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Yeah, we wanted to be the Lord's plough and wound up being VeePee's hoes.

Perhaps that was the intended purpose?

Yup! :)

I wonder if they'll do the secret initiation ritual. I'd go just for that.

There was a section in CF&S where VPP felt it was his obligation to make sure we were up to date on all the current slang terms relating to sex. (Including "Greek".) <_<

Breathe deep the gathering gloom.

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I Am The Light

Let's Twist Again-----Chubby Checker

And let's not forget that Wierwille made a point of mentioning "Greek' in the CF&S class. (OK----maybe he actually did know about that one.)

We sang lots of songs with hand motions, most notably "Roll Away" after every evening meal. This one, though, I don't recall singing. Now, if Joss Stone hand been leading the singing, I'm sure I would have remembered.

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Yes, I believe that just about sums up the "lesson" VPP was hoping we would take to heart.

Hellooooo, Baaaaaaaby!

-----Peter and Gordon

If you work in the Singing Ladies division, at least they provide you with a really swell uniform.

And I'm glad you are.

You mean I was supposed to have it turned on?

Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille "I see my life far beyond today and tomorrow. I see my life from generation to generation causing the mystery to be lived." I think that's a typo. He really said "causing the misery to be lived."

I probably clapped back then. Today??? Not so much.

Ahhhhh----The horn of plenty story. I've told it before but I'll tell it again for the newer posters. In the early days of The Way, they used to use standard collection plates like every other church. One evening, they were having a meeting at a funeral home or some similar type of facility. When the time drew near to taking up the collection, it was discovered the plates had been left behind at some other place. "Uncle Harry" (he wasn't MY uncle!) looked around and spotted some floral arrangements in cornucopias. (Or would that be cornucopii?) Anyhow, he took the flowers out and used the horns in lieu of the collection plates. And that's how it got started, according to VP Wierwille.

It was at ROA, 1973 or '74. A big storm rolled through and took out the power. After some repairs had been made, VP took to the main stage as if he had just arm wrestled the devil, stepped up to the mic and said, emphatically, "I'm still here!" The audience ate it up. It became the focal point of one of the ROA albums that they released.

I remember that from PFAL. VPP says that if a man says he'll be dead this time next year bah, blah, blah.