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Where (in The Bible) does it say people are going to Hell?

Hey, That's No way To Say Goodbye

"All the bad people are gone" ------------------ :o "What they do at Headquarters and teach on the field are two different things" (Nice to see you, Mr. B.)

Wierwille latched onto the Trinitarian aspect of Christian cults and completely ignored the rest because it served his agenda. A group can be a cult without any involvement of Trinitarian beliefs. Every group has something that makes it uniquely different from other groups. With Christian Cults, that might well include the Trinity but that is not the defining factor. I remember how Wierwille enjoyed playing up this comparison of The Way to groups that were accepted as being cults. It gave him a ready made platform to launch into his JCING theology. He embraced the comparisons.

If we cancel the space program, what will Captain Brainstorm do with his free time? http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/shows/bill/...instorm.jhtml?=

Sir Duke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmUvVj2mxnY

Space Spinoffs http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html

I don't think anyone has said he is not free to choose. Personally, I think the article should stick to sports rather than avail itself as a launching pad for TWI promotion.

Here's a few from "The Texas Cannonball" to start the week off with a bang. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aimj-mTeFKA...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGLmZCZ1sXY...feature=related

Wasn't there a photo here at one time of the TWI Research Library? I can't seem to find it now.

In TWI, everything always had to have some sort of spiritual meaning. According toTWI, bad things supposedly happened in your area or your life because you were moving "The Word" and the adversary was trying to stop it. But then again, maybe bad things supposedly happened in your area or your life because you were NOT moving "The Word", thus giving the adversary an open trapdoor by which to attack you. Geeze Louise---Maybe bad stuff just happens---period, ya know? In the grand scheme of the history of mankind, VPW was nobody. He was a huckster, a flim-flam man who set up a clever MLM and used "The Word" to lend credibility to it all. It was never about "us" or God, it was always about VP. He got what he wanted. He had prime real estate, servants to wait on him, expensive guns and dogs and fishing gear to satisfy his outdoor interests. He had a whole fleet of classic cars and a fleet of expensive motorcycles tucked away, out of sight from Joe B. Leever. He had his own private jet and a motor coach. He even had his own private harem of concubines. And the list goes on. Who paid for all that stuff? Is it any wonder he pushed so hard for "Word Over The World"? Money from classes, money from ABS, all at the expense of someone other than VPW. We're like the little old man on the 11 o'clock news who relates how he was swindled out of his life savings. It's embarrassing as heck to admit it but, at the same time, it's a relief to get it out in the open.

BINGO!!

A mighty fine example of "trophy mentality".

I'd Rather Go Blind

Sunday Will Never Be The Same

I always thought it was quite clever that Pee Wee Herman named his dog Speck. (He was just a tiny little thing, much too small to be thought of as a Spot.)

Ethical debauchery!!! :lol:

Etta James------At Last

Lots of fond memories of clam bakes in my younger days Never was a big fan of clams and chowder but the bon-fires and chill in the evening air always seemed to set the mood for good times.

Hap I remember that being in my notes (same year) also but can't locate them at the moment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: suicide AC syllabus B. DISCERNING OF SPIRITS . . . page 21 Spirits affecting the mind . . . (17) Suicidal spirit--Romans 1:16ff (18) Spirit of death---persons death is imminent. (this one is hand written, not part of the printed text.)

Hiya, Chas I get what you are saying. To someone who was not around during VPW's tenure, the importance is probably not so obvious. Those of us who were around during the VP days held the man in very high regard. To me, at least, it's really more about credibility and integrity than it is about how he lost his eye. I never had the slightest idea he died of cancer until I read it here. I remember inquiring at the time only to be given a cold shoulder. The cause of death was very obviously obscured and hidden. That's a real, real big deal (and dilemma) for those of us who sat through his teachings ramblings on devil spirits and cancer in the Advanced Class. He taught that cancer is a devil spirit in the 1973 AC. In that same class he also taught that devil spirits were responsible for certain behavioral traits, such as addiction, alcoholism, sexual predation, delusions of grandieur and other traits that he himself possessed. Then, hearing him portray himself as some sort of martyr by saying " I gave my eye for The Word! What have you given?" induces a whole new level of disgust for the deceptions and betrayals. That's probably not a very good explanation but at least it explains why, for me, it's a big deal.

Some "musical" humor.

Absolutely!!

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