The Little Thread Which Grew - the Apollo '73 to Everything But

[Terril park]

Well I'll be darned, so this is where "Pilsner" comes from! Learn something new every day!

Great life experience here, "cousin" Terril! You should write a book about your adventures and travels! Thanks for sharing the fun stories, and TA for the kind comments on my looks (I am a cool squirrel, even when I'm not lying recumbant on a tree branch! ).

Shit! that was posted a long time ago. So long ago I don't know when.

As it happens my companion on my travel to India, and the one who
travelled route 66 with me e- published a book on the former. I think.

I'll see if I can find it.

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

Pure LRH [ and loads of others]

Charge what the market will bear.

That will be what you are worth.

I LOVE THIS!

International Chat.. BB, I love you! You do such good work. never saying a bad or harsh word about anyone. you are a gem.

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

This is what I was doing when I had my own business. When I had enough work to keep me busy for 30 hours per week, a new project would need to pay more than my existing projects for me to be interested. Either way I'd win: I get got more money, or maintained some leisure.

yes

 

[Mark A. Baker]

I tend to think ever'body is crazy 'xcept you 'n' me, and som'times I wonder 'bout you.

Well I definitely admit it. I even have competent medical testimony to support such an argument. However, crazy ain't the same as stupid.

... most specifically, as compared to LRH in 1969 and onward. We IS NOT Standar' Tec'

we is squirelllinnn

and fuck him and the Harley he rode in on

That is certainly one perspective.


Another might run as follows ...

From the Tech Dictionary:

STANDARD, 1. a definite level or degree of quality that is proper and adequate for a specific purpose. (Class VIII, No. 4) ...

STANDARD TECH, ...4. standard tech is not a process or a series of processes. It is following the rules of processing.(HCOB 26 Feb 70)...

PROCESSING, 2. the principle of making an individual look at his own existence, and improve his ability to confront, what he is and where he is. (Aud. 23 UK) ... 5. processing is not getting data out of the preclear; it is not assembling his life for him as a complete, consecutive play-it is increasing his self-determinism and his right to reason. (DAB, Vol. II, p. 70 1951-52) 6. a procedure by which an individual recovers his self-determinism. No procedure which does not bring about increased self-determinism is processing. (Abil 114A)

Therefore, one man's "squirreling" may be another's use of "an eclectic approach" to "standard tech".

It works for me! Of course I have "eclectic tastes".


Mark A. Baker

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

I think you’re just fine, Lakey…I was jest messin’ with you…there wasn’t any innuendo to it.

I wasn’t trying to preach to you or anyone about money. I guess I was just talkin’ to myself mostly. Everyone is free to look at money as they wish. Of course it’s always good to have some dough. Having dough just doesn’t rule my life.

As long as I wasn’t tryin’ to mooch off her, I wouldn’t want to be with a woman if I felt or knew that me having dough was of importance to her…that simple. How I feel about people and what my opinion of them has not a flippin’ thing to do with whether or not they got dough. Everybody is free to decide what they think is important in another…I just don’t think havin’ or not havin’ dough means that one being is superior, better or more worth interactin’ or bein’ with than the other.

Three and a half years ago I had a wife decide her life would be better if she didn’t spend the rest of it with a brain damaged, useless and invalid husband…all the dough in the world wouldn’t have kept her there but I’m confident she would have stayed a little longer if she knew I’d be croaking soon. I paid for her college, set her up in career, bought her “dream house”, provided an affluent life with lots of first class trips, cloths and goodies but, in the end, it wasn’t the money…or, maybe it was and the fact that I sure wasn’t lookin’ like I’d ever be makin’ any more dough and sure looked like I was gonna be “high maintenance” and needin’ “attention”. I dunno, couldn’t get a straight answer out of her.

Anyway, guess I’m preachin’ again. All I know is, me and the richest person in the world will have the same amount of dough the moment each one of us drops the bod, and that dough ain’t gonna do them no good where ever wee’s goin’ next.

Face

my wife and I were friends for a decade before we hooked up.

we have had enough money / cash flow where we looked like coke dealers.

we've been so poor that I scrounged wood for the fireplace, split it and burned it for heat, rather than pay for gas heat.

we raised + or - about 7 kids. We have 9 grandchildren. We have been abysmally stupid. we have been smart beyond intelligence.

the kids are all right. The grandchildren are OK.

we like them, they like us

could be worse, could be raining

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AFf0ysgNiM

 

[Ted]

Nice, Lakey . . . .

