waysider

"I think Waysider would call that statement a false dichotomy." :)

Yes is Jimmy Webb doing the song he wrote.

When I was a little kid, I went to Sunday school at The Brookside Missionary Baptist Church on Forestdale Ave. Like most kids, I suppose, I was somewhat baffled at the prospect of Noah cramming all those animals onto one boat, Jonah being swallowed by a whale (and living to tell about it), and so forth. But, I was kind of a shy kid so I kept my curiosity to my self. When I got a bit older and bolder, though, I asked the Sunday school teacher about my questions. She told me they were really just stories but that they had many great lessons we could apply to our own lives if we would be humble enough to accept what they were trying to teach us. I wish, now, that I had just left it at that and never heard of PFAL.

All kidding aside, what the heck does that really mean?

Yeah. There was that robe he wore in the Womens Way Home in Pennsylvania that exposed his little winky when he had an intentional wardrobe malfunction. (You know he wasn't really a "Dr.", don't you?)

"Do what you like, as long as you like what you do." ------VP (You know he wasn't really a Dr., don't you?) Wierwille

Someone left the cake out in the rain

Oh, but it was "spiritual" anger, dontcha know? Hahahahahahahahahah!!

Well, of course, that's the old Hank Williams classic-----

Yes, and if you weren't worried about your own personal safety, what about that of your wife, your kids, mother, father, etc. And, I remember a teaching one time from the O.T. about how disobedience would have repercussions that could last for generations. Who would want that on their conscience? Not threatened?? Not hardly. edit: And,then, you couple that with all the talk about the consequences of not fulfilling "commitments to God" and what do you have?

"I don't really think this phenomenon is specific to TWI. I'm sure Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and Roman Catholics have a similar range of experiences with their missionary or seminary programs." ....................................................... Exactly! That's why I'm of the opinion that it so important to come to a realization that W.O.W. (and the other programs) were NOT some special, noble undertaking. We weren't "God's elite", to restate a popular cliche. We were just another zealous organization, doing the same things that thousands of other zealous organizations have done and continue to do. Sure, people had some good times, met some great people, experienced personal growth. I would never want to deny anyone their memories of those things. But, unless we can see it in perspective, we become like Al Bundy from Married With Children, who constantly relives his and exaggerates their importance to a pedestal-worthy level.

Dog Days of Summer

I must be slipping. I haven't welcomed you, yet.

I'm not very good at doing searches. It's all here in the pages of GSC, though, for anyone who really wants to know.

It's not the first time I've heard of this kind of thing. In fact, there have been reports here of incidents where W.O.W.s were actually murdered by members of their W.O.W. families. If it's all a joke, I must say, I just don't get the punchline. This is why I sincerely hope this new wave of W.O.W.s are not being mislead into believing it's going to be sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. 'Cause it ain't.

My place of employment is on the fringes of farm country. Sometimes I will leave for work a little early and wind my way there through a maze of back roads. Nothing to see but rows and rows of corn and Red-Tailed Hawks. It's kind of liberating, in a quirky sort of way.

I think I could go days without any human interaction and be perfectly happy.

I dunno. Fred Flintstone had a wife and kid and two obligatory house pets. That didn't stop him from having a gay old time. Yabba Dabba Doooooo!