Ham

No reward of any kind for sorting through miles and bundles of phone wire at new branch guy's house, for his BUSINESS- saved HIM about three hundred or so bucks though.. no reward, for hauling stereo and video equipment all over God's creation.. no reward, for cleaning, etc. etc. for classes, fellowships.. no reward, or even a thank you, for helping the last three sycophants move trucks of crap, when they moved in and out of the area.. the last meeting I had with leadership, "we KNOW there is something wrong with you, you'd better spill your guts.." I finally figured out what my "problem" was, I was serving a group a lunatics, and a corrupt organization. An organization would have to jump through some pretty high hoops before I'd even remotely consider doing a quarter of what I did.. Don't get me wrong.. everything I did, I thought I was doing for God.. "blessed" at the time. Just rather disappointed that all the labor ended up being absorbed by a stinking corrupt organization.

Just a thought..who wants to walk a straight line anyway, or a line defined by someone else? You can goad an ox into walking a straight line.. you can put blinders on a horse so it is not distracted.. But people? What possible reason would a person want to induce others to walk a straight path, in a guise that it was the "word", unless it was in the one who induces best interests? I never got any REAL reward for making sure the chairs were properly strung, the mall properly "witnessed", not to mention the neighborhood.. no real pay to speak of.. The "ministry" however, did see substantial revenue from those who I brought, those who I carefully "guided" into it's "hallowed" grounds.. I feel like I was no better than an ox, or horse. Sounds like fun. Put the yoke back on my neck, bit back in my mouth.. I don't mind the blinders..

Then again.. if they smell like polecat, they may be immune to the smell. Kinda like garlic, eveybody has to share some..

That's the whole problem with these cheap tests.. it is soooo easy to prove a correlation between two variables, but to prove CAUSATION.. they'd have to supply clean, untainted weed, to separated age groups.. track the people through life, ensure that they are huffing the prescribed amount of THC.. I don't think a legitimate study could even come close to jumping the legal hurdles, let alone the liability they'd assume.. I really think it is the other way around.. the pressure of society and effects of mental illness very well might drive a person to heavy marijuana usage. I have met a few individuals who simply could not handle day to day life without it. Honestly, I think they were actually safer to society when they were high.

All that "believing", and then they blame the devil for giving them a hernia..

Off topic? I thought it was on, at least in my strange, out of control way of thinking.. Naw.. this was the picture I had in my mind: "Believer": "Ummph, I'm believing.. (takes a deep breath) I'm believing.. takes another deep breath.. I'm belieeeeving (lungs now well over full mark, believer straining for all it's worth)..." then I found that pic.. I thought oh my: it looked like some "believers" I knew.. I honestly think we were taught not believe, but to be gas bags.. At my most swelled, puffed up moments, I couldn't bring to pass the righteousness of God, or even get the first parking spot in front of Kmart, for that matter..

maybe that's the figure where the last is put first, or is it the first last. Seems it was always about "da ministry", it's elegance, prestige, resources, money..

Congratulations! Good to hear the good news..

Good description of reality. The sycophants always seemed to know who had money, before they even arrived in the area.. I remember one of them being "helped" out of trouble by someone with money and influence.. another one of those surrealistic moments, the sycophant talking to the "money man" in a closed room, loud enough to be heard on the other half of the house. Asked the money guy "Can't we just bribe the judge??" SOB probably thought I was a bump on a log somewhere, and couldn't put two and two together..

Maybe looks more like Jabba..

I dunno.. might hurt the door. Better have nuts, a LOT of nuts..

So wise. Kinda looks like Yoda, doesn't he?

"Super Duper Believer Squirrel" maybe he just needs to pass some gas..

Hmm.. I think for me, the big learning experience was to learn which battles are really worth it.

That's why I'm not filthy rich! I never went CORPS! **ham retreats, kicking himself for missing the "golden" opportunity..**

I dunno about "building your believing" and that kind of thing. The few times that something really happened.. I knew what the outcome would be, before "checking it with da word".. or praying.. or trying to build "believing images of victory". Maybe it sounds "unfair" and all, but I really think God gives you that kind of "faith". I've never been able to build a big enough fire under it by my own initiative. Made me look like some kinda macho huper believer or something though.. looked like muscle, but just wait for me to exhale..

Not exactly what I said. The "system", all the keys, all the stuff.. how much of it actually WORKED? How many times did people carefully frame their "believing" and "details" to carefully fit the keys, and.. nada? How many times did you get the pony, the steamship, the mansion, the 24 carat gold bullion? I think it was a "system" to try to milk the creator of the heavens and the earth.. isn't that what a gambling "system" is? Some way to improve the odds, such that the house HAS to PAY? Abraham tried that with Sodom.. "well, what if there a hundred righteous, what if there are fifty righteous.." sorry, He's smarter than us. Oh yes, I think all prayers are answered. Most of them the answer is "when pigs sprout wings and fly.." :)

maybe a nut that can not be cracked?

Really.. what difference is it.. "believing" or gambling.. Both ways, people have worked out some kind of "system" to "beat" the house.. I remember putting my last twenty dollars in the horn, and "believing" for all to turn out for the best.. the odds always favor the house in the long run.. :)

This is the reason gambling has such appeal, and often a dead end career.. some refuse to admit it was a mistake.. will gamble their whole retirement and fortune to try to get the glory of old days back again.

Cute pictures Free. Hey Bump.. maybe it's just the French Squirrels..

Well, even if they take over the house, it can't be that bad. Think of the alternative, a person could come home to find that bears have taken it over..

I read something a Rabbi wrote, can't quite remember his name.. He said something to the effect that "we don't have the same God as our ancestors".. then he said, it wasn't exactly that God himself changed, but our understanding of him. several hundred years ago, their God made the sun rise and set every day.. by Newton's day, their God made the laws that enabled the earth to orbit the sun.

Hmmmph. and you, "I was attacked by a cwazy squirrel.." I remember you. If you tease the squirrel with a bag of nuts, what do you expect??? Hmmm? Hmmph.

Another thought.. did anybody see as much as a decent first aid kit there?