But the question I used was :
"When I was traveling the world following having done some NOTs before doing S/NOTs . . . and I found myself away from any processing facility, my standard handling of any "troublesome" spiritual connections (mine or another's) was to simply ask and have exposed the Being's intention/purpose being pursued and what was it doing as an automatic on-going creation. Spotting this unlocked the unwanted condition of jammed-up or encysted life-force.

Spiritual connections, just like us, can be dramatizing old, old inappropriate solutions: solutions which produce unwanted conditions in PT."

This is more open than the question you used: "I told him to put his attention on that area and intend the question to the entity, "What is your goal with me, what is it you are trying to achieve?"

YOu see, the "entity" can be operating on an old solution that has nothing to do with a "goal or purpose with the client" . . . it could be solving something quite unrelated.

By the way, on the questions: "What are you?" and "who are you," there has been added some added think over the years as to what they do and what the auditor is trying to do.

Some think the "what" question is to get the identity the entity is dramatizing and to thereby blow the stuck identity . . . well that can happen . . . but the real and bottom line answer to that question that restores truth and the positive for the entity is along the lines that the entity is a "spiritual Being" or a spiritual presence or such . . . not necessarily that it is being a "body cell" or "the mind" or some mechanical object or such.

And the ultimate right answer to "who" is, "Me" (the Being itself.)

These basic answers restore the truth and allow the entity to recover its self determinism.

Rog

My variant of this is the question, "What are you trying to accomplish?" Or, whatever exact wording fits best.

This is good for any being, embodied or disembodied.

 

[Terril park]

Not so much Russia's industrial output, but Stalin's willingness to drown Germany in Russian blood.

The Soviet Union lost close to 24 million people (military and civilian) in WW2, compared to Germany's losses of 6 to 9 million.

Let's not forget that the US was supplying the USSR with material during the war as well.

I suspect Stalin was as bad a leader as Hitler. In the early stages of the war he " expelled declared" many senior officers and fucked up his army.

Russia very successfully moved its centers of industrial production
outside of Germany's ability to hit it. The other side of the Urals I believe.
At massive cost, human and otherwise.

Russia had some brilliant engineers and made WWII's best tank, T 34
IIRC, and towards the end of the war the Lavochkin La-5 was the equal of the best german fighters at low altitude, where they were employed.

Earlier they had inferior craft, and two german aces belong to the worlds
most exclusive club. Those who shot down more than 300 planes. Only 2.
Gerhard Barkhorn was one, forgot the other.

They did the " Battle of Britain" for many years, not a few months.

Russia see's WWII as the "great patriotic war". They beat Germany
and did the most in that effort.

But was a collective effort. Britain sent supplies in the earlier days via
the horrendous crossings to northern Russian ports. The US supplied the brits.

One of the escorts was HMS Belfast. A cruiser with 6 inch guns which were
state of the art, radar controlled, and capable of shooting 14 miles.

It later gained fame as one of the 3 ships who forced the german pocket battleship " Sharnhorst" to scuttle in south america.

Such is the trivia I'm capable of

 

[afaceinthecrowd]

I suspect Stalin was as bad a leader as Hitler. In the early stages of the war he " expelled declared" many senior officers and fucked up his army.

Russia very successfully moved its centers of industrial production
outside of Germany's ability to hit it. The other side of the Urals I believe.
At massive cost, human and otherwise.

Russia had some brilliant engineers and made WWII's best tank, T 34
IIRC, and towards the end of the war the Lavochkin La-5 was the equal of the best german fighters at low altitude, where they were employed.

Earlier they had inferior craft, and two german aces belong to the worlds
most exclusive club. Those who shot down more than 300 planes. Only 2.
Gerhard Barkhorn was one, forgot the other.

They did the " Battle of Britain" for many years, not a few months.

Russia see's WWII as the "great patriotic war". They beat Germany
and did the most in that effort.

But was a collective effort. Britain sent supplies in the earlier days via
the horrendous crossings to northern Russian ports. The US supplied the brits.

One of the escorts was HMS Belfast. A cruiser with 6 inch guns which were
state of the art, radar controlled, and capable of shooting 14 miles.

It later gained fame as one of the 3 ships who forced the german pocket battleship " Sharnhorst" to scuttle in south america.

Such is the trivia I'm capable of

Good stuff, Terril.

