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    Do 'Spin-Off' Participants See Their Groups As Continuations of 'The Ministry'?

    in About The Way

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    Very keen observation, Oak and very true.

    The people who see little to no errors in PFAL and general TWI doctrine have a totally different view from:

    - those who have re-evaluated everything and come to the conclusion that it (PFAL) was riddled with errors but that the Bible is still the God-breathed word and inerrant in nature

    which is a different view from:

    - those who still believe in God, but recognize and admit that the Bible isn't the end all and be all of religion, beliefs and God.

    I think the first two groups are most likely to either be in or to have started spin-offs and to maintain their involvement there.

    Those in the first group are most likely to still hold the arrogant, egotistical attitude that we were taught so well. These are the ones who attack those who don't believe like they do and the ones who scare me the most.

    Sorry for the minor edit, Belle; but I initially read your message as saying that the Bible was riddled with errors but somehow still inerrant.

    George

    The Nostalgia Thread

    in Movies, Music, Books, Art

    Posted · Edited by GeorgeStGeorge

    "A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine."

    A day without the Nostalgia Thread is like three pages of forum that no one has time to plow through!

    I've missed most of the song links, but Ican try to answer a couple of musical questions.

    "Syncopation" is like the color orange. It's easy to give examples but hard to explain. As mentioned previously, it refers to accenting a normally unaccented part of a beat or measure. As an example, if an ordinary 4/4 bar sounds like this: DAH DAH DAH DAH, a syncopated measure might sound like this: dit DAH DAH DAH dit, where the accents fall between the beats.

    "Dorian" mode has the same notes as a regular major scale, but starting on the second note of the major scale. For instance, playing from D to D, but using a C-major scale, would be D Dorian. Hence, a Dorian scale has a flat third and flat seventh relative to the major scale. It's very common in jazz.

    More information than you need: A "Phrygian" scale starts on the third note of the major scale; a "Lydian" scale starts on the fourth; a "Mixolydian" scale starts on the fifth; an "Aeolian" scale starts on the sixth; and a "Locrian" scale starts on the seventh. The major scale is also sometimes called the "Ionian" scale. The "Aeolian" scale is more commonly referred to as a "natural minor" scale. (C major = A minor.)

    George

    W.C. Fields Training

    in About The Way

    Posted

    Another example is when the MOG would mispronounce something, everybody would fall in line and mispronouce it the same way.

    Martindale was teaching from the OT and came upon the word "rereward" - it was actually an archaic spelling of REARward, but Martindale pronounced it re-reward, as in reward again. I actually heard teachings on how God "re-rewards" us based on this stupidity.

    Or how many people thought that pleroo was pronounced pleroko, or exegeomai pronouned exegeckomai because Wierwille had trouble with the two "o"s in a row?

    The re-reward business actually started with Wierwille.

    And the pronunciation of the Greek requires a glottal stop between vowels not elided into a diphthong, which is fairly well approximated by the "ck" that Wierwille used. We don't have the same considertion in English, although consider the differences between "reel" and "reelect" or "coop" and "cooperate." We tend to fill the doubled vowels with another consonant, as well (reYelect or coWoperate). If you try to pronounce "reelect" or "cooperate" by simply stopping the sound with your throat, you would be using a glottal stop.

    George

    Ratting out Your Corps Brother or Sister

    in About The Way

    Posted

    This thread seems to have wandered a bit, so I'm going to stray a bit further before returning it where it belongs. Jonny's remark reminded me how we would chide someone if he hadn't been to Twig in a couple of weeks, but if he came back after several MONTHS, he was welcomed back like the prodigal son! A bit screwed up there, I think.

    Back to the topic. I was never in the Corps, though I was occasionally ratted on by Corps and other "believers." Near the end of my "tenure" with TWI, it had gotten to the point where I wouldn't share anything with ANYONE, because I knew I'd get hammered for it. :asdf:

    George

    Movie Pictionary

    in Movies, Music, Books, Art

    Posted

    I do think that this puzzle stretches the concept of Pictionary a bit, since the clues weren't really sound-oriented. I would have had trouble with that one if I didn't know how Raf thinks. (It's an acquired taste.)

    Rick, give us your best shot.

    George

    The Nostalgia Thread

    in Movies, Music, Books, Art

    Posted

    Yes.. your first impression is probably correct as to who this is. I didn't edit it for lenght either as I find it interesting as to how the singer had been managed. This was obviously not his style. What's you guys' take on it??

    My first impression was Rodney Dangerfield doing Elvis. Upon further review, I think it was Elvis doing Rodney Dangerfield!

    :D

    George

    The Nostalgia Thread

    in Movies, Music, Books, Art

    Posted

    Rick,

    Good grief!

    :redface:

    CK, cute. It reminds me of an old cartoon (strip) I saw where an interviewer is interviewing Santa, who is dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and surrounded by elves working under palm trees. Santa says, "I've never regretted relocating to Florida!" (The cartoon was over twenty years ago, and a Google search didn't find it.)

    George

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