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I can only think of some lines from a song: Who'll be my role model Now that my role model is Gone, gone He ducked back down the alley With some roly poly little bat-faced girl. All alone, lone there were incidents and accidents there were hints and allegations... Paul Simon.... "You Can Call Me Al"

What's the first photo?

George- you're right! This is a Christmas movie - was on just recently.

Something for the men.....

Hmm.. doing the same old things, expecting different results You do realize of course that that is the definition of insanity?

Potato - I hear you! As I wrote this I knew that I was writing for a crowd that was like me. I'm not saying that I wasn't afraid to move on. Heck, at first I didn't even see that there was anything wrong. I didn't know about the motorcoach shenanigans when they were going on. If I had - I would have said something - made some noise. I would have left - or maybe stayed to try to work from the inside to change things. I get real angry when I think of what signs I missed and how I could have really helped some folks..... BUT- once I moved on -it was no looking back. I still have some friends in that old splinter group that I helped start - they actually have their own CHURCH now! I love them, talk to them, but I will not go to that church. WHY? because it would be a step back - and while I am in Texas and the two-step is the favored dance here, I have no desire to spend my life moving backwards two steps at a time. You'll find that the world is not that scary - its only scary if you believe that devil spirits are waiting to pounce on you at every turn (What schlock!) Once you take the TWI-colored glasses off and wait for your eyes to adjust to the light - squint, blink, blink - Voila! OMG! you can see! Aaaaannnnnnddddddd...the colors are brighter and the smells are sweeter.

OK so here goes....... No matter how much we HATE TWI and the VPW, and the deplorable things that happened - there was something that we went searching for when we got involved and decided to stay. (Now - I took the class in that "X" generation - after Hefner and Doop but there was still a lot of their thinking and love in the air. I left BEFORE the terrible nineties and beyond - the TWI-light Zone if you will.) ANYWAY - I was looking and I found a lot of love, power, and sense of family. These are not BAD things - in fact they are things that SHOULD be around in a strong group where Jesus is at the center. Heck- some of us didn't even know what we were looking for - we just got involved. While in, some of us did some good, some of us received some good, some of us did great damage or had such done to us. I suspect that most of us fall somewhere in the mix of all of the above. BUT - NOW WE ARE OUT! When I left TWI I made the mistake of trying to help form a splinter group - I wanted to keep serving God and I couldn't see myself in a church. Well, I wanted to keep helping people and I believed that I was serving God. That was a fiasco to say the least, because while I just wanted to serve God, the head honcho was much more concerned with keeping the little extra benefits he had become accustomed to in the cult - sex and money. Made me sick. SO I left and just did my own thing for about 5 years. I just kept trying to put as much of myself into my kids and my family, and my friends and those I met as I could. I was determined to keep doing what I believed God wanted me to do - what he needed me to do. DID krap stop happening? NO! In fact it got worst. Why? Who knows? I'm not blaming anyone or anything - it is what it is. It worked out fairly well, anyway. Sure there have been some real S-U-C-K-Y moments, BUT- I have two beautiful daughters that I can't imagine living without. I have met some amazing people here and in my travels. Maybe I feel like somehow the little that TWI gave me that was positive gave me a platform to start from and some wisdom of what to avoid, along with the ability to help others avoid the same. It was definitely more than I would have gotten had I stayed in my old life in NYC. My life has not been easy, but I know that I can look back and feel like I've been fairly honest with myself. WE ARE OUT! WE ARE OUT! WE ARE OUT! WE ARE OUT! WE ARE OUT! Let that sink in a moment........ Let's take that and run with it. How many prisoners do you know that keep standing at the prison gate and talk about it, describe it, go back in and measure the cell, and linger at the end of the drive? NO! THEY RUN LIKE HECK to freedom! (UMMMMM not talking about repeat offenders here - LOL) Maybe I'm trying to say something that I know will draw horrific flames here - but I don't really care.

Hunt Forehead Doctor ......? Hunt For Red October I'm busy til the evening - so just stay tuned and I'll post .

Had a glitch with posting - I'd like to delete this post but can't.....

Thank you, George. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

So maybe we need to start a new game called "Who'll Blink First"........ I'll answer and post later - weenies! LOL

I actually posted this one a while back - so I'm going to wait this one out a little....

Pier turd Zsa City

ODAT?

AAAhhhhhh - BUT does anyone have the Abbott and Costello text? Its very rare - and only the most scholarly of scholars will ever be able to understand and translate it.

Nicely said, Socks!!

Ok Tom - I'm extending an olive branch......I'll never call you a cheat again. I promise... I apologize wholeheartedly and ask for your forgiveness.

I have been following this thread since I first saw it. I have no real experience or words of wisdom - so I just said my "Good Work! - Congratulations!" in my head and moved on. I do remember some things about my husband kicking smoking - it was hard - HARD - and he had to try many times. He had to do many things to avoid the "want" for a cigarette. The parallels aren't really the same - but I can relate as one that lived with a person kicking nicotine addiction. (NOT high up on the list of "bad" addictions - unless the person in question had cancerous tumors in his lungs as hubby did in his early twenties.) I guess what I'm trying to say is that it can be so easy to say something negative when a post stirs you - but when a positive thought comes to mind - I still find myself saying, "Looks like there's plenty of support here - they don't need my two cents since I have little else to offer." Perhaps this is the kind of thinking that keeps us all more distant . ANYWAY - this isn't about me. I have no wise thoughts here. CMAN, DMILLER, ET AL - CONGRATULATIONS! MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU!

okay - first pic - is about how many...then for clues two and four - think about details - what are those things in clue two? exactly what is that in pic four?

Oh no! George has "TomStrangewon'tpostitis!" MWAH! Tommy

Tom- I love you! Just have to keep you from never posting....

Tom - methinks you know many more than you answer...... You should post this one just because you like to cheat.....

Pillow Talk?