Posts by Eric

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A HUGE REVELATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Jesika in

i haven't posted in a while.

there is good reason for it.

i have been in counseling again.

Eric

Jes,

Good for you. I'm pleased to see the supportive responses for you here.

I stayed with an old JW "friend" for a few days some years ago. He asked his 13 year old daughter to do some household chore and she dropped her shoulders and dragged her feet on her way out of the room to go do it rather than springing up to the chore with delight.

That displeased my friend.

He went to the kitchen and got the wooden spoon. Made her drop her drawers, bend over his knee and he spanked her bare bottom right there in front of me.

It wasn't about discipline. It was about humiliating her in front of me. My own face was red from embarassment.

I was less of a man then, and to my shame I said and did nothing, except leave his house that evening.

I'd like to think that now, knowing better, I would do something.

Badger, we all grow and gain strength at different rates. When you are ready to lift a weight, you'll know how it must be done.

Eric

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Would you do this?

by Been there in

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would you pee for someone to pass a pee test for a new job?

i was asked to do so.

i could pass with flying colors.

Eric

I confess, I have a bit of a hobby.

I like to goof people up. I apply for jobs I may or may not even want. If I get to the interview, man it's gold.

It is absolute busloads of fun to walk into a situation where you are expected to be under stress, where they sometimes attempt techniques designed to place you under stress, and to feel no stress whatsoever.

Plus, it keeps you loose and sharp for those interviews that do matter, a promotion, job you really want, whatever.

Here are some samples of techniques I've used:

Interviewer: And we'll need a sample of your urine, for testing. Any objections?

Me: (Grabbing interviewers coffee cup off the desk) Sure, let me freshen that up for you.

(Alternately:) You want sugar with that?

(Or:) You're weird. (Lick lips) I like that.

Interviewer: (Pushing plastic cup toward me or handing me plastic cup) Hiring policy requires us to recieve a urine sample for testing.

Me: (Pulling paper Dixie cup from my pocket, unfolding and handing to interviewer:) Yep. Me too.

Interviewer: What?

Me: You don't think I'm going to go to work for some crackhead, do you?

(Alternately:) You're not hiding anything, are you?

Interviewer: Would you have any objection to providing a urine sample for us?

Me: Hell no! (Stand up, eyes un-naturally wide, smile un-naturally wide) I think I'm gonna LOVE this place!

( Alternately:) Whoa! Deja vu! The guy you saw just before me asked for the same thing.

You get the idea.

Some of these are guaranteed to get you thrown out on your ear. But if the person busts up laughing, you can let them in on the joke, and you'll have made their day. I've been offered jobs after some of the most bizarre behavior in an interview.

Eric

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What books did you study?

by Nosferatu in

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before you got baptized, what were the books that you studied with your bible study conductor?

the "essential" one that i studied was the live forever book.

when i was a child, i had to study my book of bible stories, great teacher, and your youth (twice).

Eric

The Paradise book was studied before I went to grade one. I learned to read from that book. The font confused me for a while - the "J's" didn't have a hook on the bottom. "How can letters be made to look differently in different books? Are there no rules? Can letters assume new shapes willy-nilly?"

Then there was the "Babylon Book". Damn near 700 pages of convoluted crap designed to take a mean swipe at the Catholics. When we studied it a second time, I was getting old enough to masturbate.

I'm afraid the whore on the beast, drunk on wine got a wee bit sticky.

Eric

91

What CD is in your CD player right now?

by Dimples in

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i have the best of teddy pendergrass in mine.

i was just in the mood for some sweet mellow music.. what about you?.

dimples

Eric

Filter. Title of Record.

"Could everyone agree that no one should be left alone?

Could everyone agree that they should not be left alone?

Yeah."

Eric

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What does your name mean?

by Insomniac in

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ok, i'm sure this topic has been covered before, but i'm new here, so indulge me.

what do everyone's screen names mean?

some are pretty self-explanatory, but a few have me intrigued.

Eric

It means I'm Eric.

Eric

49

Are you a music person?

by FlyingHighNow in

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my ex jw exhusband didn't care much about music.

he preferred the natural sounds of life to music.

i have a coworker who doesn't listen to music: she doesn't like it.

Eric

Heather S ll,

I just wanted to add that music is where you find it.

I find it in the mechanical sound of some high performance motors. Going back before my day, there was a car made by Alfa Romeo that had dual overhead cams and superb head flow. There was a resonance achieved by that engine that owners termed the "Alfa Song." You really have to sit in the cockpit of a pre-1974 duetto to hear it. Under accelleration, in tingles up through your feet and thrums up through your spine. The sound, the experience, is coming from so many directions, through so many inputs, you're not sure if it's a sound or a feeling.

