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Outstanding! Finally I have been nominated for sainthood. This must be the greatest day of my life…and yet somehow my excitement just doesn’t seem as great as it should be. Oh wait, I think I might fail just about every criteria listed…..dang!
Saints are boring. I'd rather be a redeemed sinner any day.
YESSSSS.. (Napolian D. fist gesture made) Sainthood is pretty much what I deserve. Wait, curses! I can't get it!!!! My family only has TWO (2) documented cases of Mighty Deeds and I think they allowed soft rock with backmasking into the home. All those hours of sitting at Knox and Indy, up in smoke.
Seriously, coming from a first year family, we've done all what's listed to the "T" but like sainthood, it was a bogus front to a corrupt and stagnant "religion".
Did I miss something???? Because I thought that the first year families already WERE saints. My gosh, from what I heard they were the TRUE core of ATI and it was just all of the families that came along later that corrupted ATI and gave it some of the "issues" that it has today. First year families though? They were DEDICATED to the VISION.
i am one of the (former) students from one of the pilot families. we don't /wouldn't qualify for that sainthood... not by a long shot... *G* :)
To answer Qoe, we Pilot Families get to have all the fun because we're better. Even though this might sound arrogant, I am compelled to utter the truth by the ingrained character qualities of Truthfulness ("Accurately reporting past facts in order to gain future trust") and Boldness ("Confidence that what I have to say or do is true, right, and just"). If it is true, that logic dictates that it cannot simultaneously be arrogant.
Proof of our superiority is evident in that it was our families that had the clarity of vision to see what others could not - namely, that the ATIA program was the necessary calling of all true Christians.
Those that did not see it at the time were obviously lacking in God-given vision, evidencing their callousness to the truth. This callousness is often caused by seeking a "comfortable" church - having a desire to "fit in" with a group of so-called "like-minded" believers at the expense of a deeper and more satisfying personal relationship with God that can only be obtained through The ATI Program.
Seriously though, if you don't see the truth of all this, your conscience is severely calloused - you should attend one of our seminars and learn about the True Path to Freedom and Enlightenment. Only by applying the One Truth can you hope to truly understand the world around you.
The reunions of pilot families w/ a sumptuous dinner were pretty fun, alright. Last time I indulged a little too freely w/ that "sumptuous dinner" and, having failed to exercise Self-Control, "fell ill of a surfeit of raspberry tarts". (Quoting from James Thurber.) I had never had such good food in my life.
You know that definition of Truthfulness ("Accurately reporting past facts in order to gain future trust")sounds just like the favorite character quality of a tattle-tale.
yes indeed - or even, an informer at a Training Center... "In order to gain FUTURE TRUST..." :)
Oops, I guess I disqualified my ENTIRE family. But dangit, I *WAS* dedicated to the vision! I was ten in the summer of '84, and with our acceptance to The Pilot Program I thought we'd received our admission to the promised land. When the fees got too high for us to participate any longer, I thought we were being shown the exit from paradise. I took this stuff seriously.
And all these years later, sitting here in godless Europe in my close-fitting, all-natural-fibers pants-suit that distracts from my short-haired, artsy-earringed, glasses'd countenance by drawing attention to my well-trained muscles and alluring, non-childbearing feminine curves, I would still challenge any one of you to a riveting game of Character Clues.
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