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It was called Total Fitness Institute then. The former numbnuts limb leader from WVA I knew was also a participant once, best I remember. I always wondered how it worked out for John Somerville.. a Google search with his name in quotes yield practically nothing..

so in my war against the "beast". I refuse, to pay an everyday low price for.. anything. The seventeen extra cents generally goes to a less harrassed, un-demasculated worker.. my own personal nemesis would shop at Wal*mart. let's say that is the only place I could afford my meds. I would get in, get the meds. Bypass aisle five, with cut flowers, imported from India's most fertile land, the land of big screens and computers, and get the hell out, as fast as my feet could carry me. I can look into the soul of wal*mart as well, and see myself. It is not a place which I want to be..

we have the privilege to leave an impression.. maybe that's all there is to an after-life.. who know..

When I consume red meat, I pray for the soul that was sacrificed for my sustenance.. same damned thing. When I read the label on the mostly cotton tee-shirt, I pray for the people who manufactured it.. capitalism is an unrestrained, for the moment, Pig.. who feeds the pig.. maybe Leary was right..

so who is the "ultimate foe". The devil? or some other abstract concept? In THIS particular world, who is it.. what about the fellow who buys a tee-shirt made in Pakistan, by a drugged teenage worker? You know.. that is how they get young kids to be able to repetitively perform menial tasks, don't you? YOUR dollar votes for this kind of behavior and practice.. I mean. "I will" to have this tiny bit of prosperity. at what cost? its nice to have a scapegoat in all of this..

"republican wives". The author was Jim Harrison.. http://www.cottagebooks.com/jimharrison.htm

You let me look into your soul for one brief second. And I saw myself.. I don't care if our beliefs, background, all that stuff is so very different. Those are not important issues.. Does this make sense?

but, but.. it's a gold mine, doncha know.. why consume the whole Loaf of Life, when one can pick at and sell the crumbs of st(?) vic..

check your "friends" list..

it was an offer of friendship.. no soap opera or anything...

some of the literature involved.. those in political power and wealth, who had to offer services to those who could not afford to pay. They slightly grumbled, and did what they had to do.. It was "republican wives". Forget the author.. maybe somebody could refresh my recollection.. it's getting shorter.. what am I looking for here. I don't know.. I hope somebody can toss me a bone or something..

I love fiction.. rather, I have grown to love it. Maybe it was the Great Lakes fiction class I has to take in college.. there were so many "real" issues in fiction.. the effects of the encroachment of land development.. the effects of the introduction of technology in a small town. Including the effect of the same to a supposed "minister" there. the deterization of society.. the homogenization of education. i.e.. political correctedness, and its unintended consequences.. all from just.. Great Lakes literature. Globally, I'm sure it is all the same.. so.. if you can honestly name the "ultimate foe".. who is it? :) who really is your ultimate foe, and why? fair question, I think.. if not.. take it up with the Great Squirrel..

you would not believe how happy you made me, saying this..

OK then! How about a "yes", on MY terms?

well.. but then again.. they favored abortion, when it was convenient.. at least the way I understood things.. I dunno.. maybe we are saying the same thing..

To me, the christian(?) conservatives are the worst. They have no idea who really pays for the hot water they enjoy for their shower in the morning.. and the (relatively, in a global sense) the cheap gas, they burn, on the way to work.. some are waking up though.. am I Christian.. I suppose it depends on how you define it.. somebody other than myself will have to bestow me with the title.. sorry.. I'm not smart enough to figure it out.. I'm smart enough to figure out some math. God, no.

well.. I hope the club admits membership for Squirrels.. hey. Same for the cats here. We have two of them. If Jesus comes back.. the cats come with me.. I can't imagine life for them, with a Republican, anti-christ money and property grubbing oriented state. My best friend says.. no problem. They are innocent.. maybe they were just sent to observe, like some of us..

too many details for me. just a thought.. one can only be some kind of "elitist" when it comes to oneself.. I can only dictate to myself how to judge.. You have good thoughts friend.. center of reference.. well, when, or if speaks to me, I have little choice but to agree. I mean.. what are the alternatives here.. generally, a human voice has not ever done this for me. I've pretended at times.. the only thing one can tell another.. is how one choses to judge.. I'm glad I'm not THE judge. too much work..

Yankees!.. well.. the ultimate foe. it wasn't the terror of the Vervoids. we ha one (late)incarnation of the doctor.. as chief prosecutor, in a case against himself..

there are all kinds of issues the freshmen will have to consider.. continue buying at wal*mart. the next cashier might be one of your aging former teachers.. without health benefits, any kind of *real* retirement.. you know they just robbed Michigan teachers of any kind of collective bargaining. Of course that will effect pensions, retirement, etc. etc.. They did the same thing in Pennsylvania. Ohio. Other places.. I mean.. teachers generally live on "needs basis" as it is.. what kind of world do we really want here.. I wish paw had a "rating" for the posts here.. 1. sober 2. partaken, slightly. 3. partially intoxicated.. 4.. I would choose number three, at the moment..

I dunno. I look toward now, and the future.. does what I do NOW impact the world.. currently. In a very small way, yes. I give the clueless freshman a small measure of logic.. well. in the program, technically, this is the last time.. and I can't just give them a grade.. or a good one, at that..

Ha! well, there is always the possibility of complete failure.

It's a hard vote, friend. am I.. perhaps culturally. under current definitions in church and society.. I wish you gave another choice.. "I really don't know.."

During involvement in twi, a lot. Now, not. then the offshoots didn't get to me fast enough after leaving.. I went to several local offshoot meetings about 9 or ten months after twi. The world didn't come to an end, in fact.. on the way out of the door of my last twi experience, I recognized I had been following a nutcase. Several, including the state guy, with which was the last meeting. His major concern was obey herr manogawd, and not allowing bread and vegetables to pass his palate, at the same time. Never shall the two meet, in his digestive tract. maybe a related question would be "how does or did twi doctrines influence your political view" in offshoots?

so, technically, what is really WRONG with getting out of this life, dead?