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  Bitcoins: A new world without green backs.

  by Fisherman in

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  the us army backs up the green back and saudi's oil must be paid in dollars so that every nation that uses oil must buy money from the us to pay for oil.. is it advantageous to print money or is digital money the upcoming economy?.

  also, are bitcoins legal?

  i read that market for them is soaring.

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  TerryWalstrom

  I have no money to invest. I am, however, a curious person by nature.
  With nothing to risk--yet curious--I set about watching PRO and CON videos over a period of one month.
  It took me quite awhile to adjust.
  Explanations which are glib and off-the-cuff aren't informative; mostly dismissive.
  But the deeper I got and more familiar I became with the TOTAL story, purpose, and function of BitCoin--the more convinced I am we are on the threshold of a Singularity--A BLACK SWAN event--a new paradigm which has become a NECESSITY because of corruption in our Banking System and unenforced laws and few (if any) prosecutions in High Finance.
  Our monetary system is broken and it cannot be fixed. Those who could do some good cannot budge the corruption.
  Having said all that...
  The best tutor to watch and listen to is a fellow who lets you know who is opposing BitCoin while he's laying it all out for even a newbie to understand. I've chosen this video among all the ones I've watched.
  (Incidentally, my son put 100$ into BitCoin a few months into 2017.
  He quickly became a True Believer.
  Prudently, he removed his hundred and let his profit ride (now that he won't lose it).
  As of this moment, he is "wealthy" beyond any previous standard of reckoning.
  Your mileage may vary, certainly.
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  Watch start to finish. It rewards your attention.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP9-lAYngi4
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  Inside Story Logo

  by MrHappy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this may have been covered before but have you noticed the logo design of the "inside story" on this months video the 143rd gilead graduation.

  it appears as a pyramid containing the masonic symbol of the compass and square, with this reflected below the text.

  the art pieces on the shelf are also interesting and maybe someone has some thoughts on these.

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  TerryWalstrom

  I see what 'strongly suggests' (to my mind familiar with the history of Russell) a pyramid, with the indicated 'air vents' as a subliminal echo of their origins.
  
  Surely THEY see it too.
  
  
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  Inside Story Logo

  by MrHappy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this may have been covered before but have you noticed the logo design of the "inside story" on this months video the 143rd gilead graduation.

  it appears as a pyramid containing the masonic symbol of the compass and square, with this reflected below the text.

  the art pieces on the shelf are also interesting and maybe someone has some thoughts on these.

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  Oh Lord. Have Mercy. "His Fightin' Name was..."

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  a huge man to my right leans in close.i catch the scent of stale menthol cigarette smoke.he’s he speaking to....(i look around)...to me?

  i snap to attention, listening.“my fightin’ name was spyder.”strangers talk to me.

  it’s a thing.

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  TerryWalstrom

  MissFit, thank you. I write because I must.
  Getting people to read what I write is more difficult :)
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  Oh Lord. Have Mercy. "His Fightin' Name was..."

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a huge man to my right leans in close.i catch the scent of stale menthol cigarette smoke.he’s he speaking to....(i look around)...to me?

  i snap to attention, listening.“my fightin’ name was spyder.”strangers talk to me.

  it’s a thing.

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  TerryWalstrom

  “MY FIGHTIN” NAME…”

  
  A huge man to my right leans in close.
  I catch the scent of stale menthol cigarette smoke.
  He’s he speaking to....(I look around)...to me?
  There is nobody else. I snap to attention, listening.
  
  “My fightin’ name was Spyder.”
  
  Strangers talk to me. It’s a thing. I’m that guy.
  As the fellow commences his sprawling narrative I squint hard and appraise who I see.
  
  Spyder is an enormous man--a man of color.
  Lines in his face are crinkled paperback novels. He spins tales of punishment.
  Puffy eyelids and yellowing sockets blink at bright sunshine outside.
  His age?
  I’m clueless.
  My guess? At least a hard millennium. Jurassic era.
  LIke me, an old dinosaur. THAT is why he’s telling me.
  Telling me what?
  
  

  Spyder gazes down at his fists like a jeweler admiring a diamond setting.
  His voice is the bottom of a deep pit--the tolling bell at judgment day.
  
  “These my bodyguards.” He clenches and unclenches his hands.
  
  

  He torques his left wrist. There’s quick movement, a flash of the sleeve.
  The meaty bulk snaps short a half inch from my chin!
  I’ve flinched before I know what happened.
  
  “This one I calls ‘Oh Lord.”
  
  It floats in front of a me-a glint of light on a dark river.

  
  

  His other meat-piston whistles at a blur in place of the first.
  
  

  “And this is ‘Have Mercy.’
  
  He laughs at his joke, then, turns back to the table and sips coffee.
  The slurp rattles a bit.
  
  All is silent. For awhile.

  Spyder turns again. He’s facing me. I steel myself.
  
  (Here we go…)
  

  "You alright--ya know."

  (Is he asking me or telling me?)
  
  “You too.” (What else should I say?)
  
