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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. |
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Gentleman of leisure
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You never know, the psychiatrist may even join us.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Centralia, Washington
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Hey, I'm getting close to finishing the affidavits. I'm been living in the forest for quite some time studying. I'll have the affidavits complete by the end of August. I have to travel a bit to meet those doing the affidavits. It is actually very difficult to find people to do it. Getting someone to go out of their way is hard.
The psychologist I met kinda freaked out saying "whoooa man, I can't have anything to do with that, that really freaks me out". At least he wrote me up as being mentally disabled so I could get some financial assistance. All I had to do was tell the truth. I've also leared I can do other things during my time in the forest. Stay tuned, I've got myself ready to be #1 on the National Witch Burning List. |
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Domestic Godless
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Batman, Please make absolutely sure that this is the absolute and only reason that he wrote you up this way.
I am not an expert on these things, but I don't think that this would be legal or ethical, and so you need to be prepared to accept that he may have been trying to be honest with you, and you just didn't take it in. |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I'm sorry, but this is completely unacceptable.
If you're capable of earning a million dollars from the Randi challenge, then it's absolutely sickening that you're applying for welfare. There are people out there who really do need financial assistance, and as far as I'm concerned you're stealing from them. I could understand it if you just needed some temporary support while you got the affidavits together. But it's been months, and it sounds like you haven't even been trying. Well, what's done is done. Let's start moving forwards. Can you get your psychologist to write an affidavit saying that he's "really freaked out" by your yo-yo demonstration?
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What do you know? Your not homeless and without food, Are you? And living in the middle of nowhere on foot owning nothing but what I carry. Having a gun put to your head for your school money? Education wasted? Everything taken from you? I don't like your reply or you at all.
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Student
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Centralia, Washington
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Also,
I really don't like your stupid quote, "Don't worry. People who scam the welfare system don't get put to death; they just go to jail." I can see you right now, ....running scared down that dark ally way. |
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Aurora Walking Vacation "A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."--Marshall McLuhan |
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Melbourne
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It won't be long now.
I am in suspenders, and have been for months now. |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Outside of Detroit
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ChaosEngineer: My guess would be that the shrink really belives he is batfeces loco. But I can't wait for an application to finally get seen to the end. That hasn't happened in a while.
Wonder whatever happened to Ian Conger, or that guy who was stalking the girl with his mind? |
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A Little Ugly on the Side
Join Date: Mar 2006
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And whatever happened to our Mental Professor? Anyone wanna bet a similar thing happens with batman?
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Still donning that avatar, huh?
I would not want to bet on this. However, experience shows the probability of an accepted application - let alone a preliminary test - is inversely proportional to the amount of talk on the part of the applicant beforehand. Therefore: Patience, mrfreeze, patience. And thank you very much for delivering my phrase o' the week: Batfeces Loco. Due to your inspirational input, I did a song with the exact title. It's kinda like the song "Mr. Roper, Mr. Roper", performed by "Irish" Terry Conklin in the movie "The Great White Hype". I love it. And I love you. |
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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In kindness to potential applicants, it should be noted that application processing has been relatively slow of late. It is possible such people are wary to submit something until a faster turnaround becomes common again.
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A Little Ugly on the Side
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I remember how complimentary and kind you were when my avatar first appeared. Gzuz, your encouraging words were the motivating catalyst for my decision to keep this avatar.
On to business. Batman, by his own admission, has now met with a psychologist who determined a mental disability exists. Can we now call him 'Mental Batman'? Patience with koo koo applicants is not a virtue I possess. I hope he gets the psychological help he obviously needs. But as for a challenge test, no way, ain't gonna happen. |
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A Little Ugly on the Side
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If my words encourage Mental Batman to seek further help with his disability, to take appropriate medication, and to follow through with any treatment suggested by his psychologist, then that would be a positive, albeit unintended, consequence. My words were in no way intended to encourage MB to follow through with his desire to be tested by JREF. Quite the contrary. If anything, they are intended to discourage him from continuing to feed his delusions.
