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That's close enough for me. It's Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' by Crazy Elephant. HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa(That's part of the song.)

Hi, Wing Sounds like reason managed to trump insanity in your situation. I probably should have mentioned that the the Fellow Laborer program I was involved with was in Ohio. No Disney anywhere nearby, but plenty of "living in fantasy world".

When I got to FLO in 1975, the rule was that we had 2 weeks to find a job. Not just any job, but one that was at least 40 hours a week and fit into the FLO schedule that included a 5 or 5:30am fellowship, group dinner at 6pm, evening work detail and 10pm night twig.(Plus all the prep work that went into all that, such as getting up early to get breakfast ready for the house before AM twig or cooking dinner for 6 people and transporting it to limb for 6pm dinner.) Two part time jobs was not an acceptable option. Night shift was not possible.(With the exception of one person who had "connections", but I won't go there.) We were in the middle of Podunk,USA. There really just weren't that many jobs out there. In fact, there wasn't even a temporary service anywhere nearer than the main city which was 20 miles away. Well, the two week rule got flexed, for sure. People with special skills and abilities were really the ones who were at a loss. We had to take virtually any kind of job that was offered as long as it fit the schedule. Then, to make matters worse, we were supposed to use those jobs to witness and promote Piffle. If the job didn't offer much opportunity to do that, you were supposed to find a new one. I look back and can't believe I was ever naive enough to fall for any of this. But, obviously, I must have been.

Did you mean the Heritage Loaf or the movie this skit came from? This is from The Groove Tube (1974) There are a whole bunch of scenes from it on youtube. Most of them are a bit too irreverent to post here. I posted another one that might be borderline on Just Plain Silly.(Safety Sam) If it needs to come down, I'm fine with that.

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Here's another verse: From Atlanta, Georgia To The Gulf Stream water I'm gonna spend my life Both night and day.

And yet there are those who are still enamored with his facade, despite all the revealing facts that have been brought to light, against all logic and reason.

We experimented with the "3 minute teaching" very briefly in Fellow Laborers. It was short lived. There were about 6 people in each of our night twigs and any one of us could be called on to give a short teaching. People where so danged tired at 10PM, after having been on the go since 5AM, they would either read for 3 minutes from Ephesians, because "Dr." had said you could study it for a lifetime and never master it, or crack open "The Blue Book" because "Dr." had written it. Who could argue you weren't following directions? When I took acting classes, many years ago, we were taught that an actor should always have a 2 minute and a 5 minute presentation that could be given at a moments notice. Having a short teaching always ready is, in itself, not a bad concept. But, like so many other things in TWI, it morphed into something that was inordinately applied creepy! Funny, isn't it, how in the PFAL class he taught we should not put much stock in what he said as a man, conveniently circumvented that rule by giving us his own interpretation and then quipped "I didn't write The Book!" He was, without a doubt, the focal point of the whole operation. There are some people who still adhere to that line of thinking. They have my sympathy.

From The Groove Tube

Maybe that's because this isn't a thread about CES. Of course, someone could conceivably start such a thread in the CES sub-forum if they so desired. Here is the original "tongue in cheek" question that was presented in the opening post. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why is it, do you suppose, that God told Wierwille to assemble materials that were Biblically inaccurate(such as the work on "4 crucified", which appears in the original PFAL class as well as the original PFAL book, along with "the cry of triumph"(from the original collaterals) as well as many other examples that have been examined here on GSC? I mean, I can understand why God would tell VP to steal, since the 10 commandments don't apply to us today(based on what was taught in the original PFAL book and class); but why would He instruct Wierwille to utilize materials that were not accurate, in an effort to make people more knowledgeable than anyone had been for 2,000 years? Doesn't that seem a bit ironic? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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To the girls in Frisco To the girls in New York To the girls in Texarcan You gotta understand That, baby, I'm your man.

Another Brick in the Wall

Sheep---------Pink Floyd

I wonder if they'll sing this one at the fire circle during a nite-owl.Down In Mississippi

Is there an analogy in there somewhere?

Well, you really shouldn't. There was nothing "wrong" with what you said. (IMO)

Hi, rascal The first part of Neo's post is actually a quote from post # 1. (It's from the post, by Nathan, that began this whole thread.) Then, Neo's comments begin with the hugs around Nathan. Just thought I would clarify that. :)

Now you're gettin' the "picture".

"The Standard of Toughnicity" Socks, You were truly fortunate to have known not one, but two men of such high caliber and moral character. Maybe there is something to that expression, "What you look at you become.", after all.

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I'm not sure I completely understand what you are saying. But------That does not mean I am disagreeing with you, either. It just means I have to give it some deeper thought. Hmmm. Now to try to download that album. I'll probably have to recruit some help from the "younger" generation around this house. I'm glad you are here, AJ. Your perspective is valuable.

Skyrider Your sports analogy hit home for me. I was never involved in sports, though, in high school, the coaches were constantly chasing me to join the wrestling team. ( It was difficult to find recruits in my weight class.) I was, however, involved in theatre. I even worked with some professional companies. Wouldn't you know it, though. They actually expected me to have more talent than gumption. Go figure. Anyhow, it's pretty much understood by professional actors that they are at the directors beck and call when they are on stage. During rehearsals, the director will belittle you, insult you, scream at you and find any little fault there is to find. WHEN YOU ARE ON STAGE DOING YOUR JOB!!! As an actor, you have to learn rather quickly that the director is not criticizing you as an individual, he or she is criticizing your performance. You have to learn to not take it personally because it truly is not. It's part of how the whole process works. Once you are off stage and not in rehearsal, the director has absolutely no right to behave like they did in rehearsal or criticize you as a person. And they don't.(If they want to continue directing.) Most directors come from an acting background and know when they are about to "cross the line". In The Way, though, the "directors" seemed to think that every waking minute was a rehearsal and that gave them a right to freely criticize at will. Maybe they were simply taking The Bard out of context and privately interpreting him when he said," All the World's a stage."

Oh,My!!! You really should have paid better attention in the PLAF class! I think that might have been session #5, the one that instructs us to "Get The Administrations Properly Divided". Hmmm! Might even be somewhere in the orange book. Or was it the green book? Well, it was in ONE of the collaterals, and they're all "God Breathed", dontcha know?

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