cara

BUT if you look around you'll find a thread about the July 1998 Advanced Class. My son went directly face to face to stand up to lcm and not only lived to survive it, in spite of a rifle on lcm's desk and a pistol in somebody else's jacket. When he got home....he spent several days calling everyone he could remember that he knew to tell them the score about how his then wife had been selected, taught and "forced" to submit to lcm....not once....but many times....and ;how much she actually enjoyed it....and the Place she thought she'd earned.

My son has only a GED - - no college...he was in the first Way Deciple group. God is blessing him because of what he did then, and the way he lifes his life now. He's always loved cars so he has worked for several luxury car dealers here in capacities that blow my mind. He has a remarkable gift dealing with people and working with computers and auto parts. He has never stolen a nut and bolt and believe me how rare that is. "Shrinkage" as they call it swallows a pretty good % of most auto parts budgets. His are always on the money...never even a nickel off one way or another after an audit.

Therefore, God has gotten him the best jobs working for the best dealers. Not the best in terms of luxury....but in terms of personality and working arrangementl. He gets a wonderful % of the base (they all work that way...very modest salary and a very small % of the base. But his base is always so high because nothing is stolen, his workers work so well for him because he sticks up for them when they've earned it.....and even if he's not looking for another job, head hunters call him once or twice a week now that the biggest part of the crisis seems to have passed.

He's like Job and how God restored to Job all he was robbed of. He had much lower paying jobs in the same industry before he went in the Corps. His new wife is such a delight....I can't begin to explain how she truly loves him, and he lives in a house that he could broker down to his financial reaches because of his excellent credit. It started out at 850,000 in a posh section of New York State.

Maybe other people don't want to discuss so much of their private lives, but I'm getting older and older and I want to make sure everything I know is really passed on....so I'm speaking out now. Don't judge others if they don't do the same as I did...their circumstances are quite different and we should respect them.

Thanks for telling your stories, Krys. Real healing and restoration! I haven't read that thread yet, hope to get there this month! I don't expect people to tell their stories, they are so personal, or prove themselves at all, but when you hear a good one at the right time (see, Mr. Squirrel) it can be a happy gift.

I don't know where to go myself, was never in the Corps so can't go to their website, but every day is an adventure, what? If I didn't dislike the imperative, I would say "keep on running" or something like that.

seems appropriate...

(all) please forgive me

i forgive you (all)

thank you (all)

i love you (all)

goodbye (all)

and...

bas sona!

(may you have a happy death)

Nooooooo! Don't go yet. Go mbeidh a lan laethanta agat fos.

Cad a dheanfaidh me feasta! (Just to join in with all the Gaelgoiri.)

Starting to feel slightly bereft - I may have met some of you, looked up to you on a stage or something, but am sure I didn't appreciate your complexity then as much as I do here. We weren't encouraged to manifest complexity in public all that much. And I'm still ploughing through the About-the-Way threads, haven't even made it to Doctrine let alone worked myself up to asking any questions I had left afterwards. What a whiner I am - really, I'm just glad that I found the site in time to read anything at all. Hope all goes well for Mr. P-tucket and you all (to be efficient in posting, just in case.)

Greasespot opened over 10 years ago. Lots of people have passed through on their journey. My hope has been that a few have found some answers, maybe some lost friends or new friends.

I've enjoyed most hearing from folks that have found some tidbits of info to help them on their way.

Lots could be said.

But the truth is the way that things are right now in my life, I think that I will have to close the Spot as of December 31st. I don't have the resources mentally or financially to keep this place going. Thanks to the Moderators, they've really kept this site alive for the past few years.

I will miss it, as I am sure some of you will. And the rest just won't have me to kick around anymore.

I haven't been around too long but I have learned a lot and will miss it and thank you very much. I did wonder how you managed to manage it so well, can't believe anyone kicked you.

I've had one "leader" after another explain how he thought I was walking by da spirit or something..

somehow, at the turn of the moment, I would (coincidentally?) be at the right time, at the right place..

it continues even to today..

what is it that I am experiencing?

the last time.. I desperately was trying to make it to Mt. Pleasant.. an hour and a half before I was supposed to be there.. all I know is I'm supposed to show up very early for some reason..

and I show up. So the "boss" looks at me.. and says.."I'm SOOOOOO glad you are here.. I'm supposed to be somewhere else. Here are the papers, you just arrange them in alphabetical order, and wait for the exams to come to you.."

there is no bragging here. christ. are we supposed to really BE what we are supposed to be, or not..

this forum is anonymous enough that I can't claim any glory or such ...., thank god..

anybody have any similar experience? I would seriously like to know..

how can I show up at the right place, at the right time..

so.. da *boss* retires this year. If I ever have the chance, I will discretely ask the question.. "did you take a load of acid in the sixties/seventies.."

