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You get up every morning From your 'larm clock's warning Take the 8:15 into the city

I can remember thinking to myself one day, when I was in FellowLaborers, "How the hell did I end up here??" I'm not sure if that makes sense. It wasn't like waking up from a coma or any such thing. It was more like when you look into the mirror and ruefully wonder, "Who is that old guy looking back at me?" I think that was the day I started to question whether my decisions and actions and behavior were really my own or if they had been prescribed for me. And, yet, I stayed...."Gotta renew the old mind and snuff out those old-man thoughts. You'll be a better man for it.", I told myself..... <_<

Sorry. I should have clarified that I was using the term as it was practiced in TWI. (ie: "Make your mind think only what we tell it to think.")

Well how can you say you will when you won't, Say you do, baby, when you don't?

It's from Beatles in Italy. And, yes, the song is actually a cover of . Carl Perkins did pretty well with it in 1956 or '57, as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Bin1JlW4E&feature=related

Renewed mind + Likemindedness = Delusion prophylaxis. (Incremental preventive maintenance)

You can see them on facebook, reciting entire sections of the PFAL class, or its collaterals, encouraging others to resist the "temptation" to consider alternative viewpoints. Then, again, maybe it's themselves they are encouraging.....like re-fortifying self-delusion.

We were taught to ignore any sort of logical evaluation. (Session 7/PFAL)

UPDATE They never answered my email. Why am I not surprised?

Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter.

Here is Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, layin' down the groove for Muddy. R.I.P., Willie.

Within the first 24 seconds, the narrator calls VPW "Doctor". I guess he hasn't gotten the memo yet.

Headphones required.

Doesn't sound familiar.

Well, aren't you little Miss Picky, then?

I had read bits and pieces of Karl Marx's writings (or at least the English translations) before I became involved with The Way so, when I heard Wierwille misquote it (Advanced Class, perhaps?), I knew the source, even though he did not cite it. Here, by the way, is what Marx actually said: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx The erroneous point that Wierwille was attempting to make was that The Way wasn't a religion and, thus, it was superior to other belief systems. (The guy was a pompous azz.)

7) Keep trying to convince themselves and each other that there really is a Santa Claus.

You don't have to look any farther than facebook to find people still entrenched in that cliche-filled gibberish and TWI think. I don't know if they are doing it to proselytize new recruits or maintain a numbing level of self-delusion. I have my own theory on that matter.

This reminds me of an old adage. Q. What does your boss ask you on your last day that he should have asked on your first day? A. "What will it take to keep you?"