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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 1st July 2014, 07:58 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 4,909
Posted By Roma
Well I passed the test , but like many...

Well I passed the test ,

but like many other Canadians I think I would have done better on a U.S. history test.
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 1st April 2014, 09:21 AM
Replies: 1,453
Views: 187,879
Posted By Roma
What if aliens had created a portal in the Indian...

What if aliens had created a portal in the Indian Ocean and several countries government and military leaders wanted an excuse to band together and search all over the whole Indian Ocean floor to...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 4th February 2014, 10:39 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 3,439
Posted By Roma
I think this is still on topic.....I work in one...

I think this is still on topic.....I work in one of the many many seniors retirement complexes that have been popping up all over the place lately, not nursing homes, but seniors residences that cost...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 8th November 2013, 11:01 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
You know people sometimes say things to me that I...

You know people sometimes say things to me that I just don't understand. I'm not asking for an explanation of this statement though, I just want to let you know Brattus that nothing about what my...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 8th November 2013, 09:34 AM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
rcfieldz, I don't know what you mean. My...

rcfieldz, I don't know what you mean.

My daughter is back at home, safe with me, and is back in university catching up with her work, in fact she wrote her mid term exams this week, finished in...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 6th November 2013, 02:52 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,331
Posted By Roma
radio interview with Doug Mesner

This is one freaking great interview by investigative journalist Douglas Mesner exposing the fraud of the dissociative identity disorder industry, recovered memories of satanic ritual abuse, alien...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 4th November 2013, 07:27 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 2,973
Posted By Roma
I just finished a week of training at *** ***...

I just finished a week of training at *** *** Research and Marketing, their receptionist has a BA in Geography, their office administrator has a Masters in Pychology. Of the twenty students in my...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 4th November 2013, 07:08 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
Okay.....Constable Enns from the Winnipeg city...

Okay.....Constable Enns from the Winnipeg city police told me today that there is absolutely nothing illegal about that picture titled "How to keep them quiet" with the girls ductaped.

Unless the...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 29th October 2013, 06:02 AM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
Oh I'm not going to communicate with Kelsey, and...

Oh I'm not going to communicate with Kelsey, and yes he was the person who stole my daughter's SIM card, I suspect she took a picture of something he didn't want her to have. So this is what an RCMP...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 28th October 2013, 08:38 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
Well I haven't yet told the Mennonite church...

Well I haven't yet told the Mennonite church people that I'm never going back again, I haven't told them anything, I just said I wasn't going yesterday, no reason.
I agree that I probably shouldn't...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 27th October 2013, 08:24 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
:sdl: thank-you Madalch, you made me laugh and...

:sdl: thank-you Madalch, you made me laugh and brightened my day :D
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 27th October 2013, 03:57 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
Way ahead of you.... This past month I have...

Way ahead of you....

This past month I have been sending all of my complaints and concerns, including that picture, by email....to the general office at Wavereley church instead of the pastors...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 27th October 2013, 03:23 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
Funny you should suggest this, About two...

Funny you should suggest this,

About two years ago my daughter invited me to the Baptist church summer picnic, so I went and checked everything out.
Not the friendliest bunch let me tell you, I...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 27th October 2013, 01:13 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
I called the police, they say my daughter is 18...

I called the police, they say my daughter is 18 so she is an adult and there is a Privacy Act preventing them from talking to me.

I talked to an intake worker at the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 27th October 2013, 01:04 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
Shine I can tell you that for several hours...

Shine I can tell you that for several hours yesterday evening I was going back and forth about becoming an Atheist, I have quite a few Atheist friends, I think I would fit right in,

BUT


okay...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 27th October 2013, 12:52 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
Okay, calmed down as much as I can, but somehow ,...

Okay, calmed down as much as I can, but somehow , yet, .....even angrier at the Mennonite church pastors for defending the Baptist church pastors.
A long time ago, 2004 I think it was, a member of...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 27th October 2013, 12:07 AM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
I don't understand what you mean.

I don't understand what you mean.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 26th October 2013, 11:53 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
Thanks Orphia, I am trying not to swear right now...

