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yeah.. we end up singing the blues..

:) I'd say more.. digging away.. the moments that make a dull day.. fritter and wasting.. Might be off topic.. maybe not.. I've always loved that music.. I think they explored rather closely.. what drove Sid Barret into the clutches of insanity.. most of us seem to be able to emerge mostly unscathed..

does one have to sink, or be one of the principal parties responsible for the sinking.. before they quit giving said person another one.. of course, it doesn't take a whole heck of a lot of incompetence to sink a motor coach. Just a fool who thinks he deserves a drivers license..

did anyone ever find anything on the other side?

Now that's probably why I never went in da corpse. *whatever* they had to offer was never precisely, or even hazily defined. . wow was pretty much(?) defined.. grow ten years spiritually(?) or something.. I saw a few people get favorable results. Besides being Hitler (ahem) vic youth, I did manage to acquire a few skills.. learn how to GET A JOB.. how to get along with people who weren't exactly the same as me.. though that really wasn't a *problem* before.. I could live on macaroni, peanut butter and tripe again, if I had to.. if they ran even THAT right.. they would have had some *serious* exit counseling.. i.e. whadda I do now.. "go back to school bub.. get a degree.. do something damned serious with your life.." but instead.. I watched as they culled the *best* of the group for.. *drum-roll*.... way corps *training*.. very, very interesting, no? I was sent to observe.. perhaps da way should inquire about the final draft here..before it is respectfully submitted..

so.. they are basically sending da "flock" into what they would term a den of lions.. I really understand the mentality here. I also was part of the organization once.. curious. How old are those in the group? What kind of *overseers* and how old are they? any college graduates among them (way corpse training need not apply here)? High school graduates? Anybody who is/was working on a profession, a career?

I wonder if the university is aware of their "presence" yet. Could always send a few masters level psych or sociology students to check it out..

i.e. you don't think the good citizens of Ann Arbor will pay them to go away, onto more "fertile" fields?

Maybe they could use a few lessons.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhE_qlqFTw&feature=related

so.. why Ann Arbor? Students are a little smarter, for sure. But then there's the possibility of "winning" drunk or otherwise inebriated students with shill or date and switch techniques.. it's really a long shot. They aren't exactly "sent" to run classes though, are they? Isn't the whole purpose to "confront" da world with der verd? Or in other words, a program to "train" the group in methods of being obnoxious?

Why can't he just "believe gawd" and hitch-hike to "lead" like the rest of the plebs? Just a thought.. donate ten bucks so he won't get busted for vagrancy anywhere along the way..

An "outsider's" observation: Your unspoken function was always a moving target. I know a few sincere folks, went in to become "da best" minister of Jesus Christ they could be.. so the "function" was supposed to be a minister.. then they pulled the "gift ministries" off the shelf.. then it turned into "twig coordinator" training.. which seemed to be exactly what you describe. Then loy turned the "function" into that of unemployed meddlers and informants.. maybe to some degree it was that all the time..

Can't you just feel da love.. bombing. Just makes me want to pull up my roots, move to Ann Arbor, and see if they would invite me to *twig*.

I would agree. But those of different faiths might not think so.. who gets the airtime on the nightly news show? Seems to be most offensive morons like this.. or the lone numbnuts threatening to publicly burn Korans.. *we* must appear to be savages.. mostly living in quaint houses.

Ha! Well. They got *jobs* (?) a tenement in which to stay.. but can they dance?

don't even think of bringing the Penguins in on this.. heh..

mr (if da boss left you that way) l*nder, please put this in the "suggestion box." Or your once muscle bound slowly becoming pudgy replacement. Thank you.

hmmm. The rats seem to know the shortest path off of a sinking ship, however. know when to jump off the bow of some sinking cult, early enough to populate an offshoot..

They really shouldn't be charging people for dancing lessons. Nor passing the cornucopia.. or .. anything.. and it seems like every once in a while.. rozilla springs a survey.. what can we DO to get things rolling again.. so this is the perfect answer. Teach them how to dance. No, not your bulbous self ms(?) rivenbark. Pay for some *real* dancing lessons..

and hopefully figure out they need a higher education than da way has to offer.. in other words,go back to school. It's either that or the strange moonwalk for the rest of their days.. "christians(?) [who] don't dance.." shouldn't charge for dancing lessons, either.

ah yes. but with a broadband internet connection.. and for universities and military places its a must anymore.. one search, and the new "mark" can find that within a few years of mind-numbing classes and seminars, they can learn to moon walk like the "experts"

Why Ann Arbor? Its a college town. It's where a lot of parents send their kids, who have absolutely no idea of what they want to do in life.. da way has always been keen on this idea.. new marks just ripe for the picking..

in a mathematical sense.. I'm ready to invoke Cauchy's theorem..or the deformation theorem.. your choice.. they both seem to be the same.. the *teacher* leaves us in suspense.. but I know the end evaluation.. math is "easy".. people.. well.. they are far more than worth it..