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10-27-2021, 02:23 PM | #196 |
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10-27-2021, 02:34 PM | #197 | |
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Anyway, before writing, I have to imagine what you said just hit the nail on the head. Information just didn't travel as quickly or efficiently. I might be able to explain to someone how to most effectively cultivate a certain crop, but once he tells someone, then that person tells someone, how much of the information will be accurately relayed? It's basically like playing the telephone game across continents. Additionally, you can see why certain places like the Middle East and Egypt were so advanced in the beginning. They're right in the center of this information and trade highway, which had to be an insane advantage. Conversely, certain areas like sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, and the Americas were cut off from the ideas that spread throughout the Middle East, Asia, Europe and North Africa. |
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10-27-2021, 02:38 PM | #198 |
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And boom - the grain market goes to shit
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10-27-2021, 02:42 PM | #199 | |
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Well, if he's a lazy, no good sob, he'll sign the contract and NOT do a damn thing. It buys the kid time and the parents are further frustrated. |
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10-27-2021, 02:49 PM | #200 | |
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All it takes is a major catastrophic event and suddenly everything you worked for in your retirement is lost. It takes so many forms....a major medical event to spouse or children.....a pandemic that makes many jobs useless or obsolete...a catastrophic storm that no one thought could/would occur that no amount of insurance can replace. I never think ill of those less fortunate....we may never know the circumstances that led them to where they are. I don't drink...haven't since age 27....but if something happened to my wife and kids along my path of life I am not so sure you wouldn't have found me homeless and at the wrong end of a bottle. |
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10-27-2021, 04:07 PM | #201 |
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I like your mom.
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10-27-2021, 06:19 PM | #202 |
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10-27-2021, 06:31 PM | #203 | |
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And agreed, it seems like most things would come through the Middle East. So was that what caused them to develop cities first? It would make sense that that would be the case. And then once that happened they now had a big advantage in further developments.
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10-27-2021, 06:35 PM | #204 | |
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Now once you get out of basic training it can be another story but unless you REALLY **** up it still doesn't do much. |
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10-27-2021, 06:38 PM | #205 | |
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10-27-2021, 07:56 PM | #206 | |
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And in fairness, some older folks were sold a bill of goods with SS/Medicare the government is not living up to. What I can't jive with is someone who won't work because...reasons... |
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10-28-2021, 01:36 AM | #207 | |
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10-28-2021, 03:18 AM | #208 |
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Take your step son to a Indian-food buffet for lunch. It could change everything
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10-28-2021, 04:59 AM | #209 |
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I'll just point out that it all begins with a set of rules. You want those new designer kicks, get a job and pay the difference over what we'd pay for a pair. Sass your mom, you get to stay home for a couple weeks. Don't clean your room, whoops, there goes your phone and TV. It doesn't matter how old you are, under Mom and Dad's roof, it's Mom and Dad's rules.
At this point, I don't know if you can make that happen, but you can't go on like this. Whether you have to formally evict him or just put his meager belongings in garbage bags on the front porch doesn't matter, you have to get him away from you and your wife. Otherwise, you're the one that has to cut ties and leave. |
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10-28-2021, 05:58 AM | #210 |
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I booted mine when he was 17.
Be prepared mentally and emotionally. The night I helped him pack was a long night for me and his mom |
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