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2fortheroad

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  1. Someone in our fellowship always started their SIT with Loshanta Malacasita etc, etc...it sounded the same every single time, no matter what the interpretation was...It's making my skin crawl thinking about it now.
  2. SIT may or may not have been made up. I still find myself speaking in tongues from time to time...but I honestly don't have a clue if there's anything spiritual about it. I do think it's possibly just a creative aspect of my brain playing with sounds and words. I used to make up languages and speak them as a child...I wasn't "born again" then....was I speaking in tongues anyhow? Was I just making up languages because I liked the way it sounded and it was fun? Who knows? I always had a problem with the excellor sessions though...how could you increase your fluency in a language unknown to you by deliberately making alphabetical sounds...when you didn't even know the alphabet of your "tongue" to begin with? If it really was an inspired language to speak the "wonderful works of God" wouldn't forcing different sounds and words be counter-productive to the process? But I digress...The point I wanted to make was that while SIT may or may not be "made up"...in my experience and apparently that of many other posters here over the years...The interpretation and prophecy of SIT was quite often made up. Usually it was a regurgitation of whatever the current teaching and buzz words of the day were. I ALWAYS pre-thought something to say if called on...and I was praised for having such a long suit in interpretation and prophecy. Just my opinion, but I think interpretation and prophecy were usually made up.
  3. The name of the song is actually Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression Part 2) ~ the title is a play on the word "carnival"...and you're right, it's from Brain Salad Surgery.
  4. No Sugar Tonight by The Guess Who Here's one, not too obscure I hope: Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends
  5. Hmmm...Depravation = Moral Corruption Deprivation = Loss While twi certainly could have used some rules to offset "depravation", unfortunately the leaders were too busy practicing it...or as excathedra said "maybe the one-eyed monster should have been put to bed before midnight, eh ?" I know it was just a spelling goof...but just look what happens when you change a letter ~ lol
  6. I'm going to answer this one and try something else...it's no fun if nobody gets it. Just 'cause my husband sings it doesn't mean anyone else does ~ sorry! It's Heat of The Night by Bryan Adams. How about this? He came from somewhere back in her long ago
  7. Excellent analogy! In our fellowship many people would not even laugh until they looked to see how our fearless leader (who happened to be the Limb coordinator also) was responding. There would be this awkward pause while all eyes turned toward him...if he cracked a smile, then the rest of the group would laugh. Amazing how we willingly joined the loony bin, and paid dearly for the privilege of being "committed" :wacko:
  8. Is this one too hard? i thought it was popular, but maybe it's just familiar to me because my husband is always singing it... Here's the next line: Where one man's nightmare is another man's dream
  9. How about this one: I was caught in the crossfire of a silent scream
  10. Thanks for the update. I would like to know when you get the site up and running again.
  11. I'm interested to check out your artwork, but the link won't go through. The page can't be displayed.
  12. I agree...there's no curriculum, not an inkling of what to expect...you shouldn't have to email for details in order to find out what it is that you are asking for details about. And then there's this little gem from the home page of the website: "If you are unable to do things that are outside of your comfort zone, then this is not for you." :blink: :( WTF??? Sounds like a major red flag to me...
  13. How about this one: "After all the jacks are in their boxes"
  14. Plenty of "herbs" in my 70's experience "In The Court Of The Crimson King" by King Crimson
  15. I think what bothered me in retrospect was realizing that, on some level, I really DID understand it in the moment. I knew what I felt, and I was never able to forget the impression it made, but it was so incongruent with what I thought twi was about, that I didn't allow myself to really heed the warning. I pushed it down, and didn't give it the attention it deserved. It was easier to doubt that still, small voice, than it was to consider what it was really telling me. It's not a source of guilt for me...other than perhaps wishing I would have paid attention and gotten out a whole lot sooner. Any regrets I feel now are directly related to all the situations I KNEW were wrong, with no revelation required...all the times I sat quietly, and did not stand up and speak up when every fiber of me was crying out to do so...and I pushed those feelings down and kept coming back...maybe not guilt, but definitely disappointment and regrets...
  16. I only wish I had a vision or revelation...call it what you will...that was as clear as vpw flipping the bird. Talk about communicating in a way that you could relate to. I do know that the first time I met lcm in the flesh, I had a "gut" reaction of absolute disgust and revulsion. I too felt guilty and like something was wrong with me for feeling that way. Curious how we spent so much time supposedly learning about discerning of spirits, and word of knowledge, etc...and when it actually manifested in our lives with regard to twi...we were too indoctrinated to believe or heed it.
  17. Good question, waysider! The more than abundant life was completely lost in the focus of the many and varied ways the devil was out to get us at all times. It started with vpw and then lcm elevated it to an art form. We spent more time in twi looking for debbil spurts behind every tree, bush, and knick knack, than we ever did living abundantly. We had to learn their names, their characteristics, travel by twos for "protection", get permission to leave the state, etc, etc...to keep the "adversary" off our back. I'm not one to quote Bible verses these days, but these just seem to apply: 1Jo 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Phil 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things. If only we could have had an Advanced Class that focused on learning how to really believe and apply those concepts! Didn't mean to derail the thread...back to the topic at hand!
  18. I apologize for not knowing the rules, George. Is there anything else I need to know to play? I didn't mean to step on any toes. Oh well, I've posted a song (out of order-I'm sorry), and guessed one (hopefully correctly), so am I ok now?
  19. The Ballad of John and Yoko Here's another one: "I been run down, I been lied to"
  20. Can I play too? Here goes: Oh father high in heaven -- smile down upon your son...
  21. "There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus." ~ Mark Twain
  22. "Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language." Ursula K. LeGuin
  23. Actually it reminds me of the story that was told in the Advanced Class about the group that went to the Philippines for psychic surgery, and were cured of their ailments, but (dramatic drum roll please)...within a year they all died, except the one person who refused the "surgery". TWI were the masters of unverifiable "true" stories. What about LCM's claim at the Rock one year that "we have the only documented case of a person being completely healed of AIDS"? And we all knew better than to ask who, what, where, when, etc...Never ask to see the documentation...and definitely pay no attention to the man or woman behind the curtain.
  24. Some Favorite Robert A. Heinlein Quotes: One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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