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A Little Ugly on the Side
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance-- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." --Steve Martin |
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Debunking Ninja
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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. |
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A Little Ugly on the Side
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No, I can't. There isn't one. That wasn't the only quote you cited. My answer to your question was in reference to the additional quote.
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance-- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." --Steve Martin |
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Student
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One more affidavit to go. I'm gett'in it from a cute girl in the psychology business. Gotta travel 30 miles to go see her in about a week. She don't know what I can do with my hands.
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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. |
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Still in Doubt
Join Date: Apr 2004
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I'm glad to see you back, Ryan. I was sort of worried for you, since you gave the impression that you had a few serious struggles to cope with in this thread - I'm sure I wasn't the only one.
I'll look forward to see your claim tested as well, but I personally don't think you should rush it, just take it slow
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Gentleman of leisure
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Batman
Your post implies you have two already. Tell us about who did those (their occupation) and what you showed them. You have done well. You are probably the first person to get two affidavits. This is amazing in itself. Is one by a psychiatrist? If so, then JREF will have to take you seriously. |
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A Little Ugly on the Side
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Yes, please tell us. Who are they? Do they carry the type of high credentials needed to convince the JREF to test you?
And, regarding the third affidavit, you say she is in the "psychology business". What does that mean? |
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance-- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." --Steve Martin |
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Student
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Well my time is short at the moment. All three affidavits are being done by educated professionals. Which will hopefully suffice. They are three people who I chose based on my gut feeling. That is "one" reason why I'm taking my time. I look forward to sharing more information to events I've witnessed and my skills of communicating with other life forms to the public.
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A Little Ugly on the Side
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Ryan, can you be more specific? Can you tell us what you mean by "educated professionals"? What are their actual titles? What do they do for a living? Please elaborate. Who are they?
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance-- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." --Steve Martin |
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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. |
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Student
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Centralia, Washington
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I have to meet her shortly. Thanks for asking.
As for the details on who exactly writes the affidavits, I would rather not get into too much detail on their lives. I appreciate very much that they went out of their way for me thinking I'm possibly being ridiculous and I don't want to put thier livihoods in any jepordy for doing me a favor. One is a scientist (now a business owner), one a teacher, and one a psychiatric professional. People like me historically for hundreds of years get murdered in order to sustain truth & ect. for the power of slavery. Time for another brew. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2005
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I do not agree with your statement in your second to last sentence.
Describing your habits with chemical stimuli might not serve towards strengthening your credibility as a Challenge Applicant. Well, as one who actually has or does what he claims. What will be your next steps towards proving your claim, batman? |
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A Little Ugly on the Side
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Ryan,
OK. Thank you. But further elaboration would be most helpful. Without revealing any personal information that would identify these folks, I'm sure you could, for instance, tell us what the teacher teaches. Does he/she teach in a public school? Does he/she teach at the college level? Maybe they teach Cooking, or Karate, or some other vocation? How about the scientist? What area of science was he/she involved in? And, again, I ask what you mean by "psychiatric professional"? Surely, these questions can be answered without putting anyone in jeopardy. |
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance-- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." --Steve Martin |
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A Little Ugly on the Side
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Oh, and one more thing. Ryan, would you be willing to post the actual wording of each affidavit? In other words, what did the document say that these people were willing to sign? Thanks.
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance-- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." --Steve Martin |
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Finally finished reading all of the posts and now i am completely depressed.
How sad is all that. I feel like racing home and giving my son a big hug just for the sake of it. "There but for good fortune, Go I" |
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. So the gods gave us Leprosy because.......? |
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Muse
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From the description he's given, it's possible the professionals have not actually witnessed a demonstration yet, but that they have agreed to do so and then sign afterwards. Hopefully the demonstration will go well and they'll be able to help him out.
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