Posts by Francois

I can't find the thread in which you put..."francois, a question. Wouldn't the "uniqueness of being" require continuity of existence? If so, resurrection from non-existence would be a new being, not a re-creation of the previously existing being."

No, no not at all. Your identity, your personality, that which makes you you and not me or someone else is in possession of the departed Spirit that has been a part of your heart/mind since birth. That personality is recombined with your life transcript which has been in the keeping of certain cosmic beings assigned to that function. There is no non-existence involved in this transaction. You will know as you have known, you will be known as you have been known, you will recognize your friends and family members from your previous life here on this planet. You will just be slightly more spiritual and slightly less material. This material "mark of the beast" that is, the evidence of your origin as a being of evolutionary, animal origin is being erased and you become more and more and more spiritual until that time that you are resurrected a first-stage spirit.

See?

francois

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Corporate Corruption (major vent!)

by Billygoat in

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some of you know the work issues i went through last year.

i worked at a company that was pretty new (a dot com) but owned by two huge corporations that will never run out of money.

anyways, the two men i worked with were the biggest backstabbing, unethical people i've ever met.

Francois

Gonna start your own bidness. Well since you axed, I can give you some advice since I've had a couple of bidnesses myself.

You gotta have capital. Money. Coin of the realm. Legal tender. Swag. Loot.

You need to be found. The entire proposition of a photography business (or any other) is to couple you up with the people who need what you're selling. There is lots of money to be made in commercial and industrial photography. Product pictures, pictures of the executives, etc. So companies that have lots of products that require sales literature, collateral materials are perfect. Perhaps you could put on a show of your stuff and invite every advertising manager in town to come see your stuff. Buy cheap advertising. Do some pro bono work for high school students to get yourself known. All you want is they should spell your name right.

Can you write? Do a photo special for the newspaper on some interesting human interest story with lots of pix. Don't ask the paper ahead of time, just do it and take the finished product to the features editor. They're always looking for stuff to fill up those empty pages. I did that for a paper in Atlanta once, and they ran my feature on the front page and paid me $300.00, gave me an I.D. card from the paper and BINGO, I was a regular reporter for them and worked on assignment for several years. I just showed up with my piece already baked and out of the oven. They loved it.

You can put up a website. You should. Any company these days who doesn't have a web presence is regarded as being out of date, like a buggy whip company.

Suggest you take a course in basic business accounting. Find out about tax law as it applies to you. Once I made a $3.71 error in a 941 form and it took three years of letter writing and frustration and threats from the IRS to fine me $30,000.00 in civil penalties to correct it.

I know a guy in Atlanta that's supported himself ever since high school doing commercial photography. He bought only the best equipment and sent out all his developing. Doing it himself added too much unrecoverable cost to his business. He still had a dark room for his, um, special photography.

But you likely know most of this stuff. Just keep it before your eyes that your main job ain't gonna be photography. It's gonna be selling your talents, coupling yourself with people who need your kinda work.

And remember - the race goes not always to the swift...it's to the persistent one, the one who will not be beaten down to whom the prize goes.

Go woman.

francois

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JW Sexual Predator Being Released to San Francisco Area

by blondie in

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www.sfgate.com return to regular view.

judge oks release of sexual predator .

convict praised for progress in therapy .

Francois

amac - I'd surely appreciate it if you wouldn't generalize like that. Just how many of my nearly 5,000 posts have you indeed read? What make you an expert on my makeup?

My wife does things like that, "Frank you always do..." thus and such. No one always does anything. It's a very immature and uninformed manner of conversation. However I do appreciate your agreement, watered down as it is.

francois

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What are you currently reading?

by Sirona in

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as ex-dubs we are free to read whatever the hell we want to read.

in celebration of that fact (and to give me some ideas on what to read next .

sirona

Francois

Mulan, yes dangnabbit, I've read every one of them. Let me, though, recommend you read Gary Jennings Aztec and The Journeyor, the former is an autobiography by an old Aztec captured by Cortez telling his life story to Spanish priests who are writing it down for the amusement of King Phillip of Spain; the later is the self-told tale of the journey of Marco Polo and it's fantastic. No wonder the people of Venice called him the world's biggest liar.

Blackout, that sounds right up my alley. I'm going straight over to half.com where I buy my books for next to nothing and order it. The last book I bought there was that book about the founding of Australia, and it was $0.75. Of course, with shipping it turned out to be $2.98, but hey! beats paying retail and the book was in great shape. After I order it, I'll post again and tell you how much it cost. Try it yo'sef. half.com. And many thanks.

And y'all are right on about Sarum. I loved that book. Actually, I've read it twice.

