i am very interested in hearing from people who really think that people with tattoos are somehow weird or cagey individuals.
i would just like to get your outlook on this matter.
today i was in a grocery store and i sawe this guy with his two kids and his wife shopping.
I recall when so many men had long hair and facial hair
Here, it isn't a matter of recall. Long hair on men is common. For that matter so is short hair on women. If I want to see a guy with facial hair, all I have to do is walk to the bathroom. I've had the beard since 1988, and its never stopped me from getting a job.
i am very interested in hearing from people who really think that people with tattoos are somehow weird or cagey individuals.
i would just like to get your outlook on this matter.
today i was in a grocery store and i sawe this guy with his two kids and his wife shopping.
Also, they seriously limit job prospects. I don't see this popping up in board rooms.
You should get out of New York City once in awhile. They are a common sight in Seattle area boardrooms. At this point, tattos and piercings may be seen more often than ties. Nobody thinks anything of it.
alright.
let's have the ultimate discussion on "higher education.
" let's talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Name: Jeff Thomas
Age: 62
Education: BA English 1973 College level Certificate in Business Management 1983
Work: retired accountant, doing some free lance writing
I started college in 1969, my primary motivation being to maintain a II-s draft deferrment. My parents, being well educated and non-religious supported me. I thought I wanted to be an English teacher, without doing any research into job prospects when I graduated. I started studying with the JW's my senior year, I was baptized a few months after graduation. At the time, there were no jobs for English teachers, I turned down a chance to go to grad school and took odd jobs for a number of years. When I decided that was a dead end I went back to school to study business/accounting. I took some serious flack from the Witnesses over it, but I did it any way. Good decision that led to some good jobs.
In 1988 a hardline anti-education talk at a circuit assembly provided the catalyst for our research and eventual break with the WTBS. My own experience led me to question what they were saying on the subject of college. I wanted my own children to do better.
I think college is very much what you make of it. My first run at it didn't work out to well because I wasn't serious about it. The second time around I took it very seriously and it showed. Running various accounting departments I've had college educated people working for me that had no idea what they were doing. One of the best accounting assistants I ever had earned her GED and took a couple of bookkeeping classes somewhere, but she was smart, hard-working and willing to learn. Made all the difference in the world.
Incidently, the English degree proved very useful. I made good use of my skills writing internal audit reports, policy and procedure manuals and communicating with investors (most of my work has been in commercial and multi-family real estate).
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/2013/11/28/world-of-jehovahs-witnesses-setting-for-intriguing-novel.
lovegrove, an ontario- based writer, was raised as a jehovah until she was 14 years old.
in interviews, lovegrove has said that the story is not autobiographical, but the setting is familiar to her.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through it. I'll put up a longer post when I'm done. Its a good read. She uses nonlinear narrative, and unusual formatting, which enhances the story. It may qualify as literary fiction.
a self appointed dictatorship.
removing anyone who dares to question.. deleting from literature and history anything embarrassing to the movement.
zero tolerance, functioning & appearance of the movement is worth more than an individuals life.. .....but am i talking about north korea or watchtower?
North Korea has better writers. A sample:
"However, despicable human scum Jang, who was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal of such profound trust and warmest paternal love shown by the party and the leader for him."
That's from the official annoncement. http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/12/13/full-text-of-kcna-announcement-on-execution-of-jang/
these two guys that ran over a man and then hacked him to death , shown on cctv where their is absolutely no doubt as to their involvement ?
they should be taken out and shot , no trial ,end of story.and they admit it , trying to use an excuse of warfare or whatever .kill the bastards.. smiddy.
I've changed my mind about this particular case, after rereading what happened. If they want to call themselves soldiers and be treated like soliders then fine by me. They were in a civilian area and out of uniform. The people that arrested them should have stood them against the nearest solid wall and shot them.
many people think those verses are suggesting that the wars, earthquakes, food shortages, etc are all a sign that the end is imminent.
however, a careful examination of the context seems to suggest that jesus was actually forewarning his followers not to draw such a conclusion from such events.
see this interesting article on the subject:.
There is a Bible translation called "The Message" which really captures this aspect of Jesus' comments. It also emphasizes his point not to go following anybody that claims to be the Messiah or His messenger. This translation makes it clear that ANY such claim will be false.
i have heard that line of rubbish more times from the platform, especially around this time of year.
yet, given the number of children with few or no toys, about 90% of the time, they get little or nothing year round.
sometimes it is because of poverty, often induced because the parents are supposed to cut back on their work and pious-sneer or donate excessive amounts to the worldwide pedophile defense fund (or both).
We were bad witnesses. We bought lots of stuff for our kids, although I think we part of a fairly "liberal" congregation. We always made a big deal of exchanging presents on our anniversary. As soon as they got old enough to figure out when it was coming up the children started getting excited, much like Christmas. It was a fun family tradition. And we always hit the after Christmas sales so that when school started up again so that our kids could say that got something new and leave it at that.
If we'd lived somewhere else I wonder if we would have been disfellowshipped for giving our son Star Wars minitures and our daughter Strawberry Shortcake stuff.
Stand for Pure Worship, JW's aren't the only ones who give oddball high school graduation presents. The other day I read something from a college student talking about his graduation gifts. One of the comments was "What am I supposed to do with a Cross pen desk set?"
"You're doing a great job of making the American people glad they elected a President that everyone in the world could respect."
have you ever bought anything?.
my favorite commercial is the guy that screams because he's trying to clean his ears!
ahhhhhhggghhhh!!!
I was tempted to buy a shamwow after reading this.
http://www.blufftontoday.com/blog-post/2009-02-19/strange-tale-vince-shamwow-offer#.Uqe68vRDtNM