It would partially explain the seemingly repeated connection..

Thanks for telling that inspiring story. I don't remember an identical, but I can remember things of similar importance to me, often when I'm outside and unwound (go this way, ask them), but regularly it's when I'm frazzled and rushing that I'm helped hugely (check that work once more).

Edited to add: No, orders make me get stubborn, it's more of a "let's for fun do this" or "wouldn't it be a good idea to do this."

I almost wonder if a certain minority of individuals who were attracted to the concept of being leaders weren't a bit on the sociopathic side. WG

Whether or not they're unhealthy, I think that certain types are definitely attracted to leadership. I used to mention personality sometimes, when trying to explain some person-person issue, and my "elders" would usually dismiss that idea - we were supposed to love everyone, listen to everyone, we all have the same spirit etc. That didn't convince me that personality doesn't matter, especially when it came to the verses that people would latch onto and use to teach/confront other types.

Confronting - that reminds me of when a Bigwig from HQ told a group of European men that they were wimps. I sort of admired this person but it bothered me, of course, and was one of those things that I put away for pondering. Later I decided that it was just that he was one of those energetic, forceful people who expects others to want to be like that.

That "slim just walked out the door" made me laugh too - must remember that.

The Kirsty McColl above was for fun, not that I'm saying anyone is pretending to be Elvis (just in cases).

This is for when you think about your youth (very sweet).

I like Waysider's boogie song, and it's fun to see the Who - have been learning in the Cafe that there's a lot of good stuff on YouTube, thanks.

Chips and grease go together.

A Welsh kilt is very similar to a Scottish one but usually has a hemmed selvedge and a design such as the ref dragon or the St David cross, or both to the right of the front apron. What also makes it Welsh is the tartan design and also the spelling as there is no k in Welsh it is therefore spelt Cilt - c always has a k sound in Welsh.

Hey Twinky.

Depending upon where you are that could be the case but who is "Br3ndy"?

Thanks for replying! How nice to have a dragon. The "c" is always hard in Irish also - I knew a Ciaran who changed to a K-spelling when he went abroad because of that - but I'd figured something had been anglicised. Speaking of which, Twinky, I'm wondering if your B was the legend originally from NI, not that I need to know right now!

According to my dictionary, it's a word of Scandinavian origin - that's interesting.

Why do people need 25 pairs of socks or underwear or shirts or shoes? :P

So I can have some variety in my appearance and one can have different colour co-ordination etc,

Need and wants parallel? Hmmm :wub:

Thanks for your welcome.

Hello there. I haven't posted much but people have been kind and I've been reading a lot and have seen your name. This is a picturesque thread!

I suppose I could google it, but I'm wondering what a Welsh kilt is like (is it called a "pilt" there - is kilt even a Q-Gaelic word - so many things to look up).

You're very kind, what a treat. I was off reading threads and hadn't looked for it yet. I wish you pancakes for your tummy and nuts for your storehouse.

Now THAT was cool!

I'm laughing my head off - thanks for that. Wonder if I could find Victor Borge and the Baby Orchestra.

Word games! THEY were always playing word games with one thing or another. Always something completely irrelevant. Anything to make TWI look elite. Well, it made us look stupid. Anyway I'm off topic

Sorry, me too, and I knew it, sort of! And now I am again but will stop.

we've discussed this before. BTW Cara, I liked the song.

Thanks, Broken Arrow. I'm still trawling through the volumes here and looking forward to more.

Nice song..

Weird.. but.. take it as you will.

A lot of these musicians, born in the late 1940's.. they were sent before us..

so.. where do we go from here..

I have a great fondness for those boys (and I didn't even spell their name correctly, maybe a good thing?).

I don't think it's a weird thought that you had. On one hand, songs about old stories or English schooldays or the streets of New York are about the human condition, where the more things change etc. On the other hand, God is interested in the human condition. There are so many poems and writings but it's easier to remember the words of songs. I was just about to write, I wonder if anyone has put Ecclesiastes to music?, and then I remembered The Byrds, The Byrds!

Remember years ago, how THEY used to say that feelings didn't matter, happiness didn't matter (joy was the thing). How else do you remember your life as you look back? Then later happiness equaled being blessed or content - at least that's what I picked up -and was OK.

I was thinking, if I was like Waysider I'd find a link to Horlips' "The Rocks Remain," and guess what came up when I googled:

Learning how to paste links.

