Rocky

Here's plenty of stuff about James Trimm's supposed Doctorate from an accredited institution.

He claims to have one, but no evidence for it seems to exist.

My, my, my. Reminds me of someone.

Plagiarists, by definition, seem to lack originality.

He plagiarized victor paul wierwille's sham doctorate as well as twi's book.

http://www.seekgod.ca/trimmdoc.htm

http://www.seekgod.ca/trimmdiploma.htm

Here's some stuff on James Trimm engaging in internet "sockpuppet" activity and other

dishonest practices, such as speaking out of both sides of his mouth

(telling group A one thing and group B the opposite.)

http://www.seekgod.ca/rabbiyosef.htm

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Here's the cited case. Note it's specifically about copyright infringement,

not "regulation of Scripture interpretation"

(or "suppressing the truth" or whatever you'd like to mislabel it as.)

http://dockets.justi...case_id-187156/

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There's lots more on James Trimm on a number of websites, but I was getting tired just

skimming them, so I stuck to a few basics and one site.

Feel free to look over the rest.

Are we sure that James Trimm is a real person? Might he really be Michael Rxxd?

Paw, when did Skip die?

Thursday evening, March 18.

Skip Mesquite

Many GSpotters knew some of the music of Skip Mesquite, who along with various recordings for Way Productions had been a member of the band Tower of Power once upon a time.

I graduated from the same high school that Alice Cooper (Vince Furnier) did... only he was six years before me... He even wore his high school letter sweater when he performed (with his son's band) prior to the Super Bowl in Glendale AZ... a year or two ago...

About Alice Cooper

Sudo also likes to point out that "March Forth" is the only date that is a command.

PurpleDays

Well then... Hello to the Doc and yourself too! :)

Huh? (Walter was gone before I was in-TWI... )

Please expound.

It's just a silly thing about today being the only day of the year that is a command. And Walter is the one that made a point of pointing out this silly fact. "March Forth."

so, as this day indicates: March Forth!

I thought that pic was creepy...

I don't believe the building they were in was owned by the federal government. And likely the new offices will also be in leased space.

I'll be expecting the Tax Hike to pay for a new IRS Building anytime now....

oops

i just got to watch it and oh man there's some good stuff he says in there, and the thing he says that i liked the most was when he was talking about how he copes with having that particular history he said "i embrace it because if i embrace it i don't have to run from it". did anybody else get to see it? i didn't know that jim jones and his wife were the first caucasian couple to adopt an african american child either. that history is something else, and it was something good for this man (jim jones jr) as much as it was something bad for him. he also talked about how his children have handled everybody knowing about their grandfather and his cult and the murders of over 900 men, women and children, how because he embraced it all and didn't let it become a stigma for him, then his children haven't either. and then he told about how the reason he didn't die in the whole mess was because he was 150 miles away playing basketball, and then about 15 years afterwards when he was self-destructing on booze and drugs and his wife was about to leave him, how it was basketball again that saved his life when he connected with his son through basketball and found a reason to sober up and make his life the way he wanted it to be. that son is now a big basketball star, and he said that for the first many years of his life he was known by everybody as "jim jones's son" but now he's known as "rob jones's father" and how much that means to him and shows how life can change no matter what. i cried a whole lot. it was a very good interview i thought, and i see how i don't have to always be the kid that was raised in a cult.

It was on while I was working out at the gym. I don't hear it (because to listen, you have to have your own radio and tune to the right fm frequency, because they have half a dozen different channels on at the same time), but I did see (and read the closed captioning) about how he was away at the basketball tournament in Georgetown... I figured the whole thing was probably pretty compelling...

The financial accountability with STFI is very weak. All they have done for years is talk about financial accountability.

Tzaia said " It is my opinion that STF leadership operates from the premise that leaders have somehow received a certain spiritual authority and are therefore above being reproached by spiritual inferiors." This is true and one example is the way they treat anyone who disagrees with them. The organizational structure is not of biblical design. It is more of a dictatorship and resembles the Way International in many ways.

