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Spade? Maybe he should have been spayed. (yeah I know that spaying refers more usually to the female of the species) But it seems like Rosie, or R&D together, emasculated him anyway. Thomas, if you click on the Wiki link above, you'll see lots of Loy people, some first names, some surnames. Starting with St Loy (588-660). No doubt one or both of his parents just thought it was a nice name. Maybe even it's a family name - he never said, just apparently detested the name.

:offtopic:/> What I'd like to know is why anyone would want to call their son after a spade!?! No wonder Craig disowned the name. Unfortunately, he didn't know when to stop digging. Or when to stop ploughing his neighbour's field. Or neighbours' fields (in the plural). Wikipedia Loy Irish loy association Loy (spade) photo I know Loy is a not-unpopular name in the USA. But really...

I'm sure Jesus submitted a 15 min schedule when he was passing through Samaria and met the woman at the well... sorry, love, you're unscheduled, so can't stop to talk to you now. ...or even meeting and calling his disciples. Peter, you're scheduled for 3.15 to 3.45, and it's now coming up for 4pm, I have to go... ...or on the way to raise Jairus's daughter and the woman with the issue of blood touched his clothing...Sorry missus, my appointment diary's full for today, could you come back the day after tomorrow at 10.15am? It'd be fascinating reading LCM's 15 minute diary. 5pm, SNS (it was, in those days. 5pm. I think) Therefore...3pm, get showered up ready, 3.15 put on clothes, 3.30 get to auditorium, 3.45 have a cup of coffee, 4pm sexually assault one of the staff members 4.15 assault still in progress, 4.30 have another shower, 4.45 get dressed and have another cup of coffee, 5pm prance out onto stage...

Not just out of the epistle, excie...left out of TWI really.

No poll with this - but I was earnest and passionate to begin with; learned to become hard and overly demanding in the corps; had a good WoW year but I wish I'd been kinder to my WoW family and not expected so much of them; then after that TWI started going for me and life became abject misery and utter confusion. I've learned a lot about kindness and compassion since then. Oh, and peace of mind. Thank God.

Yeah, tricky one that. Hawaii moved, too. But apart from that, a fun game.

Okay, so you proved you know some US states with the "50 states" game. How well do you know Europe? Try this: Countries of Europe Sure, you heard the names of some of the "new" countries on the news...but do you know where they are? It's hard! (I won't tell you how long it took me - nor how how many goes I had at placing Croatia, Kosovo and some of those places)

Try this and see how well you know your US geography: 50 states Of course, as you progress, the game gets easier. I'm a Brit and I scored 82.35, with an average error of 58 miles. If you Americans can't beat that....

If that sign (the pregnant guppy) is still up at the entrance to the property, it's almost surprising that no relatively local abandonees haven't added the letters "un" before the word "welcome." Cleaning it off regularly would at least give Bless Patrol something to do.

No! Really? Did they really do this? In which sort of time bracket? So much for not letting the right hand know what the left is doing, giving secretly/privately, etc. ... I think a few of the people here have tried to visit (even to visit graves) and it's been made very difficult for them. If ex-Wayfers are anything to go by, they are impossible to talk to, discuss with...one-track mind with party doctrine and policy prattled without pause for breath for as long as you have patience and don't walk away. Some of them don't appear to know what discussion, debate, and conversation actually mean. Good question.

UK has just yesterday decided to regulate e-cigs as medicines, and, effective from 2016, sales will have to be licenced. E-cigs news item Maybe choosing to designate these things as medicines means quality controls can be brought in more effectively or swiftly - or something - than if they are covered by tobacco regulations. But ... a medicine??

I'm just embarrassed about running classes. And we were never taught proper answers to things. On the other hand, I know - especially in my WoW year - that we really did help some people. Having built up a viable thriving twig - at the end of the WoW year it got taken off me and given to my legalistic WoW/Corps bro (a man, you see; he and his family couldn't get a twig together in the WoW year) - within just a few months my twig had dispersed, and those people were really hurting - one at least had chosen to go WoW himself, one or two had moved to a Wayhome, the rest were doing fine. After a couple of months, the WoW sneaked out of the bedroom window and ran away - he'd been molested as a youth by males in his family and was accused by the Corps he was with of being a homosexual, which he wasn't at all, just a very hurt individual who had found honest Christian love and care in my twig; the two in the Way home probably were too smart to stick around for long. Another went back to his original church, drawn by family connections. Some deliverance...just push 'em back deeper into their problems. Yep, that's what PFAL can do. No - not PFAL - what hardcore Way Corps can do.

