OldSkool

Probably at the time of this incident but not any longer. The AC department was turned into a department called Conferences. The AC itself was turned into an event complete with an assigned event coordinator at the beginning of each ministry year. This allowed the class portion and support portions of the class to be divided so it made the running the class more manageable. Class portion was handled by Conferences and Advanced Class event was supported via HQ cabinet areas and was the part that had an event coordinator. And yes - sterling example of epic fail!

That boy was a wild one. He brought the party wherever he went, especially to Founder Hall when he visited in his own little rent-free private room that momma Donna had approved by RosaLIE.

Typical. Lower-rung leaders are experts at covering their own a$$e$, embellishing, outright lying - the abusive system breeds it. The book store has a long and sordid history thanks to Emogene Allen. In all my years in the way international and all the positions I had that interacted with the bookstore, cabinet over bookstore I never heard one nice thing about her. Never. She abused people in that department for years and the people left in charge once she went emeritus were formed in her own image. Sad, really.

So, God cannot make sounds or speak out loud so that we red clay beings can hear him? Really, I never knew that God was so limited. He can't do something my toddler son can. Oh, boy. God can only give what he is is almost as ridiculous. The earth is the lord's and the fullness there of. Besides that he made all that is. So he can't give any of that? Seems sort of contradictory when the bible states he gave Christ a name greater than any other name. So name's are spirit now? To quote The Forehead - "MALARKEY!" The thing that trips me out is once I began actually questioning what the way teaches it all just fell apart. All their pseudo-logic, and junk science - Gone! And - Bolsh - that spirit in concretion thing is a trip. I couldn't dream that up if I was tripping LSD. The hind parts of God was explained by VeePee or Okie - doofus Forehead as God showing moses all that he would do in redeeming Israel. It's stated as hind parts because he could not show the mystery which was hidden in God. Sounds like crap to me since the "great" bible interpreters (VeePee and Forehead) always seemed to view the Bible from the great mystery vantage point. Oh, ya - the limitation of God only speaking to spirit was to limit the adversary. That way spirits can't just drop by and start jaw boning with us. I gotta get some lunch but I would expect some sizable holes pokes in that one by the time i get back. Go get em folks!

One too many disturbances by this age group has the old lady MAD. Plus her and Donna see this age group (or saw) as a threat to Timmy - in other words they were corrupting the little darling. Really I feel for him.

Yep. I joined.

Biblically, it was alright to eat meat that had been sacrificed to idols, as long as it wasn't a stumbling block. My question to the genius that told you that is what difference would it make?

ROFL! James - I am glad to hear it.

Like a "FOX!"

Really, this early picture of VeePee raising up the Holstein really sets the heart behind the analogy! It's electrifrying! edit...hear = heart...and who says you can't slur typing....

You just have to see it in the original!

just don't put the cart before the horse...(If the ole' mare said it once she said a 1000 times)

Enjoyed the perspective, Steve. Years ago I worked with a believer and we had slowly been "witnessing" to our employer. Well, the boss had us both over for dinner with him and his family one evening. After dinner we started working on a bottle of wine and his family excused. About the time we were happily buzzed my fellow wayfer whips out a class registration card and moved into one of the most unscrupulous sales pitches I ever witnessed (pun intended) and he signed him up for the class. The poor guy sobered up and dropped himself from the class. No refund, out a hundred bucks was he. My wayfer friend was interim corpse at the time so I was in awe that he would do that. Again, even though my conscience screamed "scum bag move!" I chalked it up to being bold. Needless to say my credibility with the boss was shot and I soon moved on to another job after my bud went in-residence a few weeks later.

I guess he was here to recruit former research folks. To me by not coming back it is concession that the "rumors" are true. James?

I wasn't warned away after leaving but I sure heard they usual before. You know, buncha cry babies over her at da spot, lying, probably only a couple people reposting the same over and over again...and I could go on. Grease Spot has had the last laugh though. The folks who have left behind their stories have severely dented the way international's abilities to silently slither through the grass roots approach the claim to employ. I mean after all, tell me about a topic and I will check you with google...lol. They will never get it as long as Frau Q-Tip is around. She so loathes the internet and computers at that. She allows their own attrition through her out of touch stubbornness that sometimes shows up in the elderly. She's 70 ya know. Your welcome. It still amazes me how they flip / flop so much on so many things. It's like watching a perpetual coin toss. Will it be heads or tails? ....

Freaking pervert.

Amen! Great post. My underlying theme, which I think communicates, is we need to stop and "process" the negatives to truly rise above them. Acknowledge them for what they are, talk about them, express them in other mediums of communication if need be and then move on with the positives that cause us to truly enjoy life.

I posted recently regarding music and my situation. After reading over the responses (and thanks!) I was jarred to remember all the utter crap I heard from the way international to "keep it positive." Well I have a pent up retort I would like to "release." Let's consider it "blab" school, eh Panama? Some of us came out of hard times and rose above only to realize we were forever touched by the things we endured. So, instead of victimizing the weak and feeding off of the folks who are scared of what's "out there" we searched a higher path. We turned to the outlets that gave us respite from the rage we carried day by day. We poured our souls into those same outlets that help sooth the hurts of others because we are all touched with the same. Then some of us are unlucky enough to encounter your snare, where you lay wait using the Bible to your own ends. There's God and his Christ, pulling us along, closer to them and further away from our own destruction, and there you are. You set yourself in the midst with grandiose promises of abundance and outright lies that it's all been given in the past, and we just need to buck up and claim it. And in so doing we need to give all but subsistence to fill your coffers as a witness against your heartless greed come the Judgments. But your keep it positive spiel was really just another layer of control, another tool in your belt to ply with great cunning against the fools whom you snared. Yet when someone breaks free from your feeble clutches all you have is the same ole. A little character assassination here, dashed with some silent smears whispered across your numbered few. Yet with each one that has broken free you have taken another step into irrelevancy. Oh how sweet it is. Now I can move on with my life with some satisfaction seeing the fruit resulting from your errors. God truly restores what the locust have eaten. Go ahead and credit the devil, it's all fruit to your account.

Thanks Nottawayfer! Sounds like your Husband hit a rocky patch. Good thing we live in different states or I would have to swing by so we could un-ceremoniously smash the two drink limit. Hell, it was a 2 drink minimum most clubs I been to.

Ouwwww.....I've always wanted to get a big ole' promotion....maybe I'll be promoted to.......uhhhh.....HGSIC? I'll be sprrtuuly sponsble...you can make at least 10% of your income available to OldSkool@thewayIntcanblowme.nitely Gawd Bless U AAAAbndntlee!

I think it was position chasing at it's finest. After all, it's a spirrrtual competition, the forehead was set the bar for competitor. The result? A bunch of anti-social jerks trying to out do one another.

I appreciate the concern. Take care.

I don't mind praying for the household of God, or the Body of Christ as long as we understand we are not talking about the way international. If anything they are the needless parts of the uncomely parts. Like public hair for instance. Who really needs it, and they do like being nit pickers.

Nah, in-residence we learned how to hide a little better than the non-corpse. Of course some of the WC would nudge you under a bus as a diversionary tactic.

I allowed myself to be naively convinced that I should alter my life's course because there was a "ministry" that "taught" me the word. So therefore I am supposed to commit my life to it, change my outer appearance to match it, alter my speech to propagate, and on it went. So yes I gave myself up to them as if they were God. Stupid me.