Back in 1986, when the s*it started hitting the fan in a big way, I still was interested in studying the bible. I also, in May of that year, earned my bachelor's degree in accounting.

I started seeing, very clearly, in the Acts of the Apostles and in Paul's letters to the Corinthians, that accountability -- as it was written -- was to be by those ministering, TO those who paid their subsistence. The "need basis" was how Paul lived... not what he demanded of those he employed.

Indeed, this observation by Tzaia and by Factfinder is very astute, IMO and very much on the mark.

This is also, after the PooP paper and after JAL, Ralph D, et. al. started stirring things up even more, why I (from that time forward) was never tempted to go back to TWI...

And Happy Birthday (in a few minutes) to our brother Son of the Master! :)

I am taking this (slightly) off topic because there might be people reading this who are on staff at TWI and who might be let go due to "performance" issues. You might be told there is nothing you can do, and you would have been told wrong. There are even instances (such as a hostile working environment) where you can quit and be entitled to unemployment benefits. When you are fired for performance issues, the employer must have a standard (preferably in writing) and clear proof (in the form of documentation) that there were problems. In the absence of those criteria, an employer will pretty much lose every time.

Churches are notorious for under paying staff, but I think the "needs based" compensation takes the cake.

The shorter explanation is "termination for cause." Did the person do something bad...? of course, I'm not contradicting your post... just a different way to say it.

I think THE major component of why people buy into religion is because it's HERE. It's been here a long time, it's widely accepted, seldom questioned, and just established in the fabric of culture. It's been around so long that we don't really ever entertain the notion that any of it should be questioned, we just accept.

Once one DOES step outside the bounds of accepted, established thought regarding church tenets, the logic of same often becomes something less than overwhelming...

But George, WHY did religion become a part of human culture in the first place? I could expand on that, but believe I could ramble on almost endlessly. That question, however, is (IMO) quite poignant.

Bank of America and a number of other big names have all settled class action suits against them for improperly applying payments so that they can tack on late fees, and various other activities. It is a bit harder to find the information on these cases, because they settled. I have a list at work, if someone needs more specific information PM me and I will get back with you on Monday.

Also, I highly recommend checking the interest rate that shows up on your statement against your cardholder agreement. If you don't have it, ask for it. Once you get it, keep it.

Credit unions are typically a much safer bet than many of the national companies.

We have been defending a debt collection case at work and I am outraged and sickened by what takes place with credit card companies. Once the case is over, I will be contacting my legislature on both a state and federal level. Our laws are outdated and no longer protect the consumer.

By design (not mine). It will take more than simply "contacting" them. Persistence is a necessary virtue (skill, perhaps?).

Have you (RR and Dooj) set a date?

I have had a Countrywide mortgage for years. Last year I refinanced to get a better interest rate and pay off credit cards. Countrywide was always easy to work with even when one time I got 2 months behind in the mortgage. Then last year Countrywide goes under and Bank of America takes over.

I won't go in to all the small problems that Bank of America has caused just the big one. Escrow.

One of the nicest things about having a mortgage over owning your home outright is the escrow acount where they pay the taxs and insurance by collecting extra each month as part of the payment. Well a week ago I got the statement where they were refiguring my payment and the payment was going up over $150 a month. I finally looked at the statement and found they had included flood insurance (twice) that I don't even have or need. I called them up to ask about it and the story kept changing as I moved up the chain of comand. Finaly they said they were droping it and would refigure the escrow.

If any of you have had similar problems with them please PM me. I want to find out it they were only going after me or is it systematic. My neigbours went up $54 a month and they don't know why.

Last week I read news reports about BofA losing $200 million in the last quarter of 2009. I'm not sure why or how they did that but I do know that BofA has systematically been fraudulently charging outrageous late fees and overdraft fees based on highly improper timing schemes related to depositing checks into accounts and then not making the amounts of those deposits available to write checks against. I know one local contractor here in the Phoenix area that was hit with nearly $1000 in such fees based on only one such incident (one deposit he made, several checks that he wrote against those funds).