Way greetings cards... hilarious. Great topic for another thread, perhaps. Not quite CG's letter to the Americans, more like general Waybrain, though. Not sure CG had the wit to think up such comments - he had the spite, though.

I think WW has it. Don't look for unnecessary difficulties; examine it all; and then see where variants lie. Then you might pick up some nuance or clear difference. Why is the difference there? Is it really something very different? Or could it be use of irony or some other figure of speech? "That's a great job, well done!" can mean either you did a really excellent job - or you botched it horribly - depending on the tone of voice. Unfortunately different tones of voice don't always come through in written words; even less so when the words were originally in a completely different language.

Johniam asked: And Waysider responded: opprobrium - hatred - despite - malice - rancor - contempt - disdain - loathing ... something along those lines, maybe?

Eli and his sons, maybe. Or alternatively, Gideon, standing against the corruption of the environment in which he found himself! Or maybe two prankster kids who were just plain bored with SNS. I never heard a whisper of this before!!!

Are you a little bit bored with what's going on in your life right now, Squirrel? :rolleyes:/>

Nothing new because they can't find anything to plagiarize. Not even their own "classes."

Now that would be interesting! Rosie ... rock climbing. Sleeping out under the stars ... VPW building a campfire (as opposed to pontificating round one that had been set by someone else)...

Looks like they are only charging one man, the house owner, and not his two brothers. What, they didn't know about the women captives? If they did know, there is culpability there. Maybe that will come later when the case against the house owner is more formalised. And it looks like the women were beaten until other pregnancies miscarried. That in itself is a burden for the women to bear.

If Jesus had been reaping the "harvest" of his women followers, you can be absolutely certain that would appear in the "evidence" against him. The Pharisees would have loved it. Real evidence against him. Real contradiction of OT rulings. If Paul had been reaping the "harvest" of his women followers, there would surely be a record of the accusations against him. That he didn't practice what he preached. Don't you think this "leading about" of women and having authority over them is more a comment on the patriarchal society in which Paul found himself operating? In the same way that Arab women EVEN NOW have to have a male with them to do certain things, or at least have male consent? In Saudi Arabia women aren't even allowed to drive a car, much less go out without some male's company. Women have very few rights in some Arab countries. They have to be "led" because they're not seen as independent responsible citizens. Elsewhere Paul writes about men having power to deal with "virgins" - virgin daughters to be given (or not) in marriage. He isn't talking about "babes" that could be passed around. Nor "babes" that Paul himself helped himself to. Talk about twisting the scriptures... :confused:/>

I'm sure you will also be rejoicing, or at least happy, to hear that three girls abducted 10 years ago have now escaped. Totally amazing. Wonderful for them and for their families. A very uplifting ending to what too often ends in the discovery of remains. The three abductors look like they will be spending a long time as captives themselves...likely to be better treated than the women/girls. Shockingly, one of the abductors occasionally took a six year old to the park and to the local fast-food places. Said it was his girlfriend's daughter. In fact it appears to be his own daughter consequent on the rape of one of his victims. And he went to a wake/vigil to pray for one of his abductees. The brass neck of the man!!!!! There were several other pregnancies as well... no info yet why no other children. :eusa_clap:/> :eusa_clap:/> :eusa_clap:/>

Expand on this please Sky. How do you know this - what did you see? Who talked with you? Sometime one could wonder how much of a marriage it really was. Maybe in the early days, when the children were small.

I never got the opportunity to go LEAD. The snow was so deep in the year that I went that the event was cancelled. We were sent out Lightbearers again instead, a bit of a scratch effort, but nice all the same to be away from HQ. LEAD could have been a wonderful opportunity to spend time in the outdoors. Alone/solo/duo, whatever. I like disappearing off into the bush/wilderness all on my own, just me, with my map in my pocket and my pack on my back and if it's not in the pack, tough, I ain't got it. Many solo trips of long weekends to entire weeks or more. Went off for 6 weeks once, with a brief excursion into a tiny township for 2 days, to resupply. Walked miles and miles over challenging terrain. It can be a great time for thinking, for peacefulness, for calm, for letting the business of the world just drop away. I can't imagine that would be at all the case if one were to be constantly on the watch for what "instructors" might report back. Whether one showed sufficient "team work" or "ability to depend on God." Not so much an opportunity to grow, as an opportunity to become more stunted in fresh new areas of life, perhaps. As for hitchhiking, that can be fun. I like giving and receiving lifts. Not sure I would do it now (hitch, that is) - maybe. Loads of really interesting people out there. And a few nutters. But - there are loads of interesting people on other modes of transport that are not so risky - on a bus or train, say. But that would cost money... something the Way didn't like spending, how spiritual is that? Tightwads!!!!!!

Would that be with minks that they stole?