"One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." Joseph Stalin

Face

 

[RogerB]

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Aside from some of our top tech people on ESMB in general and on this thread in particular I have my doubts if anyone else in the world could have given this man an assist type action right off the street which handled so much for him in only 70 minutes. Perhaps there are some practioners in Eastern Religions who could do it or perhaps a few psychics. The Tech comes from Scientology alone as far as I know. It is the brain child of both Hubbard and Mayo as far as I know. In C of S there may not be anyone who could have done what I did and if there is, they would be prohibited by policiy from doing it without proper setups and C/Sing.

Snipped . . .

Those are just guesses, does anyone have any comments.
Lakey

Ahh, Lakey . . . I can see we have to set you loose on the world!!

Here's a little clip from this site on the (religious) healing practitioners of Bali and Indo-China here: http://www.webspawner.com/users/sinarsakti/

It says in part:

The Balians

The system of traditional medicine in Bali has become institutionalized in the culture and specialization both in technique and expertise exist. The Balian Apun utilize physical manipulation of the body and set broken bones; the Balian Manak are midwives; the Balian Tenung are diviners; the Balian Metuunan are those who are able to be possessed by souls of the dead. These are the specialists. The majority of traditional healers are generalists who treat a variety of conditions and are known as either Balian Usada or Balian Tapakan.

I tried to find on Google the word I remembered from my earlier years and travels . . . my memory had it as Balirahn or maybe Bali-rahn . . . but it appears to be Balian . . .

The Kahunas of Hawaii had your healing powers also.

I hear some of the native South Americans also have it, but I've not witnessed it.

It's only we cultized idiot Judeo-Christian westerners who have the limited paradigms we have

Lakey, as I've said before: you must honor your wonderful faculty. Part of that will be to fully explore and come to full comprehension of what it is you've got and develop it to the max.

You are not alone in this world with the ability and power you have. So honor it and establish it to the level of appreciation among your fellows here in the West that it deserves.

And you should be recompensed admirably and viably for it. That is fair and honorable.

But you are right to make your priority that of helping and healing folks.

One of the favorite lines I've heard on the subject of "how much" is this one . . . "How much was it (or would it be) worth for you to get rid of . . . . ?"

Then after the success: "OK, pay me!"

Rog

 

[Enthetan]

Pure LRH [ and loads of others]

Charge what the market will bear.

That will be what you are worth.

That pretty much defines "market price": the price where demand matches supply. The key is to have enough people know about your products, and have your products be good enough, that demand stays high.

 

[Terril park]

I don't know any way of saying this without making Standard Tech people wrong, so apologies.

Auditors from the 50s and 60s mindset, Ant Phillips, Phil Spickler, my wife, my daughter, wife's ex step daught, etc, myself, anybody who was ex scio having been at ACW's would have done a handling (each different and distinctively their own) would have handled it in one session. No question.

Because the Scientology Standard Tech culture has so pervaded the mindsets of the ex sci culture, we don't pierce others' envelopes, but what you did was perfect from the OLD VIEWPOINT of auditing the person in front of you. I never lost that viewpoint. Many of us didn't. We stay pretty much under the radar.

In NO WAY, should you consider this an inval. You have joined a club that requires knowingness rather than rote. That is a pretty high ability.

Keep it up. Nothing makes me happier than people using knowingness, as opposed to staying within the rules.

Wow. I'm all for people using knowingness. it may be difficult to
achieve?

This is a very interesting area to look at.

I am nominally standard tech. But lets say flexible.

I know that Carmello can achieve brilliancies, from the feedback I got
from people I recommended him too.

Phil Spickler I consider the wisest person I've met and I referred
someone to him many years ago and she was exstatic about the results.
probably book 1.

I was pretty exctatic just talking to him!

However.... There is the idea of the " bridge" .

The post above seems to me looking at therapy, handling
current problems etc.

Good stuff.

However the scn bridge aspires to go further. I believe, and have experienced, that it does.

Note that Carmelo is validating Lakeys use of what seems to be NOTs.
Yet dosn't even aprove of OT III.

Here I'll post what I think was my first success story on OT 2, my favorite bridge level.

Anyone here disaprove of OT II?

This is not of course meant as any invalidation, but a start of
possibly a new enquiry here.

-------------
Here in beautiful Semmering I've just Started to dip my toes into OT 2. Instructed by Ralph Hilton.Getting there is a big win in itself and another story.

