Ham

Victims or Opressors... maybe a little bit of both.

Businessmen, or more properly crooks, running a church like a business.. conning and being conned.

Some of them came out of the corps as pretty darned ruthless.. coniving.. contract and promise breakers.. generally, try to pay you half (or even less) of what something was worth.

Trade their spirituality for a pot of beans..

Many were cheap sonsabitches. Always arguing about the price..

Probably because of what was done to them. Many sold businesses, abandoned careers for this supposed higher calling, only to find the rules and objectives constantly change.

A Friend of the Devil is a Friend of Mine.. :)

I established a few connections prior to exit. I don't know if they were really much better.. maybe just stepping stones along a (strange) way..

my marriage did not survive.

The connections in this world seem to be fairly loose.

Divorce seems to be a killer of connections in this society.. for whatever reason.

For the man.

I was half-way through a college degree and finished the time in a rooming house with others with worse issues..

Mrs. Owen wrote in "Just the Way It Was" (I think that's the name, I tossed my copy out years ago) about how VPW never allowed drugs among the hippies. This was mentioned a couple times I remember. I found the emphasis on that point odd. Maybe it begged the question.

So . . . . . . did drugs help move The Word?

Yes and no. The *word* was very much another drug. Maybe the drug moved itself..

Devil Possessed. Maybe you could claim that you were in better company than with them.. :)

Euclid was well aware of this

Part of the problem was viewed as to make vocabulary well defined. Once it is well defined, it is dead.

what was even the purpose or definition of WD to begin with?

I think I have found it.

It is .. a half way house to place ones offspring, in the hope that they will leave the nest..

I know of one particular case where the child became so sick from separation from Parents that they were allowed to go back home..

TWI is not more spiritual, nor no less godless than any wordly corporation, such as WalMart.. well. In my opinion anyway..

A bully only exists because it take others to allow them to be a bully - a bully is a result of other folks being whimps.

I disagree. I have experienced a world system (including twi) where bullying was encouraged and orchestrated from top down, and there were no other options.

unlike other Greasespot Avatars, I am actually a Squirrel, in real life. Just ask anybody. Perhaps more educated than most squirrels, but still a Squirrel, nonetheless.

His grandson has attempted to seize upon any such charisma.. by ma and papa's orders (and naming).

If the Bible is God Breathed.. can one say that the Bible has God's Breath. If you don't mind me saying.. sometimes it stinks..

Absolutely, I promise! Well.. you must agree to clean up after it is done..

Venison hamburgers, Squirrel Stew.. wine, unlimited. Who could refuse to come..

No More Greasespot wienie roasts.. let's have a party somewhere.. I could house about a dozen inebriated participants.

In Celebration of Our 73rd anniversary..

I will supply the Wine. I have about 30 liters stored away in the closet.. mostly Cabernet. A few gallons of beer besides plus award winning Chili would present no problem..

This could be an event like.. dinner in courses. Show up for one Course in Michigan.. take a few days to sober up, and drive to the next course..

Happy 73'd! I will supply the beer, if anyone will come.

I cannot say that my identity changed. I was a stinking(?) hippie of sorts, forced to live in a hellish new landscape.

I am still a stinking(??) hippie of sorts, but I bathe regularly.

If I had half a chance, I would run off and live off the land somewhere..

You may have the last word. I am completely Wrong in Everything. I've known that for a while now.. good evening, friend.

In the beginning, in the beginning.. there were Ham's Words..

I can feel the hate arise in you, it makes you strong, gives you focus..

I am now speaking in Parables.. sorry

I know Greek. I could write a Bible if I wanted to..

I think it is more.. J.S. is Unqualified to be an authority in anything, except for Adultery. He made his case in more way than one in that regard.

I don't even have a dog..

sowy.

In this existence I think the hell of fire and ice is about the worst..

I think the burning we feel is just passage along another stage of purification..