Walk This Way...

Tovah!! Hello!! I've thought of you many times over the years along with many other 15th corps folks! I'll PM you...

God is good!! A tad late, but... He Is Risen!! Happy Easter!!

Good for you Pawtucket!! Phenomenal progress...keep it up!! Though I don't get on here much...and actually post anything even less, I do appreciate you hosting this for all the folks reaching out. Thanks to the moderators as well as I'm sure they do more and put up with more than most folks would be able to. Thank you for keeping it going! Bob

Happy Birthday Leafy!!

One of the ladies I knew in Great Falls was from Kalispell. A group of us went to her folks place on Flathead Lake for a couple of days at Christmas time - 1981. We had a blast! One of the things that I remember...aside from how beautiful the place was.. is the weather. It was winter time time and cold of course, but we were looking forward to spending some time on the lake the next day. Her mom mentioned that the weather wouldn't allow for it but it turned out to be a wonderfully warm day! We were out in the row boat quite a bit in short sleeves and smiles even though we saw other boaters bundled in their parkas...it was amazing!

Thanks for the PM. A lot of good memories from Great Falls!

Hello Leafytwiglet. I was stationed at Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls in the early '80's and I'm sure you are referring to Becky E. You most likely remember Genine M., Mike K., Mike and Mary B., Lou and Arlene M., Ray K. and others (I won't type out last names for all to see). There were a lot of great hearts there...all of whom I've lost contact with after leaving 'The Way'. I slammed that door hard and had to leave it all behind...unfortunately, for me that menat not even trying to stay connected to people I knew and loved even though I still think of them and pray for them. Walk This Way

My 2cents: It sounds like your concern is primarily for them as it should be. The way should be a secondary topic if discussed at all in your approaching them (unless they bring it up). I'd let them know your feelings and concerns for them possibly relating those concerns to what you've seen happen to others who left life long commitments behind. I do wish you the best in connecting with them. Hearts are healed through connection!

I took "CF&S" in the early 80's when it was taught by Victor. It appears from some posts here that the format of that class has changed over time. I believe the quote above was also the portion of the class where his messianic bent peeked out for all to see...when he said something like "go ahead and masturbate! If it's sinful, I'll take the blame for it." At that point (well, at many points in that setting) I, like anyone else there, should've closed the syllabus and left. Unfortunately, I was still new to The Way and already learned well to put on the back burner anything questionable.

I skimmed through all of the posts on this topic and completly read a number of them. Quite a few heart felt responses with quite a few opposing views! In my opinion this a tough one...but here's my two cents worth... The problem I think, is not that there will be totally polarized opinions and points of view, rather, I think the problem is that what is understood to be common sense, common courtesy and respect can vary widely from coast to coast and person to person. What is off limits in one persons view is food for the hungry in another's estimation...but there absolutly needs to be room for the hurting, room for the offended and room for those feeling strong to express themselves in a positive way. I would exhort those feeling strong to step back and give room to the others if direct support or sensitive questions cannot be offered. Pawtucket has his finger on a pulse here and is asking for constructive input that he ends with ..."hopefully the community can mold a solution that is agreeable to all." I read quite a few posts that contain good ideas; some posts that demonstrated some bad ideas; and some posts that were examples in the making of how to do it right. Post #122 by JustSayNO is a great example of that last item. Here's what I think should work; people use compassion when responding to someone's post about a personal experience...plain and simple. From what I see on this site, that is already the rule rather than the exception. It seems a problem builds when someone discounts in some way another's personal experience...or the telling of a personal experience of someone they know or knew. When compassion is in short supply, something else needs to be in place. One possibility: I agree with Doojable: (post #19)I too think victims should not be directed to a 'restricted' area. That should be done for other more "lively" threads. Another possibility: socks pointed to self regulation a couple of times and I think a form of it may be a very workable solution. As I understand it right now, a post can be directly reported to the moderators and they can determine if it merits further action. I think that's a necessary item, but it can also be burdensome if 'less offensive' posts are reported for moderator review in bulk...so keep that type of reporting for the blatent offenses, but add: A community 'voting' option. It's used on a game board called iSketch (and probably other places). Adding a button, such as "Vote to Suspend This Poster" would give the community the option to make the call. A total of 'x' number of votes (an individual user would be limited to one vote per occurance) suspends the offending poster from that thread for 'x' amount of time. Repeated 'suspends' would ban the offending poster from that thread all together. A person either learns what's offends the community and stops, or they're closed out of that topic by the community. That seems like a workable option to me...of course, I don't know if it's realistic for Pawtucket to implement it or not.