This is auditing unlike any I've ever done, over and above being my own auditor. I've had the strangest sensations, somatics and all sorts turn on and then turn off. Its been fascinating. went a litle exterior a couple of times which is always nice. Still not sure of what wins exactly I've got, as is often the case for me. At least not until some time after.

One of the wins is the almost, magical, ( I can't think of a more appropriate word) way this tech is working. I was running some wholetrack concepts, and things went quite well. Went out to lunch and found that after a few minutes of walking I felt as though I was on drugs. This is very odd because the only drug experience I've had worth talking about is on one occasion smoking pot some decades ago. Then on the Purif, Some remnants of general anaesthetics were dredged up and affected me and then ran out. That was also a long time ago. I've never had any drug type feelings since. Or had anything since but aspirin and alcohol. So I carried on with the next related concepts on OT 2. The drugged feeling vanished. I felt very good. I was astonished that these sensations could be turned on and off by such simple concepts. Well I've just been doing this for a few days, and have lots to look forward to.

This level has turned things on stronger, faster and more often than anything else I've ever done. Have only done a few hours so far. It looks as though I've got a few hundred to go. I'm looking forward to this. Looks like some trip.

bb

 

[Enthetan]

my wife and I were friends for a decade before we hooked up.

we have had enough money / cash flow where we looked like coke dealers.

we've been so poor that I scrounged wood for the fireplace, split it and burned it for heat, rather than pay for gas heat.

we raised + or - about 7 kids. We have 9 grandchildren. We have been abysmally stupid. we have been smart beyond intelligence.

the kids are all right. The grandchildren are OK.

we like them, they like us

could be worse, could be raining

My philosophy is "if nobody is chasing me with a knife, things aren't so bad".

 

[Enthetan]

Russia had some brilliant engineers and made WWII's best tank, T 34
IIRC, and towards the end of the war the Lavochkin La-5 was the equal of the best german fighters at low altitude, where they were employed.

From one viewpoint, the T-34 was not the "best", since one-on-one it was no match for the German Tiger tank.

The genius of the design of the T-34, was that it was a very effective tank that was so simple to make, that the Russians were able to make 57,000 of them. The same philosophy made the SKS and AK-47 rifles the most widely made semi-auto rifles in the world.

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

Very cool, Carmelo.

I agree with you re: floatin' boats. I was speeking about how I see things for me and I suppose I sometimes sound preachy. I'm still on friendly terms with my exes but I wouldn't call them friends. I wish her and her well, I will always love her and her...kinda like the Dolly Parton song she wrote for Porter Wagoner, "I Will Always Love You". I wouldn't trade anything about my life for what it was before.

I've had 5 "committed" relationships with women in m life...all of the women were similar (artists or teachers, good lookin' and very cute (I like cute), intelligent, siritual and a little "wacky" in a very cool way) and yet very different (rich, poor, middle class, older than me, younger than me, country, city, suburbia).
:confused2:



Viva la difference.

Face

Shuffling the deck here:

I like tough women. The facade is soft and loving. behind the velvet glove is steel.

i don't remember what i've written who and when, so excuuuuse me for any redundancy...

Teri, my wife, was a national record holder in the breaststroke, rode a Triumph 500, jumped horses over cactus, Class Vlll, etc. when we first knew each other.

My AUNT used to drive dynamite down Hwy 1, shoot deer, etc.

MY FAMILY was never soft.

I guess I've always respected and been horny for women who don't fit in boxes.

Give me, any day, any time, a woman , who is not in a box.

Our daughter is our daughter. God pity her boy friend.

It isn't what a woman does or what she has. It is important that she is unfettered by others' cultural inhibitions.

Above is our daughter, on the way to winning the Tevis, as a junior, the toughest equine endurance race on this planet. 100 miles across the SIERRA NEVADAS in 24 hrs. or less, from Squaw Valley to Auburn.

Not everybody admires tough.

One more time: there is someone for everyone. Find him / her. Go for it.

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

Wow. I'm all for people using knowingness. it may be difficult to
achieve?

This is a very interesting area to look at.

I am nominally standard tech. But lets say flexible.

I know that Carmello can achieve brilliancies, from the feedback I got
from people I recommended him too.

Phil Spickler I consider the wisest person I've met and I referred
someone to him many years ago and she was exstatic about the results.
probably book 1.

I was pretty exctatic just talking to him!

