Post #89,118
3/18/03 2:17:00 PM
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Opt Out for the Jevoha's Witnesses
The JWs keep on calling my house and inviting me and my family to their events, and knocking on my door offering the Watchtower and Awake magazines. I've asked them nicely to not come back, that I wasn't interested, but they keep on coming back.
Not that I hate them or anything, just that I don't want to be bothered by them and I don't believe in some of their beliefs.
Is there a master list to get on to get them to quit? I think it is more than one of their fellowship halls that has been pestering me.
"Bill gates cannot guarantee Windows, so how are you going to guarantee my safety?"
-John Crichton to the Emperor of the Scarrans on [link|http://www.farscape.com|FarScape]
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Post #89,180
3/18/03 3:54:52 PM
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Just tell the next batch
that you are a devoteee of Pope Ashcroft and believe in copious human sacrifice to make the world safe for Murican Corporate plundering - for which,
No Sacrifice (of Others) is TOO LARGE.
On second thought..
Maybe then, they'd just want you More..
to lead a preyer meeting.
{sigh}
Never mind.
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Post #89,926
3/20/03 10:13:13 PM
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Invite them to your church.
Make sure you say where you go and when the service is.
Alternatively, you could contact the nearby Kingdom Hall and complain that they won't stop bothering you. Mention that it's beginning to look like harrassment, etc etc. AFAIK the JW's are a heirarchy - that is, each KH does not function autonomously - so theoretically only one would be door-knocking in your area. You could also start asking them which one they hail from and ring that one to ask them to stop. Then if they come again from the same one, you could mention this to them, which brings up that "harrassment" word again.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #90,235
3/21/03 11:44:12 PM
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Good ideal
I just may do that sometime. See if I can get them to quit. Either that or find out where they live and knock on their door and invite them to my church. :)
"Bill gates cannot guarantee Windows, so how are you going to guarantee my safety?"
-John Crichton to the Emperor of the Scarrans on [link|http://www.farscape.com|FarScape]
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Post #89,928
3/20/03 10:17:28 PM
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Get a skunk
-drl
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Post #90,234
3/21/03 11:42:56 PM
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Maybe I just shouldn't bath for a while
and then let the stench chase them away. Unless they think I am one of the unwashed masses looking to join them?
"Bill gates cannot guarantee Windows, so how are you going to guarantee my safety?"
-John Crichton to the Emperor of the Scarrans on [link|http://www.farscape.com|FarScape]
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Post #90,894
3/23/03 9:36:58 PM
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I always bought them.
When they used to come to my door and ask if I wanted Awake and Watchtower I'd always say, "Why Yes! I'm so glad you came. If you could just come in for a moment, I'll get a donation for you but first, I was just about to sacrifice a goat, would you care to join?"
bcnu,
Mikem
Osama bin Laden's brother could fly in US airspace 9/15/01, but I had to wait for FBI and CIA background checks, 'nuff said?
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Post #90,897
3/23/03 9:41:34 PM
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Wow wishing I could come over for church
since in polite company the guest gets the eyeballs and the headman, you gets the brains. Do you have panpipes going at the same time?
My favorite thing to do is invite them in, ask if they like herb tea and offer them catwort, very soothing and a great buzz. They usually dont stagger back. (catwort another name for catnip)
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
To a lot of people in California hunting anything but the wild tofualope was equivelent to sacarificing babies to satan. S.M. Stirling
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Post #90,899
3/23/03 9:43:33 PM
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I prefer the direct approach
"Sure come on in, but my religion requires me to smoke up all my guests."
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Post #90,903
3/23/03 9:49:40 PM
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in the US making more than minimum wage requires pee tests
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
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Post #90,907
3/23/03 10:03:27 PM
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... and you call yourselves a free country!
g,d&rfc!
Actually, they tried a few years back to bring that in here, but it just didn't fly.
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Post #90,914
3/23/03 10:20:04 PM
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It's just another of our many euphemisms..
Congrats, Canada for nipping that little atrocity in the bud!
What the pee test means is:
Our War on Drugs cha cha cha - is prime hypocrisy of the sort we usually reserve for weaker opponents: we'll send the small-time guy with a month's worth of goods for own use -- to jail for 30+ years and then defoliate Colombia, Peru -- whoever lets our thugs in.. all rather than face the Fact that,
Daily life in Murica has become so odious to these tens of millions of Murican Users: they will risk the Puritan Laws to get goods anyway! Anything to escape the environment.
