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Posts by fader
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35Calling on all of you for support and prayers or energy for me!
by Sunnygal41 inhi, everyone.................well, the shite has finally hit the fan...........i'm meeting with the superintendent, head of personnel and my boss today at 1:00 over the "comment/incident" of february 25, 2004. i will have union representation with me........my union steward and the president of the union.
the comment was personally inappropriate and i'm sorry it ever came out of my mouth.
the only defense i have is that i was angry at the time and stressed with some heavy personal stuff.
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How should I respond 2 a scam?
by badboy in.
i have receiving letters from switzerland,different localities saying psychic ability 2 chose the right lottery numbers if i send money 2 a swiss address.. how should i respond?
do such people think i am a sucker?
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So throw them away!!! It's not that hard! If you write them back it's basically the same principle as the e-mails. All you're doing is confirming that they have a valid address/e-mail address. They can then sell that information to others, and you'll be inundated with crap. I remember when I lived in the US I got crap all the time, menu's from Chinese restaurants, offers for oil changes, whatever. I just threw it out. If you enjoy receiving junk then by all means reply. They'll add your name to a list, sell the list and you'll get more crap.
BTW, writing in all caps is considered the equivalent of shouting and rather rude.
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How should I respond 2 a scam?
by badboy in.
i have receiving letters from switzerland,different localities saying psychic ability 2 chose the right lottery numbers if i send money 2 a swiss address.. how should i respond?
do such people think i am a sucker?
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Mary:
I wouldn't even respond to 419 scams like the one's you mentioned. Once you do they will just e-mail you more because they then realize they have a valid e-mail address. BTW, you would not believe the sheer number of idiots that fall for these things. I deal with 3-4 cases a week of American's who actually believe this crap!
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what's your favority JW reference from a movie or TV ?
by itsallgoodnow in.
mine is from friday, the movie with ice cube, where a couple of jw ladies wake up ice cube's character's family one morning and there's some mouthing off, and you wouldn't believe the nasty words coming out of these sweet looking old "sisters".
hilarious!.
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I have to agree. Friday is the absolute best. I first saw that movie right when I was starting to fade (first movie I ever saw with my husband, and it was *gasp* R-rated!)
It's the first scene of the movie, the whole family is asleep. We hear loud banging at the door. Two elderly 'sisters' (one of whom used to play the grandmother on Apartment 227) are on the front steps. The oldest child, played by Ice Cube, gets up, and answers the door:
Sister (Watchtower in hand): Gooooood mornin suh, are you prepared for the return of Jehova, cause if you not!
Ice Cube: *Looks at sister's, bewildered, slams door in their faces.*
Sister (to the door): Well fuuuuck you then, half-dead motha-fucka. C'mon sista!
And they walk off.
It's particularly funny for me because I used to go out in field service with a regular pioneer in my cong (she was so cool!) She's out now too. She introduced me to Life of Brian. Another story, I guess. Anyway, she and I used to basically act like that. Someone would shut the door in our faces, we'd mumble, "f*ck you a$shole, have fun at Armageddon" and then go off and drink coffee.
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My Elder Friend Told Me That An Elder Questioned Him About Associating With
by minimus inwith me and that perhaps i should be viewed as "bad association".
funny thing, the same elder bastard called me at work to say how much he missed my "smiling face.
" my elder friend said," i said to myself, i'd rather associate with him anyday, even if you think he's bad association----than you!
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minimus:
Why would you understand if your elder friend shunned you if you were DFd? It's not scriptural and it's not christian.
just my $.02
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Are you going to the memorial
by lillost ini was asked by my mother today "are you going to the memorial this year".
i declined most graciously and said thank you for thinking of me, and although i haven't been for the last eight years i thought no more of the ritual invitation.. then suddenly it dawned on me that my mothers response was quite abrupt and something along the lines of "well i have done my christian duty by asking you".
it was if she was literally washing the blood from her hands and she had tried to save me yet again.. has anyone else experienced this my mother has always talked to me with all civility about the "truth", i just wondered if there is new counsel now in how to deal with daughters and family that have fallen by the wayside.. appreciate your help.
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skipped 2002, went last year. Never going again. Done, done, done.
