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I like a slightly different argument. If sit as twi, cff, stiffi, and what is the name of jl's new outfit know it- intercession for the saints.. a pre-requisite for revelation.. makes one "big and fat, spiritually.." why was I STILL so "spiritually blind" as to the vicster's bad behavior.. not just him but the *men* around him as well. loy's abuse of staffer's wives. I was in the lousy organization until sometime in 1996. no clue, nada, nothing. And it was corrupt, to the core. Why did the "intercession" not keep a family member from getting cancer.. why did it not save my marriage.. Why didn't I have ONE STINKING CLUE of what to do? And I actually did my sincere, best to not "fake it". About ten years ago, I gave it up, cold turkey. I just wanted to see what would happen.. the world did not come to an end. At least things did not get any worse..

What I wonder.. is there anyone here who actually DID record any of these? I mean.. there are no copyright issues or liability or anything, are there? In other words, perhaps one could post some of these insane rants on the internet for all the world to see..

It was from a little paperback book.. Angels of Light? Or something like that. It was a little paperback that new students in the advanced class were supposed to read. It probably should have been called "how to perform an exorcism, in three easy lessons"..

good point..

Fair question I think..

Everything was good in this endeavor.. I cooked up most of these tomatoes on a coleman stove outside. I got about three gallons of fuel for about two bucks at a rummage sale.. it was older fuel.. but it burned really HOT.. I have not looked at the chemistry involved.. but I think pure naphthalene burns hotter than the new formulation. We rented a sod cutter for a day.. and it worked for about three quarters of the garden before it died. The company refunded 100 percent of the rental fee. but try cutting sod by hand for what was left.. we actually did it..

Nine and a half gallons, from what we grew. Six and a half gallons, for the local soup kitchen, from donated tomatoes and donated jars.

how god works in man.. I'm *seriously* thinking of doing some kind of seminar with respect to tomatoes. No kidding.. Nature tends to give us way, way too much (at least it seems at the moment) than we know what to do with.. so to love the Tomato, is to preserve the tomato. commercial outfits figured this out, long ago.

Whatever you call it.. some people need that kind of security blanket to make it through the night, or through the day for that matter..

Happy Birthday, our musical friend.. :)

That's what I would think. And my next thought.. how many times. And did he "recruit" his victims much like da victster did, holding a "birth to the corps" paper in one hand, beckoning with the other.. or did he have the Goon Squad figure out how to supply him.. or were there any drugs or alcohol involved? any special favors to those who complied? Consequences rendered to those who refused? Any threats issued?

I think j.l. admitted to some such activity. Now whether it was with peers, or with some of those under his charge as a corpse coordinator, is what I would like to know..

Maybe he learned that phrase from rosalie.. it's an insult, spoken with the correct southern drawl.

On a job- I think it has a lot of impact. Contribute to a company's success.. it seems some kind of appreciation would encourage one to continue in the same manner.. A corporation's greatest assets are not the stockholders.. it's the few who really get some work done, day after day without complaining. But here I think is where the comparison between twi and other corporations fail.. they don't have any real stock, or share holders. no public accountability to ANYONE.. they are supposed to be a religious, non-profit outfit. Funded mainly by donations Supposed to be run by qualified, dedicated individuals.. both paid, but mostly volunteer labor. so decade after decade, they've made their staff feel quite unappreciated. They have gone as far as to make those who donate likewise feel unwanted, and unappreciated. I NEVER received one single "thank you" for anything I ever donated.. In an organization that extends a little genuine appreciation for staff, volunteers and to those who donate, perhaps.

Maybe they succumbed to the delusion that when they are old, grey, and possibly sick that twi would actually take care of them in some fashion..

Maybe others have an extreme fascination to watch the grisly details and consequences of yet ANOTHER bloody train wreck.. Move along, move along, nothing to see here.. what I don't understand is.. why a supposedly rational(?) sane(?) individual would name their offspring after herr vicmeister.. why? wasn't that the same guy who chased you around the farm, trying to beat the living.. well whatever it was out of you? It just seems like some of capone's kids naming their kids al the second.. or something like that..

I think mainly because the organization was just, plain, outlandishly CHEAP. Not frugal, just CHEAP. Plus there were copyright and royalty issues. I think they really thought that if they printed up and gave the lyrics away, that they could avoid paying somebody royalties.

there was a general case that could be easily proved.. I didn't even come close to understanding it.. some general case of why it was so.. No thanks.. the professor said something like "I've never seen a legitimate proof.." in that was another class, that I had not taken. I think I at least partly blew his mind. Of sorts..

yeah.. well.. the last public proof that a mid-point convex function is convex, if we assume a continuous function, was entirely my own.. I don't know if it was entirely "right" or anything.. I've overcome the minor exception to my proof..

Math 119W is a math course, but it is communication intensive.. the students have to do some writing projects.. what do you think.. how about if a student wants to prove to the class that the square root of two is irrational.. would that qualify? I would want a little bit of historical background.. it's not much. fifty points out of three hundred some.. it's not really that hard.. I mean.. there is loads of this on the internet somewhere, easy to access, easy to understand, easy to *copy*.. I know what is like to be a student.. copy, but carefully..

that is.. well. Irrational numbers? Numbers one cannot express as a ratio of whole or integer numbers.. if one can convince oneself that they actually exist..

So far I have not used any terms that anyone who has been through any high school math has not heard, or at least mostly understood.. rational numbers. any number, one can express as a ratio.. a/b, a and b are integers, or whole numbers. but b cannot be zero. can't divide by zero. Real numbers. That is, numbers that can assume any value in real world situations. Irrational numbers.. real numbers that cannot possibly be expressed as as a ratio..

Kronecker was a dolt. He may have been brilliant at times, but he was otherwise a feeble idiot.. well, at least in my opinion. He had too hard of a time, if any at all, thinking abstractly.. Cantor was really the beginning of brilliance, in the last (or was that the former) century..

There is an old story about Pythagoras.. one of his students proved that the square root of two is irrational. It is said that Pythagoras rewarded this student by strangulation. Others say he drowned him.. It's a very very old Greek urban legend.

Why is the square root of two irrational? Is it really? Or do you just take my word for it? Irrational means that it is IMPOSSIBLE to accurately describe this real world number in terms of the ratio of any two integers. the number itself exists. one can produce it with a right triangle, with two legs of length one unit.. Don't get me even started on PI.. or e.. generally the proof involves assuming one can express an irrational number as the ratio of two integers, and logically arriving at a contradiction..