Kevlar2000

...Isn't there a "definition for insanity like (paraphrased).....'Insanity is repeating the same process over and over expecting a different outcome.'

I think it's attributed to Albert Einstein - "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

If I were to give these "splinter" groups any advice (which I don't usually care to do) it would be -

Do something else.

Like service ministries. What a novel concept. Not.

You can't go any further than what you are taught.

In light of our TWI and life experiences, perhaps that statement could be amended to read,

"If you believe you can't go any further than what you are taught, then you won't go any further than what you are taught."

(Thanks Tzaia for reminding us of that subtle untruth.)

Happy Birthday, Kevlar, I can tell you, being 55 myself, that it all starts going downhill after 54...foods do not taste the same, more runs to the restroom, and discretionary income is a thing better left to the 25 year olds..

Discretionary income? Is that where I decide which creditors get paid this month and which don't?

;)

Ah well, the downward slide began for me a number of years ago, but I'm still vertical and breathing, so I'm doin' allright, gettin' good grades, the future's so bright...I gotta wear shades.

*grin*

Thanks for your good wishes (and yes, I said wishes!)

LOL!

Kevlar, the great equalizer! *grin*

Thanks Waysider.

...One of my professors takes trips out of the country to some of the most unsafe places in the world.. says he doesn't need kevlar anymore.

Wah! :(

Well, I don't need him either, so there! *grin*

Good one, Hornet! HA! :lol:

Remember.....who? :blink:

Maybe they'll try to stop-loss us. :P

...It is like I am trying to tell them that George W Bush is an alien who built the piramids and now is trying to destroy all of human kind through mind control.

OMG! So many things are now falling into place!

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Left fairly quietly with a polite letter to the LC resigning as a twig coordinator. If memory serves, he never called or contacted me to follow up or ask why.

It's just as well. I miss many of the folks I knew in the Way, but not the obsessive need to control everything and the BS dogma. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

39! I thought you were 29!

I was just about to ask if she was "legal"!

Happy belated, dear excathedra!

Hi Oak, didn't see this until now.

My info dates back to the early 80s, and it ain't much. I'll PM you.

Oh, and Joe....if you're out there, give us a shout.

The binder's red now? :o Back when I took the Foundational Class, it was white with green print.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the red binder is for the syllabus of LCM's The Way of Abundance and Power class. The white-with-green-print binder was for VPW's Power for Abundant Living class.

hampshire73, your screen name triggers good memories for me. In 1973, I spent the summer in New Hampshire as a dishwasher.........

in an all-girls summer camp.

It was an interesting and happy summer.

The gift ministry of AntiPastor? is that something new TWI discovered in its research?

Yeah, someone who has a longsuit in preparing and serving Italian appetizers (antipasto).

(It's awful the way my mind works. )

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Catcup,

Maybe it was realizing that the behavior of some people, who have neither admitted nor realized their mistakes, should be spotlighted as a warning of what lurks beneath the surface.

One of the demotivational posters at despair.com, entitled "MISTAKES" and featuring a sinking ship, reads, "It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."

Know anyone you'd like to send that to? :D

Yeah, I guess I got tails on that coin toss, too.

So, He pulls out a coin and says this "This is how we do it in the back... Heads, it?s Dallas, tails it?s B-more. He smiles as though he is kind of joking but totally serious as though he had been inspired by God to do this. It was heads! Praise the Lord! Right about the time everyone is shaking hands and saying our goodbyes to Rev. Rump the Rev. Ander-son-of-a comes walking back in. He is ....ed. He obviously saw some of what went on but insted of yelling at the rump he yells at my parents.

To my suprise, my OSD (ol step dad) yells back. I was about to ****e myself. This was Ander-son-of-a--, not some snot-nosed kid. Guess who won? They didn't go to Dallas they went to try and B-more in B-more."

I'm sorry; I just dont get it.

What does a paraphrasing of Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech have to do with Sandra Ann Sullivan's treatment at the hands of Wierwille and the Way and her subsequent suicide?

I guess I'm thick as well as inpenetrable.

O.K. I've met my match and I quit.

I should say this—I don't have a mink coat. But I do have a respectable Republican cloth coat.

One other thing I probably should tell you because if I don't you'll probably be saying this about me too. A man down in Texas heard me mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog. And, believe it or not, the day we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore saying they had a package for me. I went down to get it. You know what it was.

It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas. Black and white spotted. And our little girl named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what you say about it, we're gonna keep it.

Good bye. And you won't have Yanagisawa to kick around anymore. And remember, a vote for Eisenhower is a vote for America.

"It's only a flesh wound!"

The Black Knight, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

(((WG)))

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Ron,

I read your response about 15 minutes ago.

I'm still cracking up. :lol:

It's one thing to experience this type of asinine, bullying, dominating behavior when you're "in",

But with the passage of time and the gaining of perspective, it becomes even more ridiculous!

Who did these people think they were, anyway? Like they could actually stop you from doing whatever you wanted to do!

We were suckered, screwed and scapegoated by these frakers for far too long.

You were having problems obeying. You left California without permission.

ooooooOOOOOOOooooH! :P

*snort* *chuckle*

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My exit was pretty mild compared to some.

I was told by the Limb Coordinator (over the phone) that, in addition to conducting 2 twig meetings a week, I was now also required to attend mandatory Twig Coordinator (TC) "meetings" every Saturday. I told him I wouldn't be able to attend, as I had things to do on the weekends. He told me if I couldn't make the meetings, I wouldn't be able to be a TC anymore.

After thinking about it for a week, I wrote a nice short letter resigning my TC position, and thanked him for the opportunity to serve. This also pretty much served as my exit from TWI.

I never heard from this particular LC again (trust me: my feelings weren't hurt. I forget how many LCs I was acquainted with, from my entrance into TWI in 1971-72 to my exit in 1987, but this one was the least personable and the most "corporate lackey" I had ever experienced.

and that includes Baab Moneyhands.)

I later heard (second hand) that I was accused of having a "spirit of bitterness". By that time, I no longer cared what they thought of me. :P

Here's another oddity in Baltimore's list of accomplishments:

Baltimore - the Home of the Ouija Board

"(The researcher, Bob Murch is) urging the city to designate as a historic landmark the former Ouija Board factory on Harford Road - the one from whose roof William Fuld (one of the co-creators - K2K) fell to his death."

Guess his hedgehog of protection had taken the day off. Or the board had said "YES" when he asked if it was safe to work on the roof that day.

This ranks right up there with being the place where Edgar Allen Poe died. I guess it's nice to be known for something.

Dearest ((((Dot))))

(Forgive me for not commenting further. I wouldn't know how to begin. Just wanted you to know I've been thinking of of you.)

You too, Ex!

The pope looks like he's saying,

"May the Force be with you"

And we respond,

"And also with you"

Let us play ball!

:lol: Don't let him sit on you, excie! Don't let him doooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttt!

Why doesn't someone ask W^lter what he was thinking when he wrote it? I would imagine someone on this board knows and can get in contact with him.

Perhaps he could even post his answer himself. If he wants to.

Dr. Moreau...paging Dr. Moreau....

...(This was perhaps the most short-sighted [not to mention incorrect] statement I've ever made.)

Mine was, "Ya gotta take this class!"