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Were you raised as a dub or did you convert?
by BLISSISIGNORANCE ini was a catholic all my life then in my early 30s i got baptized as a jw.
a friend of mine when in her 20s became a dub.
she always talked to me about the borg and troof and i listened.
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parents started studying when I was six months old. They baptized when I was four. I cried because I thought my Mom would have a beard (b/c in the yellow My Book of BS Jesus had a beard when he got baptized). I was baptized at 14, started to fade at 18...
PS: Talk about weird: just figured out eyeslice knows my family. He can attest to the fact that I come from a bunch of uberwits
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Add your own Proverb
by JH in.
the book of proverbs is full of wise proverbs that give good advice.
with your experience of life up to now, what proverb would you add to this book?
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Here are some West African proverbs. We recently had a brown-bag lunch at work where we sat with our local colleagues and discussed traditional proverbs. Some of these are amusing, some don't make sense and some are very similar to American sayings.
West African Proverbs
1. You change your steps according to the rhythm of the drum.
2. Tasty soup draws seats to itself.
3. The person who goes to draw water does not drink mud.
4. The person who comes round to lick the soup pot will never be filled.
5. You stand on a crooked branch to cut a straight one.
6. The antelope does not wear the shoes of an elephant.
7. Knowledge is like a baobob tree; no one person can embrace it with both arms.
8. The knee does not wear a hat while the head is there.
9. What the eye has seen is what the hand goes after.
10. Love is like an egg; it breaks easily.
11. You do not set your yam barn on fire when you are hungry.
12. Every long journey has its destination.
13. The hand does not miss is its way to the mouth in the dark.
14. The person who is ever ready for war is never defeated.
15. The rainstorm indicates the position of the door of a house.
16. You do not bargain for a cat which is in a bag.
17. I am going to bathe, I am going bathe leads to not having your bath.
18. The antelope says size is not what matters, but the ability to make a tasty soup.
19. There is no quarrel between the eye and sleep.
20. Two calabashes on the same water are bound to touch each other at one time or another.
21. The chicken is never declared innocent in the court of hawks.
22. Dispute or any misdeed that is not checked leads to the disintegration of the family.
23. The goat places its white spot anywhere it likes on the body.
24. If you do not know how to escape, you must know how to hide yourself.
25. You pick up the tortoise where you find it.
26. The pig says that morning rain is the best.
27. Repetitive singing of one song makes it sour in the ear.
28. The new is woven onto the old.
29. The headgear comes from the home.
30. The cubs of leopards never lose their spots.
31. The antelope says you die a miserable death is your live only in one forest all your life.
32. The bird that is destined to live will grow feathers by all means.
33. One pole cannot build a house.
34. To be a mother of a delinquent child is better than to be barren.
35. You do not rejoice because the morning is good for you.
36. It is difficult to tell whether a swimmer is drowning or not.
37. It is a living tree that has vines around it.
38. Even is an okro plant is taller than a farmer, he bends it to pick its fruits.
39. The mouth must have enough to eat before it spills over into the beard.
40. The salt does not praise itself. It is difficult to wake up a person who is not sleeping/
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Which would you do? Either? Neither? Both?
by onacruse ina thought experiment:.
scene a: imagine you're at the controls of a trolley and the brakes have failed.
you're approaching a fork in the track at top speed.
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Scenario One: I'd switch tracks and hit just the one.
Scenario Two: I wouldn't do anything.
Haven't we all thought about what we would do if we were about to get in a car accident and had the choice of either swerving and hitting a pedestrian (probably killing him/her) or having a head on collision and running the risk of personal injury/death? It's a tough one for me actually, I'm not sure what I'd do. Probably swerve and hit the pedestrian, saving both my own sorry ass and the poor schmuck that would otherwise have the head-on collision with mne.
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Old email from an elder right before I DA'd myself
by Winston Smith :>D inafter reading shotgun's lovely meeting with his two helpful elders, i was inspired to go back and look at the time when i had the pleasure to meet with the elders.
it was a wonderful experience to observe first hand their stellar ability to reason on matters, to mask their investigations with "we missed you at the meeting, and to just be so damn condecsending.. .
man i'm glad i saved so many of my meetings with them on my computer.. .
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fader
Where is shotgun's message