J0nny Ling0

My nickname is just for fun I guess. When I was in residence in the Tenth Corps, Dr. Wierwille got a hold of this video taped movie called "Jonny Lingo" that was put out by the Mormons. The basice essence of the story is of a fine, handsome and wealthy Polynesian man named "Jonny Lingo", and how he returned to his home island village to "buy himself a wife". And so, as word spread amongst the excited islanders that "Jonny Lingo is coming to town! Jonny Lingo is coming to town!", the young unmarried girls all hoped that they would be the one that Jonny Lingo would "pick" to be his wife. Of course, during this story, it was a source of humor that the cultural custom was that men seeking wives pay the fathers of the soon to be brides with a "payment of cows". And so, as the excitement in the village grew, with many older married women bragging about how many cows their husbands paid for them, the older gals wondered how many cows the fine and handsome and wealthy Jonny Lingo would pay for his prospective bride. And as it happened, Jonny Lingo picked a supposedly "homely and stupid" girl named "Mohanna". And when Jonny went to the drunk and slovenly father of Mohanna, the father stumbled to the edge of the jungle and called to her: "Mohanna You Ugly! Come out of there! Jonny wants to buy you for his wife!!" And of course, the abused girl came from the jungle very timidly, and Jonny Lingo paid an unprecedented eight cows for her! And of course all of the old biddies were scandalized that the piece of crap Mohanna would have had such a high price paid for her, for, imagine that! An Eight Cow Woman! And, when Jonny took her home, and loved her into loving herself, she became the beautiful woman that she actually was, and they lived happily ever after. The moral of the story being that People are to be loved, not used and abused. And when people are loved, the very best comes out in them and their beauty shines forth. And of course in the Corps, we guys delighted in telling our Corps Sistahs with "Islander accent" things like "Hey Suzy, you not eight cow woman, you ten cow woman!" I am sure that many of you remember this, but maybe some of you do not. But, this is why I chose the name, to be humorous, but I guess as well because Jonny was a really nice guy, and I try to be also. One thing that is cool though, there has been a new movie out in the mainstream called "The Legend Of Jonny Lingo", and I found a poster online of the "young Jonny Lingo", and so, thanks to Tom Strange, I was able to pull it up as my avatar. And with this new GSCafe, my Jonny Lingo avatar is even bigger and more easily seen... :)

Good one Wordwolf! Had me laughin, same with you Mary Poppins! And Cool Chef, sounds delectable! For New Years dinner I grilled some custom cut 1 and 1/2 inch thick rib eyes, baked some sweet potatoes, and made some cut green beans with a little bacon and onions for seasoning. And all of it complimented with a nice bottle of Merlot. Simple, and mouth watering. And ya know, At a roadside swap meet in Wasilla, Alaska, (at the corner of Parks HWY and Pittman outside the Dead Dog Saloon Digi), there were a bunch of gravestones for sale that had a bunch of these humorous epitaphs on them. The one I remember seeing there that was mentioned here was the one that said; "Here lies Lester Moore. Took four slugs from a Colt .44. No Les, no more...." That was during Halloween. My kids like to quote that one from time to time...

Good one Cool Chef! I have always thought that my gravestone should read: "Hang in there kids! He's coming back for us Someday!"

I used to go fishing up around Thurmont, MD, in the Catoctin Mountains. Never saw the arheists grave stone though... And here is some humor about another atheist... A dyslexic, agnostic insomniac: "One who lies awake at night wondering if there really is a dog.." :lol: :lol:

Hey man! Happy birthday! Hope you do this: all day long!

And so, I have my old avatar back! And it is even bigger, and we all know that that is better! I tried to upload it a couple of times, but then I waited a couple of days, and for some odd reason, it finally decided to load...

Ya know, you artists always amaze me! I just can't draw worth a dime!. So glad you all have that natural knack

Belle, Are you saying that you are Single? Mmm...Let's chat...

