waysider

I find this part rather interesting. Perhaps there's some sort of parallel analogy with the "Way Corps Only" site participants going back to the good old days. Do you suppose, centuries from now, that people will labor over transcripts from that site and marvel that Wierwille was able to change coffee into Drambuie or that he could cause a glass eye to die from the bottom up instead of top to bottom?----"For the time of ophthalmic prosthetics was not yet."

It's too bad there wasn't a truck stop nearby called The Wayside Truck Stop. You could have ventured there under the cover of darkness with a trusted WOW brother and pondered the absurdity that was beginning to unfold before your eyes. Translation----Yes, I've experienced it.

I'm just mad about Saffron.

Opiate of the people

Is it LaGrange-----ZZ Top?

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None of us are who we "used to be", for better or for worse. Still, that doesn't mean you are no longer "someone".

Does any of THIS remind you of W&U?

"Gathering wood" :o

From page 13 "The best tool in undershepherding is the PFAL Class. (more than once.)" In my opinion, "undershepherding" was a bastardization of the mentor/protege process. In a genuine mentoring situation, the mentor will guide the protege in a direction that will enable him/her to discover their own individuality or "voice", if you prefer. The process should ideally aid the protege in realizing their full potential. Undershepherding, on the other hand, simply exploited and abused the process to indoctrinate clones. I don't blame the individuals who did the undershepherding. I blame the process, itself, which was intentionally corrupted to benefit VPW & Co.

From page 2 of W&U syllabus (1974) Our goal in witnessing and undershepherding. II Tim. 2.2 "The basic reason we witness is to help people into the classes on Power for Abundant Living and help them to walk on it" (Could it be any clearer?)

So Tiger's wife tried to smash his brains in with a golf club. What guy hasn't had that happen?

I agree. I think that's the part of the recipe that Wierwille missed when he tried to duplicate Donnie's efforts.

I'm not sure we'll ever know as they are both no longer with us.

http://staydrenched.co.uk/watchauditions.aspx#

I hear THAT!

My personal opinion is that he saw how successful Donnie F. was and jumped on the bandwagon. At one time, Dale Carnegie's book, How To Win Friends and Influence People, was required reading.

I shudder to think that, 38 years ago, that's probably how I sounded, too.

Not sure about AREA 51 but I'm familiar with 151.

To be fair, I don't think they promoted themselves as such.

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Jimmy Webb wrote it,though you don't need the writer or artist to participate in this thread. Here is more about the song. I think, in light of the story I related, it's probably only fair to relinquish my turn.

-----Stealers WheelThis was posted on another thread recently so maybe you should take the next one too.

Just couldn't resist! :B) Crazy story A friend of mine, from pre-TWI days, heard this song when it first came out on the radio and decided he had to see MacArthur Park for himself. He stuck out his thumb in Cleveland. The very first ride took him all the way to L.A.

I think I can sorta understand the trench analogy in regard to the kids. They got drafted into the mess. They couldn't possibly have walked away, even if it was the foremost thought in their minds. So, they had to hang tight together for survival. I think that's a different kind of bonding than the one experienced by we who elected to join.