Just wondering...
POSTED BY: everyworldspinnin
UPDATED: Friday, June 3, 2005 06:14
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Zoid wrote:
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ATC is hours of routine boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.
Ohhh.... I hear ya! Part of why I love my job so much is there's little to zero 'stark terror' involved - unless I knock the ink pot over a months worth of work, and my deadline is the next morning.... Although terror is really too strong a word for such a predicament.
On a serious note though I'm amazed by peoples almost superhuman like ability to undertake certain jobs. Yours is one of them, as are many of the occupations you previously mentioned also.
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Vocal communication is the only tool I have (no radar), but it's a two-way street. The gobbledegook I regularly get on frequency is worse than nothing: It's a 10-second block of interference through which none of my other customers can be served, and all of which will have to be repeated in chunks anyway, in order to be refined into 'information'.
Wow! It's this kinda detail that I find fascinating.
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But anybody who sees air travel as a necessity, as opposed to a cool way to meet new friends (i.e. mid-air), is a man after my own heart. Keep safe, stay vigilant.
I'm incredibly solitary when it comes to flying. I just love looking out the window too much :)
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You never know who you're sharing the skies with; but, I do. ...Be very afraid.
Nice.... Way to make a guy rest easy
I've flown over some very interesting places so I can believe what you're saying... When I was a kid I flew with my mother all over South America and on one occasion we had a fighter following us almost all the way. I swear something was up but nothing was ever said to us ( the passengers) but I remember my mum having an extremely anxious face through-out the journey. Me.... I thought it was cool, but I was eight years old and blissfully unaware of the implications of a Bolivian Jet flying around a 747.The
Somnambulist
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[qoute] I raise dairy goats and make goat milk soaps and assorted toiletries on our family farm outside of Richmond, VA. [/unqoute]
I am from Louisiana. I almost took a job here for the "fun" of it that involved herding goats 5-6 days a week. I thought it could give me a different perspective on life. But instead I landed this cushy job as a Regional Admin to a communications company. There are times, though, I sit back and wonder at what adventures being the " goat girl" would have brought about. *sigh*
Lots of Love,
ShinyGoddess
" Have Good Sex!"
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Originally posted by Emma:
Christhecynic, you compare Bibles? Please explain
Just compare the translations on occasion really. Nothing too interesting. Oddly enough I’ve never gotten my hands on a Catholic bible, the only one remaining that contains an entire book the others do not.
Truth be told I mostly just collect them.
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The New Testament has just as much (and just as little) hatred of homosexuals, women and so on as the Hebrew Bible with the added addition of a copious amount of anti-Semitism (in addition to the xenophobic elements of the Hebrew Bible but in different forms).
I must have missed that, the only anti homosexual part I picked up on was Paul’s bit in one of the Corinthians letters. I never liked Paul anyway, not the time to explain though.
Same with other religions, the Old Testament take on people like Samaritans is
“You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and it’s livestock-with the edge of the sword.
“And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street and completely burn with the fire the city and all its plunder, for the LORD your God . It shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.”
New King James Deuteronomy 13:15-16
Jesus says that a Samaritan can be a good person.
The difference is incredible. A Samaritan, not just a member of another religion but a member of another religion that was once part of Judaism, the Old Testament was very clear that such a person should be killed.
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I'm a computer programmer in the USAF. . .soon to be a full time student again, thinking about going Pre-Med or something.
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Originally posted by ShinyGoddess:
[qoute]There are times, though, I sit back and wonder at what adventures being the " goat girl" would have brought about. *sigh*
Wow! Kinda like "Manon" from Jean De Flourette and Manon De Source Two of my favourite films :)
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" Have Good Sex!"
Is there such a thing as bad sex?..... Or am I just too keen, that I make no distinction?
pensively.....TheSomnambulist.....
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Originally posted by Whitefall:
Lol, has any of you swashbucklers played Monkey Island?
Of course.
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Now that you have given me that question, I thought about it and I think that yes, there can be bad sex. *sigh* unfortunately. But mostly ( mostly) there is good sex. lol
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Originally posted by Jadehand:
This about sums up my take on it too, 'cept for the Catholic part, which gets rid of the guilt part. Socrates was the man. "I drank what?"
You have to get even with FOX, it's a moral imperative.
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Somno wrote:
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Ohhh.... I hear ya! Part of why I love my job so much is there's little to zero 'stark terror' involved - unless I knock the ink pot over a months worth of work, and my deadline is the next morning.... Although terror is really too strong a word for such a predicament...
That's probably because your work doesn't tend to fall flaming from several miles above the surface of the earth, accompanied by a chorus of human voices straight from Dante's Inferno. Black box recordings, ugh...
There, that should make you feel better.
Seriously though, airplane travel is the safest form of mass transit, ya-da, ya-da... Much safer than your car. And don't forget how dangerous the radiation from your cell phone is: brain cancer. And everyone should really wash their hands at least 20 times a day (more than that if you actually touch things)...
Reassuringly,
zoid
P.S.
I thought you were implying you were a pilot.
I didn't intend to scare the 'straights'. If you only fly on commercial flights, you should know that your pilots are the most rigorously trained and best-equipped professionals in the industry. I'd come a lot closer to blithely trusting a commercial pilot with my life than a doctor._________________________________________________
"Sure as I know anything, I know this: I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDM'
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Wow! Kinda like "Manon" from Jean De Flourette and Manon De Source Two of my favourite films :)
Wow them be some fancy movies yer talkin' about there. Does that mean your screen name is a reference to that opera?
Oh and keep the Real Genius shout outs coming. Is it possible to build a space laser large enough to destory the evil that is fox?
Phaedra (a bad luck name)
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