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what *I* didn't know about the situation.. see.. the vicster really *needed* some kind of.. tenure in his organization. Some kind of validation of his credentials.. his mission.. did his parent organization give it to him? Naw.. Hmm. Well.. let's just break off and make our own.. that's one thing that makes me even more suspicious about offshoots. Even a CORRUPT to the CORE organization they came from won't give them the time of day.. won't sell their books.. Ya know.. if it was any other endeavor.. say math, or physics.. or chemistry.. if you have SOMETHING right, the "rest of the world" seems to have little problem accepting it.. even if you're the "enemy"..

seems the legal wrangling simply tries to hold the WRONG people up to a "higher" standard. what about herr mogster? OK.. let's look at it.. maybe in a different light. Suppose you are "merely" a college professor, or a high school professor.. EVEN IN THE "SWINGING" SEVENTIES. not even the supposed manogawd to da world.. 1. You OWN, or rather, have in your possession beastiality porn video (and God only knows what else).. 2. You EXHIBIT this material to your "students" in some kind of work study program.. at least one is UNDERAGE. 3. You're looking for tenure.. 4. news of this gets out.. the question of the day. Do you get it? i.e., tenure? "aww.. it's ok vicster. no problem.. sure you didn't mean anything "twisted" by it or anything.." I say.. let's hold these bastards up to the "lower" standard. They wouldn't stand a chance.. The few undisputed facts in evidence.. convict this kind of swill.. even before we get started..

One time I prayed for a guy.. and he started jumping around like a spring chicken. Apparently, he'd been out drinking all night the night before.. he got real excited.. "hey, this guy just got rid of my hangover.." no kidding.. fast forward about ten years.. some guy was arguing the existence of God or something.. and it was raining like crazy.. I says "don't believe? how abouts we have the rain continue except for this little square block around us.." I breathed in..kinda relaxed in a funny sort of way.. and there was a rainbow.. no rain on us, but you could see it hitting the road the next block over.. the guy started stuttering something about "witchcraft".. heheh Who knows.. maybe it was.. a little side note.. it DIDN'T get ANYBODY in "gawd's ministry".. honestly.. as dedicated as I was at the time.. I just COULDN'T say "wanna do the same? come to twig.." Just couldn't do it.. it just wasn't there.. That's about all I've got as far as "results" are concerned.. and I honestly don't know if I can attribute them to "believing", or even just "dumb luck" or "chance"..

depends. Define "broke." we'll need some expert testimony from some scholar as to the meaning of "my" also. maybe you just THOUGHT it was "broke".. The answer is obvious though excie. If it's "broke", send it some money.

Here's my thread asking for something concrete: http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/index.ph...&hl=results Oldies answer was typical of those who still kinda endose the product: Somehow, I think "having a positive attitude" is partly "genetic".. I was reading an old manuscript somewhere about it.. just can't find it at the moment.. actually.. it was some kind of report.. the scans showed some people just have "happy" brains. Don't know why.. but it was something that could actually be measured. The ability (or handicap) of just seeing positiive in everything was actually due to some kind of physical difference.. Other people, just have "unhappy" brains.. I think those were the ones preferred for "leadership" positions. No matter how much "renewing" of the mind, obedience and fawning from followers, they were just (ahem, "practically") NEVER happy. NEVER positive. Well, practically never.. quite a few I met, anyway.

I wonder if he hated sunlight and running water and crosses too.. Oh oh.. I forgot.. wooden stakes and villagers too.. especially villagers carrying big wooden stakes. and hammers, or wooden mallets..

Why I left.. voluntarily, didn't like what they taught, didn't like what they did.. and "other". I could have stayed if I grovelled sufficiently, to a uneducated madman. something like the vicsters description of slain in the spirit.. "cmon fellow, cooperate and fall down won't ya.." "You'd better tell us what's wrong with you.." something like.. "give us the names of all your spurts, and their resume's in triplicate.." Interesting.. the place only got much worse after I left.. I wonder if mr. bread and vegetables figured out I wasn't the organizations "problem"..

