Posts by freeman

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e-school? e-work?

by cameo-d in

do you think this is really the wave of the future?.

would it be a good thing?.

is this just a natural progression of technology?.

e-Work and e-School are indeed the wave of the future, and the reality of right now for me. As I type this brief note, I do so from my back deck, sipping my coffee, dressed in shorts and a t-shirt. I’m connected with a wireless connection to my home and internet provider. Plugged into one of the usb ports on my laptop is a magic jack and a desk type phone plugged into the jack. I’m smoking an Arturo Fuente Cuban Natural (my favorite Dominican cigar). I have a video streaming device hooked-up into my cable system and connected into my router streaming programs to my laptop on one window. On yet another window I have the guts of my latest project. I am working on the first cut design of what will soon be an Enterprise Wide Security Audit system for the next generation Air Traffic Control system for the FAA.

I’m not rich by any measure, but I do earn over 100k working out of my modest home on Long Island. The house is nothing extravagant, but it is comfortable and as I said it has a back deck that I work from during the summer. I’m on my deck doing my thing and earning a pretty good living; you can’t put a price on on the freedom I enjoy!

Two of my university degrees were earned almost entirely on-line, with some undergraduate work being credited via C.L.E.P. tests.

Here is some advise I will pass on, as far as school, make sure that whatever school you attend (virtually) that it has these two things going for it:

It must be accredited by the department of education (in the US), preferably you want a school that has regional accreditation.
Make sure that the virtual school also has a physical campus too.

The reason you want regional accreditation is so that it is easier to transfer to other schools should you wish to do so and it will be recognized as 100% legit by an employer. I my case, my employer paid my virtual school about 10k as part of their higher-education re-imbursement program. To qualify, it had to be regionally accredited.

The reason you want to choose a school that also has a brick and mortar campuses is because your degree will then be indistinguishable from any other obtained through that university. It is indeed the wave of the future and the future is here and now; I am living proof!

Go for it!!!

Freeman

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PROVE that Jehovah's Witnesses have the "Truth".

by undercover in

jw
friends

minimus started a thread asking people to prove that jws don't have the truth.... but, instead of proving they don't, i'd like to see someone prove that the witnesses do have the truth.. this is your thread jw apologists....convince me why you have the truth.. to all you apostates and nay-sayers, please allow the apologists to have their say without harrassing them.

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freeman

Evidently, I hit a (political) sore spot with one of the mods who removed my post to this thread. Let’s see if he/she removes it again. Here is what I posted that was mysteriously removed:

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Is this a joke?? That’s just too easy.

When a child is raped or otherwise sexually accosted, the first instruction is to call the Watchtower Legal Department; not the police, not a healthcare professional, but the legal department. That is all you need to know! You don’t need to know about their doctrines, you don’t need to know about their numerous prophecies and predictions that came and went unfulfilled. How they handle the most vulnerable among their own members, their spiritual family, tells you everything you need to know about them.

Sadly using that same reasoning we know everything we know about our new President. We know his own Aunt lives in poverty in a rat infested housing project, and that his flesh and blood brother lives in small shack on about $12.00 US a year. We don’t need to know if he is a democrat, republican, liberal or conservative. We don’t need to know if he is a Christian, Jew, or Muslim. All we need to know is how he takes care of his family, natural and/or spiritual.

How you treat family and innocent children says everything we need to know about you.

Freeman

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PROVE That Jehovah's Witnesses Are Not "The Truth"

by minimus in

jw
friends

there are a few here that say we are not being fair and that we wrongfully bash the witnesses.. simply prove that the religion is not correct by any standard..

freeman

Is this a joke?? That’s just too easy.

When a child is raped or otherwise sexually accosted, the first instruction is to call the Watchtower Legal Department; not the police, not a healthcare professional, but the legal department. That is all you need to know! You don’t need to know about their doctrines, you don’t need to know about their numerous prophecies and predictions that came and went unfulfilled. How they handle the most vulnerable among their own members, their spiritual family, tells you everything you need to know about them.

Sadly using that same reasoning we know everything we know about our new President. We know his own Aunt lives in poverty in a rat infested housing project, and that his flesh and blood brother lives in small shack on about $12.00 US a year. We don’t need to know if he is a democrat, republican, liberal or conservative. We don’t need to know if he is a Christian, Jew, or Muslim. All we need to know is how he takes care of his family, natural and/or spiritual.

How you treat family and innocent children says everything we need to know about you.

Freeman

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Confession from my JW wife

by freeman in

jw
friends

she has been buying my unemployed son his cigarettes.

how nice to know where my money goes.

1) turn her ass in to the elders, while blowing smoke in their face from a nice cuban cigar.

freeman

Marlene,

You read my mind I like Robdar's idea too

Freeman

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Confession from my JW wife

by freeman in

jw
friends

she has been buying my unemployed son his cigarettes.

how nice to know where my money goes.

1) turn her ass in to the elders, while blowing smoke in their face from a nice cuban cigar.

freeman

My son is 20. She said she bought him one carton because he was flat broke and desperate for smokes. She said she will never do it again. She also said she will tell him that this is the end of the line. I have no reason to not believe her, she is very honest in most other respects, and I can see that she feels very bad. I think in her own way she thought she was helping him. Now he will have to provide his own cancer sticks, or quit; it’s that simple.

