by Skouperd » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:58 pm
pmurgs wrote:Skouperd wrote:By the way, my religious believes prohibits any dealings with MWeb. So whether or not they have the best deal or not, I unfortunately cannot consider them as an option.
Please excuse my ignorance, but out of curiosity, why might this be so? I'm honestly at a loss here as to what mweb do that might make people take the stance you have.
Hi Murgs, sure no problem, without turning this into a heavy religious argument, I appreciate that I have a very strange and unusual religion. I do not necessarily subscribe to popular believes etc, yet, I have an open enough mind and have engaged in arguments (technical, theological, theoretical, philosophical, scientifically etc) with all walks of life including Muslims, Fanatical Christians (Christians who believe the earth is only 6000 years old), Normal Christians, Buddhism, Judaism, Satanist, Atheist, Deities, you name them, I have argued with and against them all. So, during all my arguments, I came to the conclusion that irrespective of what your believes are, none of the believes will make my internet bandwidth go quicker, non of them will give me a better KDR (well, some might actually send you on training, but that is another topic), but more importantly, none of them will allow me to hit the golf ball any sweeter.
So at the end of the day, I decided I will be a loyal follower of only what is in my own best interest, which was at that stage the continuous participation of a weekly ritual I performed. Not only did my ritual involve me being in wide open fields every Saturday morning, it also required absolute dedication, and clairvoyance that can only be matched by the intense adrenalin rush observed when that final MCom station blows in BC2. I am talking about golf off course.
Unfortunately, this ritual of mine was a costly ritual especially considering that at the stage I was also paying for my own studies which I did part-time. As such, I took a zero tolerance policy on anybody, or anything, which tried to screw me or my ability to participate in my weekly ritual. So, when MWeb screwed me over a R50 debit order (after I’ve cancelled my subscription) in 1998, they were messing with my religion; i.e. golf. Despite my sincere efforts to enter into discussions with their accounts department, and legal department, their attitude at the time was basically, stuff you, we only care about new customers, not customers that already left them. So I made a solemn vow on the sacred grounds, (i.e. the putting green on the 18th hole) that I will never in my life have dealings with Mweb again.
It is now 12 years later and though I no longer participate so much in my weekly rituals, a vow made on the sacred grounds, is one that you can never break.
True story… well, most of it, since I just haven’t argued with a deity yet.
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[quote="Skouperd "]By the way, my religious believes prohibits any dealings with MWeb. So whether or not they have the best deal or not, I unfortunately cannot consider them as an option.
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Please excuse my ignorance, but out of curiosity, why might this be so? I'm honestly at a loss here as to what mweb do that might make people take the stance you have.
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Hi Murgs, sure no problem, without turning this into a heavy religious argument, I appreciate that I have a very strange and unusual religion. I do not necessarily subscribe to popular believes etc, yet, I have an open enough mind and have engaged in arguments (technical, theological, theoretical, philosophical, scientifically etc) with all walks of life including Muslims, Fanatical Christians (Christians who believe the earth is only 6000 years old), Normal Christians, Buddhism, Judaism, Satanist, Atheist, Deities, you name them, I have argued with and against them all. So, during all my arguments, I came to the conclusion that irrespective of what your believes are, none of the believes will make my internet bandwidth go quicker, non of them will give me a better KDR (well, some might actually send you on training, but that is another topic), but more importantly, none of them will allow me to hit the golf ball any sweeter.
So at the end of the day, I decided I will be a loyal follower of only what is in my own best interest, which was at that stage the continuous participation of a weekly ritual I performed. Not only did my ritual involve me being in wide open fields every Saturday morning, it also required absolute dedication, and clairvoyance that can only be matched by the intense adrenalin rush observed when that final MCom station blows in BC2. I am talking about golf off course.
Unfortunately, this ritual of mine was a costly ritual especially considering that at the stage I was also paying for my own studies which I did part-time. As such, I took a zero tolerance policy on anybody, or anything, which tried to screw me or my ability to participate in my weekly ritual. So, when MWeb screwed me over a R50 debit order (after I’ve cancelled my subscription) in 1998, they were messing with my religion; i.e. golf. Despite my sincere efforts to enter into discussions with their accounts department, and legal department, their attitude at the time was basically, stuff you, we only care about new customers, not customers that already left them. So I made a solemn vow on the sacred grounds, (i.e. the putting green on the 18th hole) that I will never in my life have dealings with Mweb again.
It is now 12 years later and though I no longer participate so much in my weekly rituals, a vow made on the sacred grounds, is one that you can never break.
True story… well, most of it, since I just haven’t argued with a deity yet. :p
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