so today we were late for the meeting as usual.
this is because i take a really bad medication where i literally cannot function in the first part of the day but without it i am even worse.
we got there near the end of the talk and it was in my opinion very anoying.
Supposedly Paul ressurected a guy that felt asleep during a meeting, so gawd must not be very mad at that. Just saying.
I hope you take care of your health first. That is most important. Also, I should have gone to my car and sleep through EVERY goddamn meeting I went in the past 20 years.
Good luck to you.
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Why does Mark Sanderson have a Bible AT ALL? He pulls stuff out of his arse, no need for Bibles. Just wondering.
should i do it this year - which would be the minimum five year interval, or wait until the maximum ten year interval?.
divine guidance is needed..
Just to avoid some confusion here: it is not a "simple formula" where: spare parts x 4 original part costs. Some spare parts are cheaper than the original, produced on the serial line, others are even more expensive to produce. This is also due to the fact that car manufacturers have to store some parts (due to legal obligations) and others are outsourced to third party factories and produced as need arises.
Pretty complicated stuff.
In your case Ferrari has either to look-up if the parts are in some stock (warehousing = real estate space = expensive), or have to be hand made at the factory or have to be ordered by some contractor. Depending on shipping etc. this can be expensive or even cheaper than the original.
should i do it this year - which would be the minimum five year interval, or wait until the maximum ten year interval?.
divine guidance is needed..
james_woods, I love the idea that an apostate like you was blessed with such a beauty. What a sexy car!!!
I can confirm your idea. I used to work for Mercedes-Benz and we calculated that if you would buy every single part of the car through After-Sales (or the spare part system) the same car would cost you 4 x the original price. This is how we would measure prices with other manufacturers. A Lexus would cost the owner almost 7 x the original price. Some manufacturers make money on the original new car, some later down the road (no pun intended)
I will pray to the "Beautiful car gods" for you!
when i learned ttatt i fell in deep depression.
after i came out of the depression i started to look for the right religion.. i wanted desperately to find the "truth" .
i was confused since many top xjw went different paths.
Dear cyberjesus, people do things for different reasons.
Some are here in the spirit of "Never forget". They need some kind of assurance that they are on the "right path" now.
Others are here to help others to "get it" or to lend a helping hand to the ones that are suffering and come here to vent.
For others it's just the habit to come back to a forum that helped them many years ago. Now it is just chit chatting as in any other forum.
Myself, I don't have to find any truth. I construct my own truths. I left 2 years ago, but it wasn't hard in the sense of losing faith or searching for god. Just the loss of family and friends was hard to me. I became a non believer, atheist or whatever you want to call it during my time at Bethel. I never visited a website before I completely lost faith in the Bible as an inspired book. I was an elder and worked closely with people from the Writing Department (Publishing), but many things drove me into a state of not being interested anymore in the "universal questions".
I have found inner peace. I don't care what happens after death sets in (hint: nothing. Atoms go back to the pool of atoms. Nothing special.)
I enjoy the now and the present.
i have facebook.
i probably get on it 4 or 5 days a week, typically to see what's going on with family and those i know.
plus pictures!.
Never.
Deleted my account and absolutely hate FB. Privacy is treated like an old dog bone.
I don't need to be in touch with "old friends and family" I DA'ed myself 2 years ago, all my family is still in. No need to talk to them.
Personal experiences:
- After my DA JW started stalking me on FB, getting information from there and using it against me in the most pathetic ways.
- Found out that I have a new girlfriend (not a Witness ) and started harrassing her, so that she had to block dozens of persons and constantly rejects fake FB friend requests. They made my Life hell for a couple of weeks.
- Guys constantly "hitting" on my gf (she still has an account, I don't care what she does there, but it annoys me).
I also regularly short their stock - making good money with the downfall
I wish there was a way to short Watchtower stocks...
so, i have it on very good authority that a co has recently been disfellowshipped in the uk.
he has just finished serving the north west london area.
i don't know any details but perhaps there is someone who does know what happened.
Usually "cases" with CO's or DO's are handled by Bethel heavies. I used to be one of them, and to add to my sad "career" (not proud of it), I was also part of the group of Bethel elders that got called for "special cases".
Anyway, your bets would be golden ...in all the cases where I had to sit through a JC with a CO it was always because of ...if you know what I mean.
I remember one "funny" case. He was mexican, absolutely and total serious type of guy. Some kind of Witness-Gestapo-man. Single, 40ish something. Then one day a pioneer sister comes to talk to us - single girl, 25 or something - big belly...no way to explain why her belly was growing by the minute! Once she dropped the name of the happy Papa, I almost peed my pants laughing (ok, had to go out to the toilets). Not being rude or something, but she was truly in love with him and they fit together like a silk gown on a donkey.
Funny moments.
Unlike some other JC that robbed my sleep...for years!
one of the most freeing things i've been able to do since fading from the watchtower's tendril like grasp is, "read what i want to" i particularly enjoy historial novels because they entertain and inform all at the same time.
i'm just finishing the first of a trilogy "fall of giants" and there was a paragraph that made me think of the great influence of propaganda machines (probably because i was so influenced by the watchtower) i am hugely aware of it's power to lead people all over the place like the waves of the sea i suppose.. here is the paragraph:.
maud knew the proprietor of the mail, lord northcliffe.
I love reading. Always read everything, no matter how it was seen by the Borg. Got lots and lots of problems with my ex-wife and family (remember one summer reading Browns Da Vinci Code with a group of family members - around 20 people - on the beach and getting hammered because of reading "Satans books"). Nevermind. Love Ken Follet novels, have read them all - with exception of Fall of Giants. I want to read the two sets "in one go" but have limited time now.
As for your interesting thinking process.
Human activities always circle around the same issues - going on for millenia: survival, reproduction and fullfiling some other biological needs. In this sense you can see a "never ending circle" of the same - lust for power, for possessions, for dominance, etc. The same feelings that a Egyptian Pharao had are present in a modern day Fortune 500 CEO.
BUT!
At the same time we have this evolving-adaptive mind system and eventually we change. Some things of the past are not repeated, we learn that burning red haired woman at a stake is not practical to the other more important survival needs. If only for selfish reasons we drop some things and adopt new ones. This is good and gives Life a surprise effect and mystery.
You have media that is releasing dumb, stupid stuff to the masses, but now we also have something like a worldwide, common thinking. "Hive mind" or "Collective consciousness" which is a modern, new phenomenon and changed humanity FOREVER. THIS will bring new variations into the development of humanity - to the good or the bad - we don't know, but humans and biological beings ALWAYS strive for self-preservance and survival FIRST. Sometimes in history this has lead to killing others and sometimes we have avoided wars and mass destruction because our selfish-survival oriented mind knows that it is detrimental to survival and self-replicating.
I don't think "history repeats itself".
i didn't mean being real and trying to heal to rhyme, but essentially, that's why people come here.
and depending on where we are, we need space.
when you leave, one thing you will learn, quickly or otherwise, is what is reality.
Thank you AlltimeJeff. I also wanted to thank minimus for posting here. I love to see the "oldtimers" sticking around. It gives me some sense of tranquility, because you have accompanied so many of us throughout the years and it gives strength to this board. Thank you!
i just wanted to take a survey.
let's not let this get into the same old same old debate of atheism vs belief.
just respond with "atheist" or "believer" or "maybe god exists".
Easy. Atheist.
