waysider

Maybe this is off topic---I don't know. I had a job once that required me to drive a box truck(straight truck/not a semi) as part of my job. I sat up high and could see right down into cars beside me. One of the guys I worked with (also drove a box truck) frequently had stories to relate that resembled the naked driver story. There were about 5 or 6 of us that drove these trucks and none of us ever saw any of this stuff except this one guy. I was beginning to doubt my powers of observation when, suddenly, I found myself staring right down at a similar scenario. Traffic had slowed to a crawl on the interstate due to a wreck and I was stuck beside a young lady in a compact car. As I looked down, she began to disrobe. Before traffic resumed full speed again, she had completely exchanged the clothes she started with for a waitress uniform for a popular local restaurant. The accident must have been making her late for work. She was oblivious to my presence. I gotta tell ya, it was more like watching "Keystone Cops" than "Debbie Does Dallas. Nothing sexy about it in the least. I found myself wondering how my "observant" coworker would have described it the next morning if it had been him.

Thanks, WAW I really appreciate your response. Sometimes I feel like I never really left TWI until I stumbled into this place. Thanks again. (Sorry for the rant.)

Sounds to me like you are "reaching for it" right now, my friend. So let me see if I understand you correctly. Are you saying Judas was really part of a non-profit endeavor and has been misunderstood all these years?

Ya know, Like a lot of people here, I only tell "just so much" of what I know, Partly because it's just too darn embarrassing to think about how stupid I must have been. Does anyone remember Lester G.(HQ staff), who died in about 1980? I was told he just "freaked out" and couldn't get it together to be healed. Any clarification of what actually happened? I have been in the dark on that one for 25+ years. When I was quite new "in The Word", I had a childhood friend who was diagnosed as schizophrenic. He was doing fairly well(but not great) with the clinical treatments he was receiving which included very heavy duty pharmaceuticals. One of the "lovely" young ladies in our branch(who went on to much bigger and "better" things with TWI) was kind enough to tell him his problems probably stemmed from the fact that he was "born of the wrong seed". Not long after that, I found myself being asked by his father to be a pall bearer at his funeral. He left me a note saying that he had learned something about himself that he could not bear to live with. It was me who insisted he come with me to twig because I thought it could help him. It was me who had to find his lifeless body that cool Autumn night. I'm sure we all have similar things lurking in our memories. Yeah, there's probably somebody on WayGB thinking,"AHA! NOW I know who Waysider is!" To which I say "Screw You!!"

1971. It is the syllabus I received when I took AC in 1973. The page that you referred to is page 8 in this one. The part I am referring to is actually depicted in a graphic(like the one you described.) but I have no way to scan it.

The very fact that it bounced up and down so drastically seems to suggest to me that the cost of the class was not directly linked to the cost of providing it. It doesn't make any sense that a business with an eye on production costs would charge such varied rates unless the profit margin was enormous. Yet, it's obvious from what has been posted here that they did exactly that .

Oldiesman May I suggest you review page 16 of your Advanced Class syllabus? Here on page 16 it clearly states that GOD, who is "Holy Spirit" gives "holy spirit" and THE ADVERSARY, who is "Unholy Spirit" gives "unholy spirit". Hey! I didn't write the syllabus! Complain to the author.

$65.00 in 1972. That was a whole lot of money, back then.

Young Fashioned Ways----------------Rory Gallagher

We have all been here before.

I remember when I was growing up in Cleveland, people liked to tell "Polack"(ethnic) jokes. Somebody(probably not a "Polack") decided it was not "politically correct" (or whatever the term was at that time) to describe it. One of the late night TV guys who liked to tell "Polack" jokes jumped right on it. He started telling "Certain Eastern Ethnic European" jokes. Then, he got the best of both worlds, he poked fun at the "Polacks" and got a bonus of poking fun at people who criticized him. The answer is quite clear----I think. Simply replace all references to VPW with references to a "certain Eastern Ethnic European" cult leader. OR Leave it in wherever the context requires it. You can't, and shouldn't, change history just to please those who don't care to face it.

I always groom my dog in the buff. Yep I tried to get him to at least wear a jogging suit but apparently the color clashed with his dingle berries.

