waysider

Hi, cattcar9 Welcome to GSC. I have bolded my responses to set them apart from your words. Much of what happened to us is not the result of what we believed about various Biblical doctrines such as"the Trinity" or "how many were crucified with Christ?" or "what happened in the Garden of Eden?"?" No, much of what affected us is a result of a particular lifestyle that permeated our thinking. Restrictions on independent thought played a large role in our outcomes. This is why it is so difficult to try to explain to an "outsider"(no disrespect intended) how our involement impacted our lives and thinking.

It's a "wild card"! Grab if you want to.

1,2,3 Red Light------1910 Fruitgum Co.

Well, since the idea is to post one that is instantly recognizable, I'm going to accept my defeat and pass the baton to whoever wants it. Now I need to go shopping at youtube so I can post the answer. BTW--- I Hate this song. I just thought it was easy.

Borscht= Red Beet Soup(sorta) You can't grow up in Cleveland and avoid Borscht. (Or at least not "way back when".) It's right up there with pierogies, kielbasa and kieshka.

That's how I remember it also. As a twig leader, I filled out a form with each twig member's name and ABS. I think it was blue. Don't remember. If they paid by check, it was enclosed. If they paid by cash, I had to get a money order for the total. This had to come out of my pocket, NOT the ABS. Horn of plenty monies also had to have a money order, if I remember correctly. It was then mailed to New Knockwurst. I paid the postage.(Could NOT come out of ABS.) The exception to this would be if we had a twig leader's meeting for the branch. In that circumstance, we turned our paperwork over to the branch secretary rather than mailing it and it was all sent to HQ en masse thus saving postage. That was in the early to mid '70s. We helped each other out quite a bit with clothes and food, etc. This all came from individuals and twigs, NOT from HQ. Even this was discouraged(but not forbidden) as time went on. We were told we were hurting the recipients by removing the burden of believing from them. Coffee, cups, sugar, etc. was donated by individuals or twigs. It was NOT to come out of branch "love offerings". In other words: What went up, never came back down.

-------It's a moot point, Oldies.------- It's not about whether he used the actual word "murder". It's about the fact that he told us the boy died as a direct result of the "fear" in the mother's heart. He did not say it was alleged. He said it happened. He was implying that fear in our lives would yield similar results. That's the conclusion that he intended for us to draw. Then he offered the solution for the "problem". Everyone has fears of one sort or another. That(having fears) doesn't cause actual events to take place in ones life. It's nothing more than a control tactic that utilizes fear of consequences as the motivator. It's used frequently in advertising. You probably never realized that "ring around the collar" was such a social dilemma until some advertiser told you so. Not to worry, though, they had a product that could solve the problem you never knew you had. The difference is that they never implied you could die from "ring around the collar".

Each Twig is self-supporting, self-propagating and self-governing in cooperation with its respective Branch as each Branch is to its respective Limb, as each Limb is to its respective Trunk, as each Trunk is to the Root of the Way. ----------The Way Tree class-----1974.

Well, golly, gee. How about the fact that he made this statement ("Keep it in your pants.") to hundreds, maybe thousands of WOWs. What he said/ What he did.

OOPS! Sorry The first line is actually: "Every time I try to PROVE I love you-----" (Though the other line appears in the song, as well.) Man, I thought this one would jump off the page. Should I just toss in the towel?

Hi, Jonny Since we appear to be off-topic anyway--------- Have you been to Harp-L lately? Someone started a thread a couple days ago called "harmonica and dancing women" It's an invitation to share Stowwwwries about ladies who like to dance in front of the bandstand while you are trying to perform. Harp on, Brother.

Hi, happyheart! Welcome to GSC. So sorry they hurt you. I hope we can say or do something that can help. waysider

HEEHEEHEEHEE! Actually, they (you) only "allegedly" said (did) that.

Ahhh! C'mon, Irish! Don't stop NOW! This one's easy as----------

Perhaps a clue to the India--train scene is hidden in the works of---------- Eli Stanley Jones E. Stanley Jones, as you may recall, spent many years as a missionary in India. So many, in fact, that he is sometimes called "the Billy Graham of India". FACT Jones is credited as being the author of the now famous quote: "Fear is sand in the machinery of life." Here is a Wiki link on E. Stanley Jones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Stanley_Jones Jones was a very prolific writer. Pay special attention to the titles of some of his writings. His writings included works titled: The Way Living Victoriously Abundant Living How To Pray Christ and Human Suffering And so on-----

Unless I have misunderstood, this thread is not about doing "what God tells you to do, not what people think you should do." It's about comparing what "they" said to what "they" did.

Ain't that the truth?

VP said---( as a representative of "they".) "Keep it in your pants."

Hair----- The Cowsills (or from the musical by the same name.) ------------------------------------------------------- "Every time I make a move to love you---------"

Drawing a blank here, too.

When I post here about things I experienced in fellow laborers, I am not usually posting about things that happened only to me. There were usually 50 other people in the room or, if it happened in our "house", there were usually at least 6 people present. Some of them post here. Some of them know someone who posts here or are known by someone who posts here. Some of them lurk here. Some have never heard of GSC. And, of course, there are some who have left this world behind. Why on earth would I want to fabricate something that could be refuted by 50 (give or take) other people who were there? If my memory of these events is incorrect, I'm open to correction. This same concept applies to people who were in the corps, except there were many more than 50 who shared common events. For goodness sake! There were 50 other people in the room the time we were called out in the middle of the night to be told what total failures we had been. There were 50 other people present when we were told the whole ministry might go down the tubes because we, representing the birthplace of the ministry, had failed. Just how many "eyewitnesses" does one really need?

The reason I posted the link on iron overload is because there are a number of studies that indicate that when iron is COMBINED with cholesterol that the potential for health related problems increases substantially. Men don't normal expel iron that they ingest. Women do expel iron until menopause at which time their expulsion rate mimics that of men. There are strong indicators that suggest this may explain why women are less prone to heart attack than men during child bearing years. After menopause, however, statistics show women to be on an even plane of risk as men. Bottom line is that if you are a man, or post menopausal woman, it is not prudent to add to your iron intake unless there is some specific reason to do so.(ie: it's been medically advised.) And even more prudence should be exercised if the cholesterol levels are high. --------------------- TEFLON Most of the concern has been focused on a chemical known as C-8, which is used to manufacture Teflon. It is not the Teflon, itself. There is a DuPont plant only a couple hours from here. High levels of C-8 have found their way into the groundwater. The area is fairly rural so private wells are a common source of residential water. There are a number of ongoing studies addressing this situation at present.

"Eric Clapton on ukulele----Hi, Eric."

Hi, Irish Yes, I meant the cereal, familia, a staple of the FLO diet that was laced with flax seeds I really should have bolded the word functioning when I made that statement. The way I heard it taught(and this was by VP) was that people in the OT only had dreams because they had no spirit inside with which God could communicate. Thus, if you had dreams in this day and age, it either meant you were not born again or(if you were born-again) that spirit critters were trying to enter your trapdoor, or you were seriously out of fellowship. He said that God only talks to believers, via dreams, today, if they are so far out of fellowship that they can't receive revelation. Just makes you want to jump right up in morning fellowship and exclaim,"Hey!, guess what I dreamt!?", now doesn't it? Pond I'm kinda like you. I hardly ever remember having dreams, though it's not a matter of having them.(we all do) It's a matter of remembering. Yeah, that and the fact that I'm a really, really sound sleeper.