I was never in Divine Design, but I do remember alot of gals with a Divine Behind! Actually that is a little joke that we "frat boys" had in the Corps when we noticed the shapely posterior of one of our Sistahs...

I haven't read any of this thread, but, I want to tell you that I have always loved sex, still love sex, and hope to keep on loving it for a very long time! My Wifey feels the same way, and no viagra needed! JL

Cool Chef! Did the box that your lamp came in say "Fra-jee-lay"? (Fragile?) Too funny dude. You musta cracked up when you opened it up... I got a headset that tunes into to the TV audio frequency so I can watch movies with the Fam without always having to say; "Huh? What did she say? What's he say?" which drives my wife and kids nuts, for, I am purdy hard of hearing. The kids and wife all laughed uproariously when I opened it up and figured out what it was! Then I told them that they'd better not laugh, because, no doubt, when it comes time to comment during the movies, I will undoubtedly be doubly loud, for, with headphiones on, I will no doubt talk alot louder as people with headphones are "wont to do". And no doubt, I will make sure to do it on purpose just to raz them...Haha! And I got a new Carhart sweatshirt for work, a new wallet from my mom with a $200.00 check in it, and a few other things. The best thing I got was a housefull of happy healthy kids and a happy healthy wife, and a great outlook for the new year. Life is so grand, and of all people I do not deserve the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, my wife, and kids, and my dawg Jake and cat Sir Dunston. I don't know why, but Life Its Ownself is just too good, and I am thankful... :)

I'm with Bluzman all the way here. I agree with you bro... signed, The Frat Boy

Merry Christmas!

And so Rascal, maybe we can simply agree to disagree? You believe that the whole thing was a "sex and money farm" from the very beginning with secret, hidden, subliminal messages hidden within PFAL and other early teachings that were designed to manipulate and take our money or your booty. I do not. I say "your booty" because you are a female, and most sexual harrassment comes from men, not women. I believe that the ministry started out as a genuine effort to teach others about God's love and about God's Word, but then, succumbed to the weakness of the flesh, as has happened throughout all of history it seems. I believe that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely", which I believe was the case with VPW. The power went to his head, and then he began to "lose it" and, the results that we have read about or have experienced (I won't leave that out for I believe in fairness) have occurred. I am trying to be honest here without being sarcastic as some are, by presenting my "take" on the situation. I believe I am qualified to do so: I spent fifteen years of my life in The Way. I was eighteen when I got involved in 1975, and I simply cannot deny the night when I got on my knees and prayed to God to send a Christian believer to teach me about God's Word, and the very next day, a WOW Ambassador came to work where I worked, and began to tell me all about the book of Ephesians, and about Jesus Christ my lord. I got born again, and I was a changed person from that day on. One may argue that this could have happened with "any respectable church", and this may be true, but I will argue that God chose that person to witness to me and turn me on to the PFAL class. Why would God betray my honest and innocent prayer request and send a devilish cultist to my assistance? I do not think He would, and I do not believe that He did. And so Rascal, I hope that we can simply agree to disagree on this. Yes, The Way ended up bad. I just don't think it started out that way as you do. You are welcome to express your opinion on this, and I presume that I am welcome to express the opposite opinion. Are we good? I don't like to argue with someone who likes to fish as much as you do :-) And so, I offer you the olive branch of peace, and may you have a wonderful Christmas Day tomorrow, okay? JL

Imbus, Jonny Lingo here. Hey, thank you for the words we had with each other. I have not overcome the thing we talked about, but, I really appreciate your kind words and encouragement. I wish you well, and, I am in total agreement with the idea of "moving on". Sometimes just letting the past fall by the wayside is the right thing to do. Re-hashing the wrongs done to us can be a "good thing" in order to get it off one's chest, but eventually there should come a time when we "let it go" and move on. We cannot change the past, for, we have lived it and it is now part of Woman and Man's history. But we can change the future. I wish you the best in the course that you are taking, and you are in my prayers with a vision of peace.... Vaya Con Dios, "Jonny Lingo" P.s. I like the change in your name...Lilbit. Very sweet, like you undoubtedly are... What is "NAMASTE"?

