in mesquite, texas, sabrina ballantine says she was fired from razzoo's for refusing to sing happy birthday.
she is a jw, who does not believe in celebrating birthdays and singing this song.. "razzoo's settles lawsuit over religious firing.".
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/dn-localbriefs_20bus.art.state.edition1.376bc98.html.
LOL! Silly for people to be arguing about this, IMO.
I just wanted to note that I've been to that exact Razoo's a number of times. I wonder if a JW could sue them if they happen to be there when they sing Happy Birthday to some other patron, for, you know, infringing upon their religious sensitivities? Maybe I'll ask the manager next time I'm in there. I'm sure we'll all share a hearty laugh at that.
tell us storys of all the fun exciting stuff that your kids did when your back was turned.. my most recent finding was yesterday.
i took a shower while my kids were playing(thats what i though) in their room.
after i dressed i went downstairs to notice shinny little footprints all over the new wood floors...hmmmm curious....i follow them......and saw that my 2 year old had found a can of pam cooking spray and was trying to shine up the wood floor with it.
Not really fair to restrict this to moms only.
My ex-wife once woke up from her daily naps on the couch to find that our 2 year old son had decided to open her finger nail polish she had left on the bookshelf and paint his nails, his face, my throw, the bookshelf, the recliner...
Another time, at 2 years, he thought to throw his toy phone across his room and shattered his bedroom window.
He hasn't done anything like that lately. At 6 now, he more often surprises me by the "good" things he does. He recently made up his bed, very well I must say, without my having to remind him. And he has taken to reading books to his Fuzzy Wuzzy (stuffed leopard, looks more like a teddy bear) some nights.
Lately, he has taken to "group hugs". Last time he, Brigid and myself went to visit my parents, as we were leaving, he insisted on all of us sharing a group hug. And usually, when Brigid doesn't spend the night and is leaving for her place, he wants us all to hunker down and share a big hug. Very sweet.
i didn't know about this scandal until the last day or two.. derek acorah who stars as a spirit medium on most haunted, was set up recently.
basically a skeptic on the show made sure that before he visited a venue for psychic investigation, he was given fake names of people who were supposedly attached to the property but who are now dead.. the fake names were anagrams of "derek lies" and "faker derek" etc.. he pretended to have a trance and said these false names as though they were coming from the spirit world.. here is the "proof":.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw_onn8odys&mode=related&search.
ROFL!!
Dumbass. Sylvia Browne too. Living in their own fantasy worlds at best, lying, cheating charlatans at worst.
i'll start it off, then someone else give them a different challenge if you can think of any.. please give definitive examples that by evolution, a species has changed into something else.
give two separate findings by scientists, and it can't include any comments like "so we believe", "so we conclude that", or "the evidence shows that there could have been".....the wts has those copyrighted.. try and give un-doctored photographic proof, where possible, etc.
by the way the hominid skulls and the like will not be accepted, transition has never been proven, i don't think, just that they are different, and scientists "believe", they are pre-homo-sapiens.. i'm not saying you won't have examples, we just want you to walk the talk.
Para
If Jesus existed, where is his skeleton?
This is a beautiful response to this.
(The rest is not in response to you, Para.)
I had an honest laugh at the subject title of this thread as well. I wonder what sorts of people are anti-science? I mean, you're actually against using process and intellect and research in an attempt at exploring our universe?
You'd rather take, seriously, at face value, and rather blindly, a book written over a span of thousands of years, by people with no access to basic scientific advancements like telescopes, microscopes, etc., than adjust your thinking about things based upon what we've learned as a species about our world by more objective means?
You'd rather go on believing that the earth is the center of the universe, I suppose. Science is by no means infallible, but at least there is more honest dialog and peer review in the process, and much more likelihood of accuracy than otherwise.
I'm so sorry that uncertainty terrifies you so.
it just dawned on me, and i'm really a little put out over it.
i was reading alanf's comments about vinny and his willingness to sacrifice children if god told him to.
alan suggested any fundamentalist christian should agree he would, and vinny did in fact agree.
I take a different approach. I am open to the prospect, if such a god exists, to contact. And he could tell me to do whatever. But I reserve the right to tell him to bugger off.
what's the daggiest album you've ever bought?
i'm talking about the sort of music that you hear now and cringe at.
for me it was bananarama's wow!
*gasp!* I've always listened to only the best music!
LOL! Okay, okay... I did have that Milli Vanilli album, but that's it! I swear!
... i'm now a jedi!.
woo hoo - it's only taken me over two years!
lol.
Woot!! I just realized today that I'd passed the 5000 post mark recently as well.
Welcome Jedi! Or should I say.. sith?
we all know there is no mention of cats in the bible...not one....but another thing that's weird is that there is no reference to any people in the old testament taking their kids down to the beach to make sandcastles and stuff...why?
How about getting a haircut? I know of two situations in the bible that definately prove that we have to let it grow!
I never considered that! I wish I'd thought of that when I had my long hair and my mom kept bugging me to cut it.
Yes, what the Witnesses have been taught is that logic applied to one scenario does not have to work when applied to another, similar one.
This logic was applied to rationale for not celebrating birthdays, that the only ones mentioned in the Bible were for bad people, and that "the day of a man's death is better than that of his birth" or somesuch.
why did charlie have to die?
why couldn't he have swam out of that window?
he was such a good character.
With as small a chap as Charlie is, he probably could have fit through that porticullis.
Brigid and I also noted that the coffin looked pretty small, like for a child or a small woman. Ben's pretty short though.
Mikhail the terminator? What about Locke? Geesh, dude. (Also surprised they brought back Walt, who seemed to have aged four years in the past... month? of Lost time.)
And... I mentioned this early in the to Brigid. Naomi seems a bit too at ease on the island. She's not amazed about being there and what's going on. Also, Penny didn't send that ship. Someone else did. Possibly Ben was telling the truth, or some bit of truth?
Maybe the flash forward is a dream? Jack's dad raised from the dead? And what was up with Kate's makeup in the flash forward?
i have heard on this discussion board numerous rules that apply to upcoming a$$emblies.
some are designed to stop people from meeting the opposite sex; others, to make sure everyone is always ready to recruit new members into the scam.
i heard that some km inserts have been urging those whose congregation has cleaning assignments to sit in the section that they are assigned to clean.
What would be the point of going to the assembly at all then?
You and I, my dear Crumpet, would have made great wingmen for each other.
