke up a little after 5 am this morning and looked at the clock and realized i had more time to sleep so i fell right back asleep.

  i had this dream that i was letting my girlfriends dog out of her house and the next scene i was at work and i got a phone call.

  the room i was in simply had a table and phone it was very bare.

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  Interesting Minimus, thanks for sharing. l'm glad it made you happy.
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  Tired of mom's proselytizing pal..Guess who !!!!

  by James Mixon in

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  i love dear abby advice columnist.. abby "dear not interested, no rule of etiquette demands that you listen to b religious diatribes".

  today paper..

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  What's this thing with really long dresses? Sometimes I see them on FS and I can't believe how long their dresses are now, almost down to the ground.
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  Unsung Movie Villains

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  we all know the big movie villains get a lot of credit and appear in multiple movies - the shark in jaws, darth vader, and before them dracula, wolfman, frankenstein's monster, etc.. but there must be plenty of villains that get forgotten.. i thought clarence boddicker (played by kurtwood smith) was fantastic in robocop (1987) - a real psychopath.. another character who springs to mind is vilos cohaagen (ronny cox) in total recall (1990), i thought he was very good too.. obviously these and other movie villains do get some critical acclaim but they don't get their own franchise and they rarely get universal praise.. maybe 'unsung movie villains' is the wrong phrase but hopefully you get what i'm trying to say!

  xd.

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  Tom Hiddlesons's Loki in all the Thor films. So bad he's good.