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10 years of Roman Catholic education. 21 years of reasonably abundant and at times exhilerating Way Life. I'm qualified to speak on my own behalf regarding these, and many other important topics. My tapes can be bought at socksrateez dot com Buy some, I have lots of heavy stuff on them, answers to questions nobody even knows they have yet. Really.

I think call in shows are fairly unreliable ways to get personal counselling from what I've heard, although they are entertaining in a voyeuristic kind of way I guess. I've heard Dr. Laura's show a couple times, not enough to really know much about her. The whole thing seemed very weird but a lot of people enjoy that stuff. "Principle" - I dunno, MD, not sure what you mean by that. I do like Bruce Williams though, listened to him on and off for years. Whole different deal, business and financial advice.

Hello, M.D. I visited your site. Very nice, I like it, it's laid out well, the navigation is logical and easy to follow. Photos, nice. Good job, to you or whoever built it. As far as websites, since you're active in the Way at this time - here's a question. How do they communicate about what's on their website? Do you get regular notices or emails letting you know content's been updated? When it went live couple years ago what was said about it, it's purpose. Any future plans discussed at that time? I don't mean you Wayfers any harm, it's a free country. Live peaceably and don't break the law, that's all I ask. I'm just curious about that stuff. If you get a sec, it would be interesting to know more. Thanks. (If you're active in the Way you might also consider suggesting that the Way Nash refurb their site, or rebuild it. It's pretty amateurish.)

To digress for but a mo', I just wanted to say that I think that's the first use of fu*k and chimp in the same sentence, on GS. I could be wrong, but it caught my eye. :D--> An addition to the glossary. What's the official definition on that UH? This may warrant it's own thread, dunno.

Those are sweet photos Jim! Nice color and shading!

This one - "DSCP100". I think it's been replaced by the 7.1? megapixel, but I've seen these still around too.

I hear ya. That, and the quality, kept me from digital for a long time. I learned photography on 35mm, Nikon FE2's and FM's, motorized shutters, good lenses. 25 asa film for stills, or good slide film. Then a Bronica for medium format. Can't beat it. It took me a long time to feel like digital was going to come anywhere near the flexibility or speed of a decent manual exposure camera. I shoulda said "my wife bought it for those reasons" - the speed and the convenience. :)--> We'd been talking for awhile about cameras, relative benefits, etc. etc. I couldn't make up my mind. So the fam got it for my birthday. Bless 'em. The small size was an adjustment, but now that I'm familiar with it it's perfect for the majority of situations and as long as it's fast enough to capture the moment I'm happy. It fits in a cell phone case, I can walk it into nearly any situation. It's been a good deal for me.

I got the Sony Cybershot 5.1 megpix camera, for that reason Satori. It has a very fast start up, from turning it on to shooting, a little over a second. Each exposure takes about a second. Snap, shoot, snap shoot. They solve most of that problem. Try the one with the Carl Zeiss lens, it does a pretty good job.

The Wolf speaks truth. Go HERE for immediate Mozilla relief. You'll be much happier, it's easy to get used to a new browser and your PC will no longer seem like a flea infestation has taken over. :)--> I use the MS antispyware, as well as AD Adware SE Personal, and a program called MRU Blaster, which has a very effective set of plug ins that clean internet cache files and cookies. These are all free programs. My cable modem has a firewall setup and I run McAfee. I've been pretty pest free since I switched out of IE, and run these regularly.

Cubasis VST 4.0 and one of the Cakewalk series may do you too. Check them out here. I've been trying out Cubasis for a workstation program, it will load up to 48 analog tracks and more midi tracks, forget how many. There's a learning curve but it does a lot. You can get it for under a 100 bucks. Or you could upgrade your sound card to an EMU 404 for under a 100, and the Cubasis software comes with it I think, you'd want to make sure but I think it's packaged with the EMU cards. The 404 converts your recording at 24 bit, 96 khz and has pretty good sound for multi tracking. Big issue is always going to be your system capacity. I started out years ago using Digital Orchestrator, which they marketed as needing a "minimum of 8 megs ram". ;)--> That was nowhere near enough of course. To get the full benefit of your hardware and get a minimum of 8 tracks that you can work with smoothly and that sound decent you'll need as much processor and memory as you can commit to. Definitely start with what you've got but remember analog/wav recording is always ruled by the caveat "track mileage may vary dependent on your system's capacity". I've also worked with Sound Forge and it's good too, although I use it primarily for editing.

