Posts by ColdRedRain

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Canada Finall Wins Gold!

by shamus100 in

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and why do we all get excited over it?

we're a smaller country, and we've been skunked every time getting a gold when the olympics have been here.

wahoo!

ColdRedRain

Will it still be a drought if Quebec decides to secede?

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NFL Pro Bowl should be in Hawai'i

by 5thGeneration in

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any nfl fans think the pro bowl shouldn't be before the superbowl and should definately not be in miami.. it was great where it was giving a little back to hawaiian nfl fans.

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aloha and mahalo..

ColdRedRain

The probowl itself is a farce and it needs to be edited a lot before it becomes what it is supposed to be: An exhibition.

My ideas would be to turn it into a skills competition weekend. Who can kick the longest, who can throw the best ball, who can run the fastest (Wearing knee braces, of course), etc.

If the NFL wants to build up excitement the week before the Superbowl, it should reinstate the Playoff Bowl and put in either the two best at large playoff losers regardless of conference or the two conference championship losers to determine a third place finisher.

For instance, the Playoff Bowl for this year would probably include the Vikings vs Chargers or the Vikings vs the Jets.

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Have you Been Shunned Even Though Just Considered " Inactive " ?

by flipper in

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many of us here on the board are " inactive" , myself included.

have not attended meetings or gone out in service for years.

i haven't now for 6 years + .

ColdRedRain

I was never baptized so I cannot be considered "inactive". I pretty much didn't want to disobey some stupid esoteric JW law and lose all of my friends and family and I didn't get baptized, so I'm not considered an "evil associate" yet. Pretty much, I only talk to witnesses in my area that are either out or disfellowshipped. A few still drink the flavorade and after I pretty much blow away their lifetime perceptions of their childhood religion by showing them the U.N. documents, altered Watchtowers or embarrassing quotes on my palm pilot or laptop proving them otherwise, they tell me not to talk to them anymore, at least the hardcore flavorade drinkers. Those that usually do drink the flavorade probably have some sort of bipolar disorder or are REALLY effing stupid, the smart ones realize that they're in a cult. But then again, few witnesses are genuinely smart, so most of them believe their lying eyes rather than the facts.

A few who are still in try to lovebomb me back into the cult, but soon realize that I don't want back in and ignore me. Some of the elders that know that I know where all the bodies are buried treat me like I'm posessed by the devil. Other than that, they're all douchebags, especially my family. It's like they've drank the flavorade and have some sort of prideful, psychotic arrogance about it. You should have pretty much seen the look on their faces when I told them that the WT was once part of the U.N. They looked like angry villiagers out to burn a witch.

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Nuclear Physicist Becomes Jehovah's Witness Believes Bible & Science Don't Conflict

by frankiespeakin in

i was browsing the wt web sight and i came across this article about a nuclear physicist who became a jw and got baptised the same year he graduated i can't believe it.. he was won over by the logic in the evolution book:.

she gave me a book entitled did man get here by evolution or by creation?

* also, she told my wife that during the bible study scheduled for the following week, they would consider a bible prophecy showing that 1914 was a significant year.

ColdRedRain

Religion and science aren't mutually exclusive, just the JW religion and science.

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"your just happier now because you don't have to be good any more!"

by highdose in

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sorry about the false start.. .

this above phrase was recently said to me by a dub, when i told them that i didn't attend any more and that i felt much better for it.

" i asked " did i have so much agony with low self esteam, self hatred and no confidence while in a religon that is supposed to have gods blessing, and yet when i leave it all those problems dissapear?".

ColdRedRain

A sociopath could be an active member of the organization and follow all the rules the Society puts out. Does that make them "good".

That would make them at least a Ministerial Servant.

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Why Do Americans Live Shorter Lives Yet Spend So Much for Health Care ???

by RubaDub in

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every time i see statistics comparing average lifespans amoung countries, why is the usa so far down the list???.

with susposedly the best healthcare in the world (for those who can afford it), the last study i saw ranked the usa at number 38 in the world.

yet, we spend 4, 5 or even 10 times more per person on health care than most others.. what gives ???.

ColdRedRain

AMEN, VIII! I was going to say that, but you beat me to it. Most Americans are too busy eating their high carbohydrate, high fat comfort food.

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My Republican Friends

by JimmyPage in

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i have a jw friend who i watch sports with.

his wife is not a dub.

he has a daughter from a previous marriage who is gay.

