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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #740 on: January 04, 2017, 12:18:10 PM »
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #741 on: January 04, 2017, 05:49:01 PM »
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #742 on: January 04, 2017, 06:02:14 PM »
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #743 on: January 04, 2017, 07:33:41 PM »
So my brother is a member of a cult.  His new job will include "the spiritual growth of new students"
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #744 on: January 04, 2017, 09:35:03 PM »
So my brother is a member of a cult.  His new job will include "the spiritual growth of new students"

Sounds like the PC way of saying "shamelessly indoctrinate and brainwash". :(

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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #745 on: January 04, 2017, 09:42:26 PM »
So my brother is a member of a cult.  His new job will include "the spiritual growth of new students"

Sounds like the PC way of saying "shamelessly indoctrinate and brainwash". :(

Basically.  He's working for a Christian organization btw.  Cru.  They have been known to extort money out of countries by sending missionaries too.  And....that's basically what he'll be doing.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #746 on: January 05, 2017, 01:32:33 AM »
Have you explained to him some foreign countries arent as finicky about murder or human rights as we are?

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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #747 on: January 05, 2017, 07:29:36 PM »
I'm pretty sure that this organization counts on that.....minus the murder part at least.  They go places like India, Russia, Indonesia, other places in the East Indies, places like that.  They mostly go places that don't have a huge set of infrastructure or culture, but still are modern enough to have everything they need.  And like in India, they lived in the rich parts of Mumbai.  Which are the safe parts.  And they worked in places with low danger, but poor people who are vulnerable to their cult messages.  India has specifically asked them to stop evangelizing while doing this help.  So they do 'good work' but the goal isn't helping people, it's saying 'look at how awesome OUR religion is!  Much better than YOUR old one!" Now, the low level people are the workers, they don't get paid much.  In fact, people outside the organization pay them.  The organization doesn't pay for this, you are reliant on your fundraising ability to go on these missions.  The organization heads however?  They take cuts.  They get PAID.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #748 on: January 06, 2017, 03:35:06 AM »
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Me: "No, the one that is actually connected to the Nitrogen tubes, I even mounted different colors electric cables and everything..." :(

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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #749 on: January 06, 2017, 01:47:27 PM »
turned our puppy over to a 'rescue' today. someone dropped him off a couple months ago, the day before we moved...

our current yard is way to small for an active dog

im moving in a few days, no way we could have taken him with us.

also, still have nothing lined up for the move... no leads on a place to stay or resources for funding the next couple weeks. i'd consider staying at the Y if theirs did that...

also, the online classes iv been taking, i just failed this set... too much anxiety / contempt and too many balls being juggled.

taking this job, that i cant afford to show up for, negates my school funding (from the lucrative source). so i guess taking some time off from that might be handy.

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program that was paying for school also pays for relocating for a job.

i start monday 5 hours away from here...

i got lodging lined up... 800 / month to rent a garage apartment. this is a 'good deal' because it includes utilities and no deposit, just the flat fee.

just got denied the moving allowance because its with the same company i worked for before. that was $1500 i sorta needed to do this move with....

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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #750 on: January 06, 2017, 04:47:23 PM »
Hang in there altP.

So my brother is a member of a cult.  His new job will include "the spiritual growth of new students"

Sounds like the PC way of saying "shamelessly indoctrinate and brainwash". :(

Basically.  He's working for a Christian organization btw.  Cru.  They have been known to extort money out of countries by sending missionaries too.  And....that's basically what he'll be doing.

Uh-oh.

An old friend of mind went off the deep end for a girl/woman from an extremely small town, in a very poor country, that has quite the Police state going on.  She was using basic police state tactics -- maybe subconsciously -- and he bought about half of it.  That wasn't good enough for her thank goodness, took him about 10 years to undo the mindfvck.


"Cult" can get ~put into somebody without having anything to do with Christianity, or a particular denomination.  The cult stuff has to be taken on separately from the Christian stuff.

On that side, try have him consider the difference between :
a) ... boring mainline Presbyterians "E"-vangelizing in Korea successfully
b) ... insta-convert via dream on a short Baptist tract Hong Xiuquan in China, kicks off a war causing 20 million dead (or a lot more , see Taiping Rebellion era)
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #751 on: January 06, 2017, 05:49:34 PM »
Bent my wrist in the punching bag, it's pretty sore, going to take a week or more to heal itself back up... Really have to step up my punching game.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #753 on: January 10, 2017, 04:51:13 PM »
1/2" of snow, grass still showing ... CURTAINS --- SEND THE BLESS-ED SAINTED CHILDREN HOME 1 hour early BEFORE ANY DARN THANG BEFALLS THEM ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #754 on: January 17, 2017, 06:20:01 PM »
im north of pittsburg for work...

renting a room 45 miles from work from a grad student... costs me about $50 / day to meet all my needs here.

mrs n jr are still back home waiting for him to graduate, then move here...

new work start time, leave room in pitts by 4 am.

get to work this moring, grief is given about someting that went wrong with a large crane after we left it... blows over... no biggie after all.

get off work, mrs was in car accident, at hospital getting checked.

work insurance starts the 9th (a few days ago) but no one is in the system yet...

other shoe drops...

no worries about insurance after all, mrs o.d.'d while driving an hit a pole, got narcan'd and admitted to possession of h.

jr had to get picked up by his grandfather and is going to be flying solo for a couple days... at least he a capable kid...

this isnt her first rodeo, rehabbed about 6 or 8 years ago... its not going to take this time either...

my bday is next monday...

have about $350 to get to next tues or later. no january bills have been paid for ky house.

bobby mcferrin can kiss my ass...   
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #755 on: January 17, 2017, 06:33:31 PM »
Holy F, alt... Hang in there, man. Who did the Mrs. admit the H to? The police or the hospital staff? There could be a really big difference in consequences...
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #756 on: January 17, 2017, 06:52:17 PM »
not sure, dont care...
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #757 on: January 17, 2017, 07:40:50 PM »
Mass hugs!   :hug :hug :hug :hug :hug

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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #758 on: January 17, 2017, 09:20:54 PM »
Mass hugs!   :hug :hug :hug :hug :hug

If I get lucky and get this job I'll help if I can

Im going to make 100k again this year, i just happen to be a little homeless atm... and all the other stuff
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Re: The Small Rants Thread XI :What Do you Want to Bitch About?
« Reply #759 on: January 18, 2017, 08:30:20 AM »
Shit, man.  When it rains.  Best of luck getting through the shit storm.