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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  SydBarrett

  So why are populists "mushheads"?

  You don't think the woke ideology is dangerous?

  
  It's possible for one to be fed up with both ends...
  
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  Poll says Gen Xer's would like to return to pre-internet

  by SydBarrett in

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  according to a new harris poll shared exclusively with fast company, most americans would prefer to live in a simpler era before everyone was obsessed with screens and social media, and this sentiment is especially strong among older millennials and gen xers.. asked whether they would like to return to a time before humanity was “plugged in”—meaning before people had wide access to the internet and smartphones—77% of americans age 35-54 said they would, the highest of any group.. .

  what would you consider your ideal level of the internet?

  as a gen x'er, i would not want to go back to the per-internet world, but i would like to go back in some specific technologies.

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  According to a new Harris Poll shared exclusively with Fast Company, most Americans would prefer to live in a simpler era before everyone was obsessed with screens and social media, and this sentiment is especially strong among older millennials and Gen Xers.

  Asked whether they would like to return to a time before humanity was “plugged in”—meaning before people had wide access to the internet and smartphones—77% of Americans age 35-54 said they would, the highest of any group.

  
  
  What would you consider your ideal level of the internet? As a Gen X'er, I would not want to go back to the per-internet world, but I would like to go back in some specific technologies.
  
  I loved smartphones when I got my first one in 2009 or so, but for the most part, i'd gladly return to landlines and an answering machine. I miss being able to leave the house and be unreachable till I got home. Yeah, you can turn off your phone or just not answer or reply to texts, but it's not the same. People now have the expectation that you will be reachable in a reasonable amount of time.
  
  I also miss the quirkiness and individuality of the late 90s internet, before it got so corporatized. Yeah alot of those self created webpages were garish and buggy, but it was fun.
  
  Modern social media is a scourge.
  
  On the plus side, if you're job searching, the modern world is much better than the days of physically mailing resumes or even driving around hand delivering them.
  
  I guess my ideal would be the very early 2000's. The internet still had personality. Flip phones were available and affordable if you felt you needed one for an emergency, but people weren't chained to them. It was becoming affordable for average income people to ditch dial up and get broadband. I got my first 1.5MPS broadband connection in late '99 if I remember correctly.
  
  What are your thoughts?
  
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  "Independent" Scotland joke!

  by BoogerMan in

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  humza yousaf, scotland's first minister, said: "scotland, i'm afraid, is suffering because we are not independent.

  " https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66012834.

  try telling that to scotland's tourists and many island communities: the ferry services are dying month by month, and the two new overdue & over-budget ferries justify a serious legal/criminal enquiry.. any bunch of incompetents who can't provide a small country with a ferry service and a legally binding contract to build 2 new boats - having controlled scotland since 2007 - has no credibility in claiming they could run a country!.

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  SydBarrett

  "That's my concern about the obsession with devolution too."
  
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  "Independent" Scotland joke!

  by BoogerMan in

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  humza yousaf, scotland's first minister, said: "scotland, i'm afraid, is suffering because we are not independent.

  " https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66012834.

  try telling that to scotland's tourists and many island communities: the ferry services are dying month by month, and the two new overdue & over-budget ferries justify a serious legal/criminal enquiry.. any bunch of incompetents who can't provide a small country with a ferry service and a legally binding contract to build 2 new boats - having controlled scotland since 2007 - has no credibility in claiming they could run a country!.

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  Anyone from the UK care to explain what the scottish independent people are upset about and how they feel separating will improve their life?
  
  I know how one has to be careful of slippery slope arguments, but i'm gonna make one, or ask one anyways.
  
  Lets say that in the US Civil War, the south won and successfully became an independent nation with a capital in Richmond. Then 30 years later, Georgia felt they were getting a bad deal and themselves left and became a former state, now a small nation.
  
  Then 30 years later, the people of Savannah get upset at how the government at the capital in Atlanta is running things, so they leave and now there is east and west georgia. Then the people in college park in Atlanta get upset at the Mayor for seemingly favoring Buckhead and the city of Atlanta is split in 2. Then the people on the North end of Buckhead feel like they are being shafted by the South end. Then a few years later, the people on arden road feel they need to be a separate nation from those snobs over on dover road.
  
  Then the Johnsons at 11 dover road get all upset at how the Clarks across the street at 14 are doing things...
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  SydBarrett

  "Maybe you scrolled past the WoMD / Iraq War discussions? It was like fight-club at times"
  

  
  I remember reading all those discussions very well.
  With 20 years of hindsight, it's amusing and also depressing to go back and re-read all the right wing chest thumpers of 2002-2003 so certain about how urgent it was to invade Iraq.
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  My Prediction Regarding New Space Telescope That Will See Back to 100 Million Years From the Big Bang

  by Sea Breeze in

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  a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.

  wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.

  that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.

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  SydBarrett

  The James Webb Space Telescope continues to support a Creation model

  
  

  
  
  You're one whacked out loon, for sure.
  
  Happy July 4, though.
  
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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  SydBarrett

  Darwin’s first theory that it was a Big Bang

  
  
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  The currently missing 'Titan' submarine. What do you think?

  by SydBarrett in

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  any opinions are just speculation, but my guess, being morbid, is that there was not a hull breach and implosion (although that would have been the most merciful fate for them), but instead the amateur level of building this thing meant that it lost power and communication and got itself tangled in the titanic's wreckage or is sitting on the actual seabed with no way to release ballast to resurface.

  terrifying.

  what's your gut feeling?

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  SydBarrett

  "along with PRESUMED HUMAN REMAINS):"
  

  
  Whatever remains they find will be something like this mixed with seawater:
  
  
  
  
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  American Healthcare: How your system works

  by Diogenesister in

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  canada has universal healthcare.

  the consensus is that america never will.

  can anyone explain why, please?

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  SydBarrett

  "" If anyone can go in and get free healthcare, what reason would they have to take care of themselves?"
  

  
  So as not to get sick. Are you saying you just let yourself go because you have insurance? What a silly comment. I have insurance and I take care of myself because being healthy in a reward unto itself. Ideally, i'll never have to use my insurance for anything major. Why do you assume others would be different?
  
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  God and Unicorns

  by Sea Breeze in

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  atheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.

  all they had to do was read their bible to know that.

  job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.

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  "It offers no comfort at all to Iron Age creation myths."
  

  
  But that's what they do. Any discovery that's not immediately understood becomes "They don't understand how that works, so it was God." Once it is, they move on to the latest mystery. Since it's unlikely we'll ever have full omnipotence, they can play this game till the heat death of the Universe.