elizabeth smart.
false prophets like.
david mitchell or joseph smith!.
LOL!
If I have to explain that a Christian attacking another religion's prophet on the grounds that "they cannot know" he was a "true prophet of god" is funny
>>It's not quite the same thing Abaddon. Mormons do not claim to be another religion. They claim to be Christian and based on the bible. <<
Apparently, Abaddon (Eric dabs at eyes with shirt-tail, suppresses fourth-wave giggle fit) you will have to explain the obvious! What a scream!
Eric
i'm watching protesters in ny running away from cops.
why dont todays protesters have the strength of their convictions?
not one out of hundreds stood their ground w/ the police chasing them.
Animal,
when we rode to the capitol and parked our bikes in the streets,
Do I understand that all of these bikes were in designated parking stalls, or did your protest infringe on someone else's space or freedom of movement?
Not inciting to riot here, just wondering.
Eric
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what do you think.
will this war in iraq, damage friendships here?
I am quite concerned that the position taken by the Canadian government to not be involved in any way without a UN security council stamp of approval will damage our standing as a friend and ally of the US when this is all over.
Surely we could have stepped up even with something non-combative, perhaps a medical corp to assist with your wounded - something.
I fear that once again, Canada has taken a moral stance on America's military dime.
Will I lose any American friends over all this? I hope not.
Will Canada lose the US as a friend over all this? It's getting harder to make the case that we wouldn't deserve it.
Eric
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isp
A Clue: On the chart, all the numbers of the 9X table (ie: 9, 18, 27, ... 63, 72, 81 ) always have the SAME symbol.
Eric
if you weren't quite sure how jehovah god expects you to dress, the april 2003 km helps us to see his viewpoint.
"well-arranged dress shows reverence for god" is the article that assists us to know god's feelings on these matters.
i will give you some quotes from the article: "soon we will have the privilege of being jehovah's guests at the 2003 ' give god glory' disctrict convention.
Mini,
Farkel, If today, anyone is wearing a Beatles style haircut, they will look stupid.Not to the hip, dip. Eric
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isp
ISP,
Ah, I see how it works.
Cute, though, so I won't spoil it just yet.
Eric
come to find out, the things i was telling people about the products we were selling were lies.
i am not comfortable lying to people to sell a product.
i really don't like being lied to and then finding out later most everything i was told to do was bs.
Jesika,
Lots of sales companies are legitimate and lots of them aren't.
I was going to post something like this on your "I got a job" thread but held back because I didn't know about your company.
I once responded to an ad that was requesting "delivery drivers". I can do that. So down to their office I went to apply, thinking I would need to provide my airbrake license and current driver's astract and so I had these all updated and prepared.
Nope! They had a class of applicants (first warning bell) ready to teach us all how to sell frozen meat door to door. If we could survive the training, go out with a vetted salesman, and then get a sale, we too could get a tiny truck with a cooler filled with dry ice in the back (which was available at an extremely low price) and become a door-to-door meat salesman too! How exciting!
All of their product promotion was suspect. Their chickens weren't cooped-up "factory chickens" they were "free-range Saskatchewan chickens". Yes these ribs are expensive, they are Swedish cut baby ribs... and on and on the lies went.
The foreman gave us a special number to call to use if we needed to close a tough sale. He posed as a "Russian Chef" on the end of that line in order to close. It was all bull, he was Hungarian and not ever a chef.
I rode around with one of their sales men for a day just for the hell of it, actually sold a tray of bacon-wrapped fillet mignon (it wasn't) at a doper's household and returned to the sales shop at the end of an interminably boring day to applause from the management because I had become their newest sales success.
As I laughed and turned for the door I was assailed to provide costs for the dry ice used to keep that sale I had made cold.
I laughed even harder as I dipped into my pocket and left a trail of nickles and pennies behind me as I left.
You did the right thing.
If they lie about their product, they will lie about anything and everything.
It is even worth keeping this job in your resume as an instance in which you identified a charlatan, and once having proved it, you stepped away from such employment. Presented properly this experience ultimately can be worked to your advantage.
Good luck in the future, Jesika!
Eric
since months they are talking about war, and now it is happening.
ever since 9/11, we are flooded with news of war.
are you sick and tired of hearing about war?
Let's not forget that once the military action to oust the Saddam regime is completed, the United States of America intends to bring democracy and all of its freedoms to the people of Iraq. One of these freedoms (one assumes) would be the right to publically protest just like they do in other representative democracies around the world.
Crush the right to dissent in America, or the right to promote socialism or even >Egad< communism and you castrate the democratic freedoms you are using force to establish elsewhere.
Democracies generally, and America specifically either allow dissent and protest or they don't.
If we don't, it is not a product anyone wants to see us exporting.
Eric
p.s. In Toronto, protesting students laid down on the street yesterday en masse and disrupted rush hour traffic. There were four arrests. The Toronto St. Patricks Day Parade had more arrests. So did last years Gay Pride Parade. So did the Molson Indy Weekend. So did every single day of the Canadian National Exhibition.
lets go back in time,back to the late 60`s early 70`s..armagedon is coming and the wbts wants it`s members to sell every thing they got and preach in areas where there are few or no dubs..where did the people you know go?..my parents packed up their belongings and went to..the friggin bible belt of b.c..lol!
a good wind storm would knock a few christians out of trees there were so many..a bloody church on every street corner,and every one of them had the truth..so why the bible belt?..there were`nt many dubs there at the time,but most importantly property was cheap.a smart dub could make a killing at real estate,and they did..more money than you could shake a dead donkey at,lol!....my bud`s dad also went where the need was great.the dumb-ass religion broke his family up,his wife being a none believer and all.so where did my buds anointed dad go?..hawaii,lol!
where else would you go to rough it out till armagedon?
Outlaw,
Wow! Very similar story with my parents...
The hippie movement was coming up the west coast from California, and my father didn't like what he saw invading the "Sunshine Coast" of B.C. Literally ran for the hills, and took a "where the need is great" assignment in McBride in 1967. (We almost went to Alert Bay, but my mother was uncomfortable about all the native Canadians, she still thinks their wood-carving artwork of stylized man/animal faces looks demonized.)
Worked very hard at spreading the good news, we did, but you're not likely to break down the viewpoint of a bunch of Menonites, are you?! My father had a return visist with some Seventh Day Adventists that would go on for two, three hours. It struck me as a young boy listening to those back and forth discussions that they believed very much what we did, with some interpretive variation and if God was likely to wipe out either their family or ours based on a literal or figurative new earth interpretation it would be good if He could make things a bit clearer.
We had some calls on total hermits living away in tar-paper shacks, tobacco smoke soaked into every pore and fibre, wearing dank sweat-stained underwear and a t-shirt and eating beans right out of the can cooked over the woodstove. "Man doesn't want to live right now" I thought, "what makes us think he wants to live forever?"
We went back to visit our old congo, they had filled the hall to capacity and had had a split.
We had recruited one horny guy who married a visiting young pioneer sister who was spending a summer with us. Well done!
Eric
so we are a few weeks down the road.
american and british troops are pissing in the palace.
it's all but over and plans for a new government are being put in place.. what would you do?
What to do, what to do..
Heck,why not just go with what has proven to work:
Install a lapdog, promote him with weapons for oil, tell your allies the weapons will secure peace, build him up as a force in the area, and help him wage a war, then when he goes nutzo, blow him the f*ck up. Twice.
It was a good plan then, and it's a good plan now.
Eric
