Well the cool thing about Judaism is that there really isnt a concept of hell, and non-believers can go to heaven if they are just an all around decent human being. No Jewish faith required. :yes:
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Well the cool thing about Judaism is that there really isnt a concept of hell, and non-believers can go to heaven if they are just an all around decent human being. No Jewish faith required. :yes:
My mom's cleaner is a hardcore catholic, she insists that I will go to heaven. But then again that could be because I keep giving her presents, she has a pretty miserable life and I want to help her a little. The inquisition thought a bit differently of courseQuote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
Well, Hel comes from the Nordic religion. One of those co-opting of Pagan things.
Not being in heaven is eternal torture though because the human soul needs to be close to god to be happy. And the chance to embrace god ends with life, so once you're in hell or wherever not heaven is, your soul suffers because it craves being in heaven.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
It doesn't take a literal fire for eternal suffering. Or that's what a pastor once said in more detail.
It kinda evolved I guess, but is that any less cruel if you think of it. I won't say that religion is evil as many people are really good persons because of it, but they probably would have have been good persons without it. What you say is much toned down but I still find it really creepy and cruel to think it. Not trying to bash your believes, wouldn't call myself an atheist either because I don't feel like denouncing anything, that would mean I would have to denounce something I don't take serious anyway, but I find religion creepy. Not trying to troll you it's just how I look at things, no offence intendedQuote:
Originally Posted by Husar
I have heard priests assert much the same line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Husar
Frags, don't worry about it. Be a reasonable person and a halfway decent neighbor and you will get along fine with all but the most rabidly churched.
Ultimately, we will know the answers...or not...when we join the majority. Until that time, I will continue in my faith and continue to wish you and most others well.
Oh don't worry about me being worried about that, it's just kinda alien to me. I get along with almost everybody
Seven Seconds, another great Netflix series, about a really unfortunate accident with a cover-up that gets out of control. The police has an (immmoral) but good reason to cover it up and the family naturally a good reason to find out what happened. Great social drama
Real heroism, it exists, RIP https://twitter.com/gerardcollomb/st...site=geenstijl Gave his live but saved plenty
For almost about 2 years now I've been receiving sporadic work or personal-related emails related to a gas/oil extraction company. Since some of these are forwards on personal (and personnel) matters, I assume I have an email address similar to someone on their payrolls or mailing lists. I've emailed them a couple of times over the years to inform them of the mistake, but it doesn't appear to have registered. I don't even bother deleting their emails anymore.
Isn't this just poor IT standards, though? I have a gmail domain! Everyone else CCed in these emails has a company domain! Does no one notice this?
My ancient laptop finally died, kinda killed it. Got me a Chromebook for only 160 euro it works great. Buttons feel a bit loose but otherwise great stuff
I need a lava machine.
I'm going to eat Poptarts for the first time since 2009!
Everyone says that job searching while you have a job is easier compared to job searching with no job, but I'm not so sure that is true anymore. Maybe overall less stress but still stressful. I hate interviews and I'm now wondering how on earth I managed to get my current job.
Of course it is LESS stressful but certainly not un-stressful. As I teach all of my speech students, you are supposed to experience some measure of stress/nervousness (it is your body's way of kicking you into a higher gear of performance). If you aren't feeling a little stressed or nervous it means you have stopped caring about the "audience" at all -- not a healthy sign.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
I always understood it this way:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
The actual act of doing the search and applying is not easier, it is more that currently working makes you more employable, thus it is easier to get the job whilst working opposed to being out of work. If you are in a job and searching, it is a signal that you are a productive member who wants to improve and give more than what you are currently constrained to do by your job. So this is a sign to your potential new employer that you are a hard-worker. If you are out of work for lets say a year, they are looking at this and going "So.. why aren't they in a job? Are they not that good? Why won't people employ them, do I want that risk?".
I found this to be the case with myself and my friends in different phases/situations of employment. I had one friend who was begging for work, they were even working free for a charity for 'experience' (more that they were running the outlet as unpaid manager) and they were kept being turned down repeatedly. They were begging for 2 years with all sorts of excuses or lack of responses from companies. Finally, some one else who volunteered at the charity had an family member who was looking for new employees in a basic job. He effectively got a shoe in because the niece said how hard he works, etc. Within 2 years, he was in a senior management position within that company, and people have sent him job offers trying to poach him!
I guess the moral of his story is also "Networking is good" and "Take an opportunity when you see it".
You simply do not really need them, good luck
"When He heard what Shi had found, he was excited."
https://www.nature.com/news/an-epige...ession-1.21513
It escalates.
