BettyHumpter

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  Sinthetic human life. No parents needed except the stem cell donor.

  by Fisherman in

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  with this process, there is no spe&m, no egg, no conception but a developing life.

  what is the world coming to?.

  https://abcn.ws/3qozsjj.

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  BettyHumpter

  "Don’t know if what this guy says it’s true.
  Anybody know?"
  
  About as true as any other middle aged drunk with a popped collar rambling about nonsense at the local bar......
  
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  Useless Majors

  by Sea Breeze in

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  i was passing through a very liberal college town recently during rush hour.

  so, i decided to stop for some refreshment at a fine-looking establishment and wait for traffic to die down.

  a young waitress waited on me who probably could have been stevie nicks twin when she was young.

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  "Persons like myself, with 40+ years of industry experience, repeatedly get sidelined by some whippersnapper straight out of university"
  
  I've never been in the military but have often wondered how a similar scenario plays out in the minds of enlisted men vs junior officers. You know, some sergeant who's been in for 20 years, perhaps even in combat, is technically subordinate to a 22 year old second lieutenant fresh out of college.
  
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  Useless Majors

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
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  i was passing through a very liberal college town recently during rush hour.

  so, i decided to stop for some refreshment at a fine-looking establishment and wait for traffic to die down.

  a young waitress waited on me who probably could have been stevie nicks twin when she was young.

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  Doubtless someone far above my pay grade ended the Millennial generation birth year in 1996, and not at the start of the ne Millennium.
  
  I suppose 15 years seems about right if the idea of generations having any sort of common cultural identity via shared experiences growing up is gonna make sense. Someone born in 1981 had completely different experiences growing up than someone born in 2000. The 1981 person's childhood/adolescence would have been pretty much indistinguishable from mine. (born in '73)
  
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  Useless Majors

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was passing through a very liberal college town recently during rush hour.

  so, i decided to stop for some refreshment at a fine-looking establishment and wait for traffic to die down.

  a young waitress waited on me who probably could have been stevie nicks twin when she was young.

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  BettyHumpter

  "Here is a group of Millennial "
  
  So i'm guessing 'Millennial' is just gonna remain a blanket term going forward when referring to young adults? Because the oldest members of that generational cohort are over 40 now...
  
  I was under the impression that Gen-Z had graduated to the role of whipping boy when old people want to complain about the young. :)
  
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  Useless Majors

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was passing through a very liberal college town recently during rush hour.

  so, i decided to stop for some refreshment at a fine-looking establishment and wait for traffic to die down.

  a young waitress waited on me who probably could have been stevie nicks twin when she was young.

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  BettyHumpter

  Yeah. Googling, the numbers are kinda all over the place. I got this which seems more realistic:
  
  University of Texas at Austin
  

  Average annual in-state costBefore aid$28,928After aid$18,350Aid includes grants and scholarships from the institution, state, and federal government Source: US Dept of Education (IPEDS)
  
  Your link was this:
  

  For Academic Year 2022-23:

  Texas Residents: $78,232. Nonresidents: $90,742.
  
  I'm guessing the University assigns a value for the years tuition, which almost no one actually ends paying the full cost for. (Except for maybe the super rich who can buy a way in thus funding the schools endowment). First one that comes to mind would be George W. Bush. He had a 2.35 GPA in High School yet attended Harvard. Without the family money, he would have been attending the local community college with those grades.
  
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  Useless Majors

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was passing through a very liberal college town recently during rush hour.

  so, i decided to stop for some refreshment at a fine-looking establishment and wait for traffic to die down.

  a young waitress waited on me who probably could have been stevie nicks twin when she was young.

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  BettyHumpter

  "Looks like it is a little over 300K (In-State tuition) for a Bachelors degree at this university."
  
  Uhhhhh....what the heck school is this? Harvard doesn't even cost that much.
  
