OldSkool

Thanks for the replies. Sunesis that was most helpful. This has really helped me, mostly by knowing that I am not alone and knowing that I can work through this and learn to cope. Thanks!

You ever stop and wonder just WTF spiritually mature means? :biglaugh: :biglaugh: I need a bull....ocon for that phrase. Of course me and the Mrs. pull it on each other all the time, so the humor is right up my alley.

I see. Well we definitely know control is at the heart of the issue. So they think they have the rightly divided word of God like it has no been known since the first century. But they TIGHTLY control it's transmission. Just plain crazy. Oh well.

no, just the middle saturday, playday. Oh, wait this is the calm before the storm. The taz will show up when they teach the discerning of spirits sessions.... no, I am definitely not edified. ROFL!

Thanks for the advice, and thanks for the encouragement! edit: removed quote

Perhaps someone has dealt with this? I gave up a music career to go way corps, even sold my gear (like an idiot) to pay off my debts. My fellowship coordinator at the time advised this and so I did it. I have played music a few times over the years "to bless the household" but my heart and soul was never in it because I always had to hold back so I could fit the lame mold of "music" that the way international thinks is the right way. And not to brag, but I have 25 years or so under my belt, have played countless live shows on the LA and NYC club circuits and more - I know what I am doing, just a little. Doing local way productions I played with some good folks but, inevitably, was matched up with people who had no clue, even though they thought they were experts! I mean very arrogant and talentless. While, perhaps this was a good exercise in team building it was like putting training wheels on a pro cyclist. Anyway, recently an old friend of mine connected with me on Facebook. I mean we haven't talked in 20 years. Turns out he is an industry insider now, who works out of Nashville. Well, he gave me the proverbial smack upside the head for tossing my career in the first place. So, with his help, I am getting my career back on track and we will see where things go. He even volunteered to give me around $5,000 in gear to get started. Seems he has more gear than he knows what to do with because he collects musical equipment at the end of whatever tour he is on as it ends. So professional musician is once again in my near future. Now, all this is great news! My wife and I are so excited! I feel like I am alive again after stifling part of my soul for many years. Also,I have had to do a major readjustment of my thinking. I had considered my life's purpose fulfilled as way corps. I took the prime of my life and willingly threw it into the black-hole that is the way international. After leaving the way international, I reckoned my life mostly over. I knew I would raise my family, work our business, and settle in my home. Now something that I reckoned dead is alive again. My music career. I have just realized that my life is not over, or even winding down. I am actually excited, like a kid in a candy store that my God and the Lord would recompense me what I wrongfully sacrificed in their name. So I should be happy about this, no? Well, I am, BUT - here is the kicker. By mid-day I am happy, giddy, excited, practicing my music, working with a fellow musician as we sting together an acoustic / electric duo to get started. The day wears on, still excited and happy. Goto sleep happy. Except, when I wake up I am filled with self-loathing, guilt, and disgust, as if I am doing something terribly wrong by choosing the career that I am most suited to follow. What gives? Can anyone tell me wtf that is all about? Thanks in advance for the help.

Yes! But in the way internationals world one is only fired for offending Frau Q-Tip - RowZee - da HOGFODAFAT! And then only at her approval. Hiring and firing is solely concentrated in her hands at the "recommendations" of others. Others may process the paper trail (yes, they still have those in the way ministry) but she is the great decider.

ROFL! No that was way corps 33...34? perhaps? 32 was had 18 total, I think.

Ewww. The whole idea is just repulsive, even more so in the way international. Something about supposed Christians behaving badly just adds insult to injury.

ROFL! Well I hear that's how she decides to stay in power another year. Crawls out of her hole....sees her shadow...Hey, another year as Prezident and ChairMAN of the Board!! Yay!! (returns to hole thankful she doesn't have to go out to pasture just yet.)

Silly Twinky, there you go trying to be all rational and what not. Always remember that what's good for Rosalie is not necessarily good for others and what others should do should not be done by the board of directors. They are a cut above, examples to the flock, they stand in the gap, they work mightily for us peons. Therefore, special treatment is really a way to bless them back for all they do. Only in the way international is this hypocrisy not hypocritical. <_<

See, I had my old section coordinator at HQ tell me this was going on way back in 2000. You think I believed him? Thanks for posting that up and confirming that for me. Of course I had believed him since. Just not initially. And that's just gross.

Wouldn't want to chip away at that $54,000,000 with something as wasteful as paying the staff so they don't have to endure financial hardships. Nah, those families will do just fine leaning on God in the midst of all these difficult working conditions we have heaped on them.

Although, faerie circles do bear a striking resemblance.

Further proof the woman has ice water in her decrepit veins.

For those of you who don't know many aspects of the need basis garbage was eradicated as a result of the Allen lawsuit and no doubt under advisement from da lawyers. So staff are charged rent and the rent has to be assessed at market value. So all the housing is measured off in square footage and the estimates are kept on the low side. Ok, here is where it gets funny. Here all the staff and way corps are gathered at the annual opening staff and corps meeting at HQ, tired, bored, listening to directors read paragraph after paragraph from the staff handbook. A root canal is preferable. Anyway, Frau Q-Tip comes to a special announcement....drum roll please....A raise! The staff got a tiny little raise to add to their tiny little paycheck. Guess what her next announcement was?.....drum roll please.....You guessed it - They were raising rent! The staff WERE PI$$3D!! She gave the raise to cover the extra rent! There were quite a few people who left staff in the course of placements over that one...Nice job, RowZee.

It is what it is!

Begs the question what kind of idiots broadcast a meeting over the phone lines when you could send it over the web, via satellite - hell, carrier pigeons would be an improvement. As well it should. But as bad as the service sucks they really do need to force people to listen to it if anyone at all is going to attend. Da HOGDAFAT hath spoken! As much as these idiots lie and pretend the man of God garbage went away with Craig, Rosalie is very much trying to fill those shoes. Probably in more than one way. See, there you go asking logical questions again...for shame!

That would be Anglish.

With it's long tradition of thinking hordes of Devil spirits flock to attack them every time they put on an event, the advanced class brings out the paranoia from the directors at an advanced level. First you must understand, if you have not been to HQ, it is like Ground Hog Day around there to begin with. A little seasonal variations, but from year to year it's the same drone. Anyways, so there are daily cabinet meetings during the class after the noon meal that are a total waste of time. They meet, the get a daily report from the class coordinator, that is short and of little substance, sometimes the cabinet may be asked for impromptu sharing that sound just like the in-residence way corps mindless sharing about what blessed them, they pass papers around if there are any and then it's off to the rest of the day. I kid you not, they are that lame. Self important dweebs. I'm sure the devil is just shaking in his boots at your lamer meetings. When you gather in circular fashion around the table in the director conference room. I'm sure there are no shortage of pivot men. Jerks.. I guess that's to the old addage...A circle jerk a day keeps the adversary at bay!

Looks like no adversary forecast til Saturday, when there is a 30% chance.

Very cool Krys!!

I hear ya! And Welcome 100% Free, glad to have you here!!

Nope. But it sure happened in other areas a lot.