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The Joker....Steve Miller Band I came upon a child of God, he was walking along the road.

The Way used a variation of "the idiom of permission" to explain why bad things happen to those who leave "the one true household". Yep, walk outside of the "hedge of protection" and .....the boogie man will gitcha! And, they blamed you for giving the devil permission to assault you by virtue of your being out of fellowship and lacking in your believing. In that sense, the "idiom of permission" is common fare in cult groups.

Someone To Love....The Great Society http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzyDLwUgFdc&feature=related Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall.

R.I.P, Mr. Otis. Thank you for your massive contributions to the world of music. http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/01/19/johnny-otis-of-willie-and-the-hand-jive-dies/

Now, ....This is a church!

All men are liars......and that's the truth -------------

They don't "research" and they don't "teach". (in the conventional sense of the word.) So, what is it, again, that qualifies them for preferential status?

We were always told we were the best so we must have had the max factor.

We've already said ‘Goodbye'.

and don't forget the dog movie that introduced the X factor

Because .....DC5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TwQw6yVwdo&feature=related

"It served a lot of different interests to mysticize this stuff and give it a lot of Ooooh factor." The A.C. needed lots of Oooh! factor to cover up the yaaaawn factor.

I wouldn't attend for all the Figpep in Figgyville.

Somethin' to ponder. All that talk about how more S.I.T.= more revelation....hmmmm Typical day at A.C......lots of S.I.T./not much revelation. Leads me to believe we were taught something wrong about at least one of the two....Or even the whole concept.

I've tried to use google to search this out. What I've found is that all roads lead back to PFAL or Bullinger. You can tell they are ex-Way people by the phrases they use and the (misrepresented) scriptures they use to make their case. In addition, one must subscribe to the PFAL variety of dispensationalism/*spirit in* vs. *spirit on* concept to make any sense of it.

Roll away, Roll away, Roll awaaaaaaay 'cmon everybody, sing with me!

As with anything else, when you start to paint it with too wide a paintbrush, the picture becomes distorted.

Well, at least you're being honest about it.

When the service is over, do they sing "roll........? well, you know...

You know he wasn't really my Grandpa, don't you?

(Don't) Gimme that ol' time religion.

Indoctrination is the reason PFAL was structured the way it was.....overload of information, crammed into a short period of time, dealt out in incremental portions, with no room or time to consider alternatives. It's the reason you could not walk into your local bookstore or public library and pick up a copy of PFAL or RTHST. I actually asked, one time, why, if we were so consumed with spreading our message, did we not make the materials more readily available to anyone who wanted them. I was told (by leadership) that the systematic build up of the class was just as important as the material, itself, and the casual reader would be missing that. In plain English....it's an indoctrination process.

Critical thinking is a two-edged sword. It can keep you out of trouble or put you on the hot-seat. I still prefer it to blind acceptance.

"just attempting to show how the perceptions and messaging changed in 10-15 years." And change they did.....in leaps and bounds. It was still a scam, though, even though we knew some pretty cool people and had a swell time singing Kumbayah around the campfire.