Oh, it's not a video, sorry - that would have been fun.

Love ya!

Ha, ha, I thought about writing "oh, I hate that," but I don't, it's just too overused and not something I'm comfortable saying so easily, so I'd always feel in debt somehow to the person who rattled it off as an alternative to "good-bye."

I often think now that I should have asked people exactly what they meant when those phrases rolled out. At a time in my life when I got too close to trouble, the line about being "broken bread for people" came into my head, and I wondered if this miserable condition was what they meant. How mad was that. Not that I'm blaming the person who said it in a teaching, it probably meant something entirely different to him. I suppose it would have been annoying if everyone questioned every use of these cliches. Still, does anyone have any idea what the standard use of this meant - why would anyone have to be "broken bread" again, even in a figure?

All I know is, I'm averse to anyone teaching "most people do this (stupid or evil thing), not us." Whether or not what they say is factual (and so many times I've sat there thinking "that's not true"), it bothers me. I don't need to be told stuff like that in order to believe that God loves me. I've heard none of that kind of comparison when I've gone to various functions at Catholic or other churches over the years. I think that if we're judging, then we're not content and peaceful - is that unbiblical and too yoga-ish?

Thank you very much, socks, sunesis, et al. That was very helpful - useful and beautiful.

Sorry if this is not quite related, but I'm newish and reading when I can and wanting to say hello every now and again. What is stunning to me, and sort of ironic, is how much the descriptions of the later TWI make me think of the former East Germany or of China, their having people "tell" on each other and making people report their movements, etc, and it's made me wonder - is it just really difficult in general for people to accept others' equality? "Animal Farm" comes into my head as well, if I'm remembering it correctly, the idea of some being "more equal than others" and empowered to order the others around for their own good.

Teach me, why couldn't he say it?

It is also believed that verse 16 is part of the narrative, the story that was written later, not something actually spoken by him at the time.

The above was to teachme.

Ham, I like some Yes songs very much. Their song "wondrous stories" brings me back to the time when I was taking "the class" and I was young and so much was exciting and Yes was on the radio at home and "Bright and Morning Star" (title?) was played in the class room.

I'm back to say that I meant "life" threads. I haven't ventured much into the Doctrine threads, but those that have come up in word searches have left me completely chastened for picking on singular/plural spellings above when all you people can write so well about the important things that I can barely approach thinking about. I do get asked at times to read material for people on subjects that I know more about, to find spelling mistakes etc, and I know very well that it's a lot easier to see other peoples' motes than your own beams. Very sorry if I offended anyone.

Researching gets one a bad reputation, like with me, I got a -5 reputation in the cafe,

the way did that to me too; I didn't have this class or that class, that got me a -reputation for

lack of a class, crazy side effect? People might get a bad reputation, reasoning the word with

a person with a bad reputation, crazy side effect one faces right out of the gate, who is the

reputation person or should their be one?

It seems sometimes, if one calls it a sport, someone calls it a game; and if one calls it a game,

someone calls it a sport, crazy side effect either way on that one?

It seems sometimes like that Cheech and Chong play, when Jesus tried to cross into the US from

Mexico, the side effects of researching?

Teach me, I'm butting back in here and being off-topic - I still haven't read your heart posts - but I forgot to say before that I think you're way above my head on those nouns and verbs, because you can turn them into poetry, and the lines below your posts, the last in line and the butterfly, what are those? They're very touching.

A more mathmatical question, what's the -5 in the cafe?

How horrible is it that when you're already upset at the death of someone that you have to brace yourself before you tell those others, who claim to be closer than family and friends, knowing that condemnation of you or someone you love will be their first reaction. Maybe you'll tell yourself that they're afraid and that makes them angry and wanting to blame, but how cruel that you have to put up with that sick behavior on top of everything else. I'm so sorry that this happened to so many and am feeling an old shaky anger in my stomach that people were treated like this.

:P :P

Well, of course it does.

"Change one little comma and the whole Bible would fall to pieces."

What? I mean, pardon? I thought there were no commas.

What I meant above is that that part of my life didn't add to my understanding of English grammar or spelling, as far as I know. I've remembered something, though - in my early teens I wanted to become more familiar with the King James version, because I used to read books (eg Billy Bunter) that would use phrases from it in a humorous or a poetic way, and I wanted to be able to toss out quotes like that.

Teach me, I haven't read all your posts about "life" yet, and I'm not sure what you mean about it being off-topic - sorry, there's so much to read here. Life is definitely a noun though, and "to live" is a verb - hope you're enjoying it all :P These little faces are funny so I might overdo them.