SydBarrett

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  a pet peeve of mine

  by enoughisenough in

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  putting this under "friends" because i couldn't figure out where to put it.

  it is very often on here and in ex jw videos, ect that people like to undermine some of those who once we would have called friends.

  there seems to be a view that window washers, plumbers, cleaners, construction workers are somehow less intelligent than those who may be college educated.

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  SydBarrett

  SydBarrett, so you think an engineer is superior to other humans? Just because someone may be an expert in their field doesn't make them a superior human.
  

  
  I'm just not sure what you are blathering about. .A lot of this around this place
  
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  How do you feel about Brexit?

  by SydBarrett in

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  the "independent scotland" thread got me thinking on this.

  there are a lot of brits on this board.

  what are your thoughts on brexit?

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  SydBarrett

  ) - The caveat here for American readers is that "left-wing" and "socialist" in UK and European politics are NOT the same as "communist", despite what you may have been brought up to think from your own electoral system!
  

  
  
  How dearly I wish people understood this.
  
  Even Simon in another thread, lumped Nazis with Communists. It was so hard not to take the bait. But I didnt.
  
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  a pet peeve of mine

  by enoughisenough in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  putting this under "friends" because i couldn't figure out where to put it.

  it is very often on here and in ex jw videos, ect that people like to undermine some of those who once we would have called friends.

  there seems to be a view that window washers, plumbers, cleaners, construction workers are somehow less intelligent than those who may be college educated.

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  SydBarrett

  "I don't think this labeling is in anyway kind or accurate. Are these ones really inferior people? Or are others just Proud!"

  
  

  I have no training in aeronautical engineering. want me to build your airplane?
  
  

  I know of one JW who was in the cleaning business who invented a machine for cleaning and became a millionaire!
  
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  How do you feel about Brexit?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the "independent scotland" thread got me thinking on this.

  there are a lot of brits on this board.

  what are your thoughts on brexit?

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  SydBarrett

  And where is the open debate on whether we want to be involved in this war in Ukraine? We have no choice in the matter we are dragged into it without a vote and whether we like it or not.
  

  
  
  This may go way off on a tangent, but i'm asking as an American curious about the British point of view. Would you feel differently if it were Belgium instead of Ukraine?
  
  Britain has always had this "part of Europe/not part of Europe" thing. Understandable and interesting
  

  
  
  
  
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  How do you feel about Brexit?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the "independent scotland" thread got me thinking on this.

  there are a lot of brits on this board.

  what are your thoughts on brexit?

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  SydBarrett

  The "independent scotland" thread got me thinking on this.
  
  There are a lot of Brits on this board. What are your thoughts on Brexit? Has your life become better? What burden's have been lifted from you? Have there been any drawbacks?
  
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  Covid 19 - New Revelations

  by BoogerMan in

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  this scientist is perhaps revealing way too much for his own good.

  very courageous.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gad8qewjgly.

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  SydBarrett

  [ oh nevermind..... ]
  
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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

  "I even said to a few people that it was a media smokescreen for something else."
  
  Not EVERYTHING is a conspiracy. Sometimes it's just laziness. The sub story was on both conservative and liberal news outlets. Sometimes stories get blown up simply for the gawk factor.
  
  In the summer of 2001 it was GW Bush in office and it was constant "breaking news" about every shark attack. Even a minor bite needing a few stitches. There were no more attacks than any other summer, but for a while it got eyes on the screen every time there was more "breaking news".
  
  Really? Smokescreen for Biden? How would that work? They pull the heads of every news organization of every slant to a meeting at the whitehouse and lay out this nefarious plan? They even get right wing British tabloids to go along with it?
  
  
  
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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

  "That’s the wrong way round. Primates didn’t evolve from hominoids, hominoids evolved from early primates."
  
  Right you are.
  
  But the larger point of common ancestry still stands.
  
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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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

  "People who say the term ape is “unhelpful” if used that way - Coft"
  
  It is unhelpful. Because it gives rise to dumb questions like "if humans evolved from ape's, then why are there still apes?"
  
  Humans, chimps, gorillas are all apes. We are different branches that all descended from a common hominoid ancestor. Go even further back and all primates including monkeys will have a common ancestor. (all apes are primates, but not all primates are apes)
  
  You can keep carrying it back and eventually you'll reach a common ancestor of all mammals. You can carry this even farther back until you reach a common single celled ancestor of all life on earth.
  
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  The currently missing 'Titan' submarine. What do you think?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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

  "Wasn't the CEO one of the passengers on this trip?"

  
  

  Yes. He was the one piloting it.
  
  "the craft was designed to reach depths of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet), where the Titanic rested. But, according to Lochridge, the passenger viewport was only certified for depths of up to 1,300 meters (4,265 feet), and OceanGate would not pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport certified for 4,000 meters."
  
  I dont think he was right in the head..
  
  He was quoted as stating his worst fear was a situation where he could not ascend to the surface. You'd think his worst fear would be descending to 3X the depth the viewport was rated for.