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Geez,I couldn't do that Lifted...I mean,it took you guys just a little over four years to get to 99...I'd hate to have all those 8th corpse holding a grudge against me 'til the year 2010 when someone finally posts #200...Mebbe you guys could get a troll or something to get that thread going...Or maybe most of the 8th corpse are still working full time for the way ministry...Really,tho',Lifted,you should have the honour...

When they told Fellowshipper to line up for the queue,he didn't know if he should go to the poolroom or just what he was supposed to do...But he did get there driving on the wrong side of the road...

Does that interpret itself in the verse,in the context or where it's been used before?

Yeah,whoever said "If you never expect anything,you'll never be disappointed" was probably a baseball fan...I don't remember that White Sox sale,Tom...I do remember them trading off some high end players about 6-8 years ago when they were only about 3 games out---but at the time were also hovering around .500.... One thing I'll note here is that even if your team record is not that great and you still make the playoffs,if you have two dominant pitchers you can really cause some trouble in the post-season....The D-backs were only 92-70 when they won the world series---not that great of a season record,BUT,they had the Johnson/Schilling factor....You get more days off in the playoffs,so your starters can start more games...Like,if the season were to end next week,I think the most fearsome team would be Minnesota,because of their two dominant starters...With the extra travel days,they can start 3-4 games in a short series and 4-5 games in a 7 game series...

Okay....I'll say it....After tomorrow's successful replacement we can all go "HiP! HIP! HOORAY!!!"....

Twins swept the free-falling Chisox and have caught them in the standings...Yanks are 1/2 game ahead in the AL wild card...My prediction from here on out: Twins are good,but not 34-8 good...The scouts will figure out Liriano and he'll soon find out it's just as easy to lose as it is to win in the majors...Twinkies will be the first to fade---they'll start losing and won't be able to figure out why... The Yanks won't make the playoffs...They won't go away quietly,but they'll fall short...Bosox will win the division...Chisox will come close,but won't catch Detroit,...but will win the Wildcard...Mark Beuhrle will start giving up less than 11 runs per 9 innings and find the winning formula...stRangers will get some help and win the AL West ....

Sorry to say,I don't have mine...It was probably my favorite book to read while in the way,...only 3/4" thick,small pages,big letters and some drawings,and very few,if any, Bible verses...It was more bio than anything else,if I recall...My dad,who had an extreme dislike for the way,even picked it up and read it when I left it laying around at his house...All he could think of to say about it was "that guy liked Cadillacs,didn't he?"

The Chisox now know what it's like to play with a bullseye on your back...'Yeah,yeah,that's nice that you finally brought Chicago a championship last year---now stand up straight while we mop the floor with you'....They lost consecutive series to the Bosox,Yankees,Tigers and then Tom's stRanger's...Now the Red hot Twinkies coming up :blink: ...Not an easy part of the schedule,for sure,but now they're playing the hungriest teams in baseball...Last year,they played like they had nothing to lose,...which they didn't...This year,they have something to lose---the reigning championship....A great test of their mettle.... The D-backs are yesterday's blown save away from sole possession of "I don't want it,here,you take it" first place in the NL West...After finishing June with a 2-14 record ....AL definitely seems like the happenin' league this year....

I agree,Tom...As a lioness among her whelps,the mother of our tread continues to nurture us little cubs in her boo-sum,letting us playfully wrassle away and run astray,as cubs will often do,and all the while coralling us into a more perfect way,gently patting our rumps with ingots of sage truths laced with the love befitting a proud mother....

What fun... 118' here in Phoenix yesterday...It was a dry heat...But then again so are pizza ovens,blast furnaces and the eternal lake of fire...

For some reason,that strikes me as a very sound thing to do....

You're right,Nika,it was $20 a month we got to spend...If you needed to spend more,...like for an operation or something,you had to get permission from the corpse coordinators....If you wanted to buy a Bullinger(also) Bible or a Young's Critical Lexicon and Concordance,you were supposed to save your $20 per month for such things....However we did get a discount in the bookstore.... Cigs were about $5.50 a carton in those days(so,let's just say I owe you 55 cents,Strangeone )Usually we'd team up and get Taster's Choicer instant coffee crystals 'cuz they had a perpetual hot water pot in the dorm I stayed in....My first year is where I devoloped my love for beer by the quart...I think you could get Schlitz or Blatz for like 3 or 4 for a dollar... When I graduated,and headed out on the 'field',I had one box for my books,about the same size box for my clothes,one suitbag for my two suits that I wore about 600 times each the past three years,my cardboard simulated woodgrain way corpse file box that contained detailed notes of every teaching I heard while in-residence and an Acme Cowboy boot box,which I still have, that contained all my worldy possesions that weren't clothes or study materials...At the close of the ROA that year,just as the "God bless you,I love you,you're the beast!",or however it ended was happening,a wonderful 7th corps gal handed me a $20 bill and said to me "God put it on my heart to give this to you"....Equipped with those worldly possessions,and that $20 bill,I went forth as a worker in an area of concern,interest and need....