ColdRedRain

Me: A person has as much "right" to healthcare as a car owner has a "right" to a mechanic.
What a crock. One step further with that analogy. When you are at 4 stage lung cancer, put him or her in a car shredder. Tea baggers have no compassion at all.
The analogy I was making was that doctors aren't miracle workers. In fact, a lot of them are kind of stupid and crooked, much like mechanics. A doctor sees you like how a mechanic sees a car, like just another job. If there's something that requires too much hard work, they'll let the car or the person just kick the bucket. The truly smart only go to a mechanic because their car has something catastrophically wrong with it. A a tuneup (Or physical) are easily affordable.
Typical Repug. talking point. I am sure that if you were in that situation, you would never think differently.
I was in that same situation before. I nearly died because of it. It took some common sense to save my life. A long time ago, I ate a half bag worth of unhulled sunflower seeds. Shells and all. The thing stuck in my system and when it came time to come out... well, let's just say that I now knew how Barney Frank feels after his wife is on vacation. And speaking about that term "Teabagger", last time I remembered, isn't your side the one that's for "equal rights for gays"?
Dx? You mean Rx as in a prescription? There are crooks in all business. Have you seen the padded bills from hospitals administering an aspirin to a patient? Outrageous.
Hahaha. A DX is simply shorthand for "Diagnosis". Doctors make wrong DXs all the time. The less talented the doctor is, the more wrong the DX will be. When you have a system that will create an artificial demand for doctors, you'll get more doctors with little talent flooding the market and giving wrong DXs. Another anecdotal case in point was my grandmother who lived in a foreign country that also had gubment health care. Also, they pad those bills because they know some schmuck of an insurance company's going to cover it. That schmuck of an insurance company, if UC is passed, is going to be you and all the taxpayers in this country.
"Glad you've got Medicare."
Want my Medicare? No real doctor takes it anymore.

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My Republican Friends

by JimmyPage in

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i have a jw friend who i watch sports with.

his wife is not a dub.

he has a daughter from a previous marriage who is gay.

ColdRedRain

You do realize that medicine is more of an art rather than a skill Much like other arts, a person has to have the time, energy and the fetting to hone those skills and arts. An industrial artist that doesn't have the skill and ability to perform any other art usually gets little to no business and few people trust that industrial artist, or they're vetted in medical school.

Universial healthcare turns these artists into technicians, which doctors and nurses aren't.

Now, if we start endorsing universial healthcare, medical students are no longer going to have to fear failing their courses because the supply of doctors and nurses would need to meet the demand of patients and they'll be "passed through" because there will be a sudden need for doctors. Future students will see this as an easy way to become a millionare with no chance of getting fired. That's when the fun starts happening. After there's a huge glut of doctors that's larger than the demand with little skill, you will have the government start funnelling patients to the less skilled doctors, because after all, the government almost never fires a worker.

Then there's the reality of how most Americans won't put down their effing pizza, chips and McDonalds, opting to eat "Real food". Most Americans who eat "real food" don't realize the fact that the most prized of American foods became popular because they gave enough calories to workers working hard, manual labor jobs. We've evolved past the "real food" Most of us are working desk jobs. An anecdotal story: When I eat with people from da burbs at Old Country Buffet, the salads, broiled fish and steamed vegetables never get touched but the fried chicken is razed ad repeatum. Walk around any mall, baseball game or amusement park and you'll see enough lard to lubricate all the Amtrak trains in the country. Now, think about having to pay for ALL of their health insurance, and you'll see another reason why universial healthcare shold NEVER pass in this country.

A person has as much "right" to healthcare as a car owner has a "right" to a mechanic. People have to stop thinking that these technicians in lab coats aren't miracle workers, they're simply people using educated guesses to determine what's wrong and right with your body. They're not always right. Case in point, I had a friend from my Asperger's support group that was diagnosed as a schizophrenic with antisocial personality disorder because the idiot doctor didn't know the symptoms of Autism. He later went to a better doctor that was familiar with Autism and he got reDXed. Sometimes, they just give you fake diagnoses so they'd just get extra money from the insurance companies to pad their salaries. Now, imagine if they just make up fake DXes to suck up taxpayer money. Can you imagine how much money they can suck from joe taxpayer with fake Dxes?

Buy catastrophic health insurance if you really need a doctor. If else, just try to lead a healthy lifestyle and eat healthy. Stay away from red meats, smoking and fatty foods, exercise one hour a day and stay away from too many carbs. Ride your bike to work if you live in the middle of a city. So what if some hick in an SUV makes fun of you? He's old and is probably bitching about how they stopped playing Boston on the local Oldies Rock station and they're now playing Pearl Jam instead. (True personal story) If you're poor, it won't kill you to eat some beans, PAM stir fry, tortillas, homemade pea soup, brown rice and greens instead of eating that crap fried stuff you get at the corner market. So what if it's not "real food". It's food. And it won't cause you to get a heart attack.

If you're chronically ill/have some sort of disorder etc and you can't get a job, there's a government program for that. In fact, I'm on that same government program. It's called "Social Security". Right now, it's going insolvent but we can still save it if we adjust the collecting age to 72, allow people to privitize some of their SS savings and put it back into the pot after an x amount of years and allow able bodied but mentally disabled people to start working menial jobs at a lower wage than healthy workers. All of that could happen, but the libs out there would start whining about how we're "exploiting the disabled" or "giving our hard earned social security money to the evil rich fatcats in Wall Street".

Oh, and the threat of Universial Healthcare scared one of my hospitals into not taking my Medicare insurance anymore. Thanks alot, libs.

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