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I just passed my written test! Woo-hoo!

by gilwarrior in

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well, i have taken my written test for my taxi job five times already.

this morning i took the test for the fifth time.

out of fourty questions, you can only miss eight.

Have you ever been fired from a job?

by DanTheMan in

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dantheman is a stupid f*cking loser who may be losing his job tomorrow due to a very f*cking stupid loser thing he did at work.. i am so disgusted with myself right now.

my image in the mirror makes me nauseous.. have you ever been fired from a job?

how did it affect your employment from that point forward?

Skeptic

dantheman,

Treat the matter seriously. Here is how to prevent a future relapse.

Remember that even at company social functions, you are at work. Your career can be enhanced or destroyed by what happens at such functions.

Don't drink too much at company events. Have a few drinks, but stay sober.

As I learned the hard way this weekend, always treat women in a dignified manner. Your "harmless fun" may come with a high price tag.

One company I worked at made one thing clear: Assume all emails will be shown in a court of law.

Richard

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Try this

by fulano in

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Skeptic

[Editted to remove answer which described what was seen! Oops..]

Richard

Edited by - Skeptic on 12 November 2002 1:57:10

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Spiritual snobs....a sore spot for me

by terabletera in

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this was mentioned in a post earlier.

all of the responses were interesting.

many, however, dealt with the jw mentality and being of spiritual snobbery.. oh gawd folks it's everywhere!

Skeptic

Tera,

Very good point. I have been in many different Christian faiths, and spiritual snobbery is everywhere, even between members of the same faith.

I think snobbery is everywhere. In the BDSM community for example, different people look down on others. For example, submissives look upon slaves because subs have rights and slaves do not. Slaves look down on submissives because slave requires a much deeper level of submission than submissive does. And I won't even touch the snobbery amoungst Dominants. Or the snobbery about masochists being better than sensuous subs who are better than pain sluts (insult for extreme masochists).

In Amway, you have snobbery of those who are "serious" and not serious.

There you have the militant ex-JW vs. the "not serious" ex-JW.....

It seems when you have a group of people, their will be snobs.

Richard, who thinks submissives and slaves are superior to Dominants. BTW, I am a Dominant and speak from experience.

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carbon dating

by DIM in

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it seems that either my computer or my wt-cdrom is not working properly, othewise i wouldn't need to post this.....anyway my pioneer mother called here ranting about how a new discovery was made that will ruin the evolution theory as we know it today and she was saying how they used carbon dating - and in her words - "which we as jw's don't believe in, since the dates are very inaccurate".

i was curious as to whether or not the wts has ever used carbon dating to support any of their theories.....i seem to have it stuck in my head that they have done this several times.

any help would be appreciated.

Skeptic

I am just speculating, but I doubt if they would use it directly. I am typing the rest of this from memory, as I am too lazy to plug in my WT CD-ROM.

There have been references in the Awake! to men who were about 5,000 years old. This age would have most certainly determined by radiocarbon dating. They could quote the age without making a reference to how it was determined.

BTW, calibrated radiocarbondating is very accurate. This gets around the problems they used to have with radiocarbondating. Also, like any tool, radiocarbondating must be used correctly. The limitations and correct use of it are now known, which has removed the previous errors.

Interestingly, the Make Sure book criticizes radiocarbondating specifically. Make Sure was published before calibrated radiocarbondating was used.

The Reasoning book, which is published after calibrated radiocarbondating was used, does not directly criticize radiocarbondating. Instead, it makes a vague reference to "radioactive dating" which can be out by "millions of years". Well, there are any number of radioactive dating techniques, some of which are used to measure rocks that are billions of years old. An error of a few million years when measuring something that is billions of years old is insignificant. I find the Society's phrasing to be misleading.

I believe the change in quotes is because calibrated adioactive dating is very accurate....the Society cannot credibly attack it, so it makes a misleading statement about "radioactive dating". Their mostly scinetifically illerate auideince would not notice the difference.

Richard

Two Goddesses

by Skeptic in

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two goddesses

the other with love.. as long as i obey and sacrifice.. .

Skeptic

Two Goddesses

(Copyright 2002 Richard Nazar)
When I please two goddesses, life is sweet.
My crops are good, the volcano does not rumble.
One blesses me with friendship,
The other with love.
As long as I obey and sacrifice.
But when I sin,
The goddesses are both enraged.
And go to war.
With a heavenly fury that consumes me.
But the virgins are gone.
There is only me.
And I ain't no virgin.
The volcano doth rumble,
Brimstone spews forth.
Lava is certain to follow.
For each wants a sacrifice.
But the virgins are gone.
There is only me.
And I ain't no virgin.
If I climb to the mountain top,
Hurl myself into the fiery pot.
Will the goddesses forgive?
Will each know the sacrifice is for her?
Or think it is for the other only?
Will each know they have won?
Or feel they have lost?
Will they be more enraged?
Will they feel hurt?
Will they heal?
The heavenly war will go on,
But will they forgive me?
And bring my soul back to life?

For

One blesses me with friendship,

The other with love.

As long as I obey and sacrifice.

Edited by - Skeptic on 9 November 2002 6:34:59

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What Do You Like to Collect

by Kenneson in

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over the years i have had several collections, ranging from louisiana bottles, (this collection was stolen); books relating to la.

which i donated to a library; books by or about jws, which i gave to another library; a stamp collection, which is at my sister's house.

my florida related stamps are now on exhibit at the state library of florida.

Skeptic

*sigh* I tried collecting men but they keep escaping......

Xena, I have a hard time believing any man would want to escape from you!

Richard, whom Xena could have captured with just a word...

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What Do You Like to Collect

by Kenneson in

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over the years i have had several collections, ranging from louisiana bottles, (this collection was stolen); books relating to la.

which i donated to a library; books by or about jws, which i gave to another library; a stamp collection, which is at my sister's house.

my florida related stamps are now on exhibit at the state library of florida.

Skeptic

Well, I tried collecting slaves, but it was much harder than one would think....

Just going to try and collect woman, now, at my son's request.

Just kidding, but my son did just make that request!

Richard, who is content with his One

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How did your KIDS react when you left?

by Prisca in

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just curious here..... if you left the "truth" when you still had children living at home, what was their reaction to your leaving?.

did they leave too?.

did they want to remain jws?.

Skeptic

My youngest was too young to comphrend or remember.

My two oldest sons never wanted to be JWs, but...

They HATED me for hurting their JW mother by my leaving the JWs. She did take it very hard.

Thankfully, they are over that now, but there was a long bad period.

Richard