So, what came first? The chicken or the egg? Was the comment about the king having any woman he wanted "planted" in the class for future use? Or, was that same comment, later down the road, twisted by dishonest and lascivious men for their own purposes? I think the latter, that's all, for it sounds like a witch hunt around here sometimes... I remember a verse in the Bible that was twisted all of the time by guys and girls who wanted to justify pre-marital consensual sex. I remember one gal whose advances I spurned, turned around and use this verse to try and keep me interested in a zesty session. And when I still said no, then I was told that I just wasn't spiritually mature enough to handle it and her. That verse is in Romans I believe: "Happy is the man who condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth" This verse was definitely written down in English long before I had seen it abused. 1611 to be exact. That doesn't make the Bible vile and pernicious just because someone twists that verse for their own sexual desires. It just seems like some of the "detective work" around this site gets a little out of hand and smacks of the "witch hunt" mentality. And Doojable, way to go putting your foot down like that! It's too bad there wasn't some tough guy around who could have planted his fist in that mo fo's face!

Well Rascal, like I've said before, if any of that stuff happened around me while in TWI, I was totally unaware of it. The only one I suspected of it was Del D*nC*n who hit on my 11th Corps girlfriend. And although I was appalled by it, I just thought of it as an isolated incident. If something like this happened to my daughter or wife, then of course I would not be happy about it. But I wouldn't look at that part of PFAL about "the king having the right to every woman in the land" as subliminal effort to build a "sex farm". And Oakspear, sorry for the outburst, but, I did think it ridiculous to attribute that part of the class as an effort by VPW to recruit sex slaves. And yes, I always did wonder at the accuracy of that statement. I never did think it compatible with "thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife", and so I thought it a cultural thing. But, regardless of whether the practice existed, I still think it was presented that way simply to illustrate that King David could have had lots of other women if he wanted them, and so why take this guy's one wife? And that is still why I think VP put it that way, not for the purpose of "getting sex" down the road. And for that matter, if you remember the reproof from God via Nathan the prophet, the analogy there was that the one guy with a great number of sheep, went and took that one only little old lamb from his poor neighbor guy. Seems to me that the analogy indicated that David had lots of women or could have lots of women, and so why did he take Uriah's only wife? And so, VPW may have commited these acts of indecency, but to look at every little thing like that and say that it was all part of the "grand conspiracy" is just a bit much. By the way, my wife, after we were kicked out of The Way, told me of a time when LCM tried to have sex with her. Some of you may remember sharing this before. She had escorted him to his hotel room after a Corps meeting, and he asked for a back rub. She gave him a backrub for awhile, and then he turned over on his back and began to grab her breasts. And, my wife, shocked, read him the riot act, reminded him that he was married, that adultery was off the Word, and that as the Corps Director, he of all people should know that It Is Written was supposed to be his motto too! And she walked out. Later he sent her a letter of apology And so, I guess that was the one and only way to handle those situations. It worked for her, and she for some reason was never blackballed for it. In fact, Craig always treated her with extra respect after that. Probably because he was afraid she might spill the beans. But most definitely never tried it again. Things happened the way they happened, and I just don't like the idea assigning blame to a certain section of teaching that was in my opinion, innocuous. The vile predations stand on their own, and I don't think that "supposed subliminal messages" through out PFAL were needed for the sex to happen. Other methods of seduction yes, but I doubt this one about King David And White Dove, I know those girls! They were at the same frat party I was at last night! They are really good at beer bonging!

Oh bull&$*#. That statement in the class was simply an effort to show the cultural differences between our times and the times of King David. The fact was, at that time, the King did have those priveledges, right or wrong as they may have been. You gotta have a better argument than that bro...

Oh CChef, I added some to that last post....

