sprawled out

wowie zowie! digital! CDs instead of cassettes!

man, they're on the cutting edge. guess their tight relationship with God is keeping them ahead of the curve!

what'll they introduce next? the iron horse? the wheel?

Sprawled Out, I thought you put them in Cryostasis..

what can i say, ham? i'm a dreamer.

i like the new tag line!

that's tellin' 'em!

But wasn't that the theme of the PFAL series - Leave it to Be-liever?

well, the beave was always gettin' hollered at.

maybe i've missed it here buried in some thread, but what's going on with them (aside from graeser getting canned and schoenheit taking over)? any of you guys close to the situation know what's been said, what their plans are, etc? or all they playing it all close to the vest, circling the wagons?

advanced class '79 was torture. i was gung-ho about learning everything i could, but all i remember is being completely exhausted the entire time. (good practice for the corps, i guess!)

i did have a nice 7-Up float in town one afternoon. that was the best part!

hey, dot--nice behind!

i have to keep the water running when i brush my teeth. sometimes, because i hate to waste water, i very purposefully shut the water off. but it always ends up back on before i'm done. it's just one of the little OCD things i do--but the only one i can think of now. (of course, now i won't be able to stop thinking about it until i can remember others! thanks alot, ex!)

your experience may be different, belle, but i've looked up a few old twi friends over the years--and not ONE of them was still in.

hopefully you'll be that lucky.

Hello All

( not just 'most' but All who call upon Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior)

what about the rest of us?

It seems to me that personal prophecies often have an agenda behind them that is more carnal

than spiritual. It amazes me, though not really, that often the sons and daughters of higher ups

in the organization somehow seem to get these amazing personal prophecies of great things

God is ordaining them for. Oh, and also the wealthier contributors do well.

no way! ;)

I recall quite vividly how John Lynn described ( as only John can do )

the challenge of striving to "Do Christiamity Right"

while being "All Covered with Flesh" !!

deeeeeeeeeerail:

i've had a problem with this premise for a long time. isn't christianity designed for people? (who else?) why is it that our flesh--the stuff all people are made of--is precisely the thing that make practicing christianity so difficult? isn't that the Catch-22 of all Catch-22s? it's like saying "I've designed the perfect automobile fuel. any car that runs on it will get unheard-of mileage and performance. only trouble is, it really doesn't work that well in internal combustion engines."

is God an idiot? would he really design the ultimate system for optimal human functioning so that it would work perfectly if we weren't human? personally, i think it's just part of the con to keep you coming back: "this is real hard to do, so you'd better stick close to us. otherwise, you've got no hope at all."

by the way, that's an interesting choice of names, prophet:

My time coming, any day, dont worry about me, no

Its gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so

Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin slow

Still I know I lead the way, they tell me where I go.

Estimated Prophet (The Grateful Dead)

Because you know, the greatest cargoes of life come in over quiet "C"s.

ouch. clever, but ouch.

....and I fully expect them to wake up

don't hold your breath, gracie.

the unpleasant truth is, these guys think they're "right." they always have. it's absolutely fundamental to their thing. they talk a good game about learning and whatnot, but they've built this whole operation on the very way-brained elitist mindset the made twi the twisted cult it was. it's a mindset that doesn't lend itself to "waking up."

i remember reading an article somewhere not long ago (of course, it could've been 5 years ago, but it just seems like last month) that joni was using the Roland VG8 guitar modeler so she could jump from one tuning to another without messing with tunings or switching guitars.

i've never done much with alternate tunings, but this seemed like the way to go!

Uptown, I believe CI stands for "Christian International"

you sure it's not for "Completely Idiotic?"

Musta been one heckuva labor.

yeah--like two days long!

newcomer--i've tried formulating a response this way and that way, and finally realized i've already said what i wanted to say. you're coming from some other place, it seems. let's just leave it at that.

keep 'em flyin'!

d, next time you enter the popularity contest, remember: Vaseline on the teeth, Preparation H under the eyes.

no wonder i lost! i thought it was the other way around!

why do I keep getting all of these returns saying "super chicken"??? surely that can't be it!

that's what I thought! but apparently, it is!

"Caw-all for Super-Chicken!"

Maybe they didn't get it because they were still a part of it.

amen. and amen.

The guys that "knew the job was dangerous when they took it."

and now on to the really important stuff: who can identify the source of the above quote? we say it and hear it said all the time, but i was surprised recently when i went looking for its origin.

Regarding JAL's use of the word "woundedness" in his quote from the second question of this thread, if I'm remembering rightly, "woundedness" is a term of art in the Momentus "kill the victim before the victim kills you" world view.

huh? "a term of art?" wuzzat mean?

i have no doubt that the term "woundedness" comes out of some wackjob belief system--a made-up psychobabble word. (it's so made up that when you search for it on google, google asks, "Did you mean boundedness?")

one of the google ads at the top of this page is for "Urine-Off at discount prices."

hmm.

belated happy birthday, kevlar! we're almost twins!

i've taken it upon myself to put all of ces/stf in a state of cryogenic suspension until we can figure out how best to deal with their problems. i think it's better this way, for everyone. perhaps one day in the distant future, they can be safely thawed--once science has developed a way to keep them from harming themselves and others.

:P

son of arthur, i did receive a free copy years ago. i got robbed.

everybody has an opinion, of course. mine is that the book wasn't very good. first of all, they started with a premise and then set out to prove it (same thing they did with "don't blame god"), instead of doing what they profess to do, letting the bible speak for itself. for me, there was very little i hadn't heard already, in one form or another. not worth the time, in my opinion.