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I do the same as Tom ... the little light gets brighter and it's really time ... I always just fill all the way up, no reason to waste time putting in $5. Of course now $10 only gets you a quarter tank at most. There is a station not far from here that does full service for certain hours like 3 days a week for the same price. The old guy that came up to me was the same guy that had his face painted on the window advertising the full service ... which was kinda funny. I hadn't thought that it would be helpful for the elderly. If they can't get their own gas, it isn't long before they shouldn't be driving? Why does twi say to fill up on weekends?

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As one who argued for broader rules, I'd have to say guessing which syllables or even letter pairs to use out of possible word clues would get pretty difficult. But Tom gets revelation ... I clearly remember when he pulled "Rats" out of thin air!

Are there any fellowships where they just string chairs? For some reason I think that's where the real answers are. Stringing chairs brings such clarity and focus to me ... you tell me what you think about stringing chairs and I'll tell you how far you'll go with God ... spiritually ...

I can't quite place the name ... was he in 7th corpse? I vaguely remember some guy running the 12 minute test in combat boots and going over 2 miles ... seems like maybe it was him? ... Or was he not twi associated?

I was thinking 9th corpse Jef F*anks married Joni sumpthin .. she was maybe 12th corpse? If it is jef that was on staff, maybe in finance?

The probabilty of being hit is very low, but I guess terror is what terror weapons are all about. There is a lot of stress being in the war zone (is that the war on radical islam?). Of course spreading the stories of the terror weapons amplifies their effect, so this thread is already political it would seem. What is Michael doing in the war zone anyway? Since he mentioned "Hizbaal(zebub)" he seems to have a good sense of humor still, and I'd guess is in favor of clearing out some of Hizbaal(zebub) before declaring a cease fire?

I wonder how the lingering residual effects have spotted my thought processes. If some conditioning was deeply ingrained, it likely still redirects some thoughts as they meander through their neuronal pathways. Their subtlety makes them hard to recognize and root out. "Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!"

:blink: maybe you shouldn't be trying that is this some sorta out of body experience?Just trying to help ... buy a new computer please ... But really, I wish I cared ...

If I can find the 8th corpse thread, I'm gonna post 9th Corps rules 8th corps drools... That should motivate them

What do we think about it now? Or what did we think it was when we were going in? The only one that might make sense now (i hope) would be that it was always about VP. At the time I thought it was the best way to serve God ... don't think i ever thought I'd necessarily be stuck to twi forever. But I think there was probably some ego involved. Or maybe I was just avoiding facing real life choices about career and family.

My Dad used to read Reinhold Niebuhr and even corresponded with him some. He read lotsa other Christian stuff too, but after he took PFAL, his only comment was "He sure repeats himself a lot, doesn't he." Padding, good point, I hadn't thought of it that way, but it was like a high school kid trying to stretch his 40 word essay into the required 200 words. So the way tree analogy was right in some ways ... "the twig, that's where the growth is" Once you got into the branch and and limb guys, things were rigid, and of course the root and trunk never changed. So if you could somehow renew the life at the twigs, the trunk would continue to try to suck the life (money) out of them while not providing any real nourishment in return. It's a way tree where all the suckers were allowed to grow. LOL (OK, the sucker part doesn't fit, we were the suckers for sending in money, but the root folks are suckers in that they suck the life from the rest of the tree) I wonder if you told the higher ups you were not going to collect money for them, how long before they'd cut you off their tree... and that would be a good thing.

I think it is the masses of lawyers figuring out rules that benefit them. They want their hands in every transaction possible ... and most politicians are lawyers ... It is easy to get married with a minister, but when it comes to dividing assets you need a lawyer to take his cut. Then when you die, if you didn't pay a lawyer to set up a trust, lawyers will take 5 or 10% in probate. Many things you can do without a lawyer, but you risk getting taken to the cleaners by someone with an aggressive lawyer. Overlawyered.com is good though depressing. Why do they bury lawyers 20 feet deep? . . . . . . . . Cause deep down they're good people.

Verily verily I say unto thee this day ... blah blah blah ... thus saith the Lord becomes Maybe possibly I say unto thee this day (or maybe next year) blah blah blah thus saith the Lord (or I might be Satan)

Exactly right Belle, like if you and I just finished off two bottles of wine, would we sheepishly look over at the next bottle on the wall? I think his front legs look like he's pretending to be passive, but his hind legs are ready to pounce. When the owner says "bad dog, the dog looks up like he's paying attention ... the moment the owner looks away the head goes directly back to the next potential victim.

