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I should read here more often. Here you go, for anyone who is interested.

7th Corps Website

John Richeson

Tampa, FL

We will miss her. She was a great woman who helped a lot of people throughout her life. Our prayers are with the Wierwille Family. May you remain strong during this time.

John Richeson

Tampa, FL

Yeah, finished but had lots of problems with brand new hard drive corruptions. Haven't had tme to post much about it or deal with it because of being so busy at work this season. Will post pictures soon, now that I have the problems solved and found out the cause.

Dream Machines look great and have lots of toys but in real life, day to day usage they can become Nightmare Machines if components do not play well together.

So lets be clear. You are saying that the installation of an AOL CD (which has magnets in the case) caused your friends computer to receive loads of viruses. Therefore you call it Virus Central?

Well I doubt that is true. But I have heard that it is possible to receive viruses as soon as you connect to the Internet if it is high speed although this was in times past. I think the prevalence of viruses has slowed. Not real sure. But I seriously doubt AOL had anythng to do with it. In fact I have heard they do a pretty good job of blocking both spam and viruses.

As much as I would NEVER install AOL on my computer, I think AOL 9 can be useful for some families who want excellent parental control over what their youngsters can access on the Internet.

I asked what the hell you were talking about because sometimes I do not know what the hell I am talking about and I just need a little clarification. It seemed incredible and still does. :D--> Take no offense.

Let me know if your friend has further virus probs and if they seem AOL related.

No wonder they are being sued by Mr. Peeler for millions due to their financial improprieties. They need to be held responisble to the fullest extent of the law. And in some ways I believe they could be PERSONALLY LIABLE for damages they have caused.

PERSONALLY LIABLE. It is not out of the question in todays agressive legal environment. Just look at what has happened to some of the men and women in corporations who were involved in financial scandals.

I hope those who are in or who WERE in top leadership positions have no personal assets that could be at risk. Personally I would not want the risk of being in any top positions with TWI.

If it were me I would quietly and quickly disassociate myself from the whole mess kind of like the Lally's, Licht's, Mosqueda's, Panarello's, Skyrider, and many others have done. There is more peace of mind in leaving than staying in my opinion.

Are you talking about the ubiquitous AOL Cd's? But they do not contain magnets or viruses that I am aware of.

I am not aware of any ISP offerings that contain viruses. That would be all over the Internet if so. Haven't heard about that at all.

What is the NAME of the product(s) you are speaking of?

And I mentioned magnets because I have always been under the impression that magnets can corrupt data. I know a big one can on a hard drive but I am not sure about a CD. I would think so. Why would there be a magnet in a cd case anyway?

And I seriously doubt a magnet would be in a package containing software.

I, too, would be interested in knowing what the hell you are talking about.

Be clear please.

John R.

Oh, and another curious observation about their site. I do not see ANY links to any other sites or Christian organizations or bookstore or material, recommended reading or even anything else remotely Christian.

That fact speaks loudly. I doubt you ever will see any.

Beware of anyone who is so closed minded.

Hi Royal Gorge. How's the family. Will be in O next weekend.

They WANT to stay small. Ha! How boring!

They will indeed get their wish.

As the old farts die off or get shipped off to alzheimers units or rest homes I do not believe there will be any younger ones to take their place.

I can not understand really why ANYONE would waste their time and their life there.

Only thing I can think of is no guts, full of fear, stuck in a boring rut or outright laziness.

She reminded me of my mother. She has lived a good and happy life for the most part and a long one too. Helped a lot of people in her own quiet way. Ted that was a good gift.

It is my understanding that she has requested to be buried next to her husband, as it should be.

It has been said that the "WayGB", as they were nicknamed, has spied on people. Others have posted stories of their privacy being invaded.

How does TWI know that others are not spying on them?

About The Way

If they weren't so mean all these years they wouldn't have so many enemies today.

Rascal,

Furthermore, I believe it is a disgrace that some have chosen to stay with TWI at this point.

It is as if they are and have been condoning all the evils you speak of. At this point they know better.

Personally I would hate to be one of those men or women with absolutely no guts and no courage. I call them cowards. Some of them will go to their grave as cowards who stood for nothing and SUPPORTED evil. Few will attend their funerals I bet.

What a LESS than abundant life!

John Richeson

Tampa, FL

Former 7th Corps grad

I like CFF. Or should I say I like the people in CFF. I try to go to the Family reunion each year as long as they will have me but I do not attend much else. I usualy have a lot of fun and always seem run into a friend or two I haven's seen in decades.

For whatever reason it seems to be the most successful of the __________ (insert your own term here). Some day at this rate they will be larger than TWI.

I think their success is due to a growing number of young people and teens in it.

But I think they are soon going to need new, more youthful and dynamic leadership. John & Wayne can't do it forever. They are getting a little old to front it in my opinion. But at least they are kind and welcome anyone, unlike some groups.

Skyrider, amazing how much can happen in 5 short years!

5 years have passed...... since we were kicked out for among other things suggesting that LCM be relieved of being president. (It happened a few months after we wrote to Rosalie.)

5 years have passed ..... and best I can tell TWI's numbers have since been reduced by 50%.