Thanks Orphia, I am trying not to swear right now , I am so angry.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 26th October 2013, 10:55 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
Unfortunately the Baptist church pastors also...

Unfortunately the Baptist church pastors also have the power to completely control my 18 year-old daughter, it's a very bad situation, very bad, I got the police involved but they won't do anything...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 26th October 2013, 10:43 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
Yes lionking I do think you understand why, I...

Yes lionking I do think you understand why, I decided not to post this in the "say what's on your mind" thread because it probably belongs here instead.

Yesterday two Mennonite church pastors...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 26th October 2013, 10:29 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,888
Posted By Roma
I'll never go to church again

That's it, I am never going to church ever again !

I'm a 54 year-old Mennonite and I am not claiming to have suddenly become an Athiest or anything like that,
however, I have finally had it with...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 9th October 2013, 03:18 PM
Replies: 55
Views: 2,760
Posted By Roma
There is no argument about the word man, the...

There is no argument about the word man,
the offending word is "sons" , as in the part of the anthem that goes:
"In all thy sons command".

That word excludes females, unless you have the same...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 8th October 2013, 09:07 PM
Replies: 55
Views: 2,760
Posted By Roma
I've been listening to a well known radio talk...

I've been listening to a well known radio talk show host Charles Adler make his arguments, repeatedly the same arguments, in favour of not changing the Canadian national anthem words from "in all thy...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 2nd October 2013, 10:46 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 2,558
Posted By Roma
Bullies don't just live in schools, there are ...

Bullies don't just live in schools, there are
bullies where you work,
bullies who are in all kinds of bureaucracy,
bullies in your own family.

Sometimes it can feel like the bullying will...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 29th September 2013, 09:18 PM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
Thank-you for not putting a Dr. in front of that...

Thank-you for not putting a Dr. in front of that lunatic's name.

I can't understand why a magazine would call itself "New Scientist" and then edit and gag their writers half to death. However...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 28th September 2013, 06:36 AM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
Nope ;)

Nope ;)
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 25th September 2013, 09:14 PM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
Here you go Orphia, it's the story I was telling...

Here you go Orphia, it's the story I was telling you about,
guess who "Carol's" psychiatrist is :tinfoil
...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 24th September 2013, 05:47 PM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
Robert you should read Debbie Nathan's book...

Robert you should read Debbie Nathan's book "Sybil Exposed".

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11034297-sybil-exposed

from Debbie Nathan's book:

But what do we really know about how Sybil...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 18th September 2013, 08:42 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,828
Posted By Roma
No, it wasn't for accuracy, the diet story was in...

No, it wasn't for accuracy, the diet story was in a magazine which offered several suggested daily amounts (3 meals plus snacks ), the amounts varied between 271 and 265 and 270, it was just that 271...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 17th September 2013, 06:03 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,828
Posted By Roma
271 grams of protein daily ?

Just looking over some magazines in the library today, I found a diet that recommends 271 grams of protein every day; lots of meat and eggs and protein powder that they are marketing of course.

I...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 9th September 2013, 08:30 PM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
This is very much like the Twilight Rapist trial...

This is very much like the Twilight Rapist trial because at the end of that trial the judge told the jury to disregard Colin Ross' testimony.
I read the transcript of Colin Ross' testimony and it...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 7th September 2013, 08:07 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,731
Posted By Roma
It is true, my old geography prof pointed that...

It is true, my old geography prof pointed that out, the crime rates are higher in countries that have higher temperatures.
And more to your point, even though I live in Winnipeg which is frozen...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 6th September 2013, 07:08 PM
Replies: 67
Views: 6,446
Posted By Roma
Well my neighbours family is all rail thin, no...

Well my neighbours family is all rail thin, no problem with obesity, but every time I see them they are going to or coming from 7 Eleven with giant size slurpees or Big Gulps, that's a lot of sugar....
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th September 2013, 05:16 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,803
Posted By Roma
No, no, no, this guy took his little...

