--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> > wrote: > > > > On Aug 22, 2006, at 5:00 PM, new.morning wrote: > > > > > That gets to my primary point. How many are being forcefully > ejected > > > from the domes? > > > > So far, I've only heard of one, but even that is too many. He > > apparently wasn't doing anything except meditating. > > > > > How many are being rejected. My impression is that its > > > very few. And in some, if not most cases, it kind of makes sense - > - > > > Shivama being a good example, IMO. > > > > I didn't find anything threatening in her letter--did you? > > > > > >> Doesn't any of that bother you? > > > > > > If only a handful are being forcefully ejected from the domes or > > > rejected, and for those that are there is some pretty extreme > > > circumstances behind it, I am not heavily bothered. Thats why I > asked, > > > how frequent are these rejections? > > > > > > > > > I thought the days of people laying > > >> guilt trips on others, while also telling them to ignore their > own > > >> better judgment, were over. > > > > > > Agreed. Per above, heavy handed recruiting / guilt-trips are so > 80's. > > > Quite passe. > > > > > >> the fact that they are asking for SS #s (or so I understood) is > > >> troubling > > > > > > As judy has pointed out, many ask for it. I routinely refuse if > its > > > irrelevant. Or if that stops my application, I put in > a "creative" one. > > > > > And Judy's argument is simply an apologia. > > Well, no, actually it was an attempt to bring a > little rationality to your rampant paranoia. > > I have not found that > > many ask for it at all--in fact, outside of the TMO, I can't think > > of any private organization that has, and definitely not with any > > regularity. Apart from someone who said they needed it when I was > > thinking of getting a satellite dish, nobody in the last 10 years > > (I would guess) has asked me for it. (I declined on the SD.) > > I had to supply it to my lawyer when I purchased a > condo recently; the town requires it to transfer the > deed. And as I noted, a physician I went to for a > flu shot asked for it as well. It's still fairly > common. > > > And identity theft is really not the issue, as Judy knows, > > that's just a diversionary tactic she is using--intimidation is. > > Sal, you're losing it. I never suggested the TMO > was collecting SS#s so it could commit identity > theft. How the heck did you get that idea?? > > I mentioned identity theft simply to point out that > before identity theft became a threat, SS#s were > routinely used for identification. > > What I don't get is why you think asking for your > SS# would be *intimidating*. What is it you would > be intimidated *about*? What would the implied > threat be? > > For the record, if I had to give them my SS# to > go on a course these days, I wouldn't do it, even > if it meant I couldn't go. I don't trust them to > keep those records secure from people who might > use them for identity theft.
Forget the ODD. In Judy's last two paragraphs she asks and answers her own question, thus demonstrating the classical definition of multiple-personality disorder. > > > > > I felt the same > > way years back when I routinely gave it to them. > > > > Sal > > > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
