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and j.l. scouring the countryside for sustenance.. going to one "twig" after another for donations.. Maybe I've said enough..

I've seen all of this before.. again and again, on an individual as well as organizational level.. I dunno.. isn't that kind of living in a "worthless" manner? I mean.. one wants the connection.. the love, the benefits, and no or little personal sacrifice or cost? kinda "selfish" if one would ask me.. "full sharing"? Bah.. .

I dunno.. just looking at it.. doesn't the organization itself appear for lack of better words.. "schizophrenic"? I'm not saying *they* aren't "nice people" or anything.. and the *organization*.. "firing" or having a "mutual parting of ways" with jl.. isn't that not unlike the Frankenstein monster strangling its own creator?

what about the concept of "full sharing".. even by their terms? just seems to me.. in that respect, they are sorely lacking.. I don't see how a "need to know" qualifies as "full sharing". damage control.. enough information to keep the following from haemorrhaging.. doesn't exactly qualify does it?

somehow it all seems "insane".. they claim to live their lives "transparently".. in da lovagawd and all.. but somehow, one is not supposed to look behind the transparent undies and all.. it just doesn't add up to me.. maybe you could explain it in less "biblical" terms..

somehow I thought they were a church or some kind of public entity. *They* really can't have a personal life, now, can they? and all this nonsense, about how their "operation" of the "gifts of the spirit" can't be "corrupted" as they say with "character faults".. ? to which I would say.. "wanna bet sucker?" like some have said, one can't have your cake and eat it too.. so.. the way I read all of this.. *they* are a public entity, as long as the cash keeps rolling in.. but DARE touch their "private" lives, and lines are drawn.. friggin MORONS. They will never "get it"..

Maybe it has something to do with the fig pep and all.. actually.. I think the familia tasted a whole heck of a lot better with a little bit of olive oil.. but I "rolled my own" (the familia).. and it was a lot more generous with almonds, walnuts, pecans, etc.. than what would ordinarily be served..

I dunno.. in a way, its nice to fit one of the above descriptions. *They* will leave you alone.. won't "witness" so much or anything..

reincarnation advocate.. hmm. what's really weird.. people who fit the above descriptions, I have a *serious* interest in understanding why they think what they think.. as far as reincarnation goes.. I have a few vivid impressions of what may have been in other lifetimes. But of course, it is all subjective. It might only be another illusion, no worse than others..

I thought that was how it always has been..

I almost expected you to say.. If it walks like a multi-level marketing program, and quacks like a multi-level program...

I dunno.. if one can avoid them.. I'll ask the question, why didn't you avoid them.. to which I would say.. I absolutely agree. maybe it just wasn't the experience one wanted, or expected.. well.. I won't say unexpected. Or unwanted.. at least personally..

I wonder how much Federal and State income tax he pays.. Yeah, he's probably a tax exempt outfit, but he DOES draw a salary, doesn't he?

Sounds pretty "nuts" even by my standards..

Isn't he just a tad too old for this kind of nonsense? Just saying..

Maybe.. if you watch eyes roll up at the mention of "merry Christmas"..

Pretty close.. but it is missing the bite marks

Well.. you can understand the *other* seriously disturbed.. but you don't have to agree with them exactly.. which is fine. Some think we are all insane fragments of Diety, trying to find their way home.. I'm not sure I entirely disagree..

Perhaps. But maybe one has to define "reality". As in.. "oh my gawd.. now I need a manicure to fix the effects of my desperate clawing.. etc. etc.." so one updates one' profile on facebook.. "send in the beauticians and manicurists.." I'm not saying I agree with it, I just understand it.. there are advantages to being seriously disturbed..

I have one professor, who just BREATHES real analysis.. I'll omit my expletives here.. but this character lives in it.. I still need a wetsuit, a snorkel and a floaty thingy.. "now.. this is EASY.." words fail me here..

I don't either.. but maybe I do.. one character looked at me.. said *we* aren't all so smart ya know.." no kidding.. for a moment he knew what I knew.. maybe that was the whole point..

You know things are really screwed up when its the *leader*'s kid (or spouse, or sibling) that is sick, because of *your* lack of abundant sharing.. or believing, or faithfulness, or whatever.. maybe its from the debilish dust bunnies running amok behind the refrigerator..