Hi Joe,

>> Could be. In my instance it was my own fault. I actually debated the
>> idiots given various scriptural refences because I knew how way whacky
>> they were. It's
>> not hard to win an argument with them when you force them to look at the
>> greek and other ancient translations of scripture... this is something
>> they were not prepared for. Hence this lady kept bringing higher-up
>> mucky-mucks over to my house but they couldn't fight what was in front of
>> their eyes.. (John 1:1 which
>> is translated differently in their thingy) until they finally gave up.
>> That lady was in tears (seriously). I told her open your eyes if you are
>> really that concerned about this stuff.. the world is a wonderful place
>> :)

> Maybe you 'saved' one of them 

Hahaha... free them would be more like it :)  But somehow I doubt that would
happen given the constant pressure from the "group".

>> bored and since I really like to read, somewhere in there I'd purchased a
>> number of interlinear books. Plus I taught myself greek then just because
>> I could. Ancient greek is a stretch though I'll tell ya .. Still was
>> very interesting.

> I had enough trouble with Latin, nevermind Greek 

Latin was one that I really aced - a grade of 98 on most finals.  It was a very
logical language in construction to me after French, Spanish, and some other
languages I'd studied.  But everyone is different, I know that.  My kids are
like me as far as languages go, thankfully they didn't take after Ron with his
foreign language skills haha.. He took enough to get through Hopkins but never
ever enjoyed it :)

>> But yes, it was a good thing for her that I got her out of that world..
>> she was
>> a bit dependant growing up which I think influenced the situation.

> Yes, that could influence things like that.

Yep, you could see it kind of over and over with her as she'd migrate to one
wacky group or another :(  Finally I kind of forced her to agree to go to
college.  It wasn't easy since she'd dropped out, but I knew of a plan in NYS
that enabled her to finsh HS and start college at the same time. She did that,
then went on earn her MS in microbiology and eventually landed a job at the NYS
Dept. of Virology... so finally I could relax Lol

Take care,
Janis

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-2