SydBarrett

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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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  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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  "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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  "" 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

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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.
  
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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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  All the pain will be worth it if Brits no longer have to look at a straight banana in the store and can once again climb up on their roof like the Germans and French apparently can and do constantly.....
  
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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?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  SydBarrett

  "those subjects never rely on bullshit baffles brain’s techniques."
  
  Why do you feel that books on evolution use this technique, seeing as how you admittedly haven't read any?
  
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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

  "I said if something is true it shouldn’t need an overly complex convoluted bullshit baffles brains book written about it."
  

  
  So, my college chemistry textbook could have been condensed into a paragraph?
  
  And calculus could have been presented in the form of a fortune cookie!
  
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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, 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

  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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  ) - 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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  "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!