and then b shift is after lunch till, like, 10:00 at night. dave hasz pulled all of the graduate interns together to have a meeting because there weren t enough calls being made in global expeditions to get teens out on the mission s field. so we re moving all of the manpower to ge. that s like that in all the call centers. the acquire the fire, the honor academy center and the ge call center. that s all they care about. they tell you if you re not meeting your goals, you re not praying enough, not being spiritual enough, you know, you re not working at this hard enough because you re not reaching this goal. my year was september 11th, and we had a huge mass exodus of kids, you know, that were in global expeditions, they were going to go on mission trips that summer and just completely backed out. and they did this whole, we re in a war, this is wartime. what? which means that we were working overtime. so we were given new schedules, completely new schedules.
you know what i mean? just taking away simple things like commodities, american electronics and whatever, and getting that out of the way and seeing, like, what really does matter. they actively promote the idea that ron and dave hasz are this magically anointed you know, dave would tell the story as soon as the internals arrived, this elaborate story where he almost died in africa and this woman prophesied to him that he was going to miraculously recover and then his job was to sweep the aisles out of the lives of young people. that god was sent him to do this. so whatever he says is automatically credible. and the same thing with ron, there s this mystical thing around them that you automatically believe whatever they say. i never asked people to become christians. i asked them to consider becoming followers of christ.
were shivering to the point where our teeth were chattering. and it was like the introduction where dave hasz would get up and it was the first time we had seen him during esoal and everything. and i remember he said, stop shivering. you sound disgusting. and it s, like, dark and it s just a scary environment. okay. you re going to have to eat some of this. we re going to keep them moving. as soon as your team is done don t do it or you ll have just as much more. don t spit them out. we ll make you eat them even more. i want you to eat one handful. let s go. you know you like it. come on now. let s go. let s go. we re not having social interaction here.
does it prove true in life experience what i m saying? don t go out there and say, dave hasz says this so i think that s true. basically, i felt like they didn t want us to have emotions. they just wanted us to be these happy people all the time, and they didn t really care what was going on inside of this. i think teen mania does this and a lot of christians do this but especially teen mania. they associate whatever is a normal human emotion or interaction or development as worldly so then you have to abstain from it. and they just categorize everything, even, like normal, healthy development, basically robbing you of your humanity. mm-hmm. we hold a high moral standard here. it s all biblical. living a life of excellence and discipline.
just because it s a thought doesn t mean i m going to act upon it. and if you are real, you show a genuine concern, it s immediately shot down with, oh, well, this is the answer to that instead of, well, let s approach this genuinely. just, like, oh, well so they had stock answers for everything? yeah. i was willing to believe anything they said because they were obviously more spiritual than i was. what do i know about god s voice? that s half the reason i went to the academy, to learn more about god s voice. anybody else? that s pretty strong right there. david hasz gives this definition of honor as the total conglomeration. he said that the whole bible is summed up in honor. we have the honor council and honor code and the honor ring. it s this whole you can t even question isn t it really about honor? what about, i don t know, love? so here we are in texas in the rain in camouflage panchos carrying a cross down the side of the road. mine was earned orbiting the