waysider

Well, if I told you I remembered, wouldn't I still be subject to the penalty of death? Seems like we might have discussed this at the "initiation into the inner sanctum". Oh, my gosh!!! I did it again!

Ya know, a lot of people don't realize that I am the original writer of the classic song, Louie, Louie. Yep. that's right. In fact, it was my idea to mumble and slur words so that the uninitiated would not be able to to tell you were actually saying.---"#@##$%^*" ---or even ---"&%*^*$#@"---- and not -----"Grandpa has hemorrhoids." Of course, A lot of people will try to take credit for that but in my heart, I'll always know the truth. For anyone who is interested in studying this further, I have given detailed accounts in my soon to be released book entitled: The Passing Of A Pop Song.(Garter Belts Revisited.)

Long before my Mom ever heard of TWI or took "The Class" or ran a twig, she told us kids that God loved us for who we are,not who we could become. Maybe that's as close to the true Word as we can hope to get.

"The law of believing works for saint and sinner alike." Yep---Mr. Wierwille said that. How does that figure into having a "relationship" with God? In fact, I don't see any evidence of a "relationship" at all in that statement, just a cold calculated approach to deciding what you think God should give you or do in your life. And, hey, you can even leave God out of it entirely if you so choose to take that approach. It's good to maintain a positive outlook on life because having a negative outlook can have negative effects on your physical well being. That's a proven medical fact. It has nothing to do with whether or not the "law" of believing can generate results. I'm not trying to negate anyone's belief in God or his ability to honor his promises. I'm just saying it's kinda cheesy to try to blackmail him using a loophole in the scriptures.

And there you have it. Take one little word( in this case "we"), and squeeze it like a sponge until it produces the desired bounty. You know danged well who "we" referred to, Oldies. Skyrider said: "We became followers of men who claimed to have "the rightly divided Word." Are you now saying you were never a "follower" of VPW? You sure could have fooled me by the context and nature of your posts. You got skunked, my friend. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Hee,Hee! Sounds like you are describing a typical "Manna" night. Do you make your own mayo and familia when you get back home?

"Am I missing something?"!!!! Duh!!!---- I think you are. VP screwed her( sorry for the graphic description.). Drugs, no drugs. Consent, no consent. Those are moot points used to justify the wrong he did as a married man and as a representative of God who was supposed to live a life that was beyond reproach. Oh, well, he made a mistake.-------- You're damn right he made a mistake, he led thousands of unsuspecting people to believe he had some special connection to God Almighty.IMO, I don't believe he had any more connection than any of us, maybe even LESS.). VPW= King Solomon---------- Now that's a really good punch line. Too bad there really is no joke that could properly precede it.

Yeah, I had some good times in the Good Old Days. Looking back, they were *in spite* of being connected to TWI and not *because of it*. I'm not afraid to remember those times in a favorable light. I'm just not naive enough anymore to let them skew my realization of what really happened. If it makes you happy to remember the good stuff, I say go for it. Just be careful not to feel too let down when you discover that some people no longer have a desire to sit around the campfire and sing Kumbaiya M'Lord.

And yet, after all that time, frogs(and other amphibians) are suddenly dying out all over the planet with no obvious cause. What's up with that?

Psssst! (Avoid the clam sauce if it has been marked down!!)

I can only speak for myself, and quite frankly, I don't always do THAT very well. If I had known beforehand( for certain) what this amusement ride called TWI was going to be like, I surely would not have bought a ticket or stood in line to ride. Yeah, I accept some blame for sticking around as long as I did, but I also think I was conned into buying a product that was promoted with false advertising. Truth be known, I actually felt guilty about LEAVING until I came here and discovered that things were not as they had appeared to be. I had drifted away and did not know what had happened with TWI. Some of the blame, ultimately, has to fall on the advertiser who duped unwitting customers. edited for speeling.

