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  1. wil

    Religion and Prayer in the Workplace

    When my cardiologist sent me to the cardiac.surgeon (my second open heart) he grabbed my hand, bowed his head and said a prayer. It was without consent without warning and I felt offended, no...pissed off. He is not my cardiologist anymore. This does not matter the form of the prayer or the...
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    Religion and Prayer in the Workplace

    The issue is preferential treatment with those that are in the prayer group and peer pressure to join the prayer group for the perks. Similarly back when they banned smoking in the workplace....folks would go outside to smoke. If you had chosen to shorten your life by smoking, you got multiple...
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    Another Newbie

    Now back to what a dark pagan practitioner is/does, believes. And shaman? How is that title attained? Side note, I was up at Standing Rock in Oceti Sakowin during the pipeline protests...was referred to by an old native as an elder.... I said not me, and we got into a conversation, I asked...
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    Another Newbie

    the full phrase is "Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one."
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    Religion and Prayer in the Workplace

    I for one thought it implied all religions. It appears yes this example was Christian...but could have easily been a Christian complaining about having to deal with Muslims in the workplace. .
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    Another Newbie

    Tell us more! Do ya know the rest of that phrase?
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    Religion and Prayer in the Workplace

    The only workplace I can see religion allowed is a parochial school, religious institution or charity. I am not in favor of a coach praying to whomever before a game.
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    Religion and Prayer in the Workplace

    The year was 1972 when I put my foot down, my butt down and refused to stand or say the pledge (doubt anyone is surprised) for s week they had me in the principals.office during the.pledge, to not gain support. Then I pointed out all the adults in the office not pledging...year by year more...
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    A snippet of new information from space

    I wonder if aliens are this excited when they suck up a cow...
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    An interesting/"interesting" excavation?

    That was down there....not like they will be excavating that in an archeological dig any time soon...but I'll bet the core sample has a place in the museum
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    Humorous Snippet

    Her stuff is fire! So enjoy her wordmithery
  12. wil

    We revived a worm...

    In cryptobiosis for 46,000 years...so we never knew about it, dound it frozen, so not extinct, yet a new species. So what the heck, thaw it out...z The Panagrolaimus kolymaensis worm was discovered in 2002 in Siberian permafrost near the Kolyma River. Scientists revived it in 2018, and its...
  13. wil

    Independence/National Day Celebrations

    For those that have it and pretend we all have it, yes...for those second class citizens and immigrants that have paid the bills with their sweat, health and lives for all these years....some can celebrate it was better than where they came from.
  14. wil

    What if your children choose another belief?

    If that is what you read out of what I said, I don't have time for the discussion.it will take to change.your understanding.
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    What if your children choose another belief?

    Your mother definitely said it better than I. My totally blunt thought regarding religions .. don't try to wave it in my face or shove it down my throat. And of course Rabio, I did no teach my children that when they were young... but they did probably hear me say that to others before they...
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    What if your children choose another belief?

    Is something I have always admired. I never put it all together till I had a Jewish business partner and was at a juggling club meeting in my 30s where a new fellow (jewish) was reading the membership list of the club and commented that three quarters of the club were Jews...me I was shocked...
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    What if your children choose another belief?

    Oh yes!..what we think we do vs what we do...amazing!
  18. wil

    Robert F Kennedy Jr

    I believe stump turtle is appropriate.
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    What if your children choose another belief?

    lol, you wrote it, you really believe that? Good stuff! Awesome! Well we had some good responses!
  20. wil

    The world's oldest computer

    Early on the CPU made SPAM forbidden.
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