This is so sexy, I am a pretty good dancer but nowhere like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1P3LjkE28 Cohen always +1 RIP
That's more like 70% hugging and feeling and 30% dancing...:sweatdrop:
Rgat is 1% understanding dancing, and hugginh. It is not going to end very wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Husar
My spelling sucks as well I see
Don't confuse taste with understanding. ~;pQuote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
BENIGHTED MUSSOLINI
Apparently I'm like the second person in history to come up with that.
Maybe we should trend performatively-tautological greetings.
"Greetings"
That means the greeting is perfectly neutral and we can move on immediately. Pretty awesome, right?
Vernacularize it?
Grits.
Yo, grittles.
?
hi should do, among my friends things are a bit more creative though
Been grading too many mediocre papers today. Thanks for the lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
My nephew (sister's boy) is turning into a drag I think. I don't have a problem with these things (anymore) but should it be encouraged just of because, maybe you got it wrong and destroy someone if you support it
Don't be scared. It's similar to any costume-based group.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
I think differently nowadays, people can change their minds they are not cemented, hopefully
My mother just keeps on living, the son of a bitch. My mother is a son of a bitch.
-overheard from an old lady on a bus
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
It's is increasingly comming clear that my mother made a bad decision getting ocelots, these are not housecats. Why do people do that, getting a wild animal and expecting it to be a domesticated one, they aren't. These ocelots of her are friendly but constantly on their toes, anything unexpected scares them
Kangerlussuaq doesn't sound much like a Central Asian word, but the Latin-alphabet graffiti marked from the 1990s is pretty suggestive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viking
The "Marius Olsen-ip Aqq." sign and Royal Arctic container a few steps ahead more so.
Is it supposed to be hard to distinguish the topology or geology? Is the grass the wrong species?
(I wonder if anyone has tried building point-and-click games off Google Street View content.)
Indeed, -(su)aq is a quite common ending in many or all inuit languages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
I just thought that precise scene that you get when you click the link looked quite similar to certain scenes from Afghanistan (dry land, mountainous, basic road standard, basic bridge).Quote:
The "Marius Olsen-ip Aqq." sign and Royal Arctic container a few steps ahead more so.
Is it supposed to be hard to distinguish the topology or geology? Is the grass the wrong species?
For a real game, I'd only have a static image and censored out a couple of things, like the road signs.
Like GeoGuessr?Quote:
(I wonder if anyone has tried building point-and-click games off Google Street View content.)
I wouldn't be able to tell it from parts of the American West, being ignorant and insensate of botanical or geological details.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viking
I mean adventure games.Quote:
Like GeoGuessr?
I am an actual human idiot.
Or possibly just a coward.
Now I'm gonna have to put myself out there even more just because I was too scared to put myself out there in the first place.
I'm still gonna do it though.
Maybe.
FUCK
The world will move forward with or without you and it won't much care what you do.Quote:
Originally Posted by the tokai
Taking an active role for yourself might get you something for yourself, or it might not. Not taking and active role guarantees the 'not' result.
I'd advocate stepping out there despite the fear.
If you ask her and she says 'no,' how are you worse off than never asking?
If you try to make something of yourself and fail are you more greatly harmed than if you'd done nothing but watch things go by?
I was thinking about some time, whether it took an hour or an hour-and-a-half to walk somewhere.
Then I figured it was confabulation, "I didn't have a phone back then so it's not like I could have known the time."
But I used to wear a watch. I could have checked the time on my watch.
Interesting how you assumed he was talking about a woman, or romance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
Also, if it's a woman she could disembowel him on the spot and all existence down to the horizon would implode to feast on his dust.Quote:
If you ask her and she says 'no,' how are you worse off than never asking?
If you try to make something of yourself and fail are you more greatly harmed than if you'd done nothing but watch things go by?
My hypothetical examples spoke to romance and to personal success respectively.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
As to the possibility of evisceration, we are all cherry blossoms anyway.
Well, I was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
It's totally fixable though. I've just managed to manoeuvre myself into a position where I'll probably have to get a third person involved. Which makes things that much more awkward.
Also, if she wanted to disembowel me on the spot I would definitely accept that. No implosions necessary.
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Careful now, this is the Frontroom (Kingdom of Sweetness and Light), not the tawdry Backroom with its shysters, bloviates, and rapscallions.Quote:
Originally Posted by the tokai
Shut it. singing me and my friends do a lot my first name is bas so I have one. My voice is apparantly so loudhat it hurts. I like that
This could be copied into the Backroom drunkards thread as well -- not that it does not richly qualify as random thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
I got an odd mom and that is why I love her , she always listens Ramstein in her superfast BMW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOnSh3QlpbQ
Spain vs Portugal, what a match
Can we talk about the Morocco vs Iran match though? Both sad and hilarious.