In honour of the 25th anniversary of our gradjeation,and since we are like family,I adapted the words from the theme song for 'All in the Family'....."Those Were The Days" Oh,the way our 9th corps band played; Songs that made the devil afraid. Guys like us we had it made. Those were the days. Even though we got no pay, Everyone worked half a day. Gee,excie's old Impala ran great. Those were the days. And you knew who you weeeeeeeeerrrrrrre then; Boys and girls,we all were scum. Starin' at the book of Romans 'til our minds went nu-umb. We all seemed to be content: $30 a month was all we spent. Sleepin' at the Rock in a circus tent. Those were the days. Sunday Service sittin' on the floor, Listenin' to LEAD stories for three hours or more, Then change clothes and work bless patrol from two a.m 'til four. Hair was blow-dried and corpse nights were long. Rita Smith really sang a song I don't know just what went wrong. Those were the days.

You guys go right ahead...lemme know what you come up with... I see the Yanks tied it in the 9th---only to have a rain delay...If it get's postponed,do they go back to the last completed inning with them down 4-2?

Quote..."...Learn the basics of the new scientific methods as to why teams win and lose..."That's easy to figger out...One team scored more runs than the other...

Tom, I left about '89 os so,and I don't recall any sort of a written edict or anything like that about the tithe....It seemed like the way I remember it taught was that 'abundant sharing' did not really start until after the tithe,or '10%' was given,before taxes,of course....The handbook most often used was "Christians Should be Prosperous"...But I don't recall it ever written as a requirement for way followers---more of a "this is what we believe".... The tithe as practiced by the way was one of those things in my later years,I started becoming pretty uncertain about practicing and teaching...It was fine as an 18 year old WOW,when you only had yourself to look after in your commune style of living...But as the people in the ministry started getting older--having families, and looking for more stability in their lives,I know some of us started looking more seriously at the practice of tithing as taught by the way...The way also taught to share of your 'plurality'....Well.how do you define plurality?....Are savings a plurality?...For a house? Car? Edjimication?.....In practice,I usually gave about 12%(before taxes) to stifle any guilt trips I might have coming up later when I did have some disposable income... My dad always asked me why I tithed...He'd say "you pay taxes---there's your tithe"....It took years before that started sinking in,even Biblically...In the Old Testament,tithing was basically used for many of the same purposes as our taxes are currently being used...However,in the O.T.,the government and the religion were virtually one and the same...Israel was a nation....they needed to have an army,government leaders,...they also had the widows and the poor to take care of...Those things are now for the most part paid for by our tax dollars...So why do we need the tithe today?....Especially so since the way frowned on giving $$$ to good works causes,like soup kitchens,missionary programs etc. ..."The work of the ministry" was where it was supposed to go to...I thought about it once and figured if everybody in the way tithed,then each twig leader that had more that 10 people in his twig could quit his job and live off of the tithe,...study the Word and prepare teachings and go witnessing all day,and even be able to tithe from his own 'income' to the way...

Hiway,I have to respectfully disagree...The Cubs are as bad as they look when they're losing....In fact,it could be argued that they're worse...If the Mets hadn't emptied out the gatorade jug sitting through those 60 something pitches the Cub hurlers were tossing at them in that 11-run fifth inning yesterday they probably would have batted around two or three more times...Whoever invented the mercy rule for little league baseball probably grew up watching the Cubs...I may be half kidding,but jeez...Haley's comet's appeared twice since the Cubs last won it,..They're starting to wear that silly 'curse' like a badge of honour....

Fernando Tatis.... I think the Cubs as a whole stink this year,but that was one of the unluckiest innings I've ever seen a team go through(the 11 run inning)....Todd Walker,two errors,every hit was either a blooper or just out of the fielder's reach....Two wind-blown opposite field grandslams into the basket on good pitches,...even the third homer was opposite field... The Yanks handed the Chisox their hats today....They're definitely a force to be reckoned with...

I don't think the original question to start this thread is unreasonable....There's now something like 250,000 posts to sift through...Greasespot isn't in any way written in a newspaper or any other sort of periodical format...It's a discussion forum, haphazardly dotted with a smattering of facts...Most threads that discuss Weirwille's sexcapades are usually inundated with opinions,arguments and a lot of 'heard it from a friend of a friend ' type of testimonials... I don't think any woman who was one of Wirwille's victims owes anybody anything---here,at gs or anyplace else....That experience is their burden to either share or keep to themselves as they choose...I also don't think anything resembling 'proof' could actually come from this or any other website,20 years after Wierwille is dead and gone...Of course,this isn't a court of law,either... Could Greasespot as a whole be considered a 'reliable source' of information regarding VPW's adultrous affairs?...I don't know and the answer may not matter to anybody here....I've been here about four years and I can only recollect one first hand account and two or three attempts of VPW's adultry...Of course,I know of others who do not post here,and I consider all the testimonials reliable....Yet,I know of many other exwayfers,non gs members,who ask about VPW's adultry,and I can't honestly say I'd send them here to get the 'inside scoop'...

