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Thanks. I'm already taking Strattera as I said earlier. I will check out the resources that you were kind enough to link.

Do you eat much sugar? Do you deal with on going depression? It's ok, I really don't mind coming out of the closet on this issue. When I consider the cost / benefit ratio, I really don't care about what people think who would stymitize me and look down their nose at me. They have a worse problem than ADD. It's not an shame issue with me. On the other hand, I think there are people out there who like Biker Babe, Year 2027 and Reiki Lady (congratualations btw) who struggle with ADD and perhaps others who have loved ones who are ADD and need to understand the nature of ADD. In answer the questions that you pose Reiki, I do struggle with depression, I do not consume too much sugar other than two cans of ginger ale a day. Perhaps I change subjects a lot during a conversation. On the listening side, I follow along with what the speaker is saying then it's almost like static snow on tv and then I return to the conversation but missing a piece of the puzzle. My former wife used to call this phenomenon "dreaming of pregnant butterflies." The Strattera helps. I find myself tuning in better now to conversations and read without having to go back and re-read sections as much. On online IQ tests that I have taken (which I understand are not exactly valid measures according to what a psychologist told me), I score significantly higer (gifted) on untimed tests than on timed tests (above average). I have read and know from my own experience that a feature of ADD is a delay in the initial processing of information which is a handicap when performing tasks under the pressure of the clock.

Beginning stages of Alzheimers...lovely. Thanks for the kind advice. I will keep it in mind...if i dont drift off that is. :)-->

Do you know how frustrating it is when you are trying to watch tv and someone else has the remote and is flipping through the channels? That's how I feel when reading a book or newspaper. I find myself having to read and re-read the same paragraph before I extract it's meaning from it. It seems that my mind stealthly drifts off into other streams of consciousness. Perhaps a word or phrase I read will remind me of something else and I find myself reading words and thinking about what I have been reminded of. Sometimes I find myself in a meeting and missing piece of information. That is so frustrating. I am taking strattera which has helped. Can anyone else relate? Would someone else like to share similar experiences.

Best wishes for a happy life as husband and wife.

I hate to throw cold water on your fear party...But..God has NOT given us the spirit of fear.

Yes. Twice. In Raleigh,NC in 1978 In Dallas during the WOW year 1979. I had earned a Bachelors in Political Science by the time I took that class. It was another shameless self promotion of TWI.

i miss her too.

Wacky, I totally understand where you are coming from. I decided the preface "I should" is insufficient to move me to volunteer for anything. "I should" responds manipulation and coercion as we know all to well. I am sure what you found recently was the link between love and desire that sparked your action. That is the only reason I volunteer for anything now.

Abi, I just might be coming. Is the cabin still open? Is there room for Ryan? PT please.

That A- in the Soph history course...erase the minus. The report came in from Johns Hopkins today. He got an A.

It means unless a bowl is empty you cannot put anything in it. Simarly unless a mind is empty you cannot put anything in it.

i was wonc... kinston '73 wilson '74

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There have been times during the past year in which I experienced a reversal of fortune and abandonment of friends that I have not only wanted to die but actually PRAYED to die ...but here I am. "Any of you have that belief that when you want to die...then the ole devil will gladly accomodate you?" He can't have you when God sees better days ahead which in my case He did.

Thanks David! Kit, Thanks for your concern. I feel pretty good about Ryan's experiences in his AP classes as well as his experience at college this summer. (You see, my mom taught AP English and I actually had her for a teacher.) I am sorry to hear about your experience with Paul and the kooky teacher. I think that goes to underscore that parents need to be involved in their children's education just as they would need to be in the loop about their kid's medical treatment.

God is just in all His ways. I suppose the better question would be to whom does He extend mercy? Does He require contrition before He extends mercy? I do not know how to answer that question. It would appear that He is longsuffering and witholds earned consequences for sin for some. Yet there is also does appear that there is a eventually a settling of the score for those who reject His mercy and do not turn from doing evil. A case in point is TWI leadership. They have been exposed for the hucksters, manipulating and cruel people they are. They have been diminished. They are now a laughingstock. They have lost their hold over our lives and soon enough they will have no power at all which to them is a fate worse than death. There is a saying from antiquity that applies here. "The mills of the gods (God)grind slowly but exceedingly small."

Oldiesman writes: Yes, He does. After all these years He is still cleaning up the mess VPW made in people's lives.

Riddle of the Sphinx From Homer's Odyssey Q. What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening? A. Man

Oldiesman, I first have to say I sincerely hope that the leg is on the mend nicely. Now as for your posts on this thread: It would have made a big difference to me to have known him to be a thief when I was led to believe that I owed my loyalty to him and his ministry because God had taught him to teach the Word of God like it had not been taught since the first century. If I had known that he had lifted what he taught from others works rather being taught by God as he said he was then I wouldn't have been brought under the bondage of the pontifications of him and his minions. Oldiesman continues: "Because even had Wierwille given proper written acknowledgement in all his books, would that have caused any of us to do anything any different way back when? Would we have flocked to other ministries? Flocked to other causes? Would we have given less money to twi? Not taken PFAL, not gone WOW, not gone Corps. Gotten less committed because we saw proper written acknowledgement in the books? I trow not." Perhaps some of us would have done these things had we known but we would have done them with our eyes open rather than being deceived into thinking that VPW was some modern day Apostle Paul and that twi was the holy of holies in the sight of God. Heck, some of us might have had lives, careers, been able to follow our passions and gifts, lived in our own homes instead of acquiesing to group-think.

Oh, did I say he is one-half Hispanic. Puerto Rico es la estrella del Caribe. and... one-half Tar Heel Esse Quam Videri To be rather than to seem.

This just in. Ryan aced Intro to lit.

Methinks they were full of something else.

Ryan, my 16 year old has done it once again. He will be entering the 11th grade this month with a 4.2 gpa on a 4.0 scale.(You get more qp's for ace-ing a Advanced Placement class) This summer he was accepted into the gifted student program at Johns Hopkins University. He lived at JHU for five weeks and took college classes with college students and held to the same academic standards. One of the classes he took was 18th and 19th Century European History taught by a professor who the regular JHU students said was VERY STINGY with the A's. Ryan received an A- and the prof told him that he would be willing to write a letter of recommendation for him to go to Johns Hopkins but would rather see him at Princeton where he could test out of the first two years. The prof also taught Russian Literature and gave Ryan a copy of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. We are still waiting on the grade from his freshman level Intro to Literature to arrive but are not too worried. His teacher in that class told him that he has a good ear for dialogue in his writing. Everyday I have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming that I sired such a smart kid.

I experienced Peter Jennings as a sauve and sophisticated anchor, always the consumate gentleman. He engaged the viewer in a thoughtful discourse of current events in contrast to Rather's sometimes abrasive manner and Texas homespun stabs at humor and Brokaw's punctuating the news with quips and grins. As a progressive (liberal) myself I didn't experience Jennings as having betrayed his political sentiments. Perhaps he did so on those newscasts that I missed but I always thought he was much more fair and balanced than the channel that has registered that slogan as it's trademark. Thanks to The Highway for reminding us that neither liberalism nor conservatism are panaceas.