What happened to "It's the word and nothing but the word, I don't care if nobody believes it" Apparently he cared if people believed his line about adultery being just a spiritual thing, he didn't want to offend people that might stop giving him money. The goofiest thing about saying God just cared about spiritual adultery, is that you don't really commit spiritual adultery, it is a figure of speech. So if adultery is OK in the physical, it must be OK in the spiritual since God chose that as the point of comparison. Another wierd slant ... if the body is married to Israel, but the gentile can also go to heaven, does the body of Christ have two wives? or is it seeing gentiles on the sly?

Hard to believe they'd have a $900,000 collection just sitting out like that. Maybe they put some fakes out for the dog and now want the insurance money.

1. Person A was a plagiarist and an adulterer and a rapist 2. Person B covered and denied 3. Person B was a goofball 4. Therefore person A was a plagiarist and an adulterer and a rapist There, I fixed that for you. If there are facts like this, it is better to state them clearly before considering other defensive argument. There is no need for strawmen at all if you are in the right.

Well, I think many of us were pure and gullible, but there was some ego and stupidity, etc that allowed us to be led astray. That doesn't necessarily make us pure ... and I wouldn't put "them" is a reserved class either ... some of them were worse than others ... but for the most part them were the ones that were willing to trample on the hearts that open and minds that ask. (minds that open, hearts that ask? I forget)

I'm thinking piffle had this right, you point one finger at someone else and you point three back at yourself. Of course VP stole that too. But in psych101, what is that? Projection? I see that a lot, even in forums here ... heck, I'm probably guilty of it. But from what I have seen it is pervasive in people that live a duplicitous life, such as those teaching one set of standards and living in direct contrast to them. I'm beginning to understand that it is not that they are deliberately scheming so much as that they are really in denial. Short of deprogramming them, they will maybe never change. Giving them 15% of one's income and revering them only worsens the condition.

Actually, I think it is about our foolhardy behaviour ... and what motivated us to risk our lives. My synopsis ... we were challenged (throw down a challenge) youthful exuberance about Gawd trumped common sense youthful stupidity / arrogance peer or group pressure fear of leaders unleashing a screaming tirade on us inner child acting out against the establishment That's just off the top of my head ... and I'm not sure I should try to go any deeper :)

How did they manage to get accredited at Rome City? Did Indiana not require science and math? (at least as I recall they were passing out associate degrees from there)

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school college, it's a wonder I can think at all ... In hindsight, I think the diligent Way College student could have gotten a decent education, at least compared to what some other two year schools offer. The Way College (and we corps took the test too) supposedly outperformed some other institutions on some generic Bible test, which really wouldn't surprise me. I started as a chemistry major, which was much more rigorous, but when I switched into horticulture some classes were pretty simple. When it came to open electives things were simpler yet. I just wonder how much some of these two year religion schools that are accredited really offer, other than the diploma. OT history seemed pretty good. The Greek and Aramaic stuff seemed like a reasonable intro to learn to use an interlinear. Public speaking was sometimes run by people that didn't know much, but George Hendley seems to be making a living teaching it now. I don't think jet style packing stuff was ever considered part of the curriculum, but even some of that stuff may have been more useful than what some colleges now give credit for. The english classes were adequate maybe, I really don't remember. If twi just had the college program, stripped of all the cult indoctrination, it might have been a cool thing, even if it was a little light on academics. sarc Of course for the corps, our calling was so great that the classes were just a side issue. The survival of the free world depended on our believing for crying out loud. /sarc off

I assume they grew like that after they were left sitting out somewhere, already sliced? Now if you cut a tomato open and found that ... that would be cool ... Not sure, but I'm guessing since they are green they must have seen some sun ... Also, none of the little sprouts appear to be cut when the tomato was cut, so they appear to have grown after ... and the way the skin of the tomato has pulled in around the edges seems to indicate it has shriveled a little while the sprouts were starting ... Just trying to do my snopes impersonation :) OK, I looked at the cooking for engineers site, I guess they do grow and get green while in the tomato .. maybe

Yeah, for all the hoopla about the Corps being for the most qualified, that only was true of a few of us, most corpse were scum. But really, no one was turned away, there was always a place for the goofballs (you know who I'm talking about) OK, sorry again, but the most qualified never got caught up in twi, then many of the very qualified briefly in twi steered clear of a lot of the major bs and persued those lowly secular jobs (and now make six figures) or found more productive organizations that actually used their wealth to help people, not to build shrines. One father of a corps guy, an executive type was talking about vp as being so hard headed. About the WOW auditorium, he said he knew somewhere there was some guy waiting with a chisel to put VP's name on there after he died. The real qualified people had a pretty clear picture of what was going on, while we with the "in depth spiritual perception and awareness" were just twisting in the wind.