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Thanks guys! I think my biggest surprise was thinking of Mark and Avoid! “The ministry” is frustrating but then when I am talking about it with other ex members it’s sort of like what else would I call it?

Anyone today would recognize that U.S. presidents live a long time, with Jimmy Carter passing away at 100 in 2024. The average age of a U.S. president is 78 years old. But only five presidents died in their 50s. Name three.

5) IS Jonny Quest 3) IS The Time tunnel So, you win. (Incidentally, those are the two I would have known immediately.) The others: 1) The Invaders 2) Land of the Giants 4) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 6) It's About Time George

Still no. (Allen and Keaton weren't Russians in Sleeper, and that movie is even further from Napoleon's time than Manhattan.) "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." "You are the greatest lover I've ever had." "Well, I practice a lot when I'm alone." "Oh don't, Boris, please. Sex without love is an empty experience." "Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best." "So who is to say what is moral?" "Morality is subjective." "Subjectivity is objective." "Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality." "Not as an essential extension of ontological existence." "Can we not talk about sex so much?" "The question is: have I learned anything about life? Only that... only that human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there IS a God, I don't think that He's evil. I think that the worst you can say about Him is that, basically, He's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death. I mean, if you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I mean. The key here, I think, is to... to not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses. Regarding love, heh, you know, what can you say? It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that count. It's the quality. On the other hand, if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it. Well, that's about it for me folks. Goodbye." "If I don't kill him he'll make war all through Europe. But murder... the most foul of all crimes. What would Socrates say? All those Greeks were homosexuals. Boy, they must have had some wild parties. I bet they all took a house together in Crete for the summer. A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates. That means all men are homosexuals. Heh... I'm not a homosexual. Once, some cossacks whistled at me. I happen to have the kind of body that excites both persuasions. You know, some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all, you know... they become lawyers." "Sonja, are you scared of dying?" "Scared is the wrong word. I'm frightened of it." "That's an interesting distinction." George

OK, here's our guesses. 5) is definitely "JOHNNY QUEST." 3) might be "the Time Tunnel." 6), is remotely possible it is "the Ghost Busters."

Be careful not to doxx yourself.

I'll put some up soon.

Twinky posted a pic on FB last night (or today).

The way I look at things like this now is through the lens of what society understands, in general. I'm not afraid to believe that homosexually oriented people are human beings just like you and me. IMO, God doesn't hate them or consider them "wrong." They just are, just like you and I are humans.

Whenever I watch the intro to an episode of Jeopardy, when Johnny Gilbert introduces Ken Jennings, I still am stuck on expecting him to say Alex Trebek. It's a mental habit... of my expectation. IOW, don't beat yourself up about it Penguin2.

Meh. I still call it "the ministry" out of habit. I never stop to consider the semantic implications. I'm sure there are lots of other non-cult words and phrases in our vocabularies that we never stop to analyse in-depth. I still call bandages "Band Aids" without much thought. I just don't worry about.

Sleeper

I was at work and saw an acronym M&A and immediately went to mark and avoid in my head?!? What? It’s been around twenty years since our freedom into the wide open spaces of God’s grace free of performance and the constant pressure of measuring up. Why did my brain translate a hospital news article as mark and avoid? Also why do I still refer to the Way as “the ministry?” I catch myself doing that still and it frustrates me. So many really good ministries genuinely meeting people’s needs and teaching the God’s Word are out here-TWI doesn’t have a monopoly.

Nowadays the sayin' depends so much on the kind of woman that you find.

The Untouchables Charles Martin Smith American Graffiti George

No, I think Napoleon predated "Manhattan" by a couple of centuries. Would it help to know that the main characters are Russian? George

"I'm so glad we had this time together..." George

Correct. George

Chris Hemsworth Ghostbusters(2016) Andy Garcia

It might help someone else, someone who knows something about the other movies. "Manhattan???"

CORRECT!

No. (The original author, AFAIK, is more famous than in your guess.)

HALLOWEEN. The white mask of Michael Myers was made from a mask of the face of William Shatner.

No. Gee, I hope somebody gets it before Oct. 31... George

I Will Survive I remember, once, hearin' the old folks say, love's an ageless old rhyme.