However.... There is the idea of the " bridge" .

The post above seems to me looking at therapy, handling
current problems etc.

Good stuff.

However the scn bridge aspires to go further. I believe, and have experienced, that it does.

Note that Carmelo is validating Lakeys use of what seems to be NOTs.
Yet dosn't even aprove of OT III.

Here I'll post what I think was my first success story on OT 2, my favorite bridge level.

Anyone here disaprove of OT II?

This is not of course meant as any invalidation, but a start of
possibly a new enquiry here.

-------------
Here in beautiful Semmering I've just Started to dip my toes into OT 2. Instructed by Ralph Hilton.Getting there is a big win in itself and another story.

This is auditing unlike any I've ever done, over and above being my own auditor. I've had the strangest sensations, somatics and all sorts turn on and then turn off. Its been fascinating. went a litle exterior a couple of times which is always nice. Still not sure of what wins exactly I've got, as is often the case for me. At least not until some time after.

One of the wins is the almost, magical, ( I can't think of a more appropriate word) way this tech is working. I was running some wholetrack concepts, and things went quite well. Went out to lunch and found that after a few minutes of walking I felt as though I was on drugs. This is very odd because the only drug experience I've had worth talking about is on one occasion smoking pot some decades ago. Then on the Purif, Some remnants of general anaesthetics were dredged up and affected me and then ran out. That was also a long time ago. I've never had any drug type feelings since. Or had anything since but aspirin and alcohol. So I carried on with the next related concepts on OT 2. The drugged feeling vanished. I felt very good. I was astonished that these sensations could be turned on and off by such simple concepts. Well I've just been doing this for a few days, and have lots to look forward to.

This level has turned things on stronger, faster and more often than anything else I've ever done. Have only done a few hours so far. It looks as though I've got a few hundred to go. I'm looking forward to this. Looks like some trip.

bb

Having read your success story, I'm going to have to go out into the hood and score some dope. I really need to smoke a joint or some hash.

JUST KIDDING!!!

 

[Mark A. Baker]

Having read your success story, I'm going to have to go out into the hood and score some dope. I really need to smoke a joint or some hash.

JUST KIDDING!!!

As an "associated concept" you might want to consider how often drugs are involved with human sexuality. Something to think about while seeking to "score".


Mark A. Baker

 

[Leon]

I suspect Stalin was as bad a leader as Hitler. In the early stages of the war he " expelled declared" many senior officers and fucked up his army.

Russia very successfully moved its centers of industrial production
outside of Germany's ability to hit it. The other side of the Urals I believe.
At massive cost, human and otherwise.

Russia had some brilliant engineers and made WWII's best tank, T 34
IIRC, and towards the end of the war the Lavochkin La-5 was the equal of the best german fighters at low altitude, where they were employed.

Earlier they had inferior craft, and two german aces belong to the worlds
most exclusive club. Those who shot down more than 300 planes. Only 2.
Gerhard Barkhorn was one, forgot the other.

They did the " Battle of Britain" for many years, not a few months.

Russia see's WWII as the "great patriotic war". They beat Germany
and did the most in that effort.

But was a collective effort. Britain sent supplies in the earlier days via
the horrendous crossings to northern Russian ports. The US supplied the brits.

One of the escorts was HMS Belfast. A cruiser with 6 inch guns which were
state of the art, radar controlled, and capable of shooting 14 miles.

It later gained fame as one of the 3 ships who forced the german pocket battleship " Sharnhorst" to scuttle in south america.

Such is the trivia I'm capable of

Re the green bit: He destroyed the Russian army back in about 1935 or so, wiping out the entire officer corps and most of the NCOs, believing that they were plotting against him. When war finally did arrive he was forced to appoint loyal thugs and hooligans to senior positions, some of whom happened to be quite brilliant.

Re the red bit: Stalin played a double game throughout the war - his demand for supplies from the west were intended to hamper the allied war effort more than help the Russians. Most of the equipment received was never used, except as a source of ideas for their own industry.

Re the blue bit: Scharnhorst was sunk somewhere north of Norway. far from South America. If I recall rightly it was the first ship to be sunk with the aid of radar controlled gunnery.

 

[FoTi]

How kind of you FoTi. You know FoTi, I hope you have an outstanding record as a seer because I am really liking what your are seeing in your encouraging post.

