Insulting

[Danny]

I've been thinking about something Ex10 said a few days ago, Insulting to campare TWI to a christian group.

For all the good supose it did all the bad sticks out more.

I was thinking of the things it should of been.

Like charitable. If you showed you had a lack of something you were reproved for your negative believing, or even asked to leave.

[Juan Cruz]

Yes, TWI is like the Tin Man.

hollow and without a heart.

Year by year it gets rustier and rustier.

Soon, no one will hear it's creaky cries

and it will oxyidize

into Gehenna's blood and rusty soil.

Dorothy goes to church

and would gladly share its oil

but Vic's Tin Man stands all alone

in a dark wood in the twilight.

"If I believed that my reply were made

to one who could ever climb to the world again,

this flame would shake no more. But since no shade ever returned -- if what I am told is true -- from this blind world into the living light without fear of dishonor I can answer you;"*

* Dante's Comedia, canto 27 of the Inferno. John Ciardi's translation

[JustThinking]

Juan,

Sorry to ruin the moment but I believe it was the lion who had no heart. The tin man had no brain.

JT

[A la prochaine]

JT,

The Scarecrow had no brain

The Tin man had no heart

The Lion had no courage.

By the way Juan Cruz...very poetic...very poetic.

[Goey]

Put'em up! PUT'EM UP! Which oneaya first?

I'll fightcha both together if you want!

I'll fightcha with one paw tied behind my back!

I'll fightcha standin' on one foot!

I'll fightcha with my eyes closed!

(The Cowardly Lion - The Wizard of Oz)

[Trefor Heywood]

And in respect of who is really running TWI:

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" :D-->

[outandabout]

Yeah, and signing that green card got us on that yellow brick road, with programs to join all along the way to OZ. And once we got there, yup, we found out about that "man behind the curtain."

"There's no place like home" we learned, and we left OZ so we could have homes and real lives and stop bouncing around on that damn yellow brick road....

[excathedra]

quote:

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The Scarecrow had no brain

The Tin man had no heart

The Lion had no courage.

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the board of trustees

mybad

[shazdancer]

Whoa, Exy!!! That was way too funny, and all too true!

Scarecrow -- Howard

Tin Man -- Don

Cowardly Lion -- VP

Still laughing,

Shaz

[dmiller]

quote:

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By the way Juan Cruz...very poetic...very poetic.

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and very true...very true.

[Juan Cruz]

for kind words

..very grateful... very grateful

[JustThinking]

Juan,

I stand corrected. My humble apologies.

Exie,

OMG, TOOOOO funny! :-)

JT

[washingtonweather]

Danny- If you study the Calvinist's --which I did not do until leaving TWI, the parellel is similar...they too believed your prosperity was a sign of godliness.

[ex10]

Yeah but,

Calvinists leave room for suffering.

The Way Inc. was so far removed from actual Christianity, it's a joke. It's a total insult to think that the behavior of anybody in a "leadrship position" in the way, inc, had anything to do with anything remotely "Christian." I speak from experience. :)-->

[Jim]

There was sure a lot of leadership from Kansas for not being in Kansas anymore...

[Golfie]

Scarecrow -- Howard

Tin Man -- Don

Cowardly Lion -- VP

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The Wizard =

Dorothy =

Toto =

Belinda the good witch =

The wicked witch of the west =

the flying monkeys =

Emerald City = twi headquarters

Kansas = "the field"

there's no place like home = our real biological family, mother and father!

the analogy is kinda interesting...

[JustThinking]

My take:

The Wizard = VPW. He didn't really give anything. People already

had it.

Dorothy = Mrs. VPW. Little country girl living in a bad dream.

Toto = I'll volunteer for this part. He had no say in anything

and just got dragged around. That would be me. Or us.

Belinda the good witch = Excathedra

The wicked witch of the west = Donna?

the flying monkeys = Lead monkey is LCM

[excathedra]

JT now that beats getting ordained !!!!!

love,

your "sis"