Ham

I WISH. I've been looking for the alien brain boost, just haven't found any aliens willing to administer it without a thirteen page hold harmless agreement..

Sorry, must have been a slip of my Freudian tongue.. Hmm. Well, there may be a few ways to eradicte TWIT brain, but I think some of these "ex-ministers" might end up in a straight jacket.. sorry, carry on..

Hmm, not too bad, but Freud might disagree with him, as far as the fee will part goes.. Since when? What if that is indeed the real root of the problem? Oh, I forgot,"believers" don't have "problems". Hmm.. the environment. If you're asking people who do not have basic biological needs satisfied to succumb to your logic, I think you're nuts. Same old insanity, "just give them da VERD". Only thing, I've seen people forced to accept "personal" responsibility, but no positive change was perceptible, or "realized". I've seen nice people turned into bigots, including myself. "They" helped me once.. no thanks, not again.

I think he who trusts in the OPINION of a half-baked grifter is perhaps a worse fate. I'd rather be a fool.

Thirteen credits, along with full time work.. whew. I'm tired.. Just one more year.. then maybe grad school. You may then call me Professor Ham.

I'll play Roy. Just don't give the results to Freud.. :)

True. But I think if we saw what the finished product was going to look like, few of of us would have chosen to submit. Personally, I didn't need change, I needed help. Honestlly, I didn't get the kind of "help" I really needed until I was out of der ministry.

Happy birthday friend! Hope it is a good day for you.

I was in from about 1975 until.. about 1997. I probably sat through PFAL.. hmm, maybe fifty, sixty times.. I had the number figured out once. The BEST thing I got out of it was an understanding of a few figures of speech, and went beyond what was taught in pfal.. I'm the only one in my literature class who knows what hypocatastasis is.. could have gotten the same results just buying a book.. :)

T-Bone, I don't think it was a sedative that was applied to some people's conscience, it was a club. Feel really, really bad about something you said, or did? Well, "no condemnation". "Don't you DARE try to touch MY righteousness.." I got that reply a few times from a simple inquiry, in love. I think we were trained to beat the snot out of ourselves with our own righteousness.

Yeah, a servant. To be beaten into subjection. Worked for Hitler and gang. Honestly, after leaving der vey, I've apologized to MY conscience..

Oh the horrors..

"Smart as a brick" may apply here. Many of us trusted our lives to people who couldn't balance a checkbook.

I wonder how many t bones and filet mignon his friends may have helped themselves to before the dust settled there..

Naw, not here.. I think he is in one of the New England states somewhere. At least running a limb. Oh, I just remembered. "They" did put a four hundred pound rock in charge of "research", did they not?

Hey, if it's marble, I would put it in charge of "research"

Hmmm. I have a pet rock. Genuine West Virginia river rock, weighs about three hundred pounds. I'm thinking about getting it ordained..

Well, one thing.. Any bizarre, strange or out of the ordinary thing I've told anybody about myself on the internet here, you may take comfort with the knowledge that it is one hundred percent true.

Yeah.. no graffitti in Midland either.

well, it is kinda "purty"..

Is that the big fish pic that "got away"?

The few they "let" really get on the internet. I think a couple of them are missing a few brain cells. Maybe it's something in the water there.. I personally don't see how they can read people's first hand accounts, and not think logically, analytically, or emotionally, for that matter. They just report.. In other circles I think they call them bueracrats.

In his dreams at best.. heheh. Well, no brain, no memory. Last thing he was aware of, he lost his head.. Like a friend of mine, he says he got hit on the head, the next thing, he was married..

Actually, that is what happens. but the short pleasure does not last very long.. but without a real brain (remember, it has been removed.), there is nothing to remember.. "I went to the bar last night, met the cutest girl, but dang, I can't remember a dagone thing.."

Actually, with the head removed, and no restraining influences of logic or anything, biology says that the male mantis body still has some part of the central nervous system that will copulate to no end, and the female mantis finds "the best sex of her life".. If only that would work on the human male..