OTHER GROUPS WHO DEAL IN THIS AREA?
I am not aware of any such groups. The C of S is supposed to be qualified to do this but they could not possibly take anyone off the street cold and do what I did. Freezone Assoc., not a chance, Independent Field, I doubt it very much and if one of them, say Trey Lotz or Diana Class 8 were to attempt it, an entire program would have to be done and several intensives would have to be purchased before they would take this on. I think Pierre Ethier could have handled this guy as a walk in if he wanted to but he could have just as easily sold the guy an expensive program.

Aside from some of our top tech people on ESMB in general and on this thread in particular I have my doubts if anyone else in the world could have given this man an assist type action right off the street which handled so much for him in only 70 minutes. Perhaps there are some practioners in Eastern Religions who could do it or perhaps a few psychics. The Tech comes from Scientology alone as far as I know. It is the brain child of both Hubbard and Mayo as far as I know. In C of S there may not be anyone who could have done what I did and if there is, they would be prohibited by policiy from doing it without proper setups and C/Sing.

I am sure thare are probably some past life healers such as myself who wander the world with these types of gifts, certainly a few much more gifted than me but I doubt if any of them are well known or well promoted or belong to a group of like individuals. I have no slightest idea of how many people in the world could have handled that guy last night. If asked to give a wild assed gues, I would say that the breakdown might be as follows:

On ESMB 50 to 100 people, at least half of them on our thread.
Active in the C of S - maybe 30 to 40 people but none would be allowed to do it.
Freezone - Maybe 50 people but there again maybe only 5 -10 would actually do it.
Outside without any Scientology connectioin - maybe 500 worldwide, but all done indiviually in a local area.

Those are just guesses, does anyone have any comments.
Lakey

I'm not sure if you understood my post or if I understand yours here.

I'm not saying that there are any others or any other groups that do what you do. I was only talking about how you can make connections with people who might be interested in what you do, to make yourself known and to find people to work on and build your reputation in order to build a business for yourself.

There are lots of people in the L.A. area who are interested in such things who I'm sure would like to meet you and/or who might want your help and once they see what you can do, they will talk and spread the word and you will end up with clients.

Here's just a brief list of people who are interested in this area. These are only people who have websites or blog online and there are tons more people out there as well.

If I were you, and I'm not, but I would just get in comm with some of these people or at least check out some of this and explore the area. Just my 2 cents.

Am I making any sense to you here?

By the way, I don't know that I have any record of being a seer, at least not this lifetime.

Just click on the link below to see some of the people who are interested in spiritual healing.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds...os+Angeles&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=5004403568104567

 

[FoTi]

I think you’re just fine, Lakey…I was jest messin’ with you…there wasn’t any innuendo to it.

I wasn’t trying to preach to you or anyone about money. I guess I was just talkin’ to myself mostly. Everyone is free to look at money as they wish. Of course it’s always good to have some dough. Having dough just doesn’t rule my life.

As long as I wasn’t tryin’ to mooch off her, I wouldn’t want to be with a woman if I felt or knew that me having dough was of importance to her…that simple. How I feel about people and what my opinion of them has not a flippin’ thing to do with whether or not they got dough. Everybody is free to decide what they think is important in another…I just don’t think havin’ or not havin’ dough means that one being is superior, better or more worth interactin’ or bein’ with than the other.

Three and a half years ago I had a wife decide her life would be better if she didn’t spend the rest of it with a brain damaged, useless and invalid husband…all the dough in the world wouldn’t have kept her there but I’m confident she would have stayed a little longer if she knew I’d be croaking soon. I paid for her college, set her up in career, bought her “dream house”, provided an affluent life with lots of first class trips, designer cloths and goodies, on and on, but in the end, it wasn’t the money…or, maybe it was and the fact that I sure wasn’t lookin’ like I’d ever be makin’ any more dough and sure looked like I was gonna be “high maintenance” and needin’ “attention”. I dunno, couldn’t get a straight answer out of her.

Anyway, guess I’m preachin’ again. All I know is, me and the richest person in the world will have the same amount of dough the moment each one of us drops the bod, and that dough ain’t gonna do them no good where ever wee’s goin’ next.

Face

This is sad.

 

[FoTi]

For an infantryman weighted down with 50 pounds of gear, a life vest would not have done a damn bit of good.

^^^^That was my thought too.

So what if the guy isn't weighted down with 50 pounds of gear, but instead puts on 50 lbs of fat.....does that mean that a life vest will only work on skinny guys?