I also read in 2009 that BofA had been successfully sued in southern Arizona for improperly charging those fees for quite a few customers.

So, my hunch is that your problem IS systemic in that bank.

Just be careful it doesn't become YOUR worst nightmare... (or even WURST nightmare!!)

I pretty much agree with you on that. Much rather be out fishing somewhere than chatting with someone on a cruise ship. Altho...it might be kinda fun just once...to get sh(tfaced drunk and stumble into a room fool of "believers"

Was that a Freudian slip?

We can't change the whole world, or go back and undo it.....but we certainly can be praying for the situation in general and other specific things as you see fit.....survivors, all survivors get found.....strength and intellectual acuity for those searching for survivors......you know in general what to pray for.

This for Haiti, right?

I've had my GF for 2 years now (practically lives with me) - small white, petite thang, cooks for me, always been good to me.

I go away on holiday for a week, come back and something just doesn't seem right. I asked my Father if he had seen anything happen with my GF and he acts clueless.

So fast forward to 3 weeks later... I'm coming home from work when BAM clear as day, right in my Kitchen I catch my Father red handed with his meat in my GF.

I was ....ed, told him to get his meat out of GF and GTFO, needless to say my GF got turned off. I just couldn't get over it and that night kicked my GF to the curb.

Now it's been 2 weeks since the incident and that I've been without my GF and about 10 minutes ago my Father had the audacity to ask my how my GF has been, when he's the damn reason we ain't together no more.

Should I get off the computer and start swinging at him?

OR

Pack my stuff and be on my way.

Here's pics of my GF for you guys as I know you'll ask

http://www.flyingcra...ges/gfchamp.jpg

groan

Happy Birthday to our brother Tom Strange! :)

Our precious Alfalfa passed away New Years morning. He had an intestinal cancer. Because he had suffered so in the last weeks I made the decision to put him down. The vet was closed for the holidays. I went to the den and saw him lying on his bed. I called his name and knew he had passed.

The boy helped me wrap him in white cotton that I cut from a bolt of fabric and we buried him down by the creek next to Darla. They are now running the streets paved with t-bone steaks.

Alfalfa was twelve and a half years old. He became a member of our family when he was 8 weeks old. During his growing up years we had to replace many door and window frames, re-upholster a sofa and a chair, and rip up what was left of the carpet in the den and lay down wood floors because he was true to his breed...he liked to chew up stuff.

He was loyal and committed to his family. He considered it his one job on this earth to love and protect his family. He loved and protected whom we loved. He never left his yard (except for one reason) but would sit patrol near the road. The neighbor next door with 3 little children said she felt like Alfalfa was the protector...looking out for all of us. Lily the other lab yaps at leaves blowing on the ground. We pay her no mind. But, when something or someone was not familiar to Alfalfa on his territory he let out this deep, guttural bellow.

One night I heard his warning bark and went out to investigate. The neighbors boxers had gotten out and were in the driveway. As one of those dogs approached me Alfalfa came in front of me pushed his body up against mine and shielded me. He was not going to let them get close to me. He growled, showed his teeth and then decided he had had enough. He chased them out of his yard and away from his mommy.

The boy is heartbroken. I have a picture of them I entered in a photo contest. It is titled "A Dog and His Boy." The boy is holding Alfalfa's face and Alfalfa is looking at the camera, smiling, literally. They grew up together. The one reason Alfalfa would leave the yard is when the boy left the yard. Alfalfa would follow by his side and wait by the door when at a friend's house. Then escort the boy home.

We lost a member of our family. The sorrow has been great. Alfalfa was a one and only.

What an awesome "person" to have in your family! You must be heartbroken... I cried like a baby at the end of Marley & Me... so, I can't imagine how it would be for real.

I watch FOXNEws to avoid all the crap, but even THEY were obsessed with Woods's affairs. <_<

George

To AVOID crap????????????????????? good grief.