Oh Gawd

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  Any stock market investors here?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  if so, i was just wondering if there are any books or steps (classes, etc) you took or recommend to really learn it.

  and for what you recommend, what exactly do you do?

  (long term, short, daytrade, calls, sell high buy low, buy low sell high, etc).

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  Oh Gawd

  I was a professional daytrader for 7+ years. I say, "was", because for the last few years it's been a one way market and easy money to just buy and hold. Plus, trading is a young mans game, imo.

  In my experience, most daytraders blow up their account. I was lucky. I had two friends who traded at hedge funds before venturing out on their own and they taught me everything I know. Without that type of mentorship I can't imagine anyone being successful. I will say there are very few ways to make money at the rate a successful trader can pull it down. I've had many, many 30-50K days in my life and even a few 100K ones. NOTHING beats that adrenaline rush. I've also lost 155K in one day too and 312K in one month. There is no lower low. I still trade a bit if I see a perfect set up, but I wouldn't wish the stress of trading fulltime on anyone. Just writing this I can feel my heart beat pick up.

  I would STRONGLY advise you to not trade period. You would need at 25K to even try in order to avoid the pattern daytrader rule and chances are you will lose it all. If you must try, then I can't stress enough that the money is in shorting low priced, junk stocks. You will NEVER in a million years make money trading AAPl, GE, V, or any other big cap stock. EVER!
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  Does consciousness end with the death of the body

  by givemejustalittlemoretime in

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  apparently, the carvakas in anceint hinduism were materialists and skeptics, arguing that consciousness ends with the death of the body and that therefore we should take pleasure in this life while we possess it and practice compassion toward others.

  they also argued that direct observation is the only certain way to know anything, and thus the existence of supernatural forces and realities cannot be established and must be rejected.

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  A pretty smart guy named Einstien weighed in on this matter long ago. This is a very short, easy to understand, summary of the subject

  http://www.worldscienceu.com/science_unplugged/videos/when-we-die-are-we-really-gone
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  How important do you believe education and knowledge is?

  by new hope and happiness in

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  how educated are you?

  and how great is your vocabularly ect ....?.

  do you think ir right to judge people by how intelligent/ educated they are and how much vocabulary they use???.

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  Caedes, there is actually research to back up your idea.

  Turns out, when asked about a variety of subjects, those with true expertise in one field are far less certain about issues outside of their specialty than the population as a whole. In other words, a window washer is often times more certain about religion than a surgeon. The difference being the surgeon understands what is required to truly become expert in something and realises what he is not. The window washer, not so much.
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  Talking with a nonbeliever...

  by suavojr in

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  in my search for the truth and the burning desire to become free from all forms of dogma and wishful thinking.

  i have approached my first crossroads in my life, should i continue to believe in a god or not?.

  currently i am leaning toward agnosticism, but all the suffering in the world, all the loss and pain in my own life makes it hard for me to simply let go of the idea and hope that at the end justice will prevail, that one day god can make it all good.. .

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  A simplistic response, which s about all this drivel warrents. would be:

  1. The same response could be used both ways. Although the premise itself is false.

  2. There isn't one shred of evidence contained in the answer. It's 100% opinion.

  3. According to the bible, God has violated human freedom many times and his nature is that of a schizophrenic psychopath, so once again the question is based on a false premise.
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  Our Anthony Morris III RANT!

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olkmv_4ajlq.

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  Oh Gawd

  Watching crazy people attack crazy people is a special sort of entertainment.
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  The only thing in this world we have complete unquestionable control over is our own mind, and our own thoughts, and how we choose to frame (or think about) things.

  by RunAsFastAsYouCan in

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  the only thing in this world we have complete unquestionable control over is our own mind, and our own thoughts, and how we choose to frame (or think about) things.. and when you throw away all of the layers of constructs.

  religious mores,.

  agendas,.

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  This is just personnel responsibility 101.

