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Yep.. and try requesting a transcript. The ITTY BITTY TINY "benefit" that one might glean from years of servitude.. documentation that one was trained in Greek, or public speaking.. and one (generally) has to take drastic measures to get what should be da ways OBLIGATION done..

Somehow, I don't think any (except for a select few) wil "grow old" in that organization, either..

yep.. I thought it was a joke at first.. the second rate website.. pictures of sheep and broken down machinery.. I asked him.. "are you KIDING?" no.. not at all I guess..

you know, something along the lines of the spanish inquisition. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldlyTjXk9A

Well, I'm just glad to see you are alive and well.. not languishing in rosies "little shop of horrors" under guard by the waygb..

Then again.. maybe he's going through midlife crisis or something.. or maybe.. he went a little "funny" in the head. yep.. that's it.. I vote for both..

Little regulatory overhead. That's why you can buy a dvd player for $29.00.. I think I saw one once for $19.00. and five minutes (or less) after you purchase one at wally mart, a computer in a Chinese facility knows whether or not to place an order, and produce another one.. Yep.. we in the u.s. are turning into a dump as well.. when the dvd fails within six months to a year or so, it will find it much harder to find a place to occupy in a landfill.. we are literally being buried under with cheap, unreliable, disposable kitchen appliances, flat screen tv's.. computers, monitors..plastic yard ornaments that won't stand up to sunlight.. maybe that's going to be the newest business venture in the u.s. Some entrepreneur will rent space for people to put their garbage. Don't pay? You get it all back..

Yep. I looked a lot of this up before, but my neighbor verified it as well. In the morning, at the crack of dawn, apparently the skies are pretty clear, looks like its going to be a nice day. They by noon, one cannot make out the sun. I hope you weren't there in November of 2005.. In 2005 they lost something over a hundred tons of a mixture of nitro-benzene and benzene in the Songhua river. That incident made it into the Wall Street Journal.. the Chinese government didn't have even enough infra-structure in place respond to the spill, let alone to order drinking water to be shut off downstream.. and benzene ran out of the taps for two weeks before it got shut off.. infrastructure, to minimally deal with this kind of incident costs.. and industrialists don't particularly like to pay taxes.. might be cheap goods and low overhead now.. but just wait.. what I see coming, in about twenty years or so.. some world court will order them to clean it all up. make restitution for all the people it's made sick.. The whole world seems to be turning into a garbage dump..

Here is his website: http://www.beyondtheordinary.net/mrfranks.shtml he seems to have a few credentials.. maybe he really believes the stuff he publishes.. who knows.. maybe its some kind of psychological experiment..

The numbers are interesting.. 14 out of 17 who witnessed the results of the training, who never were in.. vehemently oppose it.. one would answer indifferently.. but not a single one would recommend it.. outsiders often can give a pretty objective opinion.. of the nine votes of those who went through the "program".. not one would recommend it.. in fact all do not recommend it.. I wonder what the results would be if someone happened to run the same poll over on the other site..

hot dogs.. hot dogs.. It reminds me of a time.. my mother cooked up about a dozen or more hot dogs which were not eaten. Now we had a cocker spaniel.. it wasn't really large or anything.. she fed this character one hot dog at a time.. I think it "blew her mind" (well, it was the early sixties..) that this dog could consume one cold, frigid hot dog after another.. and so many.. probably a pound and a half, or two, of the said hot dogs.. well.. we were camping. This explains the multitude of hot dogs.. but we were invited to stay at a friends house. Where indeed did the said hot dogs really go.. the next morning, one could follow a trail, where said dog which gorged in hot dogs went.. we were NEVER invited back. Not that I remember..

Don't call it a "Vomitorium" just because you don't happen to like your real corps evaluation..

Interesting.. those who think it was such a great "deal".. they had a chance to cast a vote anonymously.. the three or four I can think of.. they are busy running an offshoot. too busy I guess.. too busy selling a class.. building a "ministry".. if you are that good at coordinating and all.. as you think you are.. you need a better gig.. might I suggest.. or rather, this poll might suggest.. maybe you can figure out how to help the one or two who had a bad time of it.. but it's a much smaller group than those who had a bad time with der way.. overall, people here seem to rate secular education higher than anything YOU can come up with, at the moment.. pitiful, isn't it..

