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August 1, 2013 at 3:41 pm
Haha! I like the description  True too!
One guy, named Guy, is pretty much a town celebrity. Everyone loves him, he's so kind and unfailingly generous. Another is an uber puritan innocent. Another a very hard working nice guy. Employers love them. It's the unquestioning obedience. I guess you could hate that too.
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August 1, 2013 at 5:17 pm
(August 1, 2013 at 3:06 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: They are strictly prohibited from coming to places like this. They cannot read any literature that is not first approved by their Church.
More accurately, they are warned against reading any religious literature that does not originate from the organization. To do so is to flirt with apostasy, and that is effectively a hanging offense.
The ones I know (and having grown up a JW, I know a heck of a lot) are generally very nice and helpful people. The biggest negative is probably with the more zealous ones, the types who can't help but find a Biblical parable in every event that occurs during the day.
I can see why employers love them, though. They're taught very strict adherence to god's moral laws. I know many of them who would never dream of, say, taking home a pen or paper clip from work. Someone who is ultra strict about being honest and forthright probably seems very rare to many employers. Don't ask them to work overtime on meeting nights, though.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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August 1, 2013 at 5:21 pm
Yeah they have crazy friends who totally embarass them going on about blood contamination. And the others that seem to just hang around in cafe's with their crazy conspiracy theories.
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August 1, 2013 at 7:07 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2013 at 7:07 pm by Bad Writer.)
In case some of you haven't seen the other threads about this PeterPriesthood guy yet, the truth is out on him....I mean...on me. Imagine if Mormons started thinking like that guy, or any theist for that matter. I do wonder what the reality of this guy will do to GC's psyche...
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August 1, 2013 at 7:17 pm
(August 1, 2013 at 12:38 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Oh yeah! Someone last year, I think, posted an amazing mead recipe around here. Guess what got me through xmas..?
Hmmmm... mead can be (but is not necessarily) super easy to make. I have a recipe for a really easy quick mead that I made last year. By quick, I mean it's ready in less than a month. By easy, I mean you pretty much just mix two ingredients (honey and water), pitch yeast, wait, then bottle. Don't just make a gallon. The stuff goes quick.
I'll have to dig up that recipe.
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August 1, 2013 at 7:18 pm
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GC knew about you straight away. So props to him for that.
Seriously you think the vast majority of theists aren't like that?
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August 1, 2013 at 8:17 pm
(August 1, 2013 at 7:18 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: GC knew about you straight away. So props to him for that.
Seriously you think the vast majority of theists aren't like that?
I can't seem to find the post of him saying that. Can you direct me to it so I can give him Kudos for it?
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August 1, 2013 at 8:49 pm
He mailed me directly
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August 1, 2013 at 8:53 pm
Wait...and he thought it was me? At least he had an idea that it was a prank, so that's good.
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August 1, 2013 at 9:02 pm
He didn't know who it was. He told me it was an atheist sock.
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