  Two pictures that hang in my office:

  1. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

  2. It is that mark of an educated mind to be able entertain a thought without accepting it...Aristotile
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  Do you have school aged children still going to meetings?

  by KateWild in

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  i have stopped going but my son goes with his dad once a week.

  my son got asked by his dad............... "do you want to be a publisher again?".

  my son replies.

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  My jw in-laws actually won't take my daughter to a meeting because they're afraid of wht she may say..lol!

  My daughter, soon to be 16, told her grandparents she wanted to go to a meeting if they were talking about evolution. You could almost see their eyes light up in excitement...well until she added, "but if they start talking about weird stuff like intelligent design or 6,000 year old Earths, I'm standing up and calling bullshit." Omg! I don't know if it's what she implied or the fact she swore, but I thought they were both going to die. Totally speechless.

  Yeah, the apple didn't fall far from the tree on this one:)...My 12 year old son, on the other hand, could end up being a Branch Dividian he's so damn gulliable.
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  Are you materialistic?

  by Goldiver in

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  why, yes i am according to the jws.

  this is an topic that has always irked me with the jws.

  anyone who had a good paying job and nice things was materialistic.

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  He who dies with the most toys wins!!!...

  Funny story....I got a great lesson in life from my first boss after college. I worked for an investment firm and we were having a contest with another office for the month. I wasn't really getting into the spirit of the "game" and my boss noticed. One day he calls me to talk about how I don't seem motivated to win this silly contest we're having. What he told me probably changed not only my life but my kids life...Hell, maybe my grandkids since my kids learned so early.

  The convesation went something like this:

  Boss: Oh gawd, do you know why it's so important to be a winner at anything you do?

  ME: Because it feels good to win?

  Boss: FUCK NO!..Making you feel good is your mommy's fucking job. The reason you always want to be a winner is because being a loser SUCKS! And in this life there's only two types...winners and losers...You need to decide which you want to be son.
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  why is the org acting worried?

  by Crazyguy in

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  the latest statistics from the year book seems to indicated that no great increase of leavers, so why is the org seem to be acting like thier worried?

  more talks about apostates, more asking for money, more talks about loyalty, etc.

  what's up?.

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  As a non jw with no particular motivation to see them run off the planet, I don't see this as any more than a rallying of the troops. It's a business and they're acting like good businessmen. The Catholics are doing the same thing, rallying the troops, by way of a kinder more humanlike Pope.

  Look, the threat to the WTS, and every religion, isn't websites exposing flaws in their doctrine. It's science exposing the very basis from which they all draw their power as being false. But that's going to take a very long time to play out. Even still every religion, even Islam, is filled with faders so to speak. Those who still associate but don't REALLY believe. And every religion is trying it's best through whatever methods work best for them to maintain their core believers. Sure, the WTS probably has a hard job at hand, but nonetheless, they're all pretty much in the same boat.

  Think about this; you can't teach creationism, the very foundation of religion, in public schools yet that in and of itself doesn't stop everyone from being religious. It should, but it doesn't. Why? I suspect it' because many don't realize evolution is a scientific fact. People hear evolutionary theory and think it's an idea still up for debate when, in fact, it's been a closed case for some time. The only thing up for debate is the how not the if. But I also suspect that alot of people don't care in that they want to be religious regardless of what the truth is.

  So my point is, exposing the truth is not the weapon of mass destruction for religion that some seem to believe. There's people on this site who have abandon the jws but still believe in the bible, for example. They still believe in a fairy tale. They've just exchanged one for another. So no religion, not even the WTS, needs to fear the truth anytime soon. People will believe whatever makes them feel good regardless of truth.
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  wt exposer strikes in rest.

  by JunkYardDog in

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  i in a rest.

  eating lunch an older lady comes in with her 2 kids.

  the lady is fussy and i give her my table.

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  Oh Gawd

  Funny stuff. I would actually love to confront some non-relative jws, but in all my 52 years, living in seveal large cities across the country, I have never been approached in public or had one come to my house. Where do you find these people?...lol