*they* are probably currently brow-beating him, to abandon his greasespot ways.. "special" meeting or something of the like.. I think little has changed, at da way.. Good luck, friend..

heheheheh.. true, true.. heheh I dunno.. a person has to have fun now and then.. well.. around here, they just let the "professionals" blow off their hand.. "don't try this at home, kids.."

One of the cats in the house here.. I think it thinks I'm a god, or god, or something.. I cook an egg for it every morning.. well, actually two. The cat gets most of the yolk (with most of the cholesterol) and I leave just enough yolk for me that the egg isn't entirely tasteless, for me.. In a way, it's good for both parties here.. when this cat misbehaves.. the lady of the house says.. "you'd better listen.. nobody else is going to cook egg for you every day.."

Actually I thought 2 and 3 were pretty independent.. I mean, if He's THAT smart, who else can understand Him?

In this case, you take the decoder ring, the secret message.. "take more pfal"..

It is an immature kind of belief.. at least in my opinion. Seems most of us grew out of it.. maybe that's what's so bizarre. After all these years, they still have this level of immaturity.. kinda like an aged man going back to high school.. maybe not then, but today I'd be embarrassed.

Perhaps.. but from the other poll, it seems people generally are far happier with the results from their investment of time and money in college. Not one of them (as of yet) curse at the mention of their alma mater.. Interesting here.. not a single one would honestly recommend someone to go into da corps or a lookalike..

A new earth.. well, if there's justice.. the numbnuts who smeared the place up in God's name will be the ones to clean it up.. gather up all the plastic, dredge up the spilled oil, and China.. better wear rubber gloves and full gear there.. *we* don't tolerate "clean" coal burning plants here.. why do we tolerate old fashioned, older technology fully equipped polluters THERE? one of my neighbors is really really conservative.. would rather drown what's left of government in a bath tub.. but he goes to China, for his work.. I asked him.. "how's the air.. nice there?" his face turned white.. he said they have toxic dumps and such, right next door to large schools.. toxic, flamable stuff all over, along with broken lights with bare hanging wires on and in the building.. It's a "paradise" for an importer, or big corp like say, wally mart..

What's interesting to me.. some of us in this world fight vehemently regarding which half a god we think we've got.. maybe da way (and some others) treat theology like a cookbook.. bake a god, in twelve (more or less, depending on the particular flavor) easy steps.. Geometry and algebra is like that. Someone makes a system of axioms or conditions. Then if a set with certain operations qualifies, it is considered to be one of the algebras.. in way terms, I think they have the following axioms: 1. God is all powerful 2. God is infinitely intelligent 3. He can be understood (or he is rational) 4. He is perfect in every way 5. He is completely righteous and fair 6. He exists, to serve me. If at any time I press the right buttons and switches, I can have anything I want. I don't think one can find a god that fulfils all of these conditions.. at the same time. Kind of like getting a fair election. Kenneth Arrow proved that any election cannot satisfy all conditions of fairness, at the same time.

I know at least one business owner, very successful. Barely made it through high school. And I am highly in favor of people doing what they would just love to do. But I say.. especially with a highly profitable venture, maybe a LITTLE education would enhance one's pleasure in life.. maybe take a class in accounting. Maybe a few more in subjects relevant to one's pursuits. A little knowledge just might give one the tools to find out if they are being financially manipulated or something.. happened to Billy Joel.. all he wanted to do was the music.. lost practically everything..

This cavalier attitude is not isolated to da way, either. It is bizarre.. kind of like some are wearing religious blinders.. that the lord will return, not let us mess stuff up too badly.. all the while they are saddled up with an unsustainable lifestyle. what the "wonders" of capitalism does in China, it would do here, if there were no restraints.. Harrison's "Piggies" comes to mind at the moment..

aye, aye, skipper..