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  Personality Tests (similar to Myer-Briggs)

  by LittleToe in

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  have you undergone psychometric testing to see what kind of personality you are?

  the following emode test is free, and will help identify your personality type:.

  http://web.tickle.com/tests/classiccareer/.

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  maxwell

  I'm a

  M, your career personality type is ISTJ
  
  That means that based on the standard measure of personality traits, you have a quiet determination and sharp mind ? you're very focused and buckle down when it comes to work. You are the type of person one looks to in a crisis. While others may provide emotional support in a situation, your clear and logical thinking allows you to solve the problem at hand.
  
  You are adaptable and can work independently or on a team. You are a careful thinker and get all the details before making any decisions. You don't jump to conclusions and stick with the facts provided. In other words, you're the go-to person for the real story, not the spin or gossip. While others may view you as a bit stubborn at times, they begrudgingly respect your ethics and straightforward approach.
  
  The reason employers and recruiters might be on the lookout for you is that only about 7% of the U.S. population shares the unique characteristics of your personality type. Research shows that businesses succeed when employers create a good balance of personality types in the office. And since only 7% of the U.S. population shares your type, that means employers are looking for you.

  When I took the full-length Myer-Briggs at the end of college four years ago, I was an INTJ, but I think I was the most moderate on the N. I was among only 1% of the population then. But I'm not surprised that I may have moved to a larger groups considering some changes in my thinking and considering the job I do now.
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  Question for you Men: Are you a ...

  by codeblue in

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  hopeless romantic?.

  i am a hopeless romantic and a woman.

  until i met mr. cb, i had never heard a man say he also was a "hopeless romantic"...when he said that, i knew our connection would be sealed.. codeblue

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  Not romantic at all. But it appears to me that there are plenty of romantic men and women out there. There's a whole industry out there geared toward people who want to be romantic including men. Consider the upcoming Valentine's holiday. It's not something I'm interested in, but if a person likes that sort of thing, go for it! There's a lot of things in this world that are worse than mushy, dorky expressions of love.
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  What's Wrong With AOL Anyway?

  by Englishman in

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  yeah!.

  c'mon, you computer whizzkids, tell me why you rubbish aol!.

  obviously, it's a dumb name to give to the uk sector.

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  AOL is perfect for someone who has little computer savy and yet wants to get on the net without a lot of training. Basically you put in the AOL cd and it does everything for you..

  Yup... very true. I know some people who use their computer for nothing more than AOL Email and playing the shared games... like bridge.

  It's all they need and they are perfectly content with it.

  A while back the joke I heard was AOL is "the Internet on training wheels". I've never had AOL, but considering all the control they exert over your computer I never wanted to use it. My first Internet connection through school required that we set up a dial-up connection inlcuding putting gateway addresses and DNS server addresses in the right places. It was all written out step by step for me, but after learning how to do that, I wasn't particularly thrilled when I got my first commercial Internet connection and they had software that did it all for you invisibly. Who's knows what else that software is doing to your computer.
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  What is Love?

  by dh in

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  i haven't got a clue!.

  most people have some first love experience, i don't, i've never been in love in my life, i just have a minefield of meaningless junk.. tell me a love story, i'm bored and miserable and it's cold outside.

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  1 Corinthians 13

  
  

  1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; 10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. 13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

  Revised Standard Version-Bible.com

  I am agnostic and I no longer see the Bible as an authoritative holy book, but I still haven't seen a better definition of love than that given at 1 Corinthians 13. I do take exception to some of the absolutes in verse 7 (For example, a person should not bear or endure abuse from his or her spouse in the name of love). However, I do think that overall its a nice broad view of love. There are other more specific types of love like romantic love or falling in love. But it seems to me that if you can "fall into" love, you can just as easily "fall out" of it. It would need some of the qualities above to be true life-long love.
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  Spankings at the hall.

  by avishai in

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  i knew some parents who really beat the hell out of their kids.

  anyone else remember this?

  seems like when i was a kid, you could'nt go to a meeting without hearing screams of pain from either the b room or the bathrooms.

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  I got spankings in the early years and whippings after about 9 until about 12 or 13, always with a belt or a switch, not bare hands, but never any at the KH. My dad chose to discipline me at home. I am on of the opinion that corporal punishment can be effective for some children (for others it won't work or you just never have to use it with them) if administered in the right manner. I know a lot of people disagree with that these days. I remember that when they remodeled the KH I attended while growing up, they built a room where one of the stated purposes was for taking children that needed to be spanked. The KH is still there. It has two theocratic school rooms for a second and third school, a library/office where the elders usually met for meetings and this one room that only had a chair in it the last time I went there. I suppose they may have stated some other reason for having that room, but I can't remember any other stated purpose. I remember them joking about parents not having to take their children out into the cold to spank them. That did seem a bit overboard. The room wasn't particulary good for this. It was closer to the audience than either of the two school rooms or the bathrooms so if a parent chose to use it, everyone got a earful of the child howling.
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  If you had to choose between Truth or Happiness

  by dh in

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  if suddenly you were confronted by someone who could grant it, and offered these two choices, which would you choose (if either).. 1.

