Steve!

For the sake of the benefit of the doubt, I will make one last comment directly to revrun Mike. Mike, you said that docvic brought us God's Word like no other could have. That is the basic assumption behind TWI and its offsh!ts, and that assumption has been repeatedly demonstrated to be flawed. If, for example, you were even to go to the sources that veepee "allegedly" plagiarized from, you would see great portions of what would become PFAL. If you were to review B.G. Leonard's class, again you would see the source for PFAL. And B.G.'s class is still going strong! And keep in mind, it's not the Bible that I am rejecting. I am not rejecting God and His Word - I am rejecting VP's claim to the throne. Everyone else - obviously we are conversing with someone in the throes of the psychological condition known as "cognitive dissonance", or perhaps some other mental illness. I am not really qualified to diagnose, but I do know enough about mental illness to recognize it when I see it. Cognitive dissonance is when there are 2 conflicting concepts in a person's mind, and the mind struggles to make sense of them both, until ultimately completely rejecting one and vehemently adhering to the other. In this case, Mike cannot accept that so many years of his life were wasted, and he cannot accept that the hero he idolizes is not the man he thought him to be. Therefore he is placing him on a pedestal even higher than that of Jesus Christ - docvic is MUCH more important to our day and time than Jesus Christ ever could be, according to everything that Pastor Mike has written. Carrying on a conversation with a person with a mental illness is usually fruitless. It's like trying to teach a pig to sing - it wastes your time and it annoys the pig! (credit Mark Twain)

Okay, in the interest of putting a speedy death to this sub-thread - "Argo who?" "Argo f__k yourslf!" "Knock knock!" "Who's there?" "Banana!" "Banana who?" "Argo f__k yourslf!"

Um, Wolfie, listen to yourself - Um, Wolfie? What is authentic about elves to begin with?

Yes, Buck, I knew that. That was why he moved to Po'land OR - because of you. He was my roommate for a year there, and every other word was "Buck" this, and "Buck" that. About a year or so ago I'd heard that he and his wife are still living in St. Louis MO, and they have been OUT since POOP. Answer: Argo!

Was - You understand! You really understand! Raf - so what's your point? THE will ALWAYS be THEre for you!

The Most Holy Reverend Mike hath said: He's a Geer boy! That certainly fits. I suppose I'd best watch my back from now on.

Oh, how wonderful, a lone voice crying in the wilderness. Please, seek help. You've lost friends and a spouse over this? Would you go so far as to lose a job over this? Life is just too damned short. What do you think it will get you? Is it going to deliver anyone? Will it get anyone born again? Will it magnify God? Remember that line, "nobody cares how much you know unless they know how much you care"? All you've done so far is to exalt yourself. Do you think that that is in line with scripture? All hail the Great Apostle Mike! [This message was edited by Steve! on December 27, 2002 at 8:30.]

Um, Lindy? Your story is moving. I'm also glad that you are now out. I also realize that it was probably cathartic for you to post your story, and that parts of it may have been difficult to write. Just try to remember one word when you post a long post, please - "paragraphs". Thank you. Carry on.

THE, THE, and THE are like ice, water, and gas, or like a banana peel - three manifestations of THE same person. Three THE's in one, like a faTHEr THE, a son THE, and a wholly ghost THE.

credit goes to Mark Glazer for this one (actually two that go together): Knock! Knock!

Mike - PFAL needs to be mastered? PFAL? How about the Word of God? And please don't try to tell me that PFAL = The Word of God. It ain't so. First off, much of it was plagiarized from outside sources - and there have been many discussions about that, and evidence shown. Second, much of it is just plain wrong. The law of believing, for example. Believing = receiving. That's not a law, that's a magic formula. Sure, there is principle behind that statement, but the material that docvic uses to exemplify that statement is rubbish. And that's just one example. Who "authored" PFAL? Docvic. So naturally he would promote it. Naturally he would indicate that it was the most important thing in the world, exalting it even above the Bible. Sorry, Mike, if you are looking for the PFAL/Docvic fan club, it ain't here. Try CFF, or Rearend Geer's outfit, or one of the many other sphincter, er, splinter groups. Anyway, I didn't and don't intend this post as a personal attack, and forgive me if you take it that way. I respect the amount of effort you have put into your posts here, and commend you on your heart of service. Regards, Steve

There is no "THIS". There is no "THAT". There is only THE.

Don't know, don't care! hahahaha An alternate answer to your knockknock joke, buck - KNOCK! KNOCK! "Who's there?" "Olive!" "Olive who?" "Olive, the OTHER reindeer!" hahahahaha Okay, now - I heard the greatest knock knock joke in the world the other day - you start!

An oldie but a goodie - what's the difference between apiesteia and apietheia? (scroll down) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I don't know and I don't care! HAhahahahahaha!!! I slay me! ohohohoho!

Oh, don't worry about the pages loading up, even if you shrink the pic, it will still take almost as much storage space. And shrinking an animated gif file is not exactly the simplest thing - results can vary substantially. Just be glad that you have it the way it is now. And if you still want to shrink it, get some gif animator software and play around with it until you get the results you want. Personally, I like it the way it is.

TSRTSRTSRTS (etc) - How is that possible? THEre is only THE! How can THE ever end? Unless - unless it were to be replaced by THAT.

Their reaction was one of astonishment. The one said, "No kidding??? Wow. Out of everyone I know, you are the one I would think least likely to have been in a religious cult." And that was that. There were no more questions, and that line of conversation ended.

Ig, you don't truly exist, you are completely computer generated. So go look for yourself in cyberspace!

He must have taken Earline nigh unto fantasyland . . .

No matter what 2-digit number you pick, when you subtract its digits, you end up with 9 or a multiple thereof. If you look at 9, 18, etc., you will notice that their symbols are all the same. And every time you do it, they rotate the symbols, so that 9 and its multiples (except 90, which is an impossible result) have the same symbol, but it is a different symbol than the last time.

Why work that hard if you don't have to? you can go into Control Panel, console and do the same thing, or you can open a command prompt, click on the icon on the task bar, click "properties", and you can set way more than the color.

There is only THE.

I've faced Darth Vader; I am a Jedi. Today at my company's Christmas party, I was sitting with 2 co-workers on the 96th floor of the John Hancock building in Chicago, and the conversation turned to where we grew up. I was asked if I was from Chicago. I said, "Yes, I've been here my whole life, except for 5 years when I lived in Portland, Oregon." You know what the next question was - "What took you out there?" I said, "It's a long, complicated story - I was in a religious cult."

Data's head is circling Uranus looking for Klingons . . . Perhaps a DS-9 movie, or a Voyager based movie, before an "Enterprise" movie. There are some dangling threads still from DS-9.

Ooh, you said B-4 and B-9?? BINGO!!!