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If that one doesn't float your boat, there's always..."Thou shalt not steal".

We've all left to join .

In real life, math isn't truly exact and science isn't unfailingly precise. There...... I said it. Heh!

The younger generation, especially those who have family ties to The Way. SOWERS is simply an updated version of what The Way was doing 40 years ago.....In musical terms, think of it as a modernized cover version of an old song, that appeals to current musical tastes.

Rufus Moseley

Thrown like a star in my vast sleep I open my eyes to take a peep To find that I was by the sea Gazing with tranquility.

Magic Bus...The Who

Flying under the radar is just an expression, John. It simply means that there was nothing in their behavior that would arouse suspicion about their true nature.

Simple. We'll proclaim the newly found material to be counterfeit. There, now wasn't that easy?

Sounds of laughter, shades of life Are ringing through my opened ears Inciting and inviting me. Limitless undying love, which Shines around me like a million suns

San Francisco....Scott McKenzie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_WG3d3GL8&feature=related

I can't remember who I was talking to in chat, one night, who said, "Geeze, I must have been the only guy in The Way who wasn't getting laid." I had to laugh because I realized there were two of us.

You guys need to renew your minds. hahahahahahahaha!

Here's a scary thought. Beyond the five direct offspring we know of, did the Vicster contribute any more of his tainted genetic material to the world's DNA pool? How about the Loyster.... or the Geershifter?

I think of those news reports you see of someone who's been found to have committed some heinous deed without previous detection. The neighbors all say, "Gee, he seemed like such a nice guy. I never had a clue..." Uh Huh...Just better at flying under the radar than your average miscreant.

Looking back at this thread....It appears that "immunity" is the puzzling component.

Personally, I think it was done in The Way as a sort of slight of hand...create an illusion. You put that strict directive to be celibate together with the idea of never thinking evil of your brother ....it opens all kinds of windows of opportunity for the less-than-faithfull adherents of the doctrine.

The alpha male cat in a given geographical area can somehow sense whether recently born kittens are his own offspring. If they are not, he will (sometimes) kill them. No one knows why he will do this but one theory is that he is trying to preserve his own gene pool. Another theory is that, with their demise, the mother cat will go back into heat sooner, making her available again.

We like to think we are somehow superior to all the other creatures that roam the planet. In some basic ways, we are really no different. We are fiercely territorial and driven by the same basic needs as all the other animals. We're just better at disguising it and rationalizing it with philosophical rhetoric.

Muddy Waters summed it up pretty well when he said, the same thing that makes a makes a bulldog hug a hound, makes a preacher lay his Bible down...."The whole world's fightin' about that same thing."

In a world where technology is constantly changing at break-neck speed, one thing that actually remains constant is the primary nature of man. Monogamy, and its preservation, has been and will continue to be a major driving factor in civilized cultures, according to the opinions of sociologists.