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If you look at the real number line, only in regards to rational numbers. In other words.. if you plot every number that can be expressed as a ratio, or a fraction.. the line has more holes than it has numbers.. No wonder.. the first few pages of any math instruction book.. the instructors just quietly skip over.. No, you won't need that until the next class.. then one hears in the next class, no you really don't need that to do math until the next class.. then finally, one is in THE class. No wonder one can't figure what the hell the guy is trying to say at that point..

:) that's what I call it.. those were the happiest times of life for me.. young children in the house..

I dunno. Then again.. I've seen different "sects" of the Roman religion.. depends on where you are, the community.. just what I've observed.. there are some churches that provide a traditional, static religion for the aged population. Then there are some churches which have a LOT of young children, and growth.. then there are mixtures, somewhat between the two. I do not belong to a Roman church. but when I visited with close relatives in Grand Rapids.. I don't remember the name of the church.. but they had a mixed service.. a puppet show, something appropriate for the children, but may I add meaningful. and then a conservative, traditional service and communion for the aging population.. I don't know about anyone else, but the sound of children is a blessing. And I think that thought was shared in that particular church..

I think Crowley tried something like that.. lot of metaphysical mumbo jumbo, but in the end it was attempt to possess and reincarnate in some miserable slob or something.. The first volley of emails with the new vicster included "did you happen to be born on May 21, 1985? I don't think he ever got what I was really saying..

heh.. but really, that wasn't it. Not even casually clothed, half or more nekkid.. The perceptive side of me can still see the vision. The logical side of me is still laughing it's a** off at the perceptive side of me.. It's nice and logical. "If you want to go and get funny in the head.. well, there's not a heck of a lot that I can really do about it..".. Is there a real answer here? I don't know even if I really would want to know it even if I could.. who wants certainty, when one can have this kind of entertainment? sowy. I'm sure this makes some kind of sense in the context of this thread to somebody..

Live forever.. hmm. Maybe we do anyway.. I'm not sure I want to be reincarnated in what can be described as what some are turning this place into a s*ithole..

I dunno. It's old stuff now.. but still seems new today.. have you ever nearly had your skin burned off by the light? Met an angel.. heh.. maybe.. it was an angel in time out for half a lifetime or something.. the logical part of me is still working this over.. might never have an answer..

Maybe he really was.. angels come in all kinds of sizes, shapes, Demeanours, , etc.. mostly they wear their skins well. Well.. mostly..

The only thing I am really wondering.. why isn't da way suing the living s*it out of him? maybe they walk a fine line.. who knows. Publication vs. performance rights or something.. You know.. kinda like Paul McCartney. He has performance rights to pretty much anything he and John collaborated on.. but publication rights can be more owned or something.. But do performance rights extend to one's children, grandchildren.. etc..?

He considers the publicity here a good thing. Any press is better than no press you know.. people come to "Sunday Night Service".. "hey.. *they* told me you were devil worshipping, Jesus hating swine.." No son, we're just a copy of a copy of a copy.. the little itty bitty boy of gawd actually got a bachellor's degree from some place in Florida, I think. I think it was in history.. but pa and mac tell him he wouldn't get heat here, unless he was pursuing the will of gawd or something.. he went through cff's program, doesn't that count for something? I forget the name of it.. fellow-laborers. that was named after an old way idea as well..

I didn't think there were any astute observers even left there.. sounds like a typical way marriage..

I think Tania is his daughter..

When my dad was able to leave the little community.. sure, he loved the place. He'd go back to visit with his mother and others he loved.. but when the war hit.. and he was in the first draft.. he never really went back. He chose to raise his two sons at least three hundred miles away, and in a city. The old homestead was regarded as a "camp".. a place you go to hunt and fish, enjoy the surroundings without too many modern conveniences, swim and take baths in the river, and then come back.. very interesting. I think that WWII, and the G.I. bill brought a lot of people out of these static, isolated places.. so what does this have to with good old J.L.? I dunno. I think maybe.. he's looking for others like him.. maybe in a spiritual sense, he wants to marry his sister.. or at least to sell her his "newfangled"(?) class..