Prince Rupert Awakes--- King Crimson Farewell the temple master's bell His kiosk and his black worm seed Courtship solely of his word With Eden guaranteed. For now Prince Rupert's tears of glass Make saphron Sabath eyelids bleed Scar the sacred tablet wax On which the lizards feed. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, Mike Kinda makes ya wonder why that "revelation" VP got about the PFAL class failed to mention it ain't cool to pretend someone elses work is your own. Suppose for a moment that God really did give Dr. Wierwille revelation about which works of other people were accurate. Do you suppose God also gave him revelation to lie about where the info came from or did he just do that part on his own? If God gave VP revelation to set The Way up like a tree, hows come he set it up like a multilevel marketing organization instead? I don't hate the guy. I just don't understand why God "told" him one thing and he did something completely different. Any thoughts?

I found info on the "first" Corps(complete with photo and names) just by doing a google search a while back. If I can find it, anybody can. LOL

"Step right this way, sir, and pick out a fine prize for the lovely young lady." Mister You're A Better Man Than I Actually, I was looking for Yardbirds, but Jeff Beck was their featured Guitar player at that point in time and I did mention guitarists in my clue. The group that had a big regional hit when they covered it was Terry Knight and The Pack(forerunner of Grand Funk Railroad)

You got a whole suit for your birthday? Geeze, all I got was a turtleneck sweater.

Tell ya what I really think. I think VP heard this needs and wants parallel stuff somewhere and decided to use it as if it was his own. Problem is, I don't think he really understood whatever it was that he heard and that is why he was not able to convey it in a clear and concise manner. It was not unclear because there was some great spiritual truth behind it. It was unclear because he did not understand the logic of what he was trying to "teach". Kinda like when a young child tells you a joke they have heard but don't really understand. They leave out key points and key words and then wonder why it doesn't get the laughs it did when Daddy told it to Uncle Louie. If it's so darned mathematically accurate, how come it's so hard to figure out what it's supposed to mean, even 40 years after it was first taught? Oh, wait. Maybe I just need to "believe" to understand it. Of course, that would also require that I want to "believe" to understand it. (in an parallel fashion.) I'm "willing" to do that. Sigh----------If only I were "able" to.

Here's the words to a song I wrote a long time ago that seem to fit this thread. ------------------------------------------ Morning finds us once again, Asleep as though we're one. Sheltered in each other's arms, Our blanket is the sun. Soon I wake and kiss your forehead, Lingering for a while. Looking out upon the day, I turn and see you smile. Time goes by so slowly.

Could you judge a man By the way he wears his hair?

Wow! There seems to be an awful lot of "negative confession" in those terms and conditions. I mean, really, where is there "believing"? HeeHeeHee.

I'm a tighty-whities kind of guy. It's written in the by-laws of " The Old Guys Club". Now that's a law that really makes sense! Not to be "loosely" interpreted. There is a clause in there, however, that mentions something about an exception being granted "when licking snowflakes off of eyelids". I wonder what that's all about.

More Fishin' Blues.

Jesus wept Ok, Ok I know it's out of context but I couldn't resist! :) WG Remember how we used to get lambasted on Wednesday nights(Fellowlaborer night) and have to cringe in our seats as the almighty MOG spewed forth his disapproval of us all? He would tell us that the Word was never going to move over the world, all because we failed to honor our commitment to the program. We, 50 bewildered people on a darkened country road in Podunk, Ohio, were the reason the Devil was getting the upper hand in "Gawd's Ministry" and was positioning himself to conquer the entire world. Then, you would come to find out he was just pizzed off because he didn't like the way his car had been washed or that somebody had forgotten to rinse the sprouts or soak the wheat berries. (Or maybe he couldn't get his favorite "house cleaner" to "put his house in order" when his wife was out of town.) WooHoo------ "My windshield has a streak! ---THE END IS NEAR!---It's all your fault!" "God is love." "God is light. In Him there is no darkness at all." You don't need a bunch of Greek words to understand that what he is saying is contrary to that. I know Mr. Garden had already graduated before a lot of that stuff happened and maybe that's why he is puzzled by some of it. Mr, G. is a really terrific guy and even 35 years ago, his understanding of the Word had a profoundness I envied. I'm sure he'll be able to see this for what it really is. Peace, kiddo Waysider

Shhhhh! Keep it a secret. If Jonny Lingo finds out he'll be knockin' at your door with a pair of hip waders, chompin' at the bit in search of material for another fish stowwwwry.