30....That stupid quiz sucked.... In 1968,the year Yaz won the AL batting title with a whopping .301 average,Tom Tresh,playing mostly shortstop and some outfield for the Yanks,had 99 hits in 507 at bats for a staggering .195 batting average....,But then,George Scott of the Bosox only managed to punch out 60 hits in 350 at bats for a forgettable .171 average....I think something needed to be done to bring in some offense....

Yeah,John,I seem to remember having an all-day workday on that beach house they were renting on Lake Erie...Trouble was,I don't think we could count it toward our eight daily hours of "doing the work of the ministry"....I'm sure we all went witnessing afterwards....

You're right,mstar--and I thought I knew my ALPF.... I wonder if playing year round baseball has something to do with it as well...Arizona hasn't been cranking out these corn-fed fireballers like Texas has,but I've often wondered,since we do play year round baseball here and lots of ex-major leaguers retire here,why we don't develop a lot more ball players...So many parents and coaches want their kids to get noticed,or to have an edge,that they often overwork them....After my son's frosh year,he did very little off-season pitching,and I noticed a lot of of other pitchers doing the same....If they played on a fall or winter team,then they would more play a field position....Especially the way these lugs grow at that age....My son grew about 9 inches between his freshman and sophomore year....I don't know if their muscle mass and tendons keep up with their bone growth... Sometimes,I think the majors puts too much emphasis on the "stuff" a pitcher has rather than things like control,smarts,etc. ...It seemed like every time Wood did pitch,his pitch count was up there around a 100 by the 5th inning...While he's famous for his fastball,he had one of the nastiest curves around....But after a while,the scouting report tells batters to lay off it,and if they're not swinging--he ends up walking alot of guys....Wood may be more suited as a reliever-in the later innings,batters are a little more tense and bail the pitchers out by swinging at balls in the dirt... One of the things Dusty Baker was accused of doing is overusing his pitchers...I still find that laughable when you compare the inning eaters of today with the guys from our youth....Now,they're using the term"quality starts" to describe the kind of year a pitcher is having...I guarantee there won't be a pitcher this year who will have as many quality starts as a Koufax,or a Jenkins or a Gibson had complete games in one season during their heyday...

Gosh,I don't know if congratulations are in order or a pamphlet with the phone # 1-800-G-E-T-H-E-L-P ...

They're talking about this year being one in which not a lot of trades will happen before the deadline since something like 20 teams are still within striking distance of their division or the wild card....I'd like to see the Cubs move Maddux to a more deserving contender and start re-tooling....Kerry Wood's days as a Cub pitcher are more than likely over,and I can't imagine they would bring Dusty Baker back....Time for the Cubs to start a new koinoneia,or whatever the Greek word is for dispensation---er-I mean administration...

Skip,Oldiesman,...since John was quoting me,maybe I should explain my 'usage' of the word...It really is not meant to be anything derogatory toward the way, the concept of a 'doulos' or the guys whose 'bitches' I ended up being....Think of an apprentice working with a tradesman,or craftsman...The best way for an apprentice to learn anything is to keep his ears open and his mouth shut...I know we use the 'bitch' term in construction all the time....Of course,we also don't call a spade a spade,we call it a !@#$#@! shovel... I apprenticed(or 'bitched' :blink: ) for three different people on my interum year at hq,and remained close friends with each of them for as long as I was involved with the way....One of these guys was a non-corpse staff member named Larry...For various reasons,when I first arrived at hq,we just flat out didn't like eachother...Then a couple of months went by,the snow fell and way builders started having playful snowball fights...Larry got me pretty good with a snowball,and then we spent weeks...hiding under cars,on top of roofs,in the back of pickup trucks...kinda like the Pink Panther and Kato,just waiting for the other to come walking unsuspectingly out of a doorway so we could pelt him with a snowball...Somehow or other,we were able to pack our dislike for one another into those snowballs,and we became buddies.... I worked for Larry for a couple of months shortly after that...He taught me construction skills....I ran and got his thermos of coffee out of the truck....But he made sure he brought enough for me,'cuz he knew I was a broke-foot interum corps living on $75 a month...We discussed a lot of issues that are even still discussed here;way heirarchy,...the direction of the ministry,etc. etc. ...And while we increasingly enjoyed working together,on the job there was no question as to who was 'the man' and who was the 'stooge'.... I kind of always thought of that as the way an apprenticeship should be....So,when I say I was his 'bitch',I apologize if it sounds offensive,but I think if Larry were here,and knew who I was, he would take it as one of the highest of compliments....