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, bikerchic,

That was a long time ago.

In between then and now, I was confronted with a situation where a man was abusing a female in public. I stepped in and reacted with some violence of my own.

The judge gave me a fine or time. I chose the time. 14 days, of which I did 10.

It let me think about what I'd done, how I should react in the future.

Like I said to Badger, we grow in strength at different rates.

I use words and process now. Every man around me knows I don't tolerate the weakness in them that allows abuse of women. They know they have to become a stronger person before they earn my respect.

Eric

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good news from Vicki Boer

by needs_lots in

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looks like the letter writting campaign has paid off !!!!!!!!!!!!

the jw's have dropped costs, and there will be no exchange of money.

(which, yes, means i still will not receive my huge $5000.00 judgement) (thanks judge molloy!?

Eric

Vicki,

You took a very tough stand, and I learned something by just being in your presence.

You are a Rock.

Thank you for being so strong, and I applaud this news.

Looks like I can make it for Nov. 15.

Hope to see you then.

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

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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

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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

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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