Ya know, I was thinking dill weed... And, no togas? Youse guys are nudists? Can I come to the party? And hey, LikeanEagle, Thas cool you caught a Chinook (proper spelling fyi) in Lake Michigan! I did know that Chinooks lived there. Although, I am almost positive that they were introduced by some fish and game department, as were the Coho or Silver Salmon. And so, he fought hard, did he? Man, nothin like tying into a fish that will rip line off of your reel on those long and screeching runs! This summer, I hooked into two thirty pound Halibut (I had two hook rigs on one line), and man were my arms tired when it was all over! And by the way, for some reason which is a blessing from Above, we in Alaska have all five species of salmon returning to our creeks and rivers. And yet, it seems as if each one has "two names". Some of the names are Indian, and the counterpart name is a "white man" name. I will give you the break down from the largest salmon to the smallest: Chinook Salmon-King Salmon-20 to 97.4 oz (un broken world record caught on the Kenai River-I saw that fish the day he was caught) Coho Salmon-Silver Salmon 8-28 pounds Chum Salmon-Dog Salmon 8-28 pounds (just like the Coho) Sockeye-Red Salmon 6-16 pounds (the undisputed most delectable) Pink Salmon-Hump Backed Salmon (Humpies) 4-8 pounds (the undisputed least delectable-but still good!) And there you have it. I got arrested the first month when I was in Alaska as a new Corps grad for fishing with a "falsified license" that I fudged on concerning my residency status. I couldn't help it! I just want to fish! The sad thing was, I made the sacrifice for the least of these Pices Delectables, for, I was caught with three "Pinks or Humpies"! Oh man! T. Jenks would have been wagging his finger at me!

Go back? Never. I will never join anything again. I won't join a church, I won't join the American Legion, the Moose, the Elks, the Eagles or the Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers. Ya know, it's weird. I actually joined up with a bunch of "quasi bikers" called the UMF of America. That stands for Ugly MF's. And ya know what? I saw similarities in the "being a member of the club" that I felt with being in The Way, and I did not like it at all. And so, I resigned, and turned in my black UMF shirt with the fiery flames on it....

And to others who may care to listen, I believe it was the disobedience to God's Word that we learned in PFAL that caused the bad fruit of hurt lives, not the information in PFAL that caused it. It was the people who ignored and lived their lives in contradiction to I Corinthinas 13 (the love of God chapter) which was also included in PFAL. Just like it was King David the human being who disobeyed God's commandment of "thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, thou shalt not kill" who did the harmful things to his people and his kingdom. It wasn't the commandments themselves that did the harm, it was the people who disobeyed those commandments that have caused the hurt through out the centuries. And the same is here with TWI. But there was plenty of good from from the Word of God that was taught in The Way, and amazingly, VPW did a lot of teaching of it. There may be a lot of people here in this little microcosm of the GSCafe who believe that it was all evil from beginning to end, and that it was all with the intent of screwing people literally and figuratively from beginning to end, but in reality, these folks who believe this scenario are a minority. Check out www.eph320.com It might make you puke, but, there is a huge amount of people who look back upon their involvement with fondness. Who look at TWI as the ministry that offered them that which saved their lives from wretched defeat, and sometimes sickness and death itself. But I guess since we should judge them for their beliefs, they are just a bunch frolicking frat boys and frat girls.... Look, I have not negated nor denied the negative things that happened to wonderful people at the hands of those disobeying God's commandments who had places of leadership and responsibility. But neither have I negated the good things that I learned in PFAL (plagerized material or not), nor have I negated the wonderful people whom I met during those days who were leaders in responsible positions, and the wonderful times that I had. Personally, I'd rather focus on the positive, for I think it is a far healthier thing to do... :)

Nice Cool Chef. And no doubt you can dink around with some seasonings and such that you are familiar with that I am not. And hey, at your dinner party, are you all going to wear togas?

Oh sorry Rascal, I guess your name calling sorta "tainted" the wisdom in your message. I guess there is no need for me to converse with you either...

Jonny the frat boy had fun...That's it? That is your take on me? Okay, think what you want...