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Rascal, I like your style of writing, don't change a thing. :) I think it's a low blow, "well, what you say isn't right. besides, you didn't use Emily Post grammar.." as if that makes a difference..

Well, there are a LOT of "nuts" here.. maybe that's really why I keep coming back..

I remember a little video made in the early seventies.. forget what it was called.. but it was the nightly news, if der vey as then had their say in it. One little kid was being interviewed as being the head of international children's outreach.. and he was mimicing the vicster's mannerisms.. in the end, he rides off into the sunset in a golf cart.. it was funny then. But now I find it at least a little troubling.. Were we raising kids to be little mogs and moglettes? I think so. Same damn unrealistic expectations that we put on ourselves, we put on kids, even back in the "good old days".. sheesh.

I think the worst wars here involve mog/moglette types, expecting some kind of respect. But if you don't expect respect and adulation, you at least won't be disappointed. I believe this little venue gives people the chance to do what they should have done, and could only do in their dreams in der ministry.. bite back. Look what happened to John Lynn.. put his name and "ministry" up in the spotlight. I'll bet he doesn't know what REALLY happened here, to this day.

I would say probably because vp told us so.. but "obviously(?)" it was a beast of sorts that was known to Job. If no animal can be found today which matches the description.. is it possible that it is extinct?

You keep a good stock of matches, because not only do you love, honor and obey the little lady, your wedding vows in church also have a clause that you will provide her with all the furs she ever would want..

The poor people of Southhampton probably would have preferred them to organize a Saturday night sock wash..

I think parents play a pretty big role in the development of a person's grammar. If they merely speak proper grammar, and use proper grammer when interacting with said person, by the time they are six or so proper language skills will be wired in. The real solution isn't to correct anyone.. just shoot people who cannot speak ordinary proper english, and end the cycle..

hmm. Maybe at one time they used a soft toilet paper like "Charmin". and just maybe, just maybe.. in rosie's young impressionable years (yah, it's hard to believe, but she WAS somebody's baby, at least briefly), she thought "don't squeeze the Charmin" was the eleventh commandment brought down from Sinai. So, unconsciously, she has a strong aversion to decent tp, simply because in her inner self, she THINKS that if they present something that resembles sandpaper to their followers, they will not be presented with the temptation to squeeze the said "toilet paper". They micromanage the "followers" lives to the extent that I would not be suprised if the ladies were forced to undergo a search of purses for contraband, REAL toilet paper. And bricks.

Personally, I still think vp went the way of Crowley. Interesting though.. how vp loved his liberty, on one hand.. and started demanding performance and strict adherance from those he taught, on the other.. I wouldn't call this liberty. We were in chains.

The answer I'm looking for.. I think it is related.. I've met those who fear connecting to others.. in a real, genuine way..more than the fear of dying.. and sometimes I can't figure why. Why some cannot accept unconditional love.. I think it is somehow related to this individuality we have.. but I only have a few theories.. :)

I dunno.. I think death is only the end of a cycle of sorts here. Perhaps the real question here is not are you ready, or are you afraid.. what awaits, on the other side.. this is so terrifying to some, that some tribes of man refuse to even discuss it. "some of us" here remember or at least think we remember what it was like to come into this existence.. :) I think our entrance to existence was more like death than life.. jumping into a whirlpool, not knowing exactly what waited for us at the bottom.. can you imagine.. what it would be like, to be at one with everything.. yet we chose to leave this for a half a second of individuality on this plane of existence.. I wonder what the attraction was. I think we made a few agreements, more than a few bargains for it. Even to experience the worst of times here.. but the exit will not be so much different. I like the apostle Paul's analysis.. we came into this world with NOTHING.. we will leave the same way. But I think we will take something.. otherwise the experience would mean nothing.

"a real job.." when you graduate.. I know how you feel. I'm trying to figure out who is going to hire a fifty some year old mathematician..

Well.. I can think of some places around here that it would be a REAL emergency (or end up as such) if they ran out of beer..

I dunno about all of this.. sometimes music does not bring me strength as such, but enlightenment.

I don't know if somebody can be ready, but maybe prepared.. so much we don't know. I can't say with certainty that I'll be here to be with my grandkids.. it would be nice.. :) I find myself praying at times.. "God, don't let me die like this.." i.e. ignorant, clueless.. especially- did I REALLY make a difference here..at least this time around.. It seems the longer I live, the less I find I really know. Ready? I don't know. When it comes, it will come.. I don't know if somebody can be ready, but maybe prepared.. so much we don't know. I can't say with certainty that I'll be here to be with my grandkids.. it would be nice.. :) I find myself praying at times.. "God, don't let me die like this.." i.e. ignorant, clueless.. especially- did I REALLY make a difference here..at least this time around.. It seems the longer I live, the less I find I really know. Ready? I don't know. When it comes, it will come..

Hmm. It's possible that HA made a bulk purchase of a couple tons of sandpaper on one of his "off" days.. gotta find some way to "steward" the resources.. This is really really bad, but.. how is it that der vey could ruin something as mundane as toilet paper..

I dunno, but I just can't imagine how to frame "Der Vey", "Standards" and "financial stewardship" in the same sentence..

George, I think they send you to detention for an infraction like that..

Hope you have a herbal birthday.. unless you need to be too dang serious.. Regardless, happy birthday friend.

Ah, the true source of all moggish "inspiration".. All that, at even equal to or less than the "two drink limit"

Even with "speaking in tongues".. it was almost as bizarre as it would have been without.. maybe even more so. Oh.. signs, wonders.. I never saw one, outside of vey definition. I actually got the front parking place at the local supermarket a couple of times.. it was a vey "wonder"..

After quite a while, I think I finally got your point Roy. Technology is sooooo daggone cheap.. why make it such a big deal, and just "move the word", or share what think is truth.. It seems that to make MONEY, you have to make it "a big deal".

Exie, I wish my birthday was as half as good as yours.. :)

but am I ready.. hmmm. I've prayed to the Almighty.. don't let me die in this condition (i.e. so stinking ignorant). The prayer still stands..