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My mother held down a job, went to night school, then nursing school, and raised four children--yours truly being the eldest. The only time she could get her housework done was late at night. My father had to go to work the next morning. So, I was usually the one that stayed up with her and kept her company. Back then stations used to sign-off in Cleveland at 1 am. Then it went to 3 am. Now they run 24 hours. SoCrates

More like they didn't think their marketing through. Like, sometime back, the was the Chevy Nova. Now somebody is supposed to check what product name means in every language, so no one will be offended or they get a weird mixing of words. Apparently, they missed Nova. My ex-fiancee told me in Puerto Rico the car was a joke. You see in Spanish Nova (no va) means "No Go." SoCrates

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The national anthem? Falls into three categories with people: 1. Those who say, "How's it go?" 2. Those who think the last two words are: "Play ball!" 3. And those who revere it and wouldn't even think of replacing it with America the Beautiful When I was going to the university, I had a telecomm class taught by one of the people from the local tv stations. I was telling him I noticed now tv stations go straight to snow--there's no national anthem at the end of the broadcast day. He explained to me that its because most tv stations are 24 hours and when they go to snow they're still broadcasting, its just they're being maintained. I told him about how I was a kid and I used to always stay up to watch the national anthem. That was my signal to go to bed. "Don't you think we lost something?" I asked. Needless to say, I was up a few weeks later and just happened to catch that tv station going down for maintanance. Yes, the broadcast the national anthem SoCrates

Johniam said in post #401 of this thread: Let's see: if I understand you clearly, in relationship to a safe harbor, your argument is: If A and B and C, then D,E,F,G Or: If you A: Base your life on the Word of God B: Make decisions based on the word of God C: Make decisions based on prayer Then D: Time and again prayers get answered E: You escape negative situations F: You feel blessed G: You feel peaceful Let's see how this works in a real life situation: Those women (many were corps members, so they weren't spiritual featherweights) invited to Saint Vic's motorcoach: Base their life on Word of God--check Make major decisions based on prayer--check Make major decisions based on the Word of God--check Hmm. It doesn't add up, they didn't get their prayers answered (for Saint Vic to stop his abuse? To stop the madness?), they didn't escape negative situations (the motorcoach--and its dirty little secrets--kept rolling along), nor were they blessed and peaceful (how can you be when you've been raped?) Now, just for craps and grins, lets do the same exercise with Saint Vic and his entourage: Based their life on the word of God--no, they would never have gotten on the adultry merry-go-round Made major decisions based on prayer--No, do I have to say it? Made major decisions based on the word of God--no, adultry Yet, their prayers were answered (money and sex), they escaped the negative outcome of their actions (no prison) and they constantly talked about how blessed they were and how peaceful they felt. According to your definition, johniam, who was it a safe harbor for? SoCrates

Like mindedness was another one of those things designed to quell critical thinking. (Sarcastic smiley here) We're all members of the same body, doncha know, and we all need to be in alignment and harmony. A body can't want to go in 50 different directions at the same time. What would get accomplished? So, we all have to agree on every jot and tittle in the word, or at least the word taught by Saint Vic and Craigmeister. (end sarcasm) You see how that's used against you: One mind, One body, One Word, One Teacher. Scripture is of no private interpretation--let's not consider God's interpretation (he too is a private interpreter). The only resource is the ministry, so in this game the house always wins. SoCrates

And what of all those hitchhiking corps people that got robbed or raped? Are we to assume God didn't care about them? What about the people on the LEAD thread? Are we to assume God didn't care about them? What of the WOWs that were ordered to go into dangerous ares in their assigned cities and had negative things happen to them? What of people that don't get their prayers answered? AS someone said earlier, you got lucky, you came out ahead, a lot of people didn't. The Way had an expression, natural people, and that's basically their way of looking at the world. For the natural person, "I'm Okay," really means: "Screw you, Jack, I got mine." SoCrates

Your logic doesn't follow: If any family could be accused of love bombing, why look for love outside our families? After all, we're getting love in them, in the form of bombing, right? SoCrates

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Too bad it wasn't a little later. You could have gotten one of these: SoCrates

This ring anything in your belfry? SoCrates

Well, it is sour milk. I had one time when I was working for a supermarket chain a fellow employee came up to me and inquired about some of the out of date dairy products they had priced to move. "You know more about this stuff than I do," he said holding up a yogurt package. "Its past date, is it still good?" I told him that usually you had a week fudge factor from the date on the package, I told him: "Besides, its sour milk, what more could happen to it?" SoCrates

And my area coordinator and one of my WOW sister could go on and on about: Go figure SoCrates

And no discussion of Way food would be complete without: SoCrates

Sounds like thems good eatin' SoCrates

Another favorite of my family coordinator. No chocolate, only: SoCrates

How was this for an ice cream topping? SoCrates

Then of course there was nature's candy: I can't resist: SoCrates The California Raisins are dead. Police suspect a serial killer.

They used to put chicory in regular coffee to cut its bitterness. SoCrates

I see something like that and I'm reminded of an episode of Major Dad. Gunny, his secretary brought him a cup of decaff. "I also put in your artificial sweetner and your non-dairy creamer." He looked at her for a beat and said: "What's the point?" SoCrates

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