Ha! That's good. I searched around a bit on the guy who made it and found he made a second one: Animation vs. Animator Part 2 His profile says he's 18 years old and this second one took him 5 months!

Awesome. Thank you for posting that Psalm 71 one. Nothing can stop the Love of God given through His Son Jesus Christ and this video is a great story of that. How much in common the video has with Psalm 71verse1 as well! And to my life...and my teenage daughter's who I pray earnestly for. Thanks for a great reminder to look to Him, the Author and Finisher of my faith. If it touches one heart for God it was worth posting. It seems to have touched quite a few. I will be sharing it with others also. YEA GOD!! :eusa_clap:

Happy Birthday to you Acts2!! I hope your weekend is longer and more fun than usual!

Thank you all for the warm wishes. I did enjoy the day by taking off from work and driving my 19 year old son to his 2nd year of ministry with a group called Primary Focus. They perform a 'morals based message' at schools around the country during the week and do Gospel music performances at various churches on the weekends. For a young man right out of high school, this ministry is as good as or better than joining the military or going college. My son has grown and matured so much during his first year there it is amazing! I am thankful for the opportunity they have given him. The drive there was nice with his company...the return trip by myself (4.5 hours) simply made my butt sore! Thanks again...

I think trust is the 'hinge' of it... Peter went back to fishing; something he knew and trusted. I went back in the Air Force. Maybe that's a big step one...familiar surroundings of some sort. It took me a couple of years (one of these days I'll do the "My Story" post...) to trust simply reading the Bible again as I'd stir up all the old voices from teachings and meanings put on verses, words, etc., but for me it had to do with trust... trusting that there is a Creator (just look at all the fascinating things the sciences reveal!); trusting that He would want to be known...trusting that I am created and can know Him (at least some!). And trusting that I don't know it all; can't know it all and that it's OK to make mistakes along the way. For me the steps I took were slow and small, but I aimed myself back at trusting. I am thankful for the life God has given me and have found my way to wonderful, growing, loving churches (I've been to quite a few and under different circumstances have changed membership several times...never in animosity, hurt or lost trust)!

My older brother had one like I found the picture of. He got it for Christmas way back when...I think I got BLIPO that year (a build a bunch of different stuff kind of toy)...they sure don't make toys like they used to!! But then, that's probably for a different thread....

Things like this are awesome Rottie. God's design is mind boggling! I grew up in the Chicago area and can't say I remember the critturs in my youth but living in Kentucky now we get a sampeling of them pretty much every year. I've learned that there are two types of cicadas...a 15 year varity and a 17 year varity. Both kinds have enough broods on different cycles that most years have cicadas out-n-about. Each brood takes the full 15 or 17 years to develop and some broods are known to be bigger than others so an 'outbreak' can be predicted based on the size of that cycles last outbreak. We had a fairly large brood 2 years ago (one of the 17 year cycles) and it gets LOUD!! Cool stuff! Another awesome phenomenon are the fire flys...every so often there are so many that it looks like swarming star clusters swirling through the yard...and don't even get me started on astronomy...! God's creation is totally amazing!!

You mean like this...?

Hopefully SV actually got a link to the song set up.

HA!!! Unbeliveable Funny!! Thanks.

Thanks for the welcome...and the civilized side of the Mississipp is currently the East side. It used to be West but then Arnold became governor and not much can be taken seriously out there anymore so we moved. We used to live in CA, in the Mojave Desert, now we're in Kentucky and it seems much greener and maybe just a bit more civilized! (no we didn't really move 'cause of Arnold)

Hopefully Bluzeman got you set up. If not, here's a fairly straight forward place you can upload files (music, whatever) to: Free web space for files Have fun!

You'll have to upload it to a web site 1st. Your internet service provider probably provides web space for you on their server to make your own homepage. Upload it to there (or do a wab search for 'free web space' and join one). Upload the song...go to it in your browser, copy the link address from the top and paste that into your GS post. That should do it.

BRAVO dmiller! Good for you for having the integrity to stand up and correct yourself. My sentiments exactly on how people should be treated. I have so many inadequacies and need God's forgivness again and again. It is too easy to 'kick a man when he's down'...and I'm guilty of it. I realize though that stepping on someone when they're down is ultimately to make myself feel bigger...how small of me! But I have done it and don't want to again. I applaude your response that initial post of yours! ! !! !!!

PFAL in Great Falls, MT...1981 Corps: 1984 'til I bailed in summer of 1986 after seeing the confusion & deception swirlling faster-n-faster. 5 years...it was the best of times...it was the worst of times!