Also I got myself a new and much better job! :2thumbsup:
It is sad yes, especially hilarious is how Iran is in the top of the group while they were weaker then Marocco, and obviously not as good asQuote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
Ronaldo and some PortugesePortugal and Spain
It was sad for the guy, but the way it looks, neither team will progress beyond the group stage anyway. :shrug:
What was adorable was that Iceland scored its first world cup goal ever and also managed to get a draw against Argentina.
As my default behaviour throughout the day is to continuously switch between different tasks as well as between work and spare time activities, I very much like the contents of this article...
For those of us not spectating (the World Cup), what happened?
Brother of the captain (Bustafa) is a mate of mine he says that tensions are pretty high in the Maroccan team. At least my mate has a nice free trip. Iceland must feel great no matter what happens next, no small feat to not lose from Argentina, that is a great achievement
I am more of a cat-person but I really like dogs, they are awesome animals. I don't like some dog-owners though, carry a bag, and buy me new shoes
I'm not approached for directions or random conversation that often, but it feels like when I am it's disproportionately by black people.
It's happened 3 times just in the past month or so, and a few earlier in the year as well.
I must be a very approachable white boy.
Don't judge a book by it's tatoes, I know what black tears stand for (one tear per murder) but he is one of the few at the resort I am currently in who helps out the disabled whenever he can, nice guy actually, bit of a lost soul with a troubled history
Pffffft good morning it is already hot and damp
I hope the recent air escapade is covered by a later season of Air Crash Investigation.
What is it with Houellebque, can't see how people do not recognise a rather twisted sense of humour. I love his books, 'Submission' is probably my new favorite after 'Atomised'. What is it with some that they do not get that it is all satire. Yes it is absolutily racist, sexist, pornographic, cynical, get over it the joke's on you
Great read, recommended. The jest between the lines is kinda obvious to me not everybody got the joke it seems
I'm totally depressed... I've just returned from my parents' house. Wanted to take some of my old stuff from there... Imagine my disappointment when I saw that termites just ruined my old guitar! It was my first guitar and I still have a hope to repait it but it's badly ruined... I hate those bugs! Already found an article about how to get rid of them. The war is declared...
Fantastic, a bus with activists who wanted to ruin the Sinterklaas-party was halted by locals, an action I totally agree with it is just a children's party it isn't racist at all. Those who stopped the bus got rediculous punishment. A few hours later almost 200k was collected to help them out and it is steadily counting, some give thousands
Could the Dutch team be back? It are only qualifications but unbeaten so far. I would love to see a match with the absolutily awesome southern neighbours, Belgium has become so great, screw France and Germany, Belgium is king now
Cats are really fun animals but when they claw my coat I have to stare at them. I know the brand these things are 1700 at least, got it from a friend without reason, we do that, but I like it. Fuck you cats you have a perfectly fine scratching pole. Screw you cats. Damage is minimal but you do not want any damage at all
Frags,
You and this thread are so simpatico it is scary.
Had to look that word up, never seen it before, it doesn't look like english to me more like Spanish
Going to use it as it's fun to say
Living through the death of the old peak Internet is probably somehow something like experiencing the decline of the bespoke Greco-Roman colonies in the Egyptian oases during the 3rd century CE.
Got to love Dutch weather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIt6SsVqMiE Never noticed any storm where I live but it can be really local and come very sudden
What does that mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by Viking
Anyway, something I had lying around:
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I'm getting nervous because of the international news - so much tensions and uncertainty.
Had a few days with a french gipsie, avoid is bad
We spell that 'Gypsy' Frags, but I am given to understand that they themselves prefer "Romani" at least when being addressed by non-Romani. Though they are pretty comfortable labeling us as 'Gorgers.'Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
Roma and Sinti, two different tribes. Who cares was fun, in true gypsy style suddenly gone, probably back to FranceQuote:
Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
After battling a chronic illness for the past 8 months, I am starting to feel close to normal. Then suddenly I sprained a muscle in my left arm this past Friday, lol.
On New Year's I am hoping for a healthy 2019.
Indeed. I wish you a healthy and, if possibly, happy New Year.Quote:
Originally Posted by a completely inoffensive name
The panning function got messed up in an interesting manner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
Happy new year. I usually go go Amsterdam but stayer here because I didn't veel very well, fever is on a roll here a lot of people are a bit sick. Fireworks are great to watch the sky is exploding
Stormsurge comming our way it seems, that can be bad. Usualy alarmism but the Netherlands is kinda vulnerable for these things. Nothing bad Will happen but could cause soms damage
Taking three weeks off to explore Japan and I'm wondering how fast things can change while I am away.
I'm back. It is very crowded over there.