No, no, no, this guy took his little victim/daughter to church every Sunday, a Christian church, so there are no virgins waiting for him there.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th September 2013, 05:09 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 835
Posted By Roma
Are you implying that Coast to Coast AM is not a...

Are you implying that Coast to Coast AM is not a reliable source of science stuff ?
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th September 2013, 05:03 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 835
Posted By Roma
Please allow me to confuse the issue: The...

Please allow me to confuse the issue:

The rise in obesity in the past century could maybe be connected in some way then to the rise in cesarean sections in the past century.
Oh ya, I heard it on...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 4th September 2013, 08:20 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 5,803
Posted By Roma
As long as we're bringing God into this I believe...

As long as we're bringing God into this I believe that Ariel Castro is rotting in Hell for eternity. That is also something one if his victims told him about when she gave her statement in court:...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 1st September 2013, 01:24 PM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
How they would spin this ? Oh something like...

How they would spin this ? Oh something like this:
"Once again Doug and the other Satanists have victimized another abused woman".
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 21st July 2013, 09:25 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,813
Posted By Roma
I live in Winnipeg, our Provincial bird is the...

I live in Winnipeg, our Provincial bird is the mosquito, and this year the mosquitos here are carrying West Nile virus, pretty neat trick for bugs in the middle of the Canadian prairies.
People...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th July 2013, 08:28 PM
Replies: 217
Views: 9,852
Posted By Roma
I agree, but there has been something happening...

I agree, but there has been something happening in Canada lately which involves McDonalds and many other places like 7 Eleven, Burger King, Subway, and various places like those that students usually...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 13th July 2013, 07:28 PM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
Your welcome Orphia. Tell you one thing for...

Your welcome Orphia.

Tell you one thing for sure, if Robert Steffan sues Judy Byington and she is stupid enough to use Dr.Colin Ross as a defence witness I will gladly give Robert all of my...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 13th July 2013, 06:13 PM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
The final draft was sent to me a couple weeks ago...

The final draft was sent to me a couple weeks ago with an apology from the free lance journalist about the New Scientist editor's censoring of my name and Colin Ross' name.
I promised the journalist...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 13th July 2013, 01:05 PM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
Uh oh, the word "hacked" means something...

Uh oh, the word "hacked" means something different now.
So no the New Scientist didn't "hack" her feature story, they ruined it by completely censoring it .
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 13th July 2013, 10:46 AM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
Couldn't agree more Doug. Yesterday I was told by...

Couldn't agree more Doug. Yesterday I was told by a journalist, who has just submitted a feature article about Satanic cults and psych fraud to the New Scientist that her story has been hacked and...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 28th June 2013, 11:11 PM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
Don't you just love it when they do that ! ...

Don't you just love it when they do that !

As the saying goes: Just give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves.
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 26th June 2013, 09:35 PM
Replies: 2,132
Views: 426,454
Posted By Roma
That's a good point Apology. I remember...

That's a good point Apology.
I remember something one of my laywers said to me a long time ago when I was suing Dr.Colin Ross (Ross wrote the forward to Byington's book 22 Faces).
My lawyer was...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 19th June 2013, 12:18 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,109
Posted By Roma
Thanks for the help guys, I think the biggest...

Thanks for the help guys, I think the biggest problem with my argument was that I was arguing with the wrong person.
Today I talked with the supervisor again, but this time not arguing with him,...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 18th June 2013, 11:19 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,109
Posted By Roma
Because the only reason given to me during the...

Because the only reason given to me during the intake interview for why the person could not get the job was the particular person's X.
I was not given any other reason. They will not give me any...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 18th June 2013, 10:09 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,109
Posted By Roma
theprestige, maybe that's what's bothering me...

theprestige, maybe that's what's bothering me then.
If my argument is invalid then I need more enough information to build a better argument.
The problem I have is the person (supervisor) won't...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 18th June 2013, 09:37 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,109
Posted By Roma
Dinwar I don't have much more information. I have...

Dinwar I don't have much more information. I have asked and in fact I insisted that I be given more information but the person I am arguing with just keeps repeating the same argument over and over...
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