5 years have passed........ and real estate has skyrocketed, leaving behind those who fell for the " own no man anythng, except to ABS" line of logic. Millions $ have been lost in potential equity.

5 years have passed........ and we have never experienced as much blessings and prosperity since being kicked out. And a lot less to worry about.

What will the next 5 years bring? Each man has to decide where he is headed in life. It is so short. Why waste it in a cornfield somewhere!

Good to hear from you again! Love to the family.

John Richeson

Tampa, FL

Using FIOS at two locations now. It is undoubtedly faster than DSL and I only have t 5mbps. It's like connecting across a LAN. I like it. Paw do you need special cable to cennect between a Gigabit card or onboard to a Gigabit Router? CAT6??? or somethng like that? Is that cable a bottleneck between the two?

Sounds awesome. I could have used a portable one like that at this years family reunion. (That's Richeson Family Reunion). My many brothers and sisters usually have pictures galore they need scanned.

I like the Epson models of scanners. Good reviews. Have you noticed that scanners are not being used much anymore? Digital cameras have changed a lot of things.

But scanners are great when you really need one.

1974 on the WOW field in Erie, PA a CORPS WOW Rover sent directly from HQ, name was Wayne??? of the Family Corps.

He was known to run twig fellowship meetings all night, until day break. Seriously! I was in one of those cultish nightmares. We finished up at around 6am. I had to go to work at 7:30.

He also tried and failed to heal Richard C*** of his blindness in front of the whole branch, even though Richard was not seeking healing at that time. He was so embarrassed as he was singled out and had to stand up.

He also slept around while roving, even though his wife was with him.

Several red flags, yet I stayed for 26 more years! Dumb me.

Hey Belle, I was at both those meetings and I remember his dumbass tirade about the binders. He was such an foot. I actually felt embarrassed for him.

He seemed to me to be a miserable person who has wasted many of his prime years on ...... nothingness.

Insanity comes to mind when I think of some of those old geezers like Moneyhands and Brooks who have committed their whole being to TWI, missing out on golden opportunities elsewhere.

I have downloaded and burned a few full length DVD's and also copied a few rented DVD's just to experiment with technologies and see if my burner works properly, etc.

(Of course I destroyed the copies :)-->)

I had no trouble making a copy that looks and sounds as good as the original, best I can tell. But after my brief experience I do not think Hollywood has to worry too much just yet.

After trying it, we found that as cheap as DVD movies are these days, we would rather just go buy the dumb thing and get an excellent copy complete with packaging, notes, pictures, etc. and save all the hassle of the burning process.

As the Internet hits more impoverished nations I think you could have a lot of pirating. But they are too poor to buy it anyway.

It will be interesting to see how all this plays out in history.

I see kids buying CD's when they really like one. Not that expensive i the greater scheme of things. Could downloading MP3's be losing its appeal?

I am sure there are other ways to do this but the one that I like is no-ip.com

www.no-ip.com

For this to work you have to have a small program running in the background (as a service) which constantly monitors your dynamic IP and updates it at their servers to give you your unchanging IP address in the form of something like

johnathome.no-ip.com

I use a static IP address for PC Anywhere access between computers and to be able to listen to our entire MP3 music collection from any computer in the world with an Internet connection (and speakers of course).

I suppose you could also host your own website with this little program in action.

Any comments?

Pawtucket,

I thought I would try it out for a while before upgrading to the 15/2. I am headed in that direction I am sure.

What do they do, take a monkey wrench out there and open up the pipe a little bit wider? Ha.

For $50 that's a good deal. Same price I paid to get Road Runner initially in 1998.

Do you suppose there is stil a bottleneck with the cat5 or router? I supppose even the network card itself could be a bottleneck between the pure fiber optic signal and the screen.

I do not like wireless period. I use it when I have to but we all know how flaky it is at times.

That being said I think it is the hot technology of the future, at least according to some IBM neighbors I have.

I think in the future we will have lightening fast wirless anywhere you go nation wide, even in cars and planes, kinda like cell phones.

Can you hear me now?

I switched from DSL to Verizon's high speed Fiber Optic Internet service which gives me up to 5Mbps. Same price. And for $10 more a month you can have up to 15Mbps. And for $200 a month you can have 30Mbps!!

FIOS

It is definitely faster than my previous DSL connection, but I am not sure of the exact speed. I do not rely on those speed tests. I like to just use it and see what it is like in a normal day to day environment.

Every user has reported that it is noticeably faster than DSL. When you click on a site it is almost instant. Downloading of files is fast too. I hear Road Runner has gotten faster too lately but I do not like the shared bandwidth with my neighbors.

One thing I definitely like about FIOS. No more modem! It is hooked up on the outside of the house. From there they install an ethernet wall jack inside. So Cat 5 cable goes from your wall directly to your router, no modem in between. They give you a crappy Linksys non-wireless 4 port router too but I just used my own and it works fine. It also requires power, plugged into an electrical outlet, because it somehow contains a battery backup. Not sure why a battery back up is needed but it's part of the install.

There is still copper involved through the Cat 5 cable and I think the router itself is a bottleneck as well. Not sure about all that. Nevertheless it seems pretty fast.

We sure have come a long way from dial up! Anyone else using it yet?

No, we usually sneaked out and went to Sonic for burgers and fries on those days. :D-->