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OAK!!!! :D--> :D--> :D--> Here I am trying to be serious (for once), and yer stealing my *thunder* :P--> Where's a moderater, when ya need one!? --> :D--> -->

and then --- Wow -- I guess the times they did change, Belle and Chas. The AC was held up as a *high goal* to attain for (early 1970's-1978), and not all made it. If you hadn't had all the collateral *classes* under your belt, you weren't even considered for eligibilty. For whatever reasons, the rules got *broken* in 1979, and anyone with the cash required was allowed to attend the live AC '79. (Forgive me if I am wrong about this, but this is my perception of that event -- since so many were *allowed* to sit in on what had been a previously hard-earned *reward*, without having had to take all the *classes*). I took that class in 1979, and then again two years later -- they introcuced a thing called advanced class grad week, where a bunch of AC grads came together -- and took the whole thing over again in a week's period of time. I went to the one in 1981 as well, but leadership then never pushed any of the AC grads to go (and AC grads were the only one's allowed at these things), nor were any refused entrance for any reason, even for being *out of fellowship*. Reason I say that is because one guy showed up (and stayed the entire week), even though he had not been in the Way *proper* for a while, yet he was an AC grad -- and was welcomed just like the rest of us. Go figure. The times they aren't a'changin --- they HAVE changed. The more that twi micro-manages folks lives, the less they will have in attendance as folks see that it is all about THEM (twi), and NOT the Word of God. Seemingly the outfit has forgotten that *giving equals receiving* (which in itself is not totally accurate), unless they equate all giving to them, equals all receiving by them. --> Methinks the *DOPE-SLAP* is alive and well, and being self-administered daily by those who are still in, when they realize how they are being coerced, manipulated, used, and abused by those who claim to love God, and His Word, but are thinking more of themselves, and their own welfare instead. My prayers daily are for the grounds there at twi. I pray the exit doors are unlocked, open, and free from all obstruction for those who need to *make a move* and do so quickly. The times have changed, and that small cloud that once looked like a man's hand, is now, and has been obliterating the horizon. That small cloud in 1 Kings, was a Godly thing. The one that has eminated from twi, is not. The first offered deliverance from a drought, the second offers the drought, and famine itself, with no deliverance in sight. David

I think the guy/gal that did that site had wayyyy too much time on their hands. :D-->

And then there is this quote from GrouchoMarxjr: :D-->

Find out how much twi has in it's coffers, then demand everything except for 20% of the total, so they can abs back to themselves.

So now there should be a law against adveritising?? I've yet to see an ad for fast food that targets kids. Matter of fact -- isn't the whole *super-sizing* meals thing geared towards adults?? Methinks so. What planet did you see your ads on? -->

Yer mellowing out, CW -- yer mellowing out!

Outandabout -- I was in Italy in 1974, doing missionary work with an outfit called Operation Mobilization. It was our job to pass out tracts, books, etc. ad infinitum -- and if the person we were talking to couldn't afford them, we gave them out for free -- but we were told that if someone *paid* something for what we gave out, they would not ignore it, since they had an investment in the deal. Now -- Am thinking twi had sort of the same thinking about this, but given the *avarice mentality* evinced by twi over the many years -- I doubt it. They were looking for money, and nothing else. The requested *donation* was a flat out fee, that was couched in legal *speakese* that got them off the hook for charging a price for the class. When I was in OM -- we did request a donation, but it was NEVER EVER mandatory, the way it was in twi. Operation Mobilization was interested in seeing folks learn *the Gospel*, regardless of the cost to themselves. Unlike those folks on the farm down there in Ohio, who mandated fees (by whatever name), in order to fill their pocketbooks with our cash.

docvic NEVER would have allowed that!

I think this is an appropriate place to repost the link to THE SQUNGEE that I mentioned in the Cheap Entertainment thread I posted last January. :D--> :D-->

Time to wean them off the *caviar*, and let em get used to *bologna sandwiches*. Sometimes I'll tear up a couple pieces of bread, and toss that on the table too. They can't eat that fast enough. :)-->

Cleaning the coffee off my screen!! :D--> :D--> :D-->

Uh-huh. Yes it is, and remember -- just about everything twi teaches has always been *out there* and offered by others. After all, it is from *out there* that docvic got all his materials from in the first place. -->

I've got a few around my house I feed occasionally as well. I'll put some sunflower seeds out on the table on my back deck for them. Cheaper than walnuts, and squirrels like them too.

Karmic -- Heh heh! I'm a *red-neck*, from a *red state*, but am living in a *blue state*, and maintaining my *red neck* status against all the odds here. :)--> You didn't ruffle my feathers at all. The give and take here is so frequent, that anyone who gets easily riled, will probably soon leave -- and (supposedly) be better off for it. Which is too bad (in my mind), since there is much learning from diversity of opinion. :)-->

Andrea -- I don't remember the exact numbers *quoted* about the attendance that year, but 1985 was the last ROA I ever went to, and that was only because it was a *memorial* for docvic. I do, however, remember the over-crowded conditions, and ended up having to sleep in the back of the station wagon I had at the time since (as you said), there was no *spot of ground* to put up a tent. Guess there is plenty of room to put up a tent there now, eh??

Now that makes me feel old. :(--> I bought all those albums when they first came out.

Christos Anesti, Kalo Pashcha to you too! :)--> Sounds like a good time will be had by all. Question (if I may) -- what's the "breaking red eggs" all about?

Diazbro -- exactly! Repeat after me ----- the Leader is always right. The Leader is always ...... The Leader is ............. -->

There is one test, and one test only for coffee's strength. Brew the coffee; Pour it in the cup; Stick a spoon in it; If the spoon doesn't stand upright, the coffee is too weak.

Oh -- and Cindy! --- I have a poster here that I'll send your way (if you want it). It is from national library week, 1969, and is a psychedelic drawing by Peter Max, expounding the advantages of reading books. At the top of it it says: BE ALL YOU CAN BE. READ!! It is about 20" by 40", and pretty *fragile*, due to the age of the thing, and has all the Peter Max *stuff* on it that makes it so appropo to the era. I'll send it to you if you want. I think it would be fitting for what you have in mind. It may be worth some money (though I doubt it -- cause it has been folded up for many years), but it's yours for this coffeehouse thing this year, and any other year you decide to do something like this for your students. :)--> I found it the other day, hidden away in the mountains of *old stuff* I have here, and was going to toss it out. Let me know.

And .... Man does THIS EVER BRING BACK MEMORIES!! The table the chianti bottle candle-holders are on has to be a big old *spindle* that wire was wrapped around, and the chianti bottles have to have the woven straw around the base. Albums playing in the background would be: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- Beatles Inna Gadda Da Vida -- Iron Butterfly White Room -- Cream The Doors (Light My Fire, Strange Days, The End) and Jimi Hendrix.

ps -- Not trying to demean the British accent at all, or the actors that utilize it. I like the sound of it too.

That's why I like books better than movies. :)--> In the Three Musketeers (book), Alexandere Dumas has them using French phrases, idioms, figures of speech common to the times -- and our imagination is enabled to supply the accent, intensity of speech, depth of voice, all that *good stuff* that is already provided for you on the *silver screen*. On Athos! On Porthos! On Aramis! On D'Artangnan!

Well --- there goes both the Republican and the Democratic parties! :D-->