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what I would like to know.. how many people here experienced something they could describe as "unsnapping"..

kinda reminds me of the loyster's claims how fortune 500 companies oughter be clamoring for his "expertise".. he would not survive the first five minutes of an interview..

and I didn't have an ulterior motive for asking.. just wanted to understand your mind friend.

considering that young vicster didn't really want to work the land.. i.e.. continue in pa's stead, and run the farm.. wouldn't ownership of the land be not unlike an Albatross about the young victoid's neck? what better "arrangement" than to deed it to a "corporation".. and still receive revenue.. without having to EVER produce yet one more day of honest labor.. of course, that's probably what you're trying to say..

I laughed half the afternoon over this.. but it's really pitiful.. what you describe as this competitive clawing, manipulation, ladder climbing.. I think in principle da "fox" exhibits the worst characteristics of corporate america.. but outside of the folds of twi, I don't think she would have even a quarter of the compentence to survive. twi is probably (to her(?)) a "dream come true.." a (well paying supposedly) job.. that requires little or no real professional competence.. just raw arrogance and obnoxiousness..

Garth.. did you go through momentus? Just wonder..

well.. yeah. That's what they are wating for, I'm sure.. almost as likely as like some of us here.. waiting for them to wake to some kind of righteousness or something.. (I'm not entirely discounting the possibility.. but hour by hour, it just doesn't seem to be "happening"..) so.. the current count. We remove the kids, the pets, who's left?

perhaps in your eyes.. spirituality is only in the eye of the beholder.. just another thought.. :)

well, yes. along with a nightly commentary, at 7pm.

How about.. "do no harm" ? that's the thought that keeps coming to me.. the "strange" thing.. it seems to be a reoccuring theme in many beliefs.. few seem to live up to it that I've observed..

maybe my point is.. "don't pick on the sixties". they may have been days of being "screwed up".. but not "unparalleled" in human history or anything.. I was just a little too young at the time..

The more I think about it.. the more I have issues with the sixties reference.. it's almost like.. you've manufactured a "problem" and "solution" in one line.. drugs? They have been a "problem" since.. who knows when.. before lsd, there was a lot of "stuff" they used for divination and such.. if it wasn't for tv, and the nightly news, Leary wouldn't have had anywhere near the following that he did.. well.. it's just a thought. The media could have just have let sleeping dogs lie.. but NOOOO.. the very icon of "rebellion" (in many people's eyes) has followers and such splashed on the nightly news at 7pm.. So was it a time fraught with moral decay? I don't think so.. I think it was blown far out of proportion.. Promiscuity? How about a time.. when a "lady" dresses herself up as a prostitute.. and "does business" with her father in law..? and it was during a time, far far before the sixties.. Just a few thoughts.

I don't know how much I agree.. I would modify the former statement. Perhaps the sixties were fraught with moral decay, not too much unlike generations and other decades past. With America's development of television, no nook or cranny of moral decay seemed to remain as safe and excluded as it once did.. developments in technology in the forties and fifties brought battles in Vietnam, scenes of protest in every street, and the like to the living room of "everday" "normal" Americans, and others who had the capacity to view the same images. I'll have to think about the rest of your post..

if you don't count rosie's cats, the innies "non serious" pets like goldfish, guinea pigs, hamster.. it's probably closer to 1497..

don't the "directors" vote themselves in? I thought they had some kind of majority rule.. once in, like.. a majority of could vote a "member" off.. unless the new subservient vice presidents can't vote or something.. just glorified lackies and gofers for the top three.. I think it's more like a tag team consisting primarily overweight, aging.. what's the word.. it'll come to me.. but they've "tag teamed" the top positions of the organization for how long now.. honor among "thieves" works I guess.. and once you're "in", You're IN. Unless one's behavior threatens the other "members" with possible criminal prosecution, or just don't have the stomach for the job. Look what it took to oust the loyster.. they were content to just swat his little hands, and say be a good boy.. I think it's more like a club..

about 3/4 of a year ago, I took my old loose leaf oxford.. took a deep breath, and sent it to the landfil. It had whole class sylabi transcribed in it, most of pfal, etc. etc.. it was the last item I had with any way theology transcribed in it..

that's the "odor" I detect in jl's pathetic "da way-it was" letter.. "sure, it was abusive, doctrinally and practically 'screwed up', but for a brief MOMENT.. *we* were part of da most significant MOVE of gawd since the first century." the "pathetic" part about it was, *we* didn't "win" some kind of game.. his little "winning moves" were marked foul.. not that there would be a significantly different outcome if they weren't.. I think if it was anything he "won", it was a ruling seat in an abusive organization.. chosen out of all of the rest of the drones..

for a "fair and balanced" supposed review of everything da way, the site doesn't seem to offer much, other than whoever the guy is giving the vicster's stolen goods five stars.. whatever that means..

it's not money.. it's numbers on a hard drive somewhere.. :) you can bet all my numbers, zeros (the few that there are) and all..

I'm not sure about the last name.. but I knew them as Chip and Bonnie. Michigan, 198something.. Chip got a masters degree (I think) at CMU.. then herr way moved him far west..

we need something like a Jubilee.. then time to rebuild.. I hope this is it.. :)

I saw a picture like that once.. but it was a lot more blue.. kinda blinding in the middle.. I hope this 28th year is a call to "family".. everybody needs one..

when the kids in Numerical Analysis were crying about having to do some series, or integration by parts.. or Newton's method.. I knew it like the back of my hand.. I can say "kids".. heheh. That was what these classes were like.. a fifty year old hippy, and twenty some young kids.. My class in Real Analysis was fun.. the professor was absolutely brilliant.. some of the students were rather disappointed though.. he gave little feedback. It came, but not in what they thought was a timely manner.. but it was a 400 level class. What does one expect? I figure a lot of grad level classes will be like that.. I hear some give you something to work on.. like projects and stuff.. and sometimes, if you don't figure it out, you'll NEVER know the answer..

Hey.. if you have a passion for it, why not? Sounds like you have an advantage at the starting gate, like I did.. I studied and understood Calculus I, II and III before I set foot in a classroom.. learned it on my own.. but it's a big world, there's lots more..