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Jackie Coogan was my Uncle Fester in the Absurd.

I have a hard time trying to read the Bible. I see some particular scripture and think about how I listened to some teacher or another get all excited about what the verse or word REALLY meant. Then I think about how that whole particular teaching was actually based on flawed research and didn't reflect the message they were trying to convey at all. Like finding out there is no Easter Bunny. Can you really make yourself believe in him again?

alfakat, Maybe I'm missing something here. I don't see anybody trying to paint ALL of them with the same paint brush. When you look at a high school year book, you have memories of the "group", but, don't you, also, consider how they've all grown in different, individual directions? Isn't that part of the attraction of face-book for many people?

VP and Howard

Reminds me of the old codger who said, "I still chase women----I just wish I could remember why."

Here's some irony. In PLAF (The Wonder Class), Wierwille talked about how he would prepare part of his Sunday sermon and then put it in his desk drawer until he worked on it again. Then, come Sunday morning, the sermon fell flat because the devil had looked at his teaching throughout the week and turned the congregation against it by Sunday morning. This was his argument for the value of spontaneity. Yet, he continually refused to re-film "the class", itself, because, he said, it couldn't be recreated. I guess he really didn't believe that silly illustration himself, now, did he?.

There was actually an aborted attempt to create a way corps prior to this. They are sometimes referred to as the "Zero Corps".

http://www.atlbible.org/1stwaycorps.cfm?Picture=1 http://www.atlbible.org/1stwaycorps.cfm?Picture=2 http://www.atlbible.org/1stwaycorps.cfm?Picture=3 http://www.atlbible.org/howardallen.htm

"Same old same old" that any other good little wayfer would have. It got damaged in a wet basement incident about fifteen years ago and I pitched it. Can't say that I've really felt any compulsion to ever replace it.

My original line of thinking wasn't really questioning whether or not there are Biblical parallels. There obviously are. My question was more about the "why?". "Why" do we feel, in make making comparisons, that the comparisons need to be Biblical at all?

In this dirty old part of the city, where the sun refuse to shine......

Twinky In order to understand the literal meaning according to colloquial usage, you need to juxtapose the ch and f and add a pesky little comma in the appropriate position to suggest that someone is being addressed. (It's especially topical when viewed in light of the current "Sheen Shenanigans".)

Shudder! The greatest cargoes in life come over==================

And there is an analogy (or is it simile or maybe hypercacastasis?) that you can see here if you've been saying your Lo Shanta's faithfully, too. The prison bars represent the great truths, hidden in that wonderful collateral, "Release From Your Prisons". Yes, that's it. You, too, can have something completely different if you will focus clearly on an image of a fish. ('cause fish are Biblical, you see.)

Do you see the spiritual reference in this? See, God is using the parable of the oafs and fishes to teach us great truths.

One of my favorite lines from PFAL: "Even if you get to heaven and find out it's not there, I will have had one kick azz time riding my motor scooters." ........................................ Oops! Sorry John. We seem to have derailed "your" thread. You've taught us well.

And who can forget this old T.V.ad for PFAL? "I'm not a real doctor but I play one at Rock of Ages."

I can't begin to even tell you all the great spiritual truths God taught me while I was marking all my dechomai's and lambano's. (Think how especially wonderful that is, when you consider that the D&L concept has been shown to be based on faulty "research".) And all those hours spent putting my big HS's and little hs's in my Zondervan Bible with the specially made leather cover, complete with the holy spirit dove, descending at the ministry approved angle, is time I'll always treasure, as I reflect on the highlights of my precious memories.

I never noticed until just now that it says "with", not "by". Sheesh. That could have simplified those old plagiarism threads a bit, ya know?

Oh, yeah, Dr. Lininger. Wasn't he the president of The University of Chicago or something? Or was it Harvard? Ahhhhh...I have here in front of me a PFAL syllabus. .................................... POWER for abundant living with Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille Copyright, The Way Inc., 1968 .................................................

Are you sure? 'cause I could have sworn I heard him being introduced as "Dr." Wierwille. I mean, if he wasn't really a "Dr.", surely he would have insisted that people stop introducing him like that, no?

my job was to get those classes together and run twigs that grew and split. THAT is how I knew I was successful. I was in a limb town with a limb coordinator breathing down my back. He pushed me to run classes. After all, that is what I was there to do!!! It wasn't about moving the word...it was about running PFAL classes...the two are in no way synonymous. Exactly----It says as much right there in the Witnessing and Undershepherding syllabus on page 2. "The basic reason we witness is to help people into the classes on Power For Abundant Living and help them to walk on it."

GLORIA----Van Morrison and Them