Rossmen, thanks for your clarification. To answer your question: I was hoping to get specific info from actual victims of these scams to provide to the appropriate authorities so that some of the...

Robyn, I have calculated the numbers for a pyramid scheme of this particular type (each one recruit two others and receive the buy-in fees from those 3 levels below). About 89% of the women who...

Jbox, your "contribution" to this thread includes post #16, in which you praise GO for their low prices (a perfectly reasonable thing to mention except that it's entirely irrelevant to the topic of...

Agreed. IMHO, you're a bit too forgiving of bullshit. Not a virtue.


I consider myself a rationalist. Here are a few things I believe (all of which are subject to change in the light of some good...

Dian, I'm surprised to hear this from you. I thought you understood me fairly well.


My responsibility to others includes using a lot of my time and effort to educate people, free of charge, with...

Uh...are you saying that fooling somebody into thinking you're psychic is a good way to build trust? Speaking as one who was trained in psychotherapy (my MA is in Counseling), it seems unethical to...

That's perfectly good reasoning, Barry, and it leads to a perfectly good hypothesis: that graphology yields accurate information about people's personality traits. The good news is that that's an...

Pam, I've appreciated your contributions, but must correct you on one thing: While I accept your assessment that Varda is apparently closed-minded on the subject of graphology, your attribution to me...

I was told by 2 employees that evening that they were charging more than 99 cents for that squash.


Bingo!


I appreciate the feedback, Ron. I always like to hear when people think I'm wrong,...

Re: "eric"--
I wasted a lot of time and energy trying to reason with him and giving him the benefit of the doubt, but as he's made it clear that he's a troll, I won't be feeding him any more after...

Interesting stuff, Victoria!
Folks, here's the item from the article linked above that's most relevant to this thread:
"The store I worked at would make some of its sales very specific...and, in my...

Eric, there was no butternut nor acorn squash in the box labeled with the "99 cents" sign, nor, I think anywhere in the store, so they couldn't very well have been advertising them. If they'd been...

Zeno, expecting that people should be honest with me has nothing to do with naivete. Of course, people often won't be honest, but it's still reasonable to expect that they should be. Deciding to shop...

Thanks, Ted, for that informative article. To those of you who may think my suspicion of some grocery store skullduggery was "a tempest in a teapot" (Hi, jbox, eric, and bill shearer!), here's the...

Sara, I don't have time to read even one whole book each on all the topics I get drawn into discussions about, do you? In the Proof of Heaven discussion, I gleaned what appeared to be the author's...

Varda, just because you don't want to answer that question doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it. It is, in fact, a crucial question in conversations like this, especially since you've been...

Obviously. What concerned me was the fact that the employee didn't take down the misleading sign even when I suggested it and was standing right there observing. I have to consider the hypothesis...

Rossmen, I hate to see people get victimized, and I feel a social responsibility to try to do something about it. What's hard to understand about that?


Those would be the ones who have profited...

Allow me to clarify something here: I misused the words "superstitious" and "divination" in my initial post on this thread. (I'll go back and correct that.) I didn't realize that both of those terms...

Stargazer, it sounds like you've seen enough pricing inaccuracy at Groce-Out to be suspicious that it may be purposeful. This motivates me to return there and shop, paying careful attention to how...

The other night I decided that, my finances being what they are, I need to get into the habit of shopping at Grocery Outlet (AKA Groce-Out), to save money. I went to my local Groce-Out (on 4th St. at...

Those interested in this topic may wish to read my recent article "Pyramid of Betrayal" here, if you haven't already. Parts of it will be a bit redundant if you're among the few who read my lengthy...

Sisters and Brothers:

I am taking some positive steps to try and inoculate our community against pyramid schemes. This requires that I hear from some of you who have been victimized by this sort...

The idea that we would ever consider unsupported, pseudoscientific practices as relevant to determining someone's guilt or innocence is really, really creepy. :bs:
...

25492I'm a bit dubious about the accuracy of this test. Most or all of the questions are oversimplified to the point where an "agree", "maybe" or "disagree" answer might lead to conclusions that...

Your point is well-taken, spam1. Having hitchhiked all over the country, including the deep South, with long hair and a beard in the 70s, I have some experiential basis for agreeing with your basic...

I have heard that if you're speeding in Sebastopol you're pretty likely to get a ticket. Seems reasonable to me.

Excellent question about the "ionic foot baths", Moon! I spent a few hours digging around on the 'Net to see if there was any good evidence for their claims. I found none. Along with unfounded claims...

Hi, Chris!

I read the blog you linked to, and I'll just say two things about it: 1) The writer didn't mount a good argument in support of his position (that the poor don't have more kids than the...

He must not have health insurance then. He'd be a hypocrite if he did. (I'll bet he does--and is.)

Good info and advice from an expert, triggered by the uproar over allegations by Woody Allen's adopted daughter that he sexually abused her 21 years ago when she was 7 years old:

Believe the...

I agree that it's plausible that someone publicly supporting police review could be subject to harassment by the police. Having said that, I don't have the impression that anyone driving properly and...

P.S. If a lot of your local amphibians are two-headed, legless, etc. that may give you a clue about the toxicity of the environment too.:greenbouncer:

I think amphibians are much better "coal mine canaries" than reptiles, because they have very permeable skin unlike the scale-covered skin of the reptiles. Thus they absorb much more of whatever's in...

"wescounty", you're setting up a false dichotomy here. It's not an either/or choice; one can care about the police issues you cite as well as caring about who's posting what, so as, for example, to...

Much kudos to Jane L. Mickelson for a very very touching poem.

If a representative of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an agency with an anti-pot bias (notice that it's called "Institute on Drug Abuse", not "Institute on Drug Use" or "Drug Benefits"), says...

Yeeesh! There's a mental image I could have done without. :fie:

Yeah, people say all kinds of silly shit, don't we? :ucrazy:

Now that your nips have been pierced, Edward, you'll never be able to breastfeed again.

If indeed fluoridation is toxic at the dosages used, you're right; there's nothing emotional about those facts. But you miss my point. Lilith didn't cite any facts about toxicity in her post; she...

There are a couple of people whom I have pretty much written off as lost causes, but for the most part, I err on the side of trying to communicate. Here I'll just quote what I said about this issue...

Yeah, I see people doing that all the time. It's another reason I'm glad I became an atheist.
Of course, if someone wanted to cite some god as a reason for something (especially a negative judgment...

I haven't studied both sides of the fluoridation issue, so am pretty much neutral on it, but I must take exception to this reasoning. The fact that something is waste material, industrial or...

I hope you didn't think I was rushing you, Barry (how could I after my column was so late?).

And let me know if I can be supportive somehow around your family challenges. I think you have my phone...

by Dixon Wragg
WaccoBB.net

Column #18: Pyramid of Betrayal



"I was on the women's gifting circle and lost about $6000.00 and now stay away from them..."

"I personally know several...

Jeff, thank you for adding your powerful and heartful voice to the crusade that I've been waging on Wacco off and on since 2005! Your position is virtually the same as what I've been saying. It bears...

So you're suggesting that having pierced nipples would interfere somehow with the breast-feeding process?

This one was posted to YouTube in 2013, but it's the same old interview from 2011 that Edward linked to above!

Why not?