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  The Poor the Wealthy and the Middle Class

  by Simon in

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  the poor spendthe middle-class savethe wealthy invest.

  the unique circumstances of the lockdown and stimulus checks has highlighted these differences in stark ways.. on one hand, you have jumps in sales and valuation of companies like foot locker and nike, as people spend their "free" government money on sneakers.

  they blow it on useless tat.

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  "Money can't buy happiness" is so misunderstood and often misused.

  The poor use it as a kind of "well I didn't want it anyway" sulk - y'know like "bitter (not bitter)"

  The rich use it to diminish the real value of it, to take the heat of themselves, insinuating that they are not happy (if they are not, having money is unlikely the source of it).

  The reality is that money can't buy happiness but it can buy all the things you need to be happy, and especially avoid the stress and worry about money that often makes people unhappy.
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  JWs who are now paying the price of following the cult.

  by mickbobcat in

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  my in-laws are two such people.

  people who pioneered and did not work and try to save, instead they made just enough to get by and waited for the end to come.

  now my mil is in palliative care and the state is paying for her keep, my fil lives in a dilapidated home and can not keep it up.

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  All these fiscally reckless people potentially end up being a burden on relatives - so even those who didn't fall for the WTS baloney end up being impacted by it
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  Which Proverb fits best when encountering Ideologues.

  by peacefulpete in

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  proverbs 26:4. do not answer a fool according to his folly,.

  proverbs 26:5. answer a fool as his folly deserves,.

  that he not be wise in his own eyes.

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  The proverbs are not "my" proverbs

  So you didn't write the bible then? Well duh ...

  Whatever point you think you're making, it boils down to the bible being a badly written book full of contradictions.

  You want us to look for value in those contradictions or debate whether they exist or not? It seems pretty clear to me that they do.

  Jumping to a completely different bible verse is neither logical nor addresses the topic, but it is a frequent tactic of the bible-thumpers who again think that liberally sprinkling bible quotes and references somehow says something about anything.

  You can make any book say anything you want by doing that.
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  The Shat Heard Round the World

  by Simon in

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  did it really happen?

  i keep seeing it on twitter .... did biden really ... have a bathroom accident ... in the vatican?.

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  And Google has blocked Poopy Pants Biden from being auto-filled or popping in the suggestions and both Facebook and Twitter are hiding the number 1 trend unless you actively search for it.

  As soon as the media companies start running cover for something, you know it's real.

  Whether it's his sons laptop and drug escapades or his shitty kecks - if they are trying to cover it up then it's a stamp of "real".

  How embarrassing it must be to have him as a nations leader.
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  Which Proverb fits best when encountering Ideologues.

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  proverbs 26:4. do not answer a fool according to his folly,.

  proverbs 26:5. answer a fool as his folly deserves,.

  that he not be wise in his own eyes.

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  So let me get this straight, you don't want to debate any particular topic, you want to debate about debating itself?

  Sounds like a waste of time to me and both of your proverbs make a huge assumption - that the other person is always the fool, and never you.

  Maybe focus on specific topics, using facts and logic, and less of the mumbo-jumbo bible philosophy that tries to be profound but if you think about it is just self-contradictory gibberish.
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  King Richard

  by Rattigan350 in

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  2. entertainment

  there is this new movie out called "king richard" staring will smith playing serena and venus williams father.

  i don't know much about this, but i heard that they were raised by jw parents.

  how does that factor into the movie and their growing up aspiring tennis stars?.

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  I can't wait for white Roots.
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  The Shat Heard Round the World

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  did it really happen?

  i keep seeing it on twitter .... did biden really ... have a bathroom accident ... in the vatican?.

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  It's a sad state when it's just so believable.

  "No, not now, not now, concentrate, not now ... oh heck, is it safe? Is it a fart?"

  
  
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  The Shat Heard Round the World

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  did it really happen?

  i keep seeing it on twitter .... did biden really ... have a bathroom accident ... in the vatican?.

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  Simon

  Did it really happen? I keep seeing it on Twitter ...

  Did Biden really ... have a bathroom accident ... in the Vatican?
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  The Poor the Wealthy and the Middle Class

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  the poor spendthe middle-class savethe wealthy invest.

  the unique circumstances of the lockdown and stimulus checks has highlighted these differences in stark ways.. on one hand, you have jumps in sales and valuation of companies like foot locker and nike, as people spend their "free" government money on sneakers.

  they blow it on useless tat.

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  Simon

  Because being wealthy does not guarantee you happiness.

  Being wealthy buys you time and energy, to focus on whatever you want. Whether the things you chose to spend those in make you happy or not depends on you and them.

  Don't own a house? Sit down with a banker (a real banker, not a mortgage broker) and work out a plan to get into a house.

  Another option now is to buy tokenized real-estate, so you can get exposure to an asset class even if you don't want to or can't purchase a property outright.
  

  The thing that stops most people is they fact that it takes twenty years or so for this to start showing significant gains. You have to be ready to play long ball, this won't show immediate results.

  Yes, and the key thing is that instead of you working for the money, the money works for you.

  It's a real pity schools are so utter crap at educating people about the few basics that are needed to dramatically improve your life chances.
  
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  Help with 1975 please

  by jhine in

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  i answered a question on quora about jw flip flops .

  i mentioned, amongst other things , the 1975 debacle.

  how witnesses were told that armageddon was coming in the fall of that year.

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  I remember JWs being on the radio talking about it, and the whole family gathered round listening to it and nodding, certainly not saying "What is this rubbish? We haven't been told this?!"

  Their own figures show the "bump" they got from this teaching as, like most doomsday cults, publishing a real date once in a while can focus the minds of people who were maybe on the fence.