I would call it more a playground designed for close inbreeding. There have been places like that, and still are in the world.. Some of my ancestors came and settled the land. Not too many other folks around.. Not much travel. It was a big deal to get where you were at to begin with.. not much socializing.. other than with the local tribe.. first and second cousins and the like. one farming settlement died out mainly because the men were susceptible to heart failure at a young age. Like 39, 42, and not many lived passed 55. It wasn't until they dispersed and mixed with the rest of the population that their offspring started living just a *tad* longer.

It wouldn't take much to overthrow her. Just a few discrete, quiet conversations.. unless they are terrified, knowing not whom they can really trust. I would want to find out. What's the worst that could happen? I mean.. you're what.. fifty some years old, the kids are grown up, educated, (hopefully) moved on out of the house, or trailer, or whatever you're "living" in.. I mean.. one could live in a trailer almost anywhere. Can't be worse than where you're at..

leaching miseries.. I won't say any more. At least tonight.. then again.. anybody else have words morph like this? If I look close enough the original words are still there..

The last time I looked at the title the t in teaching turned into an l. is there some significance to this, or is my mind just making stuff up.. just a *minor* hallucination..

Hmm. Maybe appearances are everything..

If you don't mind me adding.. if one actually sees God's light, for a fraction of a second and manages to live through the experience.. one just MIGHT come to the conclusion that they can't exactly carry it..

Why teaching ministries everywhere? I think mainly because the overhead is so low. There is such a low, low cost of doing "business". Rehash pfal, or parts of it.. it's CHEAP. With a computer and printer, it is quite CHEAP to produce another knockoff of a knockoff. At least an "original(?)" work to mass produce. Then it's off to the local printing service! They make it cheaper to mass produce. What are the typical costs? Two, or three cents per page? A seventy page syllabus would cost say.. $2.10. add a folder, cheaply manufactured in China for $1.85 and per participant, per class, the overhead totals about.. $4.05. Maybe I'm underestimating.. the cost could be closer to $9.50, depending on how "illustrious" one wants it to look. I mean, all the printer guy has to do is collate. The seller could punch the holes and assemble the folders. Or have volunteers do it.. Minimum "donations" of about $95.00 accepted. Or even $125.00. Plus whatever gets tossed in the cornucopia as it passes by one during class.. No real cost for "research".. no real overhead in that regard. Ah yes.. low overhead. If one can keep one's weenie in one's own pants.. might be difficult for a little-itty-bitty-manogawd. Don't make TOO MANY outrageous claims. Listen to what the lawyer told you on "free legal advise night".. Low overhead.. no cost for supplies to feed the needy.. No cost to actually DO SOMETHING..

Neither was loy- maybe not with a degree mill doctorate, but he did sport a degree mill corps grad and ordination papers. I don't remember him giving anyone else much credit for his "research". Like the time he came up with the "new light" about the purpose of the Sphinx. I had previously read practically the same thing word for word in Bullinger's Witness of the Stars..

That's largely what I meant by twice-stolen.. Now it's a refurbished version of a refurbished version..

I've actually had people tell me.. "We like YOU.. but the rest of the outfit, blecch.." I should have listened at the time.. The last half dozen "leaders" in the state and branch.. would make your worst impression of a nun appear like a warm, kind-hearted soul in comparison. Then there was the guy who ran the state.. his greatest claim to fame was learning in the corps (from whom, I have no idea..) not to mix his bread and vegetables at the same meal, as to prevent gastric and intestinal attacks from da adversary. No kidding.. he had a dull, stupid look in his eyes, fondly speaking of his bread and vegetables.. he's probably on the current prez's cabinet now..

Have you considered that "they" may feel the same about your organization? You know. "some of them are nice.. loving.. helpful.. but for the MOST PART.. they are a bunch of nazified control freaks.." or words to that effect.