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"legal restitution" not exactly sure what that means,(forgive me) but I can tell you legally, a man in uniform is considered a use of force. (just walking into a room wearing it, not intending anything) Someone using their Way Corps position to get you to do something, ????

I think JavaJane may having trying to get at the crookedness of leaders in twi right now. They are not men of their words. When you first encounter this, you don't always realize what's going on. It takes time to realize you gotta leave.

OMG mstar1, LOL I just hope he becomes like Schilling and not Clemens or Pedro. A real team player.

Perhaps we should just leave it at deceit. VPW, LCM and the Corps were liars. We freely chose to unknowingly believe a lie.

I've always liked the picture where Jesus (I assume its him) is sitting on a hill overlooking Jerusalem (or some walled city) (It hangs in the PWA lobby) He is alone and looks so peaceful. Looks like he's contemplating the work he's about to undertake, or reflecting on something in his heart. I really like it. But sometimes I like to think he's sitting there sighing with relief thinking "Thank God I have different blood than those weirdos"

How would you define coercion then? Are you saying is no such thing?(outside of a,b and c above) Didn't vpw teach that you can't go further than you've been taught? If you are only shown two choices, do what the MOG and his Way Corps say, or turn your back on God, what would you pick? following this logic you stated, I A) don't have to accept responsibility for being born B) don't have to accept responsibility for being raise in twi by my parents and C) Do need to accept responsibility for following what by parents taught me, the teachings of vpw. Makes sense. Maybe.

or how bout playing a ball of the green monster?

I remember being told a number of times about the guy across the street from twi, Schrel---. He had a lot of cats One of the wayfers beat one of his cats to death where he could see it. No wonder that guy didn't like us.

Same guy you mentioned on another thread recently.

I think homeruns are overrated anyhow. I wish they'd make the fields bigger or the air thicker or something. I find it more exciting to see stolen bases, savy baserunning, hit and runs, sacrifices and all that. Not that I don't like homeruns and seeing balls hit into the stratosphere, just wish they were a little less common.

I just learned about this recently, but when I left home at that age, an ignorant brick, my parents were told by leadership that they were bad parents and needed to apologize to me for not raising me right. (They didn't, thank God) I've been very angry at my folks for events that occured around that time, strange decisions that they made for me, only now to find out it was twi leadership that was calling the shots.

I dunno Ham, I think Loy's face was a little more droopy.

someone in Maintenance at HQ figured out that, because of the paperwork involved and the time of the people to handle it, it takes about $30 just to change one lightbulb. (not including the cost of the bulb)

or your learning how to receive revelation as to what to put on your toast.

Thanks for showing us that dooj, I've never seen that painting before. It indeed says a lot. I am just posting to say I like Norman Rockwell's work very much. There is a number of his works hanging in the OSC at HQ. I used to enjoy walking by them, because it seemed like every time I did I saw something else in each one of them, some small message. It was fun.

Yes I'm still not sure what exactly a conscience is, don't even know if that matters. I enjoy everyone's posts in this thread also. Another thing that confounds me about conscience is intuition or "gut feelings". Things that don't have to do with morals. Like when I'm taking a test at school, have a "gut feeling" about an answer to a question, don't know why, but it turns out to be right. Just stuff like that. when you've got a problem and you're like "maybe I should try this", and it leads you to more answers. Sounds similar to the conscience.

Twi puts so much time into emphazing the importance of leadership. What type of leadership does God want there to be? We can lead by example, having no formal position. Is leadership position a godly concept or does god want something else? Even while Way D, I was taught to literally walk "with dignified seriousness". I was bred to be spiritual snob. Pointing out to the world their mistakes, if only they'd obey.

For years I did my best to "spill my guts" so they could really help me. My problems never went away, these ministers just scared the crap out of me so much that I wouldn't acknowledge I had a problem. Just act like its not there and smile. Then I'd have to give a sharing before the Household about my "victory".

Would our "sin nature" be affecting our conscience at all? Just throwing that out there. I haven't made any sense on this thread anyway.

I think I heard lcm say that at a service because our culture wasn't ready. (The purpose of marriage is for witnessing, remember.) It was because witnessing would be more difficult that interracial marriages were discouraged. I also heard at the gulag the vpw didn't like blacks because one killed his brother in a car accident in Lima. The gulag was a bit racist. He lightened up once Cl@udette Roy@l came on the seen.

while Way D I learned my Step-Grandfather was failing. I let my Way D Houseld coordinater know at one point when they asked why I was downcast. They brought this up during one of my reproof sessions. Chel@r pointed at me and compared Way D to the Military where you "Sh-- when your told to sh--". among other things, "Renew your mind!" "Now don't condemn yourself" Fortunatly, I got to see my grandfather one more time before he passed away. A-hole.

Congrats FreeAtLast!!

I agree!

Well I wrote somewhere here about being reproved for not following revelation I had supposedly received at some point. Certainly a vice to get people to constantly blame themselves. Concerning free will I can tell you I got to the point where I was angry at God for not just making me a robot that wasn't aware of his own existence. That's just what life in twi made me feel like. What's the point of free will? All your decisions are wrong. There's only one way do anything. And the answers only come from leadership. (edited for grammer)