Do you know what kind of sound card you have TZ?

Aw Mike, nobody's given JB or anyone a reason to give up. If all it took was a little honest criticism The Way Nash would have closed up a long time ago. They're past that. It's his site, he can do whatever he wants with it, right? And they will. It's not going to entertain discussion from all sides on Way related topics. Fine, Oldiesman is right, GS gives ample opportunity for that so as long as GS or something like it is open that 'need's been met'. If it is a need. The record of Alexander the coppersmith is one of those head scratchers, to me. Paul may have never figured we'd be reading it directly 2,000 years later. Was it intended to be part of the main body of that epistle? Either way it's in the epistle we all read today and no one alive todays cares about Alexander, although it gets quoted a fair amount. To what end? We can assume that Paul had a bad time with this guy. We can assume he intended to warn others about him, to some extent. We also see that Paul was perfectly happy to let "the Lord" reward him accordingly, while still taking action to tell others about him. At least Paul was venting, at most he was warning them. Watch out for this guy. Paul only mentioned it once, but it's been read millions of times by everyone since that epistle was included in the NT canon. I know absolutely nothing about this Alexander - if he was married, loved his wife and kids, had a good job, was an excellent coppersmith, nothing of any value to say that he was a good guy in any other respect. All I know is what Paul chose to say and that wasn't a good report. The fact he didn't harp on it is unknown. The fact he intended at least two people, Timothy and Titus, to know about him says something. (and if Paul didn't write these epistles, someone had a real case of the a$$ over this guy) In context Tim and Tite were pastors, overseers, guys involved in the mission of Christianity in Paul's time. It's not a jump of logic to expect that Paul intended that information to be of use to them. By writing it he had to know that it could be distributed. He encourages prayer for all in context, while providing ample warning of the risks he felt this guy posed. You really have to look beyond the single verse to understand in current context the impact of a verse like that. It doesn't mean, IMO, that I'm now SUPPOSED to do the same thing in a similar or identical situation, but it does paint a picture of what COULD be done, what Paul did. And his warning remains a part of a very limited history that the NT provides on specific people - very few people are named when you consider the 1,000's of people that were part of that growth period. Paul got the word out on that guy, in a way that not only allowed for the message to be repeated then but in a way that ended up being known my millions of people who will never have any contact with that man. Interesting.

To add - I never wanted to subject other people to these in-family cat fights. Just because some Limb guy has his panties in a wad because their not silky enough on his little butt that day doesn't mean I'm going to iron them for him. But a lot of people couldn't handle that, they'd assume that arguing with The Man or The Woman was wrong under any circumstances, no matter what. And it was hard to sort through things sometimes in close quarters with people you had to still try and work with. Eventually I realized I couldn't work with these people anyway, no matter what, so it wasn't worth trying. But I preferred not having a bunch of people listening, judging, people who were usually going to be all too happy to massage the Leaders...ego later.

Okay Oaks. I gotcha. This whole topic is foreign to me, that there would have been some kind of a formal policy, with procedures and guidelines for these 'confrontations'. It reminded me, years ago, a Limb Boss and I were having a discussion about something prior to a meeting that we were setting up for - it was one of those deals where dozens of WOW's and Way Corps were supposed to quit their jobs or take time off and converge on a hotel days in advance to do what any hotel staff with a decent setup chart could do in a few hours. He was having an exploded spleen over something or other and was in the process of kicking me out of the Way Corps, my assignment, I mean everything was going in the toilet and I wasn't even the main guy working on the meeting, he hadn't gotten their yet so you can imagine what was in store for him. :D--> The Limb Boss was of course, comfortably sequestered in his hotel room thinking, dispensing wisdom, setting up Tee times with big contributors, golf clubs in the corner. He had a few of his Limb staffers and gofers who I think had already been bent over and individually reamed for not having enough tissues on the desk, or something like that, I forget all the details but there were things that were wrong that day, real wrong, spiritually wrong, things no grown man with a decent pair of functioning testicles could tolerate or do his job without. You know, insulting stuff that was tantamount to spiritually snipping off his nads, one pube at a time. Oh, it was bad, real bad. Anyway, words were being exchanged and I looked up for a moment and saw the looks on the faces of the other people in the room and realized they were about to be exposed to a train wreck of mammoth proportions and were still rubbing their own severely abused posteriors. So I did the only right thing - I looked at them and said to the Limb Czar "I'd like to talk to you alone about this if that's alright". It got quiet for a sec and he said "Fine". And they trooped out of the room, single file. No witnesses. :P--> The rest of the details are fuzzy. :)--> I think it ended up okay.

