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Tied To The Whipping Post----The Allman Brothers From what I understand, they are supposed to be songs you can recognize from just one line. I think they started out being the FIRST line, as long as the title wasn't revealed in that line. So, really, the burden is on the poster, not the one who replies. (Kind of "name that tune" in reverse.) Did I get that right, bulwinkl?

Puff, The Magic Dragon

AMAZING!!!

Excellent questions, Pond!

Hi there, Lucy!! I'm not the least bit offended. Even if I was------------ so what? Your opinion is valued here. Gotta tell ya. The guys at work have a saying they use to compliment each other: "You're a good man, Charlie Brown, I don't care what Lucy says." 'Course, that doesn't apply here. :) Welcome to the GSC!!!

Feelin' Good-----"Little" Annie Raines & Paul Rishellhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjQJetx593o...feature=related

Yeah, I have no problem with getting rid of excess "stuff". Every so often we give clothes and toys and so on to a local charity. These are things that we have no personal attachment to. But burn the chaff was more about ridding your life of things that DID have some meaning to you. The idea was that if you placed personal value on them, they would own YOU instead of vice-versa. And that would jeopardize your spiritual integrity.(cough) VP was an absolute antithesis of the whole concept. How many vintage motorcycles does any one man really "need"? Or how about classic cars or guns or hunting paraphernalia? He probably amassed more personal , unnecessary "stuff" than anyone can imagine. But, supposedly he could "handle" it. It didn't own him-----Uh huh--Riiiight! <_<

Nicknames----Yep, we all had them.(at least the guys did, don't know about the gals.) And you couldn't just give yourself a nickname, you had to wait until it was thrust upon you. We had Punkin Head, Poncho, Buzzy, B.O., Skeeter, Skooter, Craigasis, 'Tard, Monkey Man, Pine Cone, and Stosh. I got stuck with Froggie for a couple years. I used to go down to the local pond and catch frogs which I then sold to the pet shop for a penny or two each. They used them to feed the snakes. Guess Froggie must have suited me better than Snake. 'Nother thing we did in the late '50s was "calling" for your buddies at the back door. Might of been a Cleveland thing, dunno. Never met anyone from somewhere other than Cleveland that did it. What you would do is go to the back door and "call" for your buddy. You couldn't knock or ring, that was intrusive. You would call out in a kind of monotone sing-song voice that dropped pitch on the last syllable. "OHH Bobbeeee-ee-------OHH Bobbeeee-ee" No one in the house, other than Bobby, was expected to answer the door. If you did it 3 or 4 times without a response, it meant he wasn't home or not at liberty to answer the door. We did that until we became teen-agers. Motorcycles--HaHa! Had a Whizzer that I "co-owned" with another kid. Remember those? They were 24 or 26 inch bikes with a motor mounted on them. You got them from Western Auto. We got ours from another kid who didn't know how to fix the broken clutch. It had a soup can replacing the long departed muffler. Don't get me started on .22's. "You'll shoot your eye out,kid!"

Drop Out--------Pearls Before Swine

The Iceman!!

TWI was not the subject of the song. Here's a WIKI link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastball_(band)

Some say he was a superstar You know that can not be 'Cause they took him and they beat him Then they nailed him to a tree And he's coming back as king of kings And he's coming back as lord of lords And he's coming back in all his glory And the glory of that day's what we look toward. (Public domain)

Ever think about what undershepherding was really all about? Here's something from the W&US silly-bus.(page 12) ON THE FOLLOW THROUGH If you got their attention 1. Begin undershepherding ------------or----------------------- 2. Excuse Yourself Titus 3:10 We isolated "newbies" from other "newbies" so they couldn't compare notes. We insulated them from "tripped-out grads"(later known as "cop-outs") so they could not be adversely influenced to make logical considerations that conflicted with our objective.(ie: get them to sign the green card.) It was all about selling the PLAF class. If they weren't going to buy the product, we were to move on to other prospects. Suppose we met someone who we had a genuine interest in, that didn't want to take "the class"? No room for that sort of thing. Got to fill those class seats and keep the "donations" coming. From page 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" What does " and help them to walk on it" really mean? Sounds a bit like a pyramid arrangement, IMO. Any thoughts on the subject?

Nope!

Here's Susan working with her Hubby's band.

You stumped me, Mr. Strange. I'm going to take a wild guess and say, perhaps, Blodwyn Pig?

I'm at a total loss as to why Uncle Harry would be considered any kind of authority on spiritual matters. It was all about control, plain and simple. "Burn all your bridges, sever all your ties to anything that interferes with your allegiance to the cause." It was a stinkin' cult! We got played by VP and his "crew". Read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury some time. (451 F is the temperature at which book paper will ignite.) Here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 Or, if you prefer, rent the 1966 film version with Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. You might even find it at your local public library. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_%281966_film%29 I have a "bomber" jacket in my closet that a buddy of mine wore in Nam. I've had it since 1969. I don't care if it never sees the light of day again, but it's not going anywhere while I have a say so. Maybe somebody should have suggested to VP that he burn one of his many vintage motorcycles to set the example for us. They(The Bros. W.) were charlatans. "Burn the chaff" just burns my butt!

The only thing missing is the smiles.

Hmmmm? That's a good question. If you remove the "spirits" it would be "distilled", no? Special Tonight! Distilled chicken (on a delicate bed of millet and flax seed) All you care to eat------$59.50 Take it or take a hike!

Ya know, It's actually harder than it seems finding one that WON'T stump people. I kinda like this!

"I'm so old that I remember---------" Hmmmmmm! Now what the heck was it I remember? Oh, yeah. Pick up some rye bread on the way home

"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a -----------------" OOPS! I guess someone beat me to that one. A tree has a special layer that exists between the bark and the wood. This layer is known as the cambium. It is via this cambium that food moves from the leaves down to the roots and nutrients move up from the roots to the fruit. The bark is a protective layer and the wood itself is actually comprised of dead cells. This is, in part, what contributes to the formation of growth rings which are akin to generational demarcations. Many years ago, the limb leader of Ohio, E@rl Bnrt0n, developed a newsletter for the state and called it The Buckeye Cambium. Now, if the way truly functioned as a tree, this would seem to be an appropriate name. Quickly, though, the name was scuttled by Int. HQ and replaced with The Grapevine. It was my understanding that an edict went out that all state newsletters must call themselves The Grapevine. To say that the way was structured like a tree is, at best, a poor analogy. Here is a link that has information regarding the significance of the cambium to the well being of a growing tree. http://www.backyardnature.net/woodtwi2.htm

Dear Self See that bunch of kids over there carrying Bibles and smiling like the Cheshire cat? Turn away from them and ---RUN LIKE THE WIND!!! Sincerely, Your voice from the future.

I left in about 1990 so I have no first-hand knowledge of what conditions exist inside "the factory" today. In retrospect, though, I have to agree that we were used like factory workers to build the organization. Many times the working conditions were not optimal, to say the least. It could have never succeeded at all without the hard work and commitment we peons put into it. I think we can at least be proud of ourselves for being devoted to what we believed, at the time, to be a worthy cause. Yes, I feel like VP used us, but he is the one who will have to answer for his own discretions. (And his laundry list is extensive.) I think it helps to feel angry we were duped. It helps to make us wiser and more wary. But eventually the anger subsides and we try to use what we learned from the experience for our own benefit and the benefit of others who are maybe still coming to grips with what happened. Anyhow, that's my $.02 on the subject.