  His body laughs. The face is sad.
  The old man turns away and sips.
  
  

  Finally, he rises on staunch limbs and exhales a long slow moan.
  Not a weary sound.
  Heavy construction equipment moving tons of stone. His machine is engaged.

  
  

  “That’s what I’m talkin’ about!” He puts music into the words.
  
  

  He shambles to a vehicle, disappearing like a magic trick.
  Dead solid perfect. The image of his presence shimmers inside my head.

  “What just happened?” I ask myself aloud.
  
  
  All I’ve got from "Spyder" is what I’ve told you.
  And there it is.
  
  

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  Mormon Apostate discovers he must now refute his former apologist stance

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is an otherwise honest and intelligent fellow (former mormon) who 'woke up' and realized all his previous efforts at providing apologist material needs to be refuted--by himself!the parallel to jw thinking and our old life vs new life approach to debunking former sincerely held beliefs finds quite an amusing mirror, imho.check it out.

  i think you'll see your time repaid handsomely.http://mormondiscussions.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=45012.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Eventually, all of us (regardless of the religion of origin) walk the same path--but only if--we're willing to be wrong when facts and evidence do not support our beloved views.
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  Mormon Apostate discovers he must now refute his former apologist stance

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is an otherwise honest and intelligent fellow (former mormon) who 'woke up' and realized all his previous efforts at providing apologist material needs to be refuted--by himself!the parallel to jw thinking and our old life vs new life approach to debunking former sincerely held beliefs finds quite an amusing mirror, imho.check it out.

  i think you'll see your time repaid handsomely.http://mormondiscussions.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=45012.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Here is an otherwise honest and intelligent fellow (former Mormon) who 'woke up' and realized all his previous efforts at providing apologist material needs to be refuted--by HIMSELF!
  The parallel to JW thinking and our Old Life VS New Life approach to debunking former sincerely held beliefs finds quite an amusing mirror, IMHO.
  Check it out. I think you'll see your time repaid handsomely.
  
  http://mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=45012
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. physical

  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

  cc.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Here is how I see it; no sentence is inevitable.
  The author decides.
  If I'm writing a difficult thing, one engendering a struggle, I simply rethink the sentence and rewrite it.
  Problem solved.
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  What phobias do you have?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so this is just a general question.

  call it curiosity.. what sort of phobias do we have?

  heights?

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  TerryWalstrom

  I'm morbidly afraid of spiders, having been once bitten as a child and having experienced a coma.
  I'm morbidly uncomfortable having other people decide what's best for me or those who are important to me.
  It's not quite a phobia, but I really find myself on my last nerve when somebody coerces me to do something I don't want to do. It has never ended positively.
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  If mathematics teacher made a mistake, would it mean mathematics itself is wrong!

  by venus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many people point to the irrationality in the depiction of god by the religions and their scriptures, hence jump into the bottomless pit of atheism.

  in either camp, god is not a factor because religion is only a means that misrepresents god, hence religionists themselves are atheists (literally, those who live without god).

  it is like saying there exists no earth because you found out your friend who taught earth is flat is wrong; or it is like saying mathematics itself is wrong because you found out your mathematics teacher made a mistake.

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  TerryWalstrom

  Math is a tool of thought which is represented in a particular manipulation of agreed-upon procedures which produces exact agreement in results IF and ONLY if the procedures (operations) are exactly followed.
  Religion is exemplified by practitioners whose eisegesis is subjective and non-reproducible, as well as incompatible with every other exegete referencing Holy Writ in whatever translation may be proffered.
  
  In other words, Math isn't Math without the rigor of Logic and Rules.
  Religion creates meta-rules and no logic.

  Creation begins with ZERO (invisible God and no universe) and divides everything by that Zero.
  In Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell grappled with the meta-nature of set theory and discovered what religious minds have never acknowledged.
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  As Russell tells us, it was after he applied the same kind of reasoning found in Cantor’s diagonal argument to a “supposed class of all imaginable objects” that he was led to the contradiction:

  The comprehensive class we are considering, which is to embrace everything, must embrace itself as one of its members. In other words, if there is such a thing as “everything,” then, “everything” is something, and is a member of the class “everything.” But normally a class is not a member of itself. Mankind, for example, is not a man. Form now the assemblage of all classes which are not members of themselves. This is a class: is it a member of itself or not? If it is, it is one of those classes that are not members of themselves, i.e., it is not a member of itself. If it is not, it is not one of those classes that are not members of themselves, i.e. it is a member of itself. Thus of the two hypotheses – that it is, and that it is not, a member of itself – each implies its contradictory. This is a contradiction.
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  In Mainstream historical Christianity:
  God is 3 persons in one.
  In Math:
  A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. - Georg Cantor
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  *Mathematical induction is a technique used in proving mathematical assertions. The basic idea of induction is that we prove that a statement is true in one case and then also prove that if it is true in a given case it is true in the next case. This then permits the cases for which the statement is true to cascade from the initial true case.
  (Religion considers proof impudent and faithless.)