^ There's a new movie idea. The Human Ouroboros.
schnell
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If You Could Ask the GB Or One Of Its Members...
by Cold Steel in...one question about anything and get a straight answer, what would it be?
historical, philosophical, theological, eschatological, anything.
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Planning my next steps...
by schnell ini work a little over 40 hours per week, but i recognize that all good things are due to end.
i actually got to meet my company president this week, and she's a very nice lady who is very nicely offering $5000 yearly scholarships to her employees and their families.
i don't have a degree, though i did get a nice college experience before i dropped out, and i'm considering online university.. for starters, i could probably afford the computer science undergrad program at university of the people.
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I work a little over 40 hours per week, but I recognize that all good things are due to end. I actually got to meet my company president this week, and she's a very nice lady who is very nicely offering $5000 yearly scholarships to her employees and their families. I don't have a degree, though I did get a nice college experience before I dropped out, and I'm considering online university.
For starters, I could probably afford the Computer Science undergrad program at University of the People. There's a lot of automation coming to my line of work, and I'd be interested in what hybrid opportunities a CS degree could get me, if any. My wife could use the scholarship for her own degree, and I am genuinely serious about selling plasma to help pay for school.
More artistically, writing a book sounds like a lot of work-fun, and I'd love to pursue Aikido if I can manage the time in a dojo. Tai chi, too.
Our kids are going to university. Period. No questions. They'll grow up with a regard for religion from their mother, as did Marcus Aurelius, but they will go off and learn for themselves about the world. I'll even start investment accounts in their name so they don't have to worry as much about cost when they're 18.
I still remember learning the truth about evolution in a basic college biology class. I should never, ever have dropped out.
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Black Mirror White Christmas
by enigma1863 inhave any or you seen the show black mirror?
there is an episode called white christmas.
its based in the future and everyone has this app in their brain similar to a modern smartphone.
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schnell
I will look for that episode, but I've only seen the first and much of the second.
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If You Could Ask the GB Or One Of Its Members...
by Cold Steel in...one question about anything and get a straight answer, what would it be?
historical, philosophical, theological, eschatological, anything.
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Circular reasoning. Very bizarre.
Insight on the Scriptures is littered with circular reasoning. Their whole foundation is logical fallacy.
Not much of a rock to build on, is it?
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Hey, remember when Family Guy had a Watchtower?
by schnell inhey, remember that one time on family guy when the evil monkey in chris's closet became a jw?.
i remember thinking, pssht, they'd never do that.. hey, remember when they did it?.
i am dying to know if someone awake at bethel in the art department or whatever saw that episode and recommended this cover a few years ago.
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schnell
That's a classic too!
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Hey, remember when Family Guy had a Watchtower?
by schnell inhey, remember that one time on family guy when the evil monkey in chris's closet became a jw?.
i remember thinking, pssht, they'd never do that.. hey, remember when they did it?.
i am dying to know if someone awake at bethel in the art department or whatever saw that episode and recommended this cover a few years ago.
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schnell
Ha! Well, if this is what we're doing, you can't beat a classic:
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schnell
Ehud is my personal favorite.
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"There is a friend for everyone in the corporation's clutches"
by schnell in"there is a friend for everyone in the corporation's clutches" -- brokeback watchtower.
i just needed to make a separate thread about this.. forced friends are not friends.
as the great marvin gaye said, "smiling faces tell lies.
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"There is a friend for everyone in the corporation's clutches" -- Brokeback Watchtower
I just needed to make a separate thread about this.
Forced friends are not friends. As the great Marvin Gaye said, "Smiling faces tell lies." Once you discover that without belief in the Watchtower, you don't actually have much in common and cannot stand the untenable arguments of your old "friends", it's really over.
Once you understand that the congregation's political correctness requires forgiveness even of pedophiles and criminals, you're really forced to square a circle and possibly put yourself or others at risk.
No, thank you. If that is "love" to anyone else, you can keep it.
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They Offered Their Son Willingly—To Bethelite Brothers
by betterdaze inthey offered themselves willingly—in new yorkricky, a construction project manager in hawaii, was invited to serve as a commuter bethelite to assist with the warwick project.
his wife, kendra, wanted him to accept the invitation.
however, they had a legitimate concern: the welfare of their 11-year-old son, jacob.
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schnell
It is truly amazing how blind someone can be to what's going on. Also, the comments have not been ridiculous, though ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
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How do you feel about the expression "The Truth"?
by stuckinarut2 init's amazing how the expression "the truth" has become such an ingrained term used by witnesses.. "we have 'the truth'".
"is he 'in the truth'?".
most here have found out so many facts about the organisation, and felt the effects of being "gut-punched" as we realised these facts.. so how do you feel about the expression "the truth" now?.
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what is truth?
Hey there, Pontius, wash your mouth out after your hands. 😉
Yes, and to add to your list, mathematicians talk about proof. That's another word that JWs and Bible literalists seem to not understand. Their proof is most often circular reasoning and the logical fallacy that if someone said so then it must be true.
Truth to me is a theory that gives consistent results. I can trust that if I lean up against a giant redwood, it won't fall down. I can trust that if I ignore a mechanical problem, it will not go away. I can trust that if I have 2 of something and you give me 3 more, I will then have 5 of something. I can also trust that if the laws of physics changed at some point in the last 6000 years so as to compromise radiometric dating, then there must be very good physical and mathematical evidence of it.
Hell, I can even trust that if I am only a brain in a vat being fed a simulation of a world around me, that it doesn't matter because this might as well be the real thing. For all intents and purposes and due to consistent results, it is the real thing. If I had a cat, she could view me as a slave and have a whole mythological perception in her head about her little world, too, but I'd still be the one holding her food.