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What cultheads we were! Maybe we should have been praying to God to heal the holes in our heads!

Happy Birthday Tonto, my friend!

Dot - I heard that from someone else. I heard that VP said it first, thought I myself didn't hear it. I DO remember D*nna M*rtind*le screaming at the top of her lungs, "Women! Keep your vaginas clean!!!" WHY she felt she needed to scream this to the whole tenth and eighth corps....? It never made sense to me.

People didn't "die" they "fell asleep." That was fine until a waybot was speaking to someone that said their sister had just died and then got corrected... These aren't necessarily euphemisms, but they sure are words that we used much differently than those around us.: Anyone not in TWI was an "unbeliever." The "tithe" was taught - but we "abundantly shared." Things weren't "possible" - they were "available."

Awwww Tonto... you're so purty! :)

My point is - not only did people die from neglect, typhus and other "stuff," ... WHY DOES IT NOT CAUSE YOU TO WONDER WHY SO MANY JEWS WERE INCARCERATED??? THAT IN AND OF ITSELF IS A TELLING FACT. Unless of course, you've got your trusty rose-colored glasses on...

Outfield, I've made some yummy salmon steaks: I remove the bone and use either toothpicks or bamboo skewers to form them into a "circle" kind of like a fillet mignon. season them with salt, pepper, lemon, butter and olive oil (butter and olive oil mixture is called "fortified butter" and tastes great without burning so quickly.) Put them on a greased sheet and bake at 350* for about 30 min or until done. Meanwhile: chop up some red onions and saute in butter. add salt and pepper, fresh dill. When the onions are transparent, add about 1/2 to 3/4 cup of white wine and reduce to half. This sauce comes out pinkish. Serve it over the salmon. I usually serve this with a medley of colored peppers stir-fried, with a splash of balsalmic vinegar.

THAT line alone ought to give you cause to think and wonder WHY?...

WG - there is a scripture that talks about God treating us like children and how a loving parent chastises (reproves and corrects) their children - it's just not right at my fingertips right now. I can go into some thoughts here - but I think they are best for Doctrinal - and that forum wearies me sometimes...

Sorry folks, this is like watching a train wreck. You don't want to watch but you just can't make yourself look away. I see a lot of gender bending here, if you ask me. The women don't look feminine and the men...well...WHO in their right mind puts a scarf on a man??? :wacko: :blink: Brown may be the "new black" but I just see it as evidence that they are full of...

Oh and BTW - I am always HIGHLY suspicious any time someone tries to give me a one-verse (or one section) answer to life...

John 15: 1-17 1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. 9"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command. 15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 17This is my command: Love each other. I still don't know what "fruit" is but: It does have to glorify the Father We are commanded to love one another. That's all I need to hear. _________________ The only connection I've heard to real grapevines was several years ago. I'll try to remember but I'm old...so give me some leeway: When a husbandman (one who tends grapes) finds that a vine is no longer productive, he does several things: He trims it. Get's the suckers and extra branches off. He gets it off the ground (picks it up) He (I think) digs around it and loosens the soil. This makes it easier for new roots to grow. Basically, he gives it more attention - attention that is necessary for the health of the vine. This is a bit more tender of an image than "pruning"...

The tiara stays ... <_< ;) The dancing has to happen Just take extra pictures of Tonto and nevermind me...

Ohhhhh! Chip and Dale... Kinda sorta keeps the "squirrel" theme going, even though they were chipmunks...

Creepy - isn't it? :ph34r: :o

Lifted_Up, That's sort of why I stopped respecting the offshoots of TWI. Any ministry that claims to be a "research and teaching ministry" basically finds themselves asking questions for the sole purpose of justifying their existence. Eventually the honest questions are used up and questionable doctrines are sought out and "researched" - of course they can ALWAYS say, "We just discovered this..." (It wasn't really 2 it was 4. Goliath was really hit in his knee and not his forehead...) It's one thing to question history. It's quite another thing to only look for answers that have not already been provided. It seems that is as dishonest a claim as the revisionists make against those they oppose. Then to make these claims and have nothing to back them up...

You got a crow that you can hitch a ride with, Jonny?

Big hair - somehow seems appropriate for this "New TWI" ;)

I didn't know I couldn't respond. Besides.. the silence was deafening so I decided to call them with some music they might understand.

And now a song while we're waiting.... Turn to # 65 - Standing on the Promises Standing on the promises of one more fraud, Allowing him to tell us when we should applaud. Picking up a pen to sign another card Standing on the promises of John. OH I"m Standing... standing...safe and secure from the Ohio farm Standing... standing... standing on the promises of John. Standing on the prophecies I can not fail, When the spiders come, then I will prevail. I'll just say a prayer that I don't go to jail, Standing on the prophecies of Karen...

Just a suggestion here... but if the black and white one turns out to be male "Tux" or "Spats" Other than that ...CONGRATS!

WAIT! What...?! There's no question in that quote. At least there was no question about "what motivates a revisionist." Are you sure you know how to read what's written?

But DO be askeered that Tom likes to post photos...

How can you miss that opportunity??? Come to see (buy?) the banjo, then stay for the food. ;)

Raf - your sister and your whole family has my prayers.