waysider

"What a long, strange trip it's been."

I think I'll go down to The Bijou. They're showing "The Monster That Devoured Cleveland."

He also shares a name with a rather well known musician, now deceased. (I only made that connection because I gave up and "googled".)

Welcome, one T First one's on me.

It's been covered by so many people, I don't think it really matters what artist you name. Yer Next!!

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He rides through the jungle tearin' limbs off of trees Knockin' great big monsters dead on their knees The cats don't bug him 'cause they know better He's a mean motor scooter and a bad go getter

There are quite a few "Way Kids" who post here. Who knows better than they what it was like growing up as a "wayfer"? And, of course, there is Christian Cloud Abraham, whose now inactive(but still accessible) web site is chock full of tidbits relating the experience.---http://www.thewritingmachine.net/ ---as well as his book that talks about what it was like for a wayfer kid to break the ties of involvement and move on. Maybe we should forget about trying to define "the norm" and look at what was "common". It's right in front of us if we choose to see it. http://www.thewritingmachine.net/archives/...ght-ashbury.php

Man, this sure is a round about way of debating the old (Way) issue of whether Jesus Christ is God or not.

Blow, Daddy G.!!

Oh, Had I a Golden Thread-----

Will he have a name tag?

Listen Up!-----Omar Hakim

Here's another strange twist of logic that popped into my head. Since we weren't supposed to actively seek "happiness", we started to accept that it was OK to not be happy. We accepted this false sense of "joy" that was supposed to come from "doing the work of the ministry" as a viable substitute. Now, of course, there will be those who will say "Joy is a fruit of the spirit." "Joy comes only from God."---------- Funny thing is, though, that's the kind of stuff they used to use to justify the work we did.

THE "wolf" is not dead. THE "wolf" is that parcel of insidious thought and behavior patterns that were drummed into us in TWI. Wierwille was not THE wolf, he was just one of the pack who had aspirations of maintaining the alpha male slot. THE wolf is still very much alive and menacing.

Hi, Lisa Here's an example of that "wacky" logic: When I was in Fellow Laborers, I happened to find myself on a work detail assigned to clean the limb BRC one day. We had visitors from Int. HQ that day.----(Side note: VPW never once visited our program in the whole three years I was there.) One of the visitors asked me how I felt about mopping the floor. I responded by telling him that, although I didn't enjoy mopping floors, it gave me a sense of satisfaction to know that people would be "blessed" by my efforts. He shook his head in a display of disapproval and chewed me out for not renewing my mind to enjoy it. He said some day, maybe I would "get it" and then turned and walked away. Now that's "wacky". :blink:

To the best of my knowledge, Macy's has never sent armed thugs to anyone's door to warn them not to speak evil of Macy's.

We were taught early on that "happiness" was a shallow natural man emotion and we were to seek, instead, after "joy". The problem is, TWI indirectly defined "joy" as an emotion you derived from doing things that were beneficial to the advancement of "the ministry". Sure, there were tapes and way ragazine articles and teachings about joy in the Bible, but it was understood you couldn't have joy if you were out of fellowship and you couldn't be in fellowship if you left the safety of the household. So, in essence, it was supposed to be "normal" to not experience happiness. What a twisted mess of wacky logic the whole thing was.

Yaba Daba Doo!!

Tonight I'm gonna break away, just you wait and see,

I Walk The Line----Johnny "The Man In Black" Cash

Cristo Redentor----Donald Byrd

HaHaHaHa! The stent analogy was priceless.

I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down.

I don't know about the upside down tomatoes but my Dad always planted his tomatoes in a furrow. You lay them down horizontally and cover just the roots. Then, after they right themselves vertically you mulch around the base. That's supposed to make for a strong stem base. I don't know if it really makes that much difference but it never seemed to hurt them.