Is there any interest in a plain, simple live-in farm community?

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Lay Catholic live-in plain and simple, spiritual and charitable farm community in Tunkhannock, Pa. is accepting applecations for membership. We have room for two or three single men. Visit our web site, http.//www.bwjc.org. or phone 570-836-7309.

-- mark Ponganis (bwjc@MAIL.EMCS.NET.), November 23, 2001

Answers

Hello, I went to your site and it is hard to figure out what you are all about. Do people (families) build and live there or do you provide housing? Are you a community gardening or what sort of things do you provide, More information would be helpful. Karole

-- Karole (Biz3boymom@aol.com), November 24, 2001.

Are you live sort of a lay monastic life, is the community segregated to males only? Your website sucks none of the links work.

-- Ed (smikula@bellsouth.net), November 24, 2001.

Ed. Your web site sucks! I beg your pardon! If you can do better I will give you our address. If you mean by links, our scriptual passages, you must look them up. In the spiritual life, one must work.. Yes, we are like a lay monastery, without vows or life long commitments. Mark

-- Mark Ponganis (bwjc@MAIL. EMCS.NET.), November 24, 2001.

Oy vey!

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), November 24, 2001.

No man not scriptural passages, the links in the heading to get to the other pages. You can only access the front page, which contains no real information at all.

-- Ed (smikula@bellsouth.net), November 24, 2001.


Look beyond the verbal shorthand the message was adequately transmitted. Living as you do, taking apart the immediate should not be a problem for you.

-- Ed (smikula@bellsouth.net), November 24, 2001.

I had no problem navigating your site. Good for you. I admire anyone who's really trying to live by their ideals. :)

-- witness (witness@hotmail.com), November 24, 2001.

I believe you are having problems with your site. Your links do NOT work (at least at this time). When you click on them, nothing happens. You might want to check them out.

-- Karen (db0421@yahoo.com), November 24, 2001.

If anyone is having probles with our site, please click on the box for subject and page on the site map. Go slow. Everytime I check it's working. Sorry. Mark

-- Mark Ponganis (bwjc@MAIL. EMCS.NET.), November 24, 2001.

If anyone is having problems with our site, please click on the box in the site map for subject and page. Go slow. Everytime I check it's working. Thank you and I am sorry. Mark

-- Mark Ponganis (bwjc@EMCS.NET), November 24, 2001.


Is this the same Bretheren that brainwash college kids and not let them talk to their families or go home? Dianne Sawyer did a piece on the "Bretheren" a couple of years ago, nothing I would want any of my family members belonging to unless I never wanted to see them again...

-- Laura (LauramLeek@yahoo.com), November 24, 2001.

Perhaps we can send Tee Jay there for a 20 or 30 year visit.

-- Ed Copp (OH) (edcopp@yahoo.com), November 24, 2001.

I have copied and pasted your site address directly off your post and have been unable to locate it. I would like to see your site as I am not that far from you here in the southern tier of NYS.

-- Kate henderson (kate@sheepyvalley.com), November 24, 2001.

No, we are an approved Catholic community which respect family as a holy institution. Our members are encouraged to visit their families and friends as often as they can.

-- Mark Ponganis (bwjc@MAIL. EMCS.NET.), November 24, 2001.

well, that's better. You cannot copy and paste from mark's reply because there ia a mistake in his address.

try this: http://www.bwjc.org

-- Laura (LauramLeek@yahoo.com), November 24, 2001.



thanks for repairing the address laura.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), November 24, 2001.

Please disregard the person who published a post here masquerading as "witness" at "witness@hotmail.com". I have been the only rightful owner of that e-mail account since 1996, and the person writing here is being deceptive and untruthful -- and is causing me to receive unsolicited responses (which is how I followed up and found out about this ... I do not read this forum).

I apologize for any inconvenience.

-- Swag Valance (witness@hotmail.com), November 25, 2001.


Mark, I am using Netscape Navigator and cannot navigate your website. Often, a website will work on one browser and not on another. For this reason, a professional web designer will have copies of many browsers so he can test his work. If you are using one of the "free" websites you may not be able to move it to another server should you decide to switch internet providers or move your site to another server. I am not an expert. Just suggestions based on what little I know.

-- Bob (robertblessum@netscape.net), November 27, 2001.

I'm using Internet Explorer, and while "sucks" is a fairly strong way of putting things, the use of the page is by no means self-evident. There is a row of words that looks as if they should be links, but aren't. Above that, theres a string of things which look like beads on a string. Those beads are in fact unlabelled links to things, but it's not self-evident or easy to use. On the web, you've got about two or three seconds for people to assess something and say "Yes, I'll stay on this page and look further" or "No - I can't use this - I'm moving on". Your web page will fail to achieve your purpose.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), November 27, 2001.

Oy Vey!

-- John in Wisc. (johndiclrk@Elroynet.com), March 11, 2002.

How many live in your community?

-- Josie Cooke (josieck@earthlink.net), April 19, 2002.

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