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I dunno. Somehow, the concept of cult leaders thinking they're "ordained by God" just tickles my funny bone. Sorta like preschoolers putting on Mommy's lipstick and prancing around in her high heels. Do they know they look silly? Of course not. Fantasy becomes reality...at least in their minds.

Walk Away----Joe, Dale and Jim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_GZIaghqV0 Too easy for me. These are my homey's. Saw them do this live, lot-o-times. FREE POST

No offense taken. This was simply meant to further explain what I meant in a previous post when I said it had an "esoteric twist".

And, now, one of Wierwille's most active (If not the MOST active) collaborators in the whole sex scandal fiasco is facing his own health crisis. So, we are asked to feel sympathy for him. Call me cold, but, I don't think so.

Interesting site. Personally, I'm not interested in making any kind of "religious commitment".

".......it makes me wonder where is the outrage about the Catholic church?" Maybe you haven't been following the news. There has been plenty of outrage, regarding sexual molestation in the Catholic Church, over the past several years. It's been a mainstay of the news media for quite some time. "As for VP, he's dead!" Yes, he's dead. The doctrines, attitudes and practices he fostered, however, live on to this day. That people continue to defend him and revere him, even in his absence, says a lot about the depth of the indoctrination he sowed.

The "it" factor. Yes. Thinking of people as though they are inanimate things, not humans with feelings and thoughts and dreams. Just a disposable commodity. Wierwille let his slip show when he said, "You can stay (in the Corps) as long as your money holds out." Yet, he was a master of pretending to care. Come to think of it, I guess he warned us of that when he said, "Sincerity is no guarantee for truth."

You know he wasn't a real "Dr.", don't you? ....People just "thought" he was.

I'll go with this one. (And facilitators, such as Rosie, are no less excusable.)

I thought my question was pretty straight forward. The old "answer a question with a question." doesn't fly anymore.

Where did I say this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbh9BBPYoSs

To hear him speak, one would think education is already gone.

es·o·ter·ic    [es-uh-ter-ik] adjective 1. understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions. 2. belonging to the select few. 3. private; secret; confidential. 4. (of a philosophical doctrine or the like) intended to be revealed only to the initiates of a group: the esoteric doctrines of Pythagoras. ============================================ Whatever happened to "God is no respecter of persons."?

I'd rather be .

Oh, goody! A pin! I could display it in the trophy case where I keep all my various nametags.

My mom? No, not that I know of. I suppose it's possible, though, after I moved away.

I guess I just don't get it. The man did some seriously evil things in his life, damaged marriages, damaged people psychologically, aided and abetted criminal activity and now that he's fallen on hard times, we're supposed to feel sorry for him? Well, call me a 6th grader, then, because I just don't see it.

So, you need to either be a Christian or apply advanced academic techniques, or both, to extract wisdom from Proverbs? (That's the book I used in my example.) Sorry, I just don't see that to be the case.

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