and then you have to pay a price evry month 20$, they who have brodband pay only 35$
So you guys in Sweden pay your bills in $$, huh?
Posts by COMF
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25Howmuch do you pay for internetacess
by happy man inintresting to chech how much money do you pay for bee out on internet here in sweden it is not so commen widh brodband on the country where i live, i hade modem and it cost a lot of money , if you are out on the days it costs around 2cent minute, and if you are out on the evning it is cheeper, around half, and then you have to pay a price evry month 20$, they who have brodband pay only 35$ and have acess all time, but i think it is impossibel to have it here it is only in the bigg citys.
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internet is a fantastisc thing ,where peopel from allover can meet and tell ther storys.
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COMF
Hey, everybody else was doing it...
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The Subterranean Decalogue
by Justin inall students who wish to graduate to the surface will please recite:.
1. thou shalt not throw stones.. 2. thou shalt not use dynamite.. 3. thou shalt not yell in caves.. 4. thou shalt not get satan's attention.. 5. thou shalt not desire a surface existence before thine release.. 6. thou shalt not turn this into a mining operation.. 7. thou shalt not make unseemly noises in the dark.. 8. thou shalt keep thy mindshafts concealed.. 9. thou shalt obey thy taskmaster.. 10. thou shalt not feed the bats.
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COMF
Thou shalt not make unseemly noises in the dark.
Uh-oh, there goes my graduation...
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take the personality test
by BATHORY infeb 09 to feb 18 - cedar tree .
feb 19 to feb 28 - pine tree .
mar 01 to mar 10 - weeping willow tree .
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COMF
Dude! I read down through the descriptions, and every one of 'em fit me! Who'da thunk it?
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Who Said It?
by Cassiline in" i have come here to chew bubblegum and kickass...and i am all out of bubblegum".
saw this on a commercial last night and it struck me as funny.. anyone have anymore quotes from movies?.
ps.
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COMF
Or maybe, "vedi, veci, veni":
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What Do You Do On The Weekend?
by TheRecordCollector inwhat do you do on the weekend?.
and how do you spend your spare time?
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COMF
Friday night: regularly scheduled jam night with my band, while Debra goes bowling with her league team. Stay up late and sleep luxuriously on up into the morning. Get up when my body's ready and make myself a good, filling breakfast at a leisurely pace. Wash clothes, vacuum and mop, mow the grass, go shopping, pay bills, catch up on reading and posting on this forum.
Saturday night: quite often, a date consisting of a meal at a nice restaurant, and dancing or a movie afterward.
Sometimes the whole weekend becomes a trip out of town to visit relatives or to go to a recreational area.
Tomorrow, the official word is that we're going to Scarborough Faire, the Dallas Renaissance Fair (where everybody dresses like knights and wenches and there's ale-quaffing and swordfighting).
About that social stuff, TRC... if you have a wife, just pick out somebody at work that you like, and invite him and his spouse over to your place for grilled steaks some evening. If you're single, then b'gosh, get in Yahoo Personals and answer some ads! It's how I met the last several ladies I've dated.
COMF
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My new Computer
by Yerusalyim ini've decided to join the modern era and have purchased a hp with a 1.2 ghz processor.
works a bit faster than the 166 mhz i was using before.
i'm a bit disturbed by my own consumerism though.. yerusalyim.
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COMF
Hmm... $20 per hour sounds mighty cheap to me. I wouldn't do it for less than $45/hr myself. But then, if I did it for anybody, it'd be a freebie favor anyway. Yeah, I know that about the warranty. I just wanted to get a tease in.
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My new Computer
by Yerusalyim ini've decided to join the modern era and have purchased a hp with a 1.2 ghz processor.
works a bit faster than the 166 mhz i was using before.
i'm a bit disturbed by my own consumerism though.. yerusalyim.
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COMF
Hey, Xander, how much are you paying yourself per hour to assemble and test the computer? How long does your warranty last?
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Who Said It?
by Cassiline in" i have come here to chew bubblegum and kickass...and i am all out of bubblegum".
saw this on a commercial last night and it struck me as funny.. anyone have anymore quotes from movies?.
ps.
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COMF
Hi, Cassiline,
A favorite of mine is a twist on the old "I came, I saw, I conquered" as rendered by Ghostbusters: "We came, we saw, we kicked ass."
Welcome back!
COMF
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Agnostic Apostate Morals Kick In
by COMF indespite my response in teejay's "taboo" thread - http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=25580&site=3 - in which i supported the idea of polyamory, i am presently in a relationship which is monogamous by mutual agreement.
i was fascinated and intrigued by the lady, and attracted to her, enough to make that commitment when she explained that it had to be that way or we'd need to go separate ways.. that relationship is presently at a rough spot, one which i described to somebody recently as "that point you reach, where all the spark is gone but you haven't put it out of its misery yet.
