i'm a partner in a national communcations company, we install services for time warner and dish network as well as other clients.
my responsibilities include client acquisition and maintinence, as well as developing the strategy we are using to grow our business by taking over markets from our competitiors.
currently we have 3 offices and about 40 employees in la, ny, and nc, with corporate offices in fl.. my family and friends think i work on computers making minimum wage.
I pay myself to crack a whip over 50 employees.
I volunteer for an architectural conservation society.
And I'm studying for an MSc in Urban & Regional Planning.
Lots of people think I drink coffee and read the paper all day when it's only 80% of the day. The other 20% is spent on the web.
we just got back from texas'.
they had their annual tax free weekend.
with hotel, gas, food, and shopping, we spent $1000.00 easy.
School uniforms don't mean complete uniformity. I wore one and we all did things to make it seem more fashionable. We were lucky that it was black and not some of the more heinous colours that exist.
My school was founded in 1128, beat that Midwich!
after you got from behind the barrier that was keeping you from thinking logically and had removed the blinders that prevented you from processing information using common sense rather than the 2000+ year old superstitions of some nomadic goat-herders, did you start to find that religious-centric or god-related statements made you shake your head in incredulity?.
case in point: just yesterday as i watched the 5:00 news, a story came on about a young man who had moved from here to california.
while in california he died but the family was so poor they could not afford to have the body shipped back to new orleans.
In honesty it makes me uncomfortable too.
People praying for the submariners to be saved... what's that all about when there's countless (unreported) lives in peril. And it seems these submariners were more worthy than those on the Kursk.
my sister and i were talking, and she is interested in buddhism (h or no h?
i have seen it both ways).. anyhoo...i am looking up some temples in the area.
i told her she should visit one if she is interested and do some reading.
I was surprised at how uptight the replies to Terry's post were too. Seems the Tao encourages condescension!
as you guys may know, i don't ask too many questions on the forum, as i feel that i have a pretty good grasp on things.
but this... i am clueless on..
starting sometime next week, i will have my own apartment.
or enjoying some sweet meditation time.
the sixties are alive in LT... man!
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i understand from a post yesterday that ouija boards were consulted by bethel during rutherford's reign.. anyone have any further details.
I have, and here's what happened
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/93473/1582416/post.ashx#1582416
These poor sods are deluding themselves, talking up their faith as if it's regular and almost quite cool!
my mom (die hard witness), is not doing well, she called me for the first time in over 3 years on sunday, she probaly has a year or less left in her, we had a good chat, she cried alot and said how sorry she was, and that there might be something to the things i have said.
(wow i almost fell over).
and then today my grandma died at age 100 (witness for 75 years +).
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If I were you, I wouldn't go. I've been to a funeral in a KH since I left and it left me feeling like sh*t. Surrounded by people I'd grown up with who were friendly but distant, hammered home that I was no longer their friend.Hell, you can solve that problem by showing up with three slutty women... one on your left arm and two on your right arm next to each other.
Make sure they wear really tight miniskirts, a tube top that shows way too much cleavage and too much makeup. As Icing on the cake you can have them smoke and chew gum really loud. Hell, for kicks you could have one of them ask very loudly: "Baby, when do I get to go down on you again?".
That really would confuse them, seeing as they all think I'm gay. Maybe a trio of trannies would be more fun...
(apologies for any perceived disrespect for the dead, but I didn't start it!)
my mom (die hard witness), is not doing well, she called me for the first time in over 3 years on sunday, she probaly has a year or less left in her, we had a good chat, she cried alot and said how sorry she was, and that there might be something to the things i have said.
(wow i almost fell over).
and then today my grandma died at age 100 (witness for 75 years +).
If I were you, I wouldn't go. I've been to a funeral in a KH since I left and it left me feeling like sh*t. Surrounded by people I'd grown up with who were friendly but distant, hammered home that I was no longer their friend. My mum cried because I didn't sing the songs, although she thought it right that I didn't sing praise to something I don't believe in. I won't be going to my mum's funeral either and she knows. I couldn't face having to be nice (or nasty) to the family and friends who shun me, while simultaneously grieving. We've agreed that I get to scatter her ashes for my own sense of closure.
People talk about going out of respect etc, well, your grandmother is gone and I doubt it'll concern her whether you attend, but if you care what other people think about you, then you might have to go. I also think that the notion of funerals providing "closure" somewhat of a myth. Having been through family bereavement I can safely say that I didn't care who attended the funerals or what form they took, what mattered was those that were there for mein the days, weeks, months and years that followed.
Just my tuppence, and good luck whatever you decide.
That's what's so lovely about Little Toe, he just swings wherever that sparkly hebridean dust takes him.