TWI would suck blood from a tic if the WOG told them too and told them it was blessed blood. "The Prevailing Truth" and all. Course a lot of them don't need to, they're sucking blood from their families. Family dies, they inherit their dough and then they tuck it away, use it to buy a house or just sit on it and don't tell anyone. It won't matter though, within a couple generations it'll be gone, they'll have done nothing to contribute to it and all that will remain will be a stack of boxes in the Way Barn that someone will be going through someday and wondering if their old clothes will fit them.

Now I'm really curious how that worked Oaks. You're at work, you get a call, and what? What was it called? How was it stated, to come and be the note taker guy?

Oaks, the Note Taker. Like a court stenographer? Did you ever read back from the notes? "Read back that last part, Oaks!" (shuffling paper)..."Can I go to the bathroom, I gotta pee like a race horse". "No! The part after that, after I cast out the Pee Spirit!" (more shuffling papers)..."Uh...you mean when he said, 'You can kiss my rosey red a$$?' " "Yes! That's it, the last straw! Ridiculing Rosalie Rivenbark! You're out Mister! Out! Make a note Oakspear, I said O-U-T OUT!!" (Oaks shuffling papers again) "How'd you spell that again?"

You're right John. Maybe it wasn't "best."

I'm sorry to here that. He had cancer a few years ago I remember. I've only seen him on TV over the years. I avoided getting involved with his church but have gotten a lot out of what I've checked out. He had a lot of interesting material. His academic background and research work have been described as "impeccable", even by those who disagreed with him. I appreciated his "gestalt" method of teaching, covering one thing from many different angles. He has a series on the Resurrection of Christ that's the best I've ever heard. I wrote him a few times since the 80's and he responded briefly once. That series knocked me back, there's some great stuff in it. I think it's on his website too.

Was it Thompson who first called cocaine "dandruff of the gods"? I guess he went out with a bang. I enjoyed "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". He made fear and loathing fun, no small task.

I think I read that everyone's privates were pruned. I guess that's why no one's sitting down. :D-->

Not true, "none of the clergy" is hyperbole, so vague as to be uh, vague. Dissent, differing opinions...flip the mirror around Mike. You "deal" by simply ignoring or stonewalling or restating what you've already said about your presonal interpretations of PFAL, Way history and actual facts. I got an email awhile back where a poster reminded me that I had wanted you "banned". For the record I've never asked or suggested here that you be banned. Early on in the first 1,000 posts of yours where you were getting ready to start to prepare to have something you were almost ready to post once you got everything ready, you made some statements about how in the past, the first time around, Way believers rejected PFAL's message and now, in the form of your posting here they were being given a chance to relook at and embrace PFAL (although in your repackaged and reinterpreted message) and if they didn't this time around there'd be no excuse, it would be "their fault". You've softened that proposition quite a bit or don't say it quite as cleary, I guess to maintain some presence here. At that time I posted I'd like to see your thread deleted, "removed". Not you banned. I found your proposition unacceptable and inappropriate for this board particularly and ill founded in general. That was my opinion and suggestion and had nothing to do with you being banned, which would involve a blocking of your ip address or a range of addresses to keep you from resigning on and ever posting here. Personally I only consider what you post when I read it here, which isn't very often. It's a free country. I've said before what many others have said - your reinventions are your business. The fact I disagree with some of them is only a matter of this board's activity, outside of GS it's a non-issue. For the record. :)--> As a matter of fact, I can't think of too many people that have said they would want you banned but I only deal with this stuff on the board, I don't know what goes on behind the scenes in emails. -I'd doubt that other Way site would enterain serious doctrinal or PFAL discussions at all, as that would open the door to too many questions and the appearance of a lack of "like mindedness". The Way's fellowships have long been places of just that - fellowship, not designed for the serious consideration of the bible and it's history and related matters. They're little mini-churches, and there's lots of churchs and they're just another one now. Doctrinal matters are handled by sanctioned representatives. They might as well start giving out Teaching Licenses or Certifiactions to be a "certified Way Instructor of the Prevailing Truth".

Nice! :)-->

Good idea!

To remember is divine, to forget is...is... to forget is, no - it's...wait...To be remembered...no...let me get back to you on that... Uproot the weeds! Out with them! Weeds Out!