" her parents have been visiting from out of state since wednesday (it's saturday as i write) and we haven't seen each other since last monday.
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COMF
I'm glad for everyone's comments here so far. Thanks! I'm enjoying it.
My writing style is probably responsible for some of what I perceive as confusion as to what the point of my post is supposed to be. I like to take a "less is more" approach, leaving most of my point unstated, but highlighted by its very omission and the allusion of the flatly factual text, so that when the reader looks for what is manifestly not there, he finds it for himself. He now knows, in his own thought process, the flow of logic that led to it. No longer is it a matter of me having said it. Now, if he wants to argue against the point, it's something he must wrestle with inside himself rather than with me. The ultimate example of this is when spender said, Is the lack of dignity the "main point" i'm missing here? My one-word answer was vastly more eloquent than anything else I could have said.
And so in the case of this post; the subject of the post, the point I was making, was almost completely unmentioned in the text. Clues for a detective: read the title. Agnostic Apostate Morals Kick In". Read the summarizing remarks. Morals. It's got nothing to do with Christianity, y'all. It's all in the individual.
I wasn't telling this story to "get too full of myself." I wasn't telling it to titillate. I wasn't offering myself to the board ladies as a trustworthy guy, either. The point of the post doesn't even involve me, except as one example of what I'm talking about.
Teejay has seen the whole picture here:
Comf said that his present relationship was on its last legs. Why not put a nail in the... uh... coffin?
Why not, indeed. Yes, from my jaded point of view (having seen many a relationship come and go, and able now to recognize the signs), it is on its last legs. It may yet rise phoenix-like from the ashes, but I'm not expecting it to (of course, I wasn't expecting to find a woman who interested me as much as she did, either...).
Now, forget the trees for a moment and look at the forest:
- I don't believe in God. I don't believe I have him to answer to. I don't believe he provides me with guidance, protection, punishment, or any of that other stuff that is always talked about but never materializes.- I don't believe that the bible is a worthy or useful guideline for our behavior. Some parts of it are coincidentally applicable, due to fairly universal perceptions of what behavior is necessary (as are parts of many other law codes).
- I have come to the conclusion that we all are responsible for our own emotions, thoughts and actions (this isn't of my originality, but I've accepted it as true), and that if any "saving" is needed, it can only be accomplished if the one needing saving becomes his own savior.
- I believe, and have said here many times, that we each must decide for ourselves what we believe, independently of the assertions of others, and must build for ourselves a personal set of standards, guidelines for our own behavior.
- If laws, rules, opinions or the wishes of others collide with my personal moral code, discretion is called for, but I will be true to myself. That's the essence of all of this: I will be true to myself.
- As expressed in teejay's thread (linked in my first post), I have come to the conclusion that monogamy is useful while raising a family, because it provides a secure and nurturing environment for the children's development; but with humans stripped down to our essential natures, and with the concept of monogamy kept distinct from notions of love and promises of loyalty, it is largely irrelevant in the case of adults whose children are grown and gone. For the vast majority, this perception is not there, but it is nonetheless true, I believe.
- I have an active, healthy libido.
So... some Christians like to argue that the definition of right and wrong comes from God, not from inside ourselves. Jehovah's Witnesses like to say that when somebody leaves the organization they lose all their morals and the demons move in and take them over. (Harken back to the title again: Agnostic Apostate Morals...
Note that it wouldn't have bothered me for even a second, to have had sex with my former girlfriend, if I had been uncommitted. No worries about non-marital sex for me. No bible conformity there.
Note also that it didn't bother me to give her a free copy of the software (nobody's mentioned that yet... wassup wit dat?)... no bible conformity there.
But yet, I honored the commitment to monogamy, even though every animal cell in my body was screaming for what teejay (accurately) called "wild, passionate, meaningless sex." Teejay asks, "why didn’t you go through with it, exactly?"
Because I gave my word on it, teejay. Because I said I would be monogamous. And I'm a truthful person. It's part of my personal moral code to be honest with people.
I picked that moral value myself. I rejected others because I didn't see any justification for them, but honesty I kept because it is very important to me. And I continue to live by it, and by the other values I personally chose and put in my personal collection of standards for living.
They're mine. I put them there. Not God. And I live by them; I live morally as defined by me.
That was the point. God doesn't give us a moral code. It comes from us, individually.
COMF
PS Isn't it past time for You D'oh to jump in here with his incoherent sneerings?