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Legend has it that if the groundhog sees snow on the gas pumps, he shall be declared MOG. (Most Omnipotent Groundhog)

Ever seen that old movie with John Candy, Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks called Splash? There is a scene in it that shows John Candy as a young boy. He drops coins on the ground and stoops down to pick them up. He uses it as a ruse to look up women's skirts. The film then flashes forward to an adult John Candy, doing the exact same thing again. He looks at the camera, grins and says, "Hey, when you find something that works, you keep it." Maybe that's reason number one...If you find something that works, you keep it.

Your inside is out and your outside is in Your outside is in and your inside is out

Six Days on the Road....Dave Dudley

"He was a mean man."......Mrs. W. (Overheard at the memorial service)

I don't personally believe it was ever really about "moving the word". Instead, I think it was about getting people to take the PFAL class (short term profit) with a view toward getting them to become regular ABS contributors (long term profit).

I saw some pearls in the jewelry store that were enculterated. I wonder if you could cast them before swine....or maybe you should cast the swine first and then the pearls after.

I heard the loyster was bitter about how he was treated. Bitter??? The sorry SOB ought to thank his lucky stars nobody strung him up by his nutz.

I kept hearing Do It Again as I tried to place this one. But, of course, that's not it. Finally, I gave up and googled. Now I'm amazed I didn't recognize this one. Good tune.

Hey Kids! Let's do a word study of "if"! :sleep1: :sleep1:

Baker Street Years ago, I stocked shelves in a grocery store at night. They played this song constantly. (This one and Year Of The Cat) What's your name? Who's your daddy?

cognitive dissonance Marian Keech (real name: Dorothy Martin) was the leader of a UFO cult in the 1950s. She claimed to get messages from extraterrestrials, known as The Guardians, through automatic writing. Like the Heaven's Gate folks forty years later, Keech and her followers, known as The Seekers or The Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, were waiting to be picked up by flying saucers. In Keech's prophecy, her group of eleven was to be saved just before the earth was to be destroyed by a massive flood on December 21, 1954. When it became evident that there would be no flood and the Guardians weren't stopping by to pick them up, Keech became elated. She said she'd just received a telepathic message from the Guardians saying that her group of believers had spread so much light with their unflagging faith that God had spared the world from the cataclysm (Levine 2003: 206). More important, the Seekers didn't abandon her. Most became more devoted after the failed prophecy. (Only two left the cult when the world didn't end.) "Most disciples not only stayed but, having made that decision, were now even more convinced than before that Keech had been right all along....Being wrong turned them into true believers (ibid.)." Some people will go to bizarre lengths to avoid inconsistency between their cherished beliefs and the facts. SOURCE

Birds of a feather flock together..

Sunesis once told of an incident she witnessed. It seems she was seated under a shade tree with Wierwille, having a casual conversation. A third party happened along and Wierwille instantly went into attack mode, ripping this guy a new one. When he left, Wierwille smiled, made some sort of comment about how sometimes you have to put people in their place and shifted right back into casual conversation as if nothing had happened. Was it real, Was it staged? Either way, that's not a behavior you would expect of someone who is supposed to be a man of the cloth. edit:spelling

Were they genuine or just another calculated part of the indoctrination process?

Twinky said: Was it merely uncontrolled anger? Or was it in reality very carefully controlled anger, to elicit maximum stress and fear in the hearts of watchers - in case they themselves did something wrong. Perhaps it was a bit of both. I have wondered this same thing as well. There were many times in FellowLaborers when it seemed as if it was scripted and rehearsed. In fact, there was a specific incident, involving threatened dissolution of the program, that I came to find out, years later on GSC, was being duplicated at the same time for the Way Corps. Coincidence? I have my doubts.

The guy was a phoney, an actor. He found himself, center stage, in the heat of a crucial scene, with his fly open. Why people continue to idolize and exalt this bum is beyond comprehension.

Ever notice how, when Mr. Wierwille's character gets called into question, there are those who insist on drawing others into some sort of discussion of Biblical parallels? "Oh, what about David? What about Jesus?,blah, blah, blah." We don't live in Biblical times and Wierwille wasn't a Biblical figure. He was just a two-bit con man from Cornfield County who used the Bible to cloak his deception. He had an ego the size of a '58 Buick and couldn't stand to be one-upped. It's really just that simple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHeCniYa2Us&feature=related

Still, it makes more sense than "Lo Shanta la maka see tay".

All I got was depressed.