I bet der vey just LOVES the internet.. But the thought that they are going forward because there is a possibility that they will win.. applies to the other side as well. I'm sure they traded a few blows before it came to this..

So.. the moral of the story, or the song.. When in the presence of a possessed chicken.. don't be the guy who wears the hat..

For "some of us.." "new light" merely informs us not just how wrong we are.. but how wrong we might possibly ever be..

Is it possible.. we are all connected, one way or another.. Sometimes I hope.. "things" that are greater than me look on me with the same compassion..

I wouldn't even intimate such a thing.. Is that a live chicken in the pic?

You mean this one? Transylvania Cookbook

Now the insurance companies.. I'd think that twi has picked on someone a lot bigger than themselves.. lots more lawyers, lots deeper pocketbook.. interesting. twi can't find anyone who would insure them? Or consider them too much of a LIABILITY to sell them "normal" insurance? I see they are suing the "investigators" also. Looks like somebody looked more than a few "matters".. looks like they had a whole TEAM of investigators checking out some stuff.. I wonder what it all was.. Would seem to think that if it went to court, there'd be depositions.. testimony.. might not even be sealed..

I think so. Belezian law is a little more lenient as far as copyright is concerned.. unless something has changed in the last couple of years. As long as the material in dispute is essentially abandoned, almost anything goes.. make and sell as many copies as you wish. If twi concurrently sold and ran pfal classes though, it would be a different matter. Even then, they'd have to prove that the Belezian group substantially dipped into their "market share". So if "Living Tree" is incorporated in Belieze.. and they publish in such a manner.. I think twi's attorneys would have to convince a court to usurp Beliezian autonomy in the matter.

That's the Belezian group, isn't it?

Suing the insurance carrier might be one thing.. but all of the other actions? So much for brother not taking brother to "the law".. "suffer yourselves to be DEFRAUDED".. interesting that they'd stick to a strict definition of debt. "owe no man ANYTHING.." no mortgages.. no debt OF ANY KIND. No loans.. but then they simply ignore a plain command.. "don't take a brother to court".. "you're better off getting ripped off.. let it go.." Maybe they don't consider them "brethren".. Or maybe they just don't care "what da word says" any longer. Maybe the research department found an old manuscript somewhere. "when thou artest wronged, though shalt surely crush thine enemies under the foot of lawyers at the gates of da city.." Saw it a long time ago, just can't remember where they found it..

Hmm.. maybe if I open a restaurant.. I'll feature on the menu.. "Chicken ala five star".. probably only one group in the whole world would "get it".. wayfers would avoid it like the plague..

Borsht? I thought that was a vegetable beef recipe. Of course, that "tainted" ex-possessed chicken very well might have the "darker" taste of beef.. and you who voted on putting the chicken on stand up.. well, you're my kind of people!

Interesting. That was the way the hams did the hobby back in the old days.. did you see the mercury pump? That's what they used to get the high vacuum for the tubes. What some manufacturers did was pump out to a certain level of vacuum, then ignite a "getter" inside the tube that combined with residual oxygen, nitrogen, etc.. pretty labor intensive, tube manufacture that is.. and lotsa energy heating the stuff in various stages. I wonder if they guy is trying to make enough to construct an Eniac computer.. about 5,000 to go..

Bon Apetit..

I wouldn't shoot a possessed chicken. I'd take him on the road.. people might pay real money to watch him..

I think I found him. Moments after possession, moments before the shotgun blast..

Maybe the chicken in suspect started doing a line dance or something. Possessed with the spurt of Swa-tra-tra..

No joke.. I thought at the time: "where have I seen THIS before.." hey, der ministry didn't just limit the possibility to humans. Why, even poor animals could get possessed. I remember loy's little illustration about a chicken or something.. "Hey neighbor, come on over for chicken dinner tonight. One of the flock got possessed and I had to *take it out*" This is just TOO strange. I'd like to know if the story is just a product of my imagination.. does anybody else remember this?