Yep, that's how it goes. (Waysider wore one himself in his wild pre-TWI days.) However, a WWII Navy veteran told me that they used to piece one ear as they crossed the equator north to south and the other one as they returned south to north. Of course, they only pierced it and didn't continue to wear the earing.

SNIP OK, Jonny, I see your point. But, it was Wierwille, himself, who said, in PFAL, that "the law of believing works for saint and sinner alike." It would appear to me that what you are describing may not be the same thing as this "law" that was promoted in The Way. I could be wrong. That's just my observation.

Jonny I'm pretty sure it was well known by hydrologists and geologists what lies beneath the surface in Alaska long before the days of Uncle Harry and VP. The Van Swearingen family is well known in Ohio for their work in geology and drilling as well as their ties to a historic figure known as Blue Jacket. I work in a related field. Drilling is a crap shoot. Sometimes you hit water, sometimes you hit gas, sometimes oil and sometimes you hit the big goose egg. Sometimes you have to drill for one on purpose to find another. There is also a Van Swearingen family( maybe even the same family roots) who are well known as seafaring people. (17th and 18th century) At any rate, if the Alaska story has credence to it, I personally doubt his misfortune was due to not following the orders of the MOG. Just my opinion, brother, everybody's got one. PS-- let's talk harmonicas sometime.

Yeah, you got a point, Patriot. He bragged about God giving him revelation about something that proved, ultimately, not to be so "Godly" after all. Funny,too(not the HaHa kind), that he related ideas similar to those of Hitler from decades previous. Why, it's enough to make you wonder if he didn't maybe do some "research" on Hitler and The Third Reich. Actually, that thing about the adversary having access to it, once you say it, is in the PFAL class. It's that part where he talks about the preacher who pre-planned and wrote out his sermons. Come to think of it, I seem to remember this being in Dealing With The Adversary, also. (The part about "once it's revealed in the senses realm-----")

I was playing in one of those pimply faced garage bands that were so popular when this came out. (You know, Betty Sue's birthday party, school dances and such) Man, if you couldn't play this one and "Get Off My Cloud" you need not even bother plugging in your Silvertone amplifiers. Edited to add "Wipeout". They used to say "Wipe Out or get out." Lucky for us, we had a drummer who knew his instrument much better than we knew ours.

Say it ain't so! I threw out all my Heart issues about a year ago.

That's a good one TS. It's not so easy, though, if you are looking for the original.

Give the man a CEE-gar! You got 'er TS

Hmmm, Hmmm Uh huh,Uh huh And what do YOU think this means, Mr. Socks? Please, please sir. Stop pacing the room and lie back down on the couch. Now then, what was your childhood like?

I suppose if VP were alive today, he might be claiming the idea for "Supers!ze Me" was his. (In keeping with the McD theme) Would it seem like too much of an oversimplification to simply say I think he may have been delusional?

That's some interesting stuff there, when you consider that the original concept for "interstate" type/ superhighways actually was conceived in the early twentieth century and made into a reality by none other than Adolph Hitler. He built the very first large scale version of this type of highway (The Autobahn, which opened in the early 1930s) Those sound like variations of Hitler's original ideas. The interstate highway system that exists in America today was derived directly from earlier efforts and ideas of Hitler. It's hard to believe that even a monster like Hitler had at least some sort of positive impact on history.

I remember at least part of it, the part about it being his idea. I don't remember the part about the arches. I am pretty sure he used this example during the advanced class to promote the concept that all great ideas originated with revelation. And, he went on to use his failure to act on it as a lesson to us to obey revelation,especially if it was being spoken by a MOG. "When God says 'jump', you don't ask how high." He cited several other examples of how he felt all the major developments of mankind must have come via revelation. He also said that some came as revelation from "the wrong camp". (And I had quit the dreaded pharmacia by that time.) If my recollection is correct, it was presented to hundreds of other listeners in that particular session, as well.

Through the door crashes Clara Pe!!er. Storming determinedly toward the counter she demands to know----------- "Where's the Greek?"

I'm lovin' it!