i just saw ww-v with brad pitt the other night (i know i am behind the times, still trying to catch up on movies i missed the last 30 years) and it struck me- why are we always fighting zombies?
is it just easier to justify the carnage?
it seems to me, that the most horrific carnage seems to be neighbor-vs-neighbor.
Thanks for the cliff notes. I have a lot of catching up to do. I skipped the whole vampire thing though. Hope that is ok. Do the non-zombies (the good guys?) always win or at least have some kind of happy moment at the end of the movie?
Any movies/series where it doesn't work out that way? I ask, because other than in Hollywood, I can't see it turning out that way.
Thanks SaintB. I might change my user ID.
i just saw ww-v with brad pitt the other night (i know i am behind the times, still trying to catch up on movies i missed the last 30 years) and it struck me- why are we always fighting zombies?
is it just easier to justify the carnage?
it seems to me, that the most horrific carnage seems to be neighbor-vs-neighbor.
I just saw WW-V with Brad Pitt the other night (I know I am behind the times, still trying to catch up on movies I missed the last 30 years) and it struck me- why are we always fighting zombies? Is it just easier to justify the carnage? It seems to me, that the most horrific carnage seems to be neighbor-vs-neighbor. Doesn't even have to be along ethnic lines, just us-vs-them. Civil-wars seem to be the most brutal.
What is the root cause? Pent up rage, manipulation? How is this going to play out in a world with an increasing population and dwindling resources? Your thoughts.
we checked on a new senior facility, just to get in your must shell out $200.000.00 and.
don't get that back.
two hundred thousand up front and payments from $2500.00-$5000.00.
I hear you Cangie. $422 would be a great price to pay if you were still independent and didn't want to put up with someone else's darlings. But as you stated, what comes next? Perhaps some compromise?
How did people manage this situation before health insurnace and private care became part of the equation?
i took the most recent video on "obey" and edited it down to its core.
here tony explains that the decisions of the faithful slave are arrived at "collectively" but are not a "collection" of man made decisions.
it would be comical if it weren't so sad.. tony video.
i apologize for the self-serving nature of this post.. i first said this to a lovely person here to encourage her and add a bit of humour to a harsh situation, but i've fallen in love with my own words, ha, and would like to use a variation of what i said to her as my new signature quote.
it's a bit long, and could become tiresome eventually, but do you forum members think that you might like (or could tolerate, heh) seeing this on my posts?.
.... "may god, or the universe, or airborne spaghetti, or energies or wavelengths or frequencies, or quantum particles that somehow attract things to us, or telepathic manipulation by aliens -- bless you.
we checked on a new senior facility, just to get in your must shell out $200.000.00 and.
don't get that back.
two hundred thousand up front and payments from $2500.00-$5000.00.
we checked on a new senior facility, just to get in your must shell out $200.000.00 and.
don't get that back.
two hundred thousand up front and payments from $2500.00-$5000.00.
Not to make light of the situation - I helped my wife take care of her mother until she died at 94 (the mother, not my wife). Her mother was post-stroke and couldn't speak and was partially paralized on her left side. Near the end, my wife finally gave in and put her mother in assisted care, but took her back out in a week. Granted, it was not a $6000/month facility. I honestly thought my wife was going to die from the stress before her mother died.
So, my question is: what did people do before there were independent living facilities for seniors?
well, in an effort to completely rebel against all things 'watchtower', i decided that since i gave all my years since leaving school to the borg, and listened to their admonition to avoid 'higher education' i have just started... right from bottom.... today i took a 2 hour maths test to see if i would be eligible to go on a course to re-take my gcse maths exam (this is the qualification you study for here in england in the last 2 years of compulsory schooling from ages 14-16).
back in may 1988 i did no revision, and didn't study hence a complete flop of all exams.... and seeing that 'education' wasn't on the agenda back then, and has always been warned against, (unless it was perhaps trade oriented) it was wiped from my mind... yep a jw mind-wipe occurred here, i've decided to go back to school, just for the challenge of it, f**k the org, i might have wasted decades swallowing their philosophy, but i don't have to let that past control me now... the test was 'really' hard going... and i don't think i passed, but can still get on a more basic course to start me off if i don't get on the main course.... the tutors were so warm and enthusiastic about me taking up the study at aged 43, it was so nice to hear someone get excited that i'm going to study (never in 29 years with the borg) .
i've also learned something else; jw's talk about the 'highest education' that the watchtower supposedly teaches... bullshit, that 'call and response' crap that you do in watchtower study and other meetings, that parroting, has got to be the lowest form of education there is, you don't use your brain, you don't have to analyse or think or deduce or calculate, or use savvy... it's just call and response, and nothing more, pure repetition, answer what's in the paragraph.
Glad to hear about everyone taking advatage of available educational opportunities. If I was back in the states, I would be going to local CC for basic chemistry classes. Right now I am doing MIT on-line courses (free but helps to buy the text book).
Thankfully, when I was getting recruited, nobody discouraged me from completing my degree program and for the last 30 year I have been employed in software development in telecommunications industry.
Still, it could have been much more. I never went back for advanced degrees or got in involved with 'worldly' networking events. No after work basketball games with the boss or bonding experiences with the team outside of work. My loss.
per ohmyjw over at r/exjw:.
i assume that other countries also got this letter to boe dated 1st september 2015 about sending additional information along with s-10 form (annual cong.
report).
Ok. I happen to be in Poland and haven't been to a meeting or out in service for over a year. My wife is still free to have her friends over and on occasion a few do come, but so far I have only gotten the 'we miss you' message and as I mentioned in another thread, she did give me a copy of the 'return' tract. She didn't ask if I had read it.
If I get any invites for a discussion about why I'm inactive, I'll let you know. I suspect they will probably just ask my wife. And she will probably just say that I have gone insane (rants about GB/607/global flood/pedophiles/etc).
i saw the original video months ago but forgot which video it was, but i read in another thread somebody claiming that video was removed.
is that true?
i couldn't find a thread talking about this.