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  Knocking on schoolmates doors

  by BettyHumpter in

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  i left the jw's shortly after i graduated high school.

  but when i was still at home i'd get dragged into door to door every saturday morning without fail unless it was pissing rain.

  i can remember always being anxious to know what territory my group was assigned.

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  Another thing I remember...in my days in school, the Pledge of Allegiance wasn't done, so it was never an issue like in the 1950's or whenever they used to do that. Well, it wasn't done until the fall of 1990, that is. My junior year in High School. Iraq invaded Kuwait, we sent 500,000 soldiers over and suddenly the pledge was back every morning in homeroom. Thanks alot Saddam.
  
  I think I sorta put a hand near my heart and half heartedly said the words. I didn't believe the religion at that point, I was just biding my time in that respect, I just thought the whole pledge thing was dumb. But I also didn't want to make a spectacle of myself.
  
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  Knocking on schoolmates doors

  by BettyHumpter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i left the jw's shortly after i graduated high school.

  but when i was still at home i'd get dragged into door to door every saturday morning without fail unless it was pissing rain.

  i can remember always being anxious to know what territory my group was assigned.

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  BettyHumpter

  I left the JW's shortly after I graduated High School. But when I was still at home i'd get dragged into door to door every saturday morning without fail unless it was pissing rain.
  
  I can remember always being anxious to know what territory my group was assigned. I remember some Saturdays i'd look at it and think Oh Crap, I have tons of schoolmates in that neighborhood. I had several strategies. The first was to try to find another group that perhaps had a rural territory where I was unlikely to run into anyone and ask my parents if I could accompany that group instead, "to get to know them better".
  
  If that failed, I spent the ministry doing calculations in my head. Trying to figure when I would volunteer to get outta the car so that the rotation had the lowest chance of it being my turn when we got to someones house I knew.
  
  The worst were when we would enter a subdivision and walk around on foot. In that case if we were approaching a classmates door, my hail mary was to say "you take that one and i'll take the one next door, we'll get more done that way".
  
  If the person I was with declined, I just hoped no one answered the door.
  
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  Is here anyone who would like to understand the Revelation book better?

  by Kosonen in

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  2. friends

  hello friends, i have been writing comments to the revelation book and posted them on my site.

  so far i have gone through revelation chapter 1 to 14.. i invite you all to take a look.

  https://www.comejesus.net/comments-to-revelation-1.

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  BettyHumpter

  @Kosonen:
  
  What do you feel gives you a particularly interesting insight into the first century authors' magic mushroom trip?
  
  Wikipedia gives me a nice summary of how it's broadly interpreted in different ways by Catholics, the various Protestant sects, The Latter Day Saints, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Egyptian Coptic Church etc. I already know how it's interpreted by the JW's.
  
  Have you formulated a new interpretation that's wildly different from any of the faiths listed above?
  
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  Useless Majors

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was passing through a very liberal college town recently during rush hour.

  so, i decided to stop for some refreshment at a fine-looking establishment and wait for traffic to die down.

  a young waitress waited on me who probably could have been stevie nicks twin when she was young.

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  @Seabreeze:
  
  "Within 5 years of graduation" is probably correct for those numbers. That lines up with people I know who did Liberal Arts, English etc. But it doesn't line up with where they are now.
  
  One close friend of mine after sort of drifting for a few years after college went to work at a bank, moved up and is now some sort of regional manager making well over 6 figures.
  
  I'm giving that example to state my opinion that I find that kind of stupid. Not that i'm not happy for my friend. I am. What I find stupid is how often certain routes of advancement are closed off or made much more difficult for those without a degree. If you want to be a chemical engineer you need a degree obviously. But what the heck does an English degree have to do with a career in finance? Yet she's told me that it's extraordinarily unlikely she would have even been considered for higher level promotions without a 4 year degree. Not a degree related to finance or economics, just a degree. It's a ridiculous state of affairs in my opinion.
  
  Also, im not trying to say "only hard science degrees are worthwhile" It's more irritation with the "degree madness" of alot of corporate america.