Then I owned a Yamaha RZ 500. A two-stroke V-4 motor. From idle to about 7,000 rpm it sounded like a steel dumpster full of chainsaws, and it responded similarly. From 7,500 up it grew lungs and simply shrieked to its 10,000 rpm redline. I've never heard anything else like it.

Inline 4's that rev to 14,000 rpm make a music that find difficult to describe. Perhaps because I find it difficult to comprehend the fact that all those bits go whizzing around at such velocity with precision. Music does not describe it. Giddy amazement, perhaps.

Big V-twins that spin up to 10,000 rpm are the voice I love. With a gutteral thrust, they speak to me with the baritone of the motorcycling world.

These are instruments that do not care that my left is no longer deft. These are voices I can make sing and I love the way their sounds propel me.

Eric

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Are you a music person?

by FlyingHighNow in

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my ex jw exhusband didn't care much about music.

he preferred the natural sounds of life to music.

i have a coworker who doesn't listen to music: she doesn't like it.

Eric

Crap.

Lost the post due to some glitch.

Have to wait untill later.

Eric

49

Are you a music person?

by FlyingHighNow in

jw
friends

my ex jw exhusband didn't care much about music.

he preferred the natural sounds of life to music.

i have a coworker who doesn't listen to music: she doesn't like it.

Eric

49

Are you a music person?

by FlyingHighNow in

jw
friends

my ex jw exhusband didn't care much about music.

he preferred the natural sounds of life to music.

i have a coworker who doesn't listen to music: she doesn't like it.

Eric

My parents had an ornamental mandolin that hung on the wall. One day at about age nine, I took it down off it's hooks and not knowing how a mandolin should be tuned, tuned it to the top four strings (double stringed and an octave higher) of a guitar based on a yellowed guitar book we had and started picking out tunes and chords from the guitar book and with some knowledge from my piano lessons.

My mother was suitably impressed enough to pawn the mandolin for an acoustic Yamaha six-string. I did pretty good with folk music of the day, "Big Yellow Taxi", a bunch of Johnny Cash, Peter, Paul and Mary, and the like, and I always had to learn the Kingdom melodies so that I could play at JW gatherings and occasionally in the "orchestra" at assemblies. Yes, kiddies, there was a time when assemblies meant live music, played by local brothers and sisters. Strings, horns, woodwinds, percussion, the lot!

In my rebellious teens, I sold the acoustic and used my part-time job money to buy a Les Paul copy and a decent Fender amp. I was just getting the hang of electric guitars when my playing days were cut short in a bizarre guitar related mishap. I was tuning up when my e-string snapped and whipped up and penetrated my exposed forearm just below the wrist.

It felt like the end of the sharp string had penetrated the depth of a thumb-tack, so just reached up to my left wrist with my right hand to pull it out. I just yanked it. I pulled two inches of guitar string out of my wrist. Then some more. My left arm went numb, I lost partial sight in my left eye, the left side of my face felt like a dentist had done a job on me with novocaine and the numbness spread across my upper chest.

Then, The Headache. Blinding. I had to shut off the light in my room and I fairly passed out on my bed with blankets wrapped around my head to block out all the light.

When I came to, all of the peripheral symptoms had faded, but I had done permanent nerve damage to my left hand. It still has strength, but reduced mobility. As I type this my right hand is responsible for 80% of the keyboard, my index and pinky fingers do all the work on the left side.

I never did get that good on the guitar, I don't fool myself into thinking the world was robbed of any talent or anything like that. I just have always missed being able to plunk and strum.

Saw Jeff Beck and B.B. King play together this summer. Guys like that play their guitar like a lover.

Eric

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Demonized objects

by Patrick in

ok, if you have belief in the teachings of demonized objects than my photo attachments should confirm your beliefs.

if you do not believe than please explain my photos as so many sciences have tried and failed.

this is not a trick and the transformations are real and this carved rock is of unknown form, very high density, harder than jadeite and has been dated to pre 17th century or older.

Eric

Patrick,

If the object is made from rock of an unknown form, how has it been dated?

If you were a powerful demon, capable of reordering arrangments on a molecular level, why would you bother mucking about with a small carving? And a carving owned by a person with a lousy disposable camera and poor photography skills at that?

Call up Randi, show him your ancient shape-shifting doo-dad, make a million bucks, buy some sharp video kit and post back, OK?

Eric