Bizness perceives how widespread is this desire to 'escape' -- and that often listed (in the "from" column) are: the cubicle, overtime and other dehumanizing aspects of the modrin Office and its petty make-work diet of really stupid rituals, its mangled TLA-besotted language of institutional Lying yada yada.
Ergo - the pee test.
Ashton
who suggests: the extra $$ just don't make up for the fucked lying and ever-so Boring culture which made those $$-things into its God.
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Post #90,953
3/24/03 12:10:41 AM
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Re: It's just another of our many euphemisms..
Bad pun. Bad Ashcroft^R^R^R^R^Rton, bad!
Actually, it looks quite likely that we're going to decrim the stuff up here, amazingly enough. I think they looked at the numbers and trade and figured that they'd be better off putting it in the open and taxing it than trying to prevent it... it would take a lot of the violence out of the business and net the state some cash.
As the song says, "Everyone's a winner baby that's the truth!"
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Post #90,918
3/23/03 10:42:27 PM
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you are free not to take the test
also they are free not to offer you a job. If an employer in a free coutry determines he does not want employees who smoke dope on their own time, they are entitled. I am also entitle to say I dont want to take a pee test. they are not coerced.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
To a lot of people in California hunting anything but the wild tofualope was equivelent to sacarificing babies to satan. S.M. Stirling
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Post #90,952
3/24/03 12:02:25 AM
3/24/03 12:14:57 AM
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french is just another word for nothin' left to lose
If an employer in a free country determines he does not want employees who smoke dope on their own time, they are entitled
Keep in mind that it's not necessarily the employer's preference--the employer may wish to do business the feds, who will insist that the employer have a testing program in place in order to be considered for the contract.
But let's assume for the sake of argument that the virtuous employer hath implemented the policy all by hisself. Why stop with dope? Why not test for...religious belief? Why not require proof of regular attendance at the Krischun Church of Your Choice? How about enforced vegetarianism? How about sound moral practices in video rentals (employer requires you to sign a form empowering him to query your rental records at the local video emporium...oh dear, oh dear, you rented the Director's Cut of Cycle Sluts over the Christmas holiday). But it's a free country, and if you don't think the employer should be allowed to regulate your conduct off the clock, you can always quit. Finding another gig in this economy should be a piece of cake, and if it's not, well, prolonged joblessness is no biggie, eh box?
Pee tests...Stalin himself would grin with derision.
cordially,
[edit: minor typo]
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Edited by rcareaga
March 24, 2003, 12:14:57 AM EST
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Post #90,954
3/24/03 12:12:02 AM
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I'm stayin' out of this branch; think I'll stick to the leaf
(damn, I'm running for cover again... how'd I do that?)
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Post #90,964
3/24/03 12:50:19 AM
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canadian, eats american food not poo :-)
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
To a lot of people in California hunting anything but the wild tofualope was equivelent to sacarificing babies to satan. S.M. Stirling
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Post #90,962
3/24/03 12:49:16 AM
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well being a good stalinist Viega you would know
"Why not test for...religious belief? Why not require proof of regular attendance at the Krischun Church of Your Choice?" perfectly legal and can get federal funding as well under the faith based initiative.
Male servers at Hooters? not allowed. Pork eaters at a Kosher butcher shop not allowed. The kicker of all time as a PC regular you should recognise this one.
FEDEX no tobacco on site or off. No more cuban cigars eh?
reconcile and retoot.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
To a lot of people in California hunting anything but the wild tofualope was equivelent to sacarificing babies to satan. S.M. Stirling
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Post #91,002
3/24/03 9:40:15 AM
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Re: well being a good stalinist Viega you would know
as a PC regular you should recognise this one.
Being neither a Stalinist nor a PC regular I have nothing to reconcile.
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #90,912
3/23/03 10:11:19 PM
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Sounds like alt.shenanigans.
Things suggested there include answering the door naked.
And that's a tame idea...
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #90,986
3/24/03 8:12:20 AM
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Mea Culpa.
I've been saying that since I was little and it took me a long time to remember where I first heard it. Now I do: George Carlin (as a tot I used to secretly sneak my dad's vinyl records of him into my room).
bcnu,
Mikem
Osama bin Laden's brother could fly in US airspace 9/15/01, but I had to wait for FBI and CIA background checks, 'nuff said?
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Post #91,003
3/24/03 9:48:47 AM
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Ask 'em if they wanna help hold down the goat.
The world is only a simple place to the simple.
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