  (truth) you can have the answers to all of your questions, know and understand the absolute truth about all things, who we are, where we came from and how it all happened, and most importantly, you will be able to comprehend why.

  the price of this insight is not cheap... you must leave behind everything you know; family, friends, pets, property, all things you value, you do not get to say goodbye and you will never see any of them again.. or.. 2.

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  It's hard for me to fathom such a situation. Like most other people I believe that I can find happiness knowing the truth. I don't believe this situation can exist, but what if I had that hypothetical situation where it was either one or the other? I probably would not believe those were my only two choices and I'd choose truth and be forced to suffer unhappiness while knowing truth.

  Leaving the confines of that hypothetical situation, I can say that I don't believe happiness is 100% dependent upon the people in my life presently, family, friends, etc. So I don't think that leaving them behind would automatically mean unhappiness. Many of us have virtually done the same thing in leaving the JW. I do think that humans need interaction with other humans. So if the choice included leaving all humans behind and living the rest of my life solitary from humans, I'd probably just choose happiness. People become dysfunctional without regular contact with other humans and I'm sure I would do the same. Humans have survived for thousands of years on this planet in various states of delusion and I think many are happy.
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  Traveling to Grand Canyon

  by pc in

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  would like some information on tours to grand canyon.

  we would like to take a trip there this summer with kids any suggestions??

  thanks pc

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  My family went on a trip there when I was 10. I loved it. I don't know which rim we went to but we walk out to the edge at a number of places and I remember seeing the river looking like a little green snake way down in there. We didn't have time, energy, and perhaps money to take a trip down into the canyon. One of my little sisters was only 4 mos old at the time and the main reason for the trip was to visit an aunt who lived in Pheonix. We drove from Memphis, TN. But I've always wanted to go back and I probably will someday. We also stopped at meteor crater in Arizona. Another really cool hole in the earth.
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  What do you collect?

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  besides dust?

  what do you collect?

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  Can I say what I would like to collect if I had the room and perhaps a little more money? I live in a small apartment so there is not enough room to collect the two things I'd like to collect, which are old computers and bicycles. There's a couple of old computers at my parent's house, that I wish I could have kept, but I simply don't have the room. I had to throw out my last computer when it went kaput. I would have kept it if I had the room. It doesn't seem to hard or expensive to find old computers either. Bicycles would be a little different. I'm not particularly interested in old ones, just different types. Right now I have two hybrid bicycles; one is closer to a road bike. But I'd love to own some road and mountain bikes in several different flavors and in working condition. Mountain bikes in full-suspension and no suspension. Then there's the recumbents. I'll probably eventually get a moutain bike and a road bike although I may have to sell one of my hybrids to make room. "How many bikes should you have? One more than you have now." Not sure who originated that but I like it. :) There's a comedy movie star (can't remember his name now) who's a friend of Lance Armstrong who has thousands of bicycles stabled in a garage somewhere in much the same way as Jay Leno collects cars.
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  MLK

  by Seven in

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  january 15, 1929-april 4, 1968

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  I think it would have been kind of hard to get people motivated on principle alone. MLK made a lot of statements that stand on their own merit with no help from the Bible as a reference. But I think a lot of the motivation and hope for the regular people walked with him came from a belief that God was with them and that God was helping them. The references to Moses, getting to the promised land, using the principles of Jesus, etc. made people's nerves hard enough to go out and march even though they knew people were going to commit acts of violence against them.

  Even today, I think it would be interesting to have a presidential candidate who was totally logical and perhaps had no belief in God and therefore did not try to apply any religious beliefs in government. But I doubt that any candidate who is not Christian could get elected in this country. People value passion, feelings and Christianity over logic and reason. And I think for large numbers of people to do the things they did to fight racism, it took a lot of passion and feeling. Personally, I'm agnostic, but religion provides a ready-made source for a lot of passion and feeling.
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  Clubbing penguins is fun !

  by Simon in

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  http://www.damell.net/yp010.swf.

  click on the bear once and then click again to hit the penguin ... see how far you can send it.. my high score is 327 .

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  Best was 320.5. Tried several times after that to beat it but could never break that 300 point mark.