FOR ALL YOU BOOK NUTS. Try getting your hands on a copy of the original The Power of One. It's nothing like the movie. In fact, the movie and the book are so different, it's like the makers of the movie didn't know the book existed. This book was not available in the states for a long time because it's author is from South Africa and we had that embargo for so long. I forget who wrote that book.

Also, all the books by Wilbur Smith, another South African writer. There are several series of six books, so be careful that you're not buying a book in the middle of a series. The series that has "The Burning Shore" as the second book is fantastic, and one of its main protagonists is a female. Her fight to survive the Kalahari Desert after her boat sinks just after the end of WW I is epic, nothing but epic. In fact, I think I'll read it again now that I mention it.

One more is a series of books about the Arthur Legend told in a totally different manner by Jack Whyte. There are six or seven books and they're all corkers. It makes the Arthur tale plausible. No magic, no smoke and mirrors, just a fantastic tale that covers generation upon generation, complete with all the characters, including the Pendragon clan and the whole shootin' match. Guaranteed to please the most discriminating historical fiction maven.

Happy reading Y'all.

francois

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Honestly, How Do You Think You Handle Criticism???

by minimus in

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well?

Francois

Pretty good from persons I respect, and who I know care enough about me personally to be sincere in offering constructive criticism.

People who are doing it just to get "one up" can just go straight to, well, you know.

francois

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JW Sexual Predator Being Released to San Francisco Area

by blondie in

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www.sfgate.com return to regular view.

judge oks release of sexual predator .

convict praised for progress in therapy .

Francois

Oh, no!!! I hate this.

Thi Chi "...what do you do with people like these? Is it the "unforgivable sin," to be locked up forever, or should there be a chance of rehabilitation?"

Each and every child molester I've ever spoken with (when employed by the Georgia Department of Corrections), every one I have seen interviewed on television, or read their interviews in magazines have all said the same thing, and that is: Don't ever let people like me out of jail. We're going to molest and possibly kill again. I've thought of nothing but molesting again ever since I've been in here and if you let me out I'll do it again. Rehab is a joke. Any molester who claims to have seen the error of their ways and who is a new man is lying, saying what the shrinks want to hear so they can get out and get back to the kids.

Not only that, but child molesters cannot be kept in the prison general population. The life span of a child molester from the time he enters the prison main gates until he almost makes it to his cell is measured in minutes. Hardened criminals, murderers, arsonists, murder for hire made men, bank robbers, assault artists, and even litterers will not tolerate a child molester in their presence. These guys have to be kept in special lockups just for them. Yet the general citizen population must tolerate their presence because some lefty idealist thinks it would be a good ideas, and oh so compassionate.

Well, leftys, you can place the compassion where the sun never shines. Our children are far too precious to risk in your idealism gone berserk social experiments.

How do you mothers on this board feel about this? How many innocent children will be molested or killed as a result of this experiment? And isn't it interesting that these guys, who do little more than watch TV and who can be assumed to have seen Dateline, now want to be JWs? Warms the cockles of me heart, whatever they are.

I say lock 'em up in the general population and let down and dirty justice take place.

francois

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Women

by qwerty in

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Francois

Men aren't deep, huh? Then why do you wimmen keep on marrying them?

francois

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What are you currently reading?

by Sirona in

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friends

as ex-dubs we are free to read whatever the hell we want to read.

in celebration of that fact (and to give me some ideas on what to read next .

sirona

Francois

Hmmm. Lessee

Just re-read all of James Heriott's books. Best reading I've ever done. You know: All Creatures Great & Small and three others. Wonderful stuff.

The Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes. Epic of Australia's Founding. Excellent.

The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill. Famous story about start of WWII.

The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin. You wouldn't believe it till you read it. I never realized the super-rich were so, so, so common.

Secret Soldiers, Philip Gerard. How we outfoxed the Germans with sound trucks. Fascinating. With rubber tanks and tape recorders, we faked 'em out.

Body of Secrets, James Bamford. Incredible stories about the National Security Agency. Makes your skin crawl to know the truth.

Now, could I please ask for your help in locating some books of the genre I really like, and that's historical fiction. I just can't get enough. I've read all of Jimmy Michner, all of James Rutherford, all of Gary Jennings. Anyway, I would so much appreciate hearing your recommendations for historical fiction, with two exceptions. I am Civil Warred-OUT. I have never read a historical fiction about the civil war, with the exception of Gone With the Wind. Also, I don't think I want to read anything else about the Holocaust. I am holocausted out. Over-exposure I guess.

But other than that, I would really, really, like to hear your historical fiction recommendations.

Many Thanks,
francois