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As regards the AC, I remember nothing of what was taught. I thought it a bit of a disappointment, overrated. What I do remember is some great fellowship. I was in Indiana for a sort of residential class (perhaps all ACs were residential?) and my twig had a lot of young women my age. We got on well, and had a great time laughing with each other. I remember sitting out in the sunshine and enjoying each other, having fun, and feeling "at home." A number of other people I met there became my SPs. I apologise to them for the waste of their money on the WC program, especially when some of them could probably have used it themselves; but I promise you that I learned things there (and afterwards) that I put into practice today (a lot about how not to treat people). I went straight on to go in rez, so off to HQ and to do some grunt work helping set up RoA. It was with pleasure that the following year, I welcomed some of those young women from my AC twig as my younger Corps; two I became very good friends with and we stayed friends during Corps training. I wonder what has become of them.

Never mind Forum Rules, I want to post a photo but I can't, I've used all my allotted space and I can't remove any old photos to free up any more space.

Good grief! What a wacky thread! Never seen this before, read the first and last two pages. Weird as!

I use Edge, T-Bone. No problems posting.

I can see why they had this "no debt" thing - at least, for staff. People were paid on a "need" basis. And they might "need" to pay back student loans. So if someone said they had a need to be paid $xx for their needed food, clothing, household essentials, car, etc AND also the "needed" $xx to service their student debt, then TWI would be paying off someone's debt in a very overt way. Rather than giving a proper salary for someone to deal with in a responsible manner, it was part of another way to pry into personal finances. And then, of course, the trickle-down effect to minions... No idea why it should be applied to Adv Class students. Few of them would go on staff at any point, especially not immediately after taking the AC.

Oh! And this morning I am Dedicated, with a little green arrow. Arrow might show the exit route out of a certain place...!

Oh hey! I see I am now an Apprentice and have a leaf symbol. No doubt that means I shouldn't "leaf" this place just yet.

Oh, crikey, I knew a girl years ago, due to sit her end of school exams at age 18 or thereabouts. Hadn't done much study or preparing for the exam, too busy attending fellowships and helping her father "move the word." She said she was believing to pass and God would give her the answers, because what she was doing was Godly and more important than studying. Talk about taking the lord's name in vain...! I don't know what her results were, have never been in touch with her since.

Yeah, we have the Chief cook & Bottle washer expression here too. It's come to mean, sort of: a general dogsbody. Dogsbody itself being a weird expression. Though I suppose a CCBW (does a bit of everything) would be of a little higher status that a dogsbody (does menial [or even mean-ial] tasks). And a Man/Girl Friday would be a step up from a CCBW. Here's lookin' at ya, T-Bone

Thank you. I asked in this way, because I'm sure it'll be affecting other people too, sooner or later.

And I don 't want to delete all the attachments, either. Only some of them.

Okay guys, you've just modified the board. I don't seem to have capacity to attach a new photo. Nor do I have ability to remove old photos to free up space, despite there being a link to Manage Your Attachments. Did something get overlooked, or am I missing some instruction somewhere?

You mean you're not, T-Bone? You know, the cafe should have celebrated this upgrade with a new array of cakes and coffee. Or maybe I should just get something to eat. Just got in at the end of my working day. Chicken fillets, Jersey Royal baby potatoes, carrots, cauliflower and broccoli await my attention. Then rhubarb and yoghurt. Yum. Then maybe my GSC cake. Yum yum.

Oakie! Well, your own life has certainly taken a different turn from what it might have done in TWI. Likely to have been a lot more enjoyable than if you'd still been in. So glad you're participating in the real world. Not the box they tried to force you into.

I love trees, forests, being on mountains above the bushline/treeline looking down on forests, creatures that live in forests... I only have a small garden and I have planted several small trees in it. This city is full of mature and younger trees. The fringe of the city, where I live, has lots of wooded areas. Nice to walk in. My fave verse: Is 55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Nah. It was the little leaf symbol on the 3/14 badge. Note, however, the 2/14 symbol is clapping hands. Yay!

I've just finished this (historical fiction): I'm pretty eclectic in my tastes. Lots of what's already been mentioned. I also like Jodi Picoult, who writes about social issues. Ken Follett's books are interesting, nobody's mentioned him yet. What I read depends on whether I want to learn something (so, perhaps, a bit of historical, or social, fiction), enjoy an escape (thriller/crime), veg out (any kind of rubbish) Before that, I recently read a cartoon book (also historical fiction). Sounds silly, it's only slender, but actually, there is a lot in it.

I see the symbol for an Apprentice with 3/14 (3 out of 14 what??) is a leaf. Haven't we had enough of leaves, twigs, Way trees, and the like? How about - um... err... em - an axe? To chop down the Way tree?

Something fishy (and rank) going on, perhaps? I dunno. Makes us all look like newbies. Weird. Apparently I'm a "Rookie" (with >5K posts!) and you, Bolshy, are an Apprentice, with slightly more posts. But we're both still on the Leaderboard.

Did you get booted, Allan? Your thread about LCM doesn't seem to be here now.

By the way, Mike, if you're ever in the UK you are welcome to come to my church or any of the associated churches, see what we do, spend time with any one of our ministers or staff, ask any questions you want about the work we carry out. I'm sure your practical help would also be welcome in cooking meals, distributing food parcels, StACCtion days (service within the community), sitting with the lonely and dispossessed and chatting to them. Hey, you could even pray with people from time to time. The church financial accounts are also easily accessible and any questions you want can be asked of our Treasurer about those. We've found our good works very effective. But come and see !

I have no idea what this post means. "The intensely tone"? "Mighty Fighter of the Evil Forces"? "Any good counterfeit is going to be camouflaged with lots of good." That sounds straight from the PFAL playbook. Without you even reasoning that actually, that's what TWI attempted. Except that the "lots of good" appears to have evaporated very, very early in the piece.

Mike, I have shared a number of great positives in my life, that generate great joy - including on this thread. Have you acknowledged even one of them? No. And no surprise there. Do you look at other threads on this site? There are active threads in Open and in the Music one. Do you follow any of those? You said you wanted to engage in different ways. Well, go ahead. Engage.

Oh no, Bolshy one. For adults at least: "Drink a little wine for thy stomach's sake."

That's FoS "realistico" or maybe "cold-waterio."

Wow, I looked away for a few days, and come back to same-old same-old. I was intrigued by Mike's claim that he has encountered thousands of PFAL grads who want to know more. He must live in a football stadium, or similar. I wonder how many of these enlightened (?) people he has actually met, actually encountered - in person, in the flesh, as human beings - and not as online whoevers? Might a dozen be a good estimate? Or would that too be an over-estimate? My city has a population of about 80,000. I doubt whether I have met even a tenth of them, even fleetingly, and certainly not enough to have deep conversations about theological issues. I really had no idea that Mike had such a huge circle of friends - nay, deep conversational companions, with whom he can freely discuss PFAL. And that's without the casuals that he get into conversation with, and the people at the dance place he attends (if you're dancing, you're not talking). I got the idea he was a little reclusive. Well done, Mike! You've really taken on the boldness that PFAL has imbued you with.