OldSkool

Interesting, the eagle ate the liver and it grew back. The liver will regenerate itself...mmmm....must be debul sprrrts.

That looks like one of dem dar turkee bzzrds....had dem back at inter-nashuunal

Ya, Living God's Word as a Family. Too little, too late.

Well, the other side of the coin they are afraid of getting sued for denying medical care to someone who wants / needs it. Before the Allen lawsuit they used to give permission for the staffers to go to the doctor or not. Now they pray for you as you are dialing the number to make an appointment. J/k on that one but you get the drift.

Yep, that was until the internet, Waydale, and Grease Spot. It's common knowledge now. I think their long term damage control / recovery plan has been to quelch the yelling, put on a veneer of "we are oh so nice now," attempt to legitimize themselves in coporate 501c3 related lingo, and put out living god's word as a family. It fools some but not too many.

The way international worked for years to split my mothers marriage, thank God they failed. She was a "believer" and her husband an "unbeliever." She was basically told for years that he could not understand spiritual matters all the while she was constantly pressured to witness, attend meetings, and generally make deeper commitments in the household. It really strained her marriage bad. She is out today, still a little way brained, but making progress in getting her marriage back on track. My advice to any spouse in similar circumstances who wants the marriage to work is fight with everything in you to keep your marriage and eject the way international from the middle of it. First thing I would do is insist my wife come to therapy with me. That should be enough to get the ball rolling. I would love to see the way internationals circular logic and mindless cliches come to light.

Sounds about typical. I know of at least 2 people who were on staff who were herded off to therapists.

Just like a eunuch but different because most eunuch's have back bones.

That a supposed Christian church could come up with the term "get your need met" as a euphemism for condoning casual sex is absolutely sickening. I hope they don't really think that releasing a class that says pre-marital sex is not in accord with the bible makes up for all the wrong done over the years.

Yep, I put that there to be a smart azz The graduating numbers are lower and lower. I got a chuckle a couple years ago when there were more directors and Gunnison leadership in the graduation photo than corpse.

I always liked him. Found him to be a good man. He is REALLY into the law of believing and other way ministry doctrines, so I wouldn't expect him to leave anytime soon.

Beats the h377 out of signing people up for classes.

Well said, very well said.

Sage advice.... :biglaugh: You know they still teach go anywhere / do anything for the way international garbage. It's taught in-residence and when I was around every once in a while there would be a corps morning teaching on the subject. I remember 2 teachings that come to mind right off the top of my dome - Harve Platig taught one and gave illustrations of himself being responsible to tend the fields at HQ, and John Rupp did a teaching about how to be a yes ma'am. John's was particularly gross.

See that's the thing. According to the Bible we don't need a priest and Jesus Christ is our intercessor. Then we are to have fellowship with the Father and with the Son. So if you follow Christian doctrine we don't need anyone to speak to us as priest or lord of our lives. The concept of placements is a sham. It's wrong on so many levels. And honestly I would wager to say that it has caused much undue hardship on people by relocating them at random.

That's exactly what it was. That was the biggest complaint from folks is losing the labor. Of course now the in-residence corpse program is there so the free labor has been abundantly filled.

Oh great ! Ham could be the coordinator of the way woods. ... JJ had a good point. You may want to take your vacation when they do squirrel thinning...just sayin.

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Isn't that a trip? I could see being thankful to God, but they imply that the thanks is owed to the way ministry...egads.

Well, we all have probably been told that Headquarters is the spiritual nerve center or some sort of similar rubbish. Buuuut....I have a little news. HQ is known around da ministry by those in the know to be a very dysfunctional place. I think even Rosalie knows that. A few years ago they used to send a team of Way Disciples to HQ each year. It was always billed a special assignment where they could serve God's Word all day working on Staff and then in the evenings they would help strengthen the buffer zone around headquarters by joining the local fellowships in Sydney or wherever and moving the word. Anyway, the last year they were at HQ it seems that two of them working in the bookstore were treated rather harshly by their department coordinator. So a couple directors go into the bookstore for damage control and reassign the way disciples to way publications and grounds and the bookstore dept. coord. repented and it was all supposed to be ok. Well Rozie was and she let the cabinet have a piece of her mind and said "it would take a real good reason to change her mind about not having way disciples at HQ, because they would not be coming back after this team was finished." Thats to paraphrase. But I thought HQ was the Jerusalem of our day and time? I thought HQ set the pace for the way of the usa and international? Please say it aint so.....that HQ is really so dysfunctional they can't even host a team of way disciples without treating em badly.... As for the 2 way Disciples they could not get away from HQ fast enough and left at the end of the year. Maybe thy are back on staff now...?.....? I seem to remember the public spin was the way disciples aren't coming back to HQ cause the in-rez way corpse were coming to HQ...but we know that isn't really true.

Testing cuss checker....testing 123.... dang .... .... mother .... Ya, Ham - sensors me too. uhhh....censors

Well, when Rosalie blamed the way corps household at the advanced class special in 2000, that pretty much is her admission that it was common knowledge amongst some. That's the way I see is anyways.

I think you should goto Helen Waite. She can help you out.

Ya, they act like it's such a spiritual event with lots of discussion, meditation, scripture, prayer, and the like. I cannot overstate the administrative nature of things in those meetings. Ham, I think you are right where you are supposed to be.

Well that explains this old picture I had laying around... ....it was a candid shot of da HOGDAFAT..... ...... ......