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It registered a 9.78 on the puke meter, George

Yea.. I never heard that one either. :blink:

Geisha - if you really use apples that much, consider this handy Apple Corer and Slicer: Someone gave it to me several years ago. It cuts the prep time for making an apple pie in half (hmmmm could be a good thing, could be not so good - depending on whether or not you want to make endless apple pies.)

I'm not going to try to copy all the posts on this point. I'm too lazy and too tired. I agree with the "cool and on the inside" aspect, but I'm not sure those were my feelings at the time. At one point I distinctly remember hating all the jargon. It wasn't cool - it was weird. I kept two sets of vocabulary in my head - one for twig and one for being normal. BUT - I did hear more than one person tell me that when they came to a fellowship they felt like they could just talk and feel like they were understood. They were (ugh) "home again."

We're probably way off topic now, but what the heck... IF twi were really concerned with being a ministry - a CHRISTIAN ministry - the push would have been to get the "good news" out to everyone - no matter what. This was the mentality of those first few twigs I attended. BUT - this wasn't the case. Only "The Teacher" (ahem -yuk, puke) could teach. That secured his postion as the head of the Body of Christ honcho and insured that there was always a constant flow of money coming in. And the true measure of a man or woman became how many classes he or she ran instead of his integrity. Add to that the other violations against souls and you have an ugly, horrible monster of a mess of a cult. Bringing it back around... Perhaps the "Argot" did more than exclude people. It also served to isolate those "in" so that they felt like they couldn't speak the same language as the rest of the world. It made it a very lonely and scary transition to go from twi to normalcy.

It was before... but after I took the class. Let me add that when I say "edict" I say it with a bit of sarcasm. The Branch leader made a very strong suggestion that we not try to teach what (ahem - yuk) "the Teacher" did best. OH! The problems I mentioned referred to my thought processes.

I gotta say that my first few "twigs" were very open and instructive. In fact, they were so helpful that an edict had to be handed down to NOT talk so much before a person took the class. The real problems started when I joined the WC. But hey, it was a ten year part of my life that ended twenty years ago. I've been out twice as long as I was in (not counting the time pre-twi.) I still take a look at my habits and thought patterns. I still find bs. At least now I want to get rid of the bs - instead of embracing it and giving it an even bigger place in my life.

I use the word "create" with reckless abandon now... Seriously... It became an increasingly bigger PIA to have a conversation in twi. If you said "luck" or "good Luck" or anything culturally accepted you were treated like horns were sprouting from you head and fire was shooting out of every cranial orifice. That said, you got an equally awful reaction if you insisted on avoiding certain words when you were around co-workers and such. twi person: "I have an opportunity..." Normal person: "Great! Tell me about it!" twi person: "Uhh no. You don't understand. This isn't a good thing..." Normal person, is afraid to ask for more details for fear he or she will get even more confused lingo; gets that glazed look in his or her eyes and walks away, shaking head and thinking, "I had to comment! When will I ever learn?" Two books, Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch and The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom had a huge impact on me. I'd have to say the first book more than the second, but I'm still learning.

102. Don't listen to people who... missed #100

Nickelback: not a great band - but I'm not picky... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enhfApoyhxs This next one moves me.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c9RmtC-8mI

That's because your friends are wanting you to take a class to learn it - and most of us here just want to forget that stuff. OH no! Now you did it... (pssssttt... It didn't make sense to us either. - )

Hope The Blues Brothers singing "Soul Man" makes this a happy day for you.

Nice WAG! (Now wiggle over here and post another clue please...:) )

Now that I have snot all over my keyboard, perhaps I can return the favor: Sarah McLachlan - "Angel" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDkcJ-62uuY...feature=related

...lash... Don't know the show though.

Hmmmm... What if I said that this singer has a very "Italian Roman Catholic" name?

Oh it was soooo much more than that... <_< If you missed it in the physical you'd... I can't even finish that sentence without my stomach churning. Everyone line up shoulder to shoulder. We need to clean every scrap of paper and cigarette butt off the lawn... And that's how it's done... sigh... Sick - huh?

I bet it involves.. ummmm... the opportunity to get cleaned... you know... the way a cat cleans a... ummm... "kitty"

I think this song sounds older than it is: "No Rain"- Blind Melon

Next line: I made it through the wilderness Somehow I made it through

I'm not sure if I already posted this one... O.A.R.- "Shattered"

As long as he sends enough for more than the two drink limit... Aye!

Let's see if anyone remembers this unlikely title: I made it through the wilderness

Short cuts... There is a local guy here who is a real jerk. He's got a ton of money and he pushes people around with his "power." Most people that know him either don't like him or pretend to like him because they want some favor from him. He gives a TON of money to some local universities - because he wants to appear to be generous. He wants to appear to be a supporter of the arts. He wants his name on a building. He doesn't really want to put forth any more effort than he has to to appear generous. Certainly not unless there is something to be gained for him or his reputation. Meanwhile, he hurts people and takes away their livelihood... My admittedly very biased opinion... The same with twi and the Carnegie Library. It looked good to renovate it. Accreditation would have taken more effort and more - ummm... smarts than vp was willing to invest. Why raise up a group of truly 'equipped' Biblically trained men and women, when it was much cheaper in the long run to tell them they were getting the best training money could buy - and charge them for doing work to renovate a campus and the Library? Heck he charged corps for the "privelege" to work for him. :asdf: He never really wanted anyone to have something he either couldn't have or couldn't attain easily.

Is that the "Sugar Shack"? (I don't know who sang it.)