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Well, there is humor in it, I agree, but, then there is a serious side to it if you consider the lyrics. When you wish upon a star Makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desires Will come to you If your heart is in your dream No request is too extreme When you wish upon a star As dreamers do Fate is kind She brings to those who love The sweet fulfillment of Their secret longing Like a bolt out of the blue Fate steps in and sees you through When you wish upon a star Your dreams come true That could describe several things, such as The Green Card ("anything your heart desires") and The Law of Believing ("makes no difference who you are."). And then, you have the analogies that can be drawn from the journey Pinochio takes from being a puppet, to being exploited, to all the hardships it causes him, and, of course, it all works out in due time. (hopefully)

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-----and that's the truth

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That is, in essence, how the Fellow Laborer program was promoted. (at least to me) We were supposed to be "in-rez." at limb HQ for two years to do an in depth study of Acts. Then we were supposed to go back home as better, more qualified leaders. (Anyone who actually participated in the program is probably chuckling their butt off reading that.)

You said a mouthful there, Sister.

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"and to this day have not cited one biblical sin I have committed since 2000 that disqualifies me from ministering to God’s people" Honest, Santa I've been a good boy all year.

Yeah, I agree. Death isn't sickness----it's death. Though I can see where sickness could contribute to or even cause death. Now the part about sickness being death "in part" makes no sense. Is it like some big jig saw puzzle? You put enough pieces together and "presto!", you have death in whole? Like every time you get a cold, another piece of the "jig saw puzzle of death" falls into place? It especially makes no sense when you factor in primary regeneration where cells are replaced by exact duplicates. Where is the death in that? If you say that death applies to the cell being replaced, you have to concede that it's canceled out by its replacement. I think it's just something he read or heard somewhere and tossed in to show us all how "profound" his insight was.

Ahhhhh!-------That has to be a GSC classic. :)

What they need is a class on how to write shorter letters.

Sometimes I think VP reveled in the strife he generated

Page 31 of the Advanced Class syllabus states: Sickness is death in part or in whole. From a medical standpoint, this is not accurate. The body hears itself in one of four ways. 1. Primary regeneration------This is a cell by cell, exact duplication. (Anyone who wears contact lenses and has suffered an abrasion has experienced this one.) 2. Secondary regeneration----- The cells are replaced by the same type of cells but not in a precisely duplicitous fashion. 3. Tertiary regeneration----- The cells are replaced by a different type of cell and may extend beyond the site of the initial insult. 4. Quaternary regeneration-----Simply stated, this would be a cancerous replacement of normal cells. And then there is the matter of how the body continually replaces cells so that, in due time, none of the cells in your body are the ones you originally entered this world with. Now, I suppose someone might point to the way some cells sacrifice themselves (die) to fight off infection. But, good golly, did you really need an "Advanced Class" to reiterate lessons from ninth grade biology? Questions to ponder: What (if anything) does this really mean? Is there any scriptural basis to support this? Did Wierwille, perhaps, simply "borrow" this phrase from some other source?

Look beneath your lid some morning, See those things you didn't quite consume— The world's a can for Your fresh garbage . . FRESH GARBAGE

If "Idle hands are the devil's tools", then why is there "no rest for the wicked"? :B)

I don't really think he knows who he is targeting. He's just tossing it out there and hoping somebody picks it up.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs: http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/hierarchyneeds.htm You have to pay people a fair wage if you expect them to grow in responsibility and commitment to self-betterment.

Yeah---It would have been shorter --------a whole bunch shorter.

The minimum wage was first instituted in Australia and New Zealand in the 1890s in response to frequent, bitter strikes and was adopted by Massachusetts in 1912 to cover women and children. With voters seeking a bulwark against the Great Depression, wage-hour legislation was an issue in the 1936 Presidential race. On the campaign trail, a young girl handed a note to one of Franklin Roosevelt's aides asking for help: "I wish you could do something to help us girls," it read. "Up to a few months ago we were getting our minimum pay of $11 a week...Today the 200 of us girls have been cut down to $4 and $5 and $6 a week." Roosevelt rode back into office in part on a promise to seek a constitutional way of protecting workers; in 1923, the Supreme Court had struck down a Washington, D.C., minimum-wage law, finding it impeded a worker's right to set his own price for his labor. The first federal minimum-wage law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938, with a 25-cent-per-hour wage floor and a 44-hour workweek ceiling for most employees. (It also banned child labor.) Outside of Social Security, said Roosevelt, the law was "the most far-sighted program for the benefit of workers ever adopted." Wages must ensure a "minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency and general well-being," the act stipulated, "without substantially curtailing employment." http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1912435,00.html

"The views expressed do not necessarily represent the views of this station -----yada yada yada" In other words----I'm just answering your question, not giving my personal take on things.

I'll try, soul searcher, but remember, TWI doctrine is built out of thousands of tiny little pieces, put together like a leggo robot. Q.#1 Yes, Twi doctrine maintains that the devil (the "adversary") controls the "senses/natural" world. Do you remember an old song called, "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"? Way theology maintained that the song was talking about the devil, not God or Jesus. I guess you were supposed to feel spiritually mature (ie: smug) if you realized the "real' meaning of the song. Now, the only way to "escape" the adversary was to stay in "the one true household of God" (read:The Way)because God had a hedge of protection erected around it. Of course, there were other requirements, such as renewed mind and speaking in tongues, also, that went along with that. Q.#2 Much secular music was labeled "devilish" because it supposedly carried subliminal /ambiguous meanings, meant to trick you out of The Word. An example would be a song like . Since, according to Way thinking, "what you confess is what you possess", by singing these words, you were subconsciously giving control to the adversary. Didn't too much matter what the song was, they always found some "deper, spiritual" meaning to the lyrics Also, Wierwille said that artistic virtuosity of any sort was only obtainable through "selling out", either to the devil or to God. Naturally, that meant you had to forego secular influences and focus exclusively on Way sanctioned art.Q.#3 Wierwille taught that cancer was caused by devil possession. I'm not sure I ever heard him talk about it being at a cellular, biological level. I mean, you were either possessed or you weren't. That's a spiritual thing, not an anatomical thing. Is it clear as mud now?

One of my old acting coaches used to say,"You don't have to fall down a flight stairs to play the part of a character with a broken arm."