Yes Sea Breeze it would have been a good goal for an 18 year old, but if you had begun college at age 18 you wouldn't have had as much time to work from age 18 to age 21. Also you would have had extensive college expenses. As a result at age 21 you would not have had anywhere near $20,000 saved up, but yes later in life the college education likely would have increased your pay.
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For Born-Ins - If You Were 18 Again, What 7 Things Would You do Differently?
by Sea Breeze inhere's mine:.
1. go immediately to college and study construction management.
2. set up an ira and start contributing every year.
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For Born-Ins - If You Were 18 Again, What 7 Things Would You do Differently?
by Sea Breeze inhere's mine:.
1. go immediately to college and study construction management.
2. set up an ira and start contributing every year.
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How could someone at age 18 be in a financial position to start buying real estate?
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Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?
by Roger Kirkpatrick inthesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.
truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.
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Hi enoughisenough. I agree entirely with your post in which you said "the text the use to shun those who disassociate".
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My Prediction Regarding New Space Telescope That Will See Back to 100 Million Years From the Big Bang
by Sea Breeze ina new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.
wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.
that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
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Sea Breeze, the post you made, regarding the quote you made from the Institute, is interesting and informative.
Anony Mous, your post about "the remnants of an explosion" is interesting and informative.
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Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?
by Roger Kirkpatrick inthesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.
truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.
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Did Paul falsely claim to be an apostle of Jesus Christ?
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Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?
by Roger Kirkpatrick inthesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.
truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.
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Om page 3 of this topic thread Vanderhoven7 listed examples which he says draw a contrast between Jesus and the JW governing body, but a number of those same examples can be shown to indicate that Paul disagreed with Jesus (at least with Jesus as described in the Bible). See 1 Corinthians 5:9-11. Therefore the following questions are very relevant to his post. Does the NT contradicts itself? Was Paul a false apostle of Christ? Were some of the narratives about Christ false and/or was Christ wrong in some of his actions and/or teachings?
Notice that in 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 (ASV) Paul tells Christians to "have no company with fornicators" in regards to any man who is "named a brother", likewise in regards to those named a brother who is "an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner". Regarding all of them Paul (at verse 11 [ASV]) says "I write unto you not to keep company ... with such a one no, not to eat."
In 2 Corinthians chapter 11 Paul warns against listening to those Christians who preach a different gospel than his. Likewise the JW/WT's governing body warns JWs against listening to those who preach a different gospel than that of the WT. In verses 13-15 Paul warns against listening to men whom Paul says "are false apostles, deceitful workers". In that category Paul is including those whom Paul says are ministers of Satan who "fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness"; and Paul says "even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light". The JW/WT governing body warns JWs from listening to those whom the governing body calls apostates, even saying that such ones are deceptive liars. The JW governing body is thus acting like Paul, when the governing body says not to listen those Christians who contradict what the the governing body claims is doctrinal truth.
What about Charles Russell and the WT's governing body? Russell publicly debated some of those that were "claiming to be Jehovah’s representatives" and Russell "criticized their interpretation of scripture". The WT/JW and its governing body in there literature (and in their video broadcasts) criticizes many interpretations of scripture held held by numerous theologians (and other teachers) of Christianity. If the WT/JW and its governing body are wrong in those teachings and actions, then what about Paul? Was he also wrong in some of his teachings and actions?
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Do you believe in ghosts?
by Country Girl ini am posting this because i know there are many people that have had experiences that cannot be explained by natural means.
i am a ghost hunter, as a hobby.
my hobby is to disprove ghosts.
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enoughisenough, while you were sleepy you probably experienced a type of dream (or hallucination) - even if it was tactile only. Though you thought you were not quite asleep, you might have been asleep, or perhaps part of your mind was awake and part your mind was asleep.
I never had the sensation of any spirit being cozying up to me.
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Do you believe in ghosts?
by Country Girl ini am posting this because i know there are many people that have had experiences that cannot be explained by natural means.
i am a ghost hunter, as a hobby.
my hobby is to disprove ghosts.
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I did a search on this site to see what people think about whether ghosts exist or not and as a result I found this old topic thread. I never ever experienced anything supernatural - nothing which I ever concluded was supernatural, yet I know people who claim to have had experiences which are hard to explain by naturalistic reasons. I've seen TV episodes in which people make extraordinary claims, but I don't believe that anything supernatural happened. Something else must have happened instead. I think that in many cases people's minds played tricks on them. I other cases I think people have faulty memories of what happened. In other cases I think people outright lied about what happened, or that someone played a hoax on them.
I think a high percentage of people in the world are delusional, in regards to them having hallucinated (or dreaming) and being convinced that they experienced something supernatural instead, such as their thinking they experienced spirit being activity.
I don't believe in ghosts or spirits and I don't believe in an afterlife.The first post at https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/15056/no-such-thing-ghosts might explain a lot of peoples' experiences.
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Is the WT right that the Lamb's marriage is after Armageddon?
by Kosonen inthe wt org claims that the lamb's marriage will happen after armageddon, despite the fact that revelation 19 very clearly says that the lamb's marriage happens after the destruction of babylon the great.
and that after the lamb's marriage he with heavenly armies will go to destroy the wicked.. the wt claims that the order of events in revelation 19 is not really in that order referring to psalm 45. but i can't find in psalm 45 any explicit contradiction to revelation 19. .
paragraph 10 in the following article shows the wt org's view point:.
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ThomasMore, huh? When I wrote of possible past life on Mars I meant that Mars in the distant past (when there was ample liquid water on Mars) might have had microbial life.
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Is the WT right that the Lamb's marriage is after Armageddon?
by Kosonen inthe wt org claims that the lamb's marriage will happen after armageddon, despite the fact that revelation 19 very clearly says that the lamb's marriage happens after the destruction of babylon the great.
and that after the lamb's marriage he with heavenly armies will go to destroy the wicked.. the wt claims that the order of events in revelation 19 is not really in that order referring to psalm 45. but i can't find in psalm 45 any explicit contradiction to revelation 19. .
paragraph 10 in the following article shows the wt org's view point:.
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If the book of Revelation is inspired by YHWH God (hypothetically speaking) does it even matter if people know in advance the timing of the Lamb's marriage? In other words, is there is any benefit for any humans to know such a detail, other than satisfying some curiosity?
People are welcome to contemplate it and to debate it, but lately I have lost much interest in trying to figure out fine (that is, precise) details of Bible and the Apocrypha. Lately I have also lost a lot of interest in even learning particulars of the messages of the Bible and the Apocrypha. I have even lost much interest in a general study of the Bible and the Apocrypha - and in debating various interpretations (or understandings) of the Bible and the Apocrypha. Regarding study of the Bible and of theology, I have returned to my degree of interest of studying them to that which I had when I was 10 or 8 years old. Or, maybe right now it is even less than when I was those ages, since when I was 8 to 10 years old I at least believed in the Bible and in the biblical God (and I became enrolled in the theocratic ministry school at age 8), whereas now I am an atheist and a naturalist.
For me, a large part of that is because I am a scientific naturalist and I thus have a much greater interest in matters which are testable and/or readily observable (such as efforts by NASA to send people to the moon and to Mars, and efforts to discover evidence of possible past life and possible present life on Mars and elsewhere beyond Earth). I am also more interested in learning knowledge which has the potential to benefit me in definite practical ways, such as financially and in regards to health. I now have very meager interest in debating, or discussing, theology with people. But I wish you folks well.
Revelation is a very hard book to accurately and fully understand, even if hypothetically speaking it is true. Those of you who wish to study it, may you enjoy doing so. But, I no longer take the book of Revelation seriously.