I’m naturally disappointed in her, but I’m also a bit gitty on the inside because she broke several major JW commandments! She tells me she went to our local Indian reservation so she could buy the illicit booty, tax free!

30 years of marriage (this November) and she still manages to surprise me now and then.

Thank You all for your comments. I think I’m leaning toward 5 / 6 quite a bit, however I’m thinking she will need to show repentance, she was a very very naught girl. I’ll think of something

Freeman

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Confession from my JW wife

by freeman in

jw
friends

she has been buying my unemployed son his cigarettes.

how nice to know where my money goes.

1) turn her ass in to the elders, while blowing smoke in their face from a nice cuban cigar.

freeman

She has been buying my unemployed son his cigarettes. How nice to know where my money goes.

So do I ???

1) Turn her ass in to the elders, while blowing smoke in their face from a nice Cuban cigar

2) Cut off all funds to her

3) Don’t cut off all funds

4) Get really pissed off and let her know it, oops did that already

5) Bend over and take one for the team (again) to preserve our marriage

6) Be grateful that she sometimes goes against the programming of the Borg collective

7) All of the above

8) None of the above, write your own here: ______________________________

Freeman

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Police: Four boys sexually assaulted 8-year-old girl

by Yizuman in

four boys ages 9 to 14 have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year old girl, police in phoenix, arizona, said wednesday.. .

the girl was lured into a vacant storage shed by the suspects, who offered her chewing gum, police said at a news conference.. .

the girl was restrained while the boys -- ages 9, 10, 13 and 14 -- sexually assaulted her, police said of the july 16 incident.. .

freeman

"Evil world, children molesting children learned from the adults around them /sigh"

Unless one or more of the boys confesses, its like it never happened. Isn’t the theocratic Watchtower way Reniaa?

Freeman (the troll feeder)

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Smoking tobacco- ex-JW's have a warped view, so what should we do?

by OnTheWayOut in

jw
friends

i used to smoke cigarettes.

i quit as i was learning the lies of the watchtower organization.. i used to smoke between 1 and 3 packs a day depending on whether i went drinking or not.. .

i didn't really quit for the religion, but as i was learning it.. i swore to quit when cigarettes got to cost me more than a buck a pack.

freeman

OTWO, You raise many good points and things to ponder. Just to add to the confusion, here are some blaring contradictions to the all tobacco is evil mindset.

Smokers have reduced risks of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

Smoking: Protection Against Neural Tube Defects

Urinary Cotinine Concentration Confirms the Reduced Risk of Preeclampsia with Tobacco Exposure

Severe Gum Recession, Less Of A Risk For Smokers –

Twin Study Supports Protective Effect of Smoking For Parkinson's Disease

And my all-time favorite:

Smoking lessens the likelihood of dying from diseases associated with old-age!

That said I would say to anyone thinking about smoking, don’t ever start. And if you already do smoke, quit. As for me, I was a 3 pack a day guy. I was hooked. Now I only smoke premium cigars because I enjoy them, not because I have to.

Freeman

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Is punishing someone for changing their religion against international law

by ldrnomo in

i saw this on wikipedia:.

the united nations commission on human rights, considers the recanting of a person's religion a human right legally protected by the international covenant on civil and political rights: "the committee observes that the freedom to 'have or to adopt' a religion or belief necessarily entails the freedom to choose a religion or belief, including the right to replace one's current religion or belief with another or to adopt atheistic views [...] article 18.2 bars coercion that would impair the right to have or adopt a religion or belief, including the use of threat of physical force or penal sanctions to compel believers or non-believers to adhere to their religious beliefs and congregations, to recant their religion or belief or to convert."[5].

seems to me that being shunned by family and friends for quitting jehovah's witnesses would be penal sanctions.. .

freeman

I have a friend that I’ve lost contact with for some time now, but his life story is directly related to this thread.

My friend, Adam is closely related to Suharto; ex-dictator of Indonesia (now deceased). In fact Adam was raised as a child in Suharto’s palace. He told me that he would like to one day visit Indonesia again, but he can’t because he literally has a death sentence on him. His crime? He was raised a Muslim and changed his religion, that is his crime deserving of death.

Adam is related to Suharto, also the Grandson or great Grandson of the King of Java, a nephew of the UN ambassador of Indonesia, raised in the royal palace, and yet his very life would be in jeopardy if he simply returned home for a visit.

I remember some time back, (not sure in which publication I read it) the WTS was lamenting over the fact that it wasn’t allowed to kill apostates like back in the good old days.

SICK!

“Religion is a snare and a racket” ; just maybe the Judge had a point

Freeman

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background checks

by bibledike in

is there anybody that is a probation officer out there i have many questions regarding background or maybe somebody could help me.

do full background checks look up your medical records?.

freeman

“do full background checks look up your medical records?”

In the case where employment screening is concerned, m edical records are generally off limits, however there are exceptions. If for example you are being considered for a very high security clearance (as in above top secret); your medical / mental health records may be subject to investigation too. That said however, they will need your signed consent to do so. Needless to say, failure to provide this consent may greatly lessen your chances of obtaining the clearance and employment .

Freeman