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So, that paper never had that reporter, that paper never did a story on that person, and that paper never printed THAT story. How confident are you that you're being told the truth? And if you're being lied to, does that matter to you at all? (It would matter to me.)

"I didn't come here to be insulted!" "That's what you think!" "Married. I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove. " "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did. " " Something must be done! War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes." "Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes." "No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!" "Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!" "Take a card." "Card? What will I do with the card?" "You can keep it. I've got fifty-one left. Now what were you saying?" "The eyes of the world are upon you. Notables from every country are gathered here in your honor. This is a gala day for you." "Well, a gal a day is enough for me. I don't think I could handle any more." This is another movie that includes a motorcycle and a sidecar.

"We're just knocked out. We heard about the sell out. You gotta get an album out, You owe it to the people. We're so happy we can hardly count." "Everybody else is just green, Have you seen the chart? It's a hell of a start, It could be made into a monster If we all pull together as a team."

Was the Sydney one the "Fine Arts and Historical Center"?

It's never a good sign when you have to keep changing your group's name so that people don't know who you are. So, "The Revenant Process" and "Blood and Ethos" and "Master Coaches Academy" and "Efficacius" are all MOMENTUS with a name-change and some window-dressing? Oh, don't forget "Life Design Coaching" , "Legendary Life Strategy" and "the Hero Being Process." That's a LOT of names to lose in the shuffle, all for Momentus, which people steer clear of because they've been warned. https://www.therevenantprocess.com/ https://www.bloodandethos.com/ A "revenant" is a mythic creature, a corpse that drags itself from its grave to haunt the living, and folklorists use it interchangeably with "vampire". The name translates, roughly, as "one who returns." Yeah, Momentus dragged itself from its grave to haunt the living. Sounds about right.

Oh, I ruminated. I just didn't post because I didn't come up with anything worth posting. *looks the list over* How about Captain Ahab?

"I didn't come here to be insulted!" "That's what you think!" "Married. I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove. " "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did. "

Vanessa Redgrave Murder on the Orient Express Sean Connery (I must say, it's not a bad movie for connecting through.)

What do I think? 1) I think God does have information to give us. 2) I think we are far too quick to label things as information God has for us. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some time ago, we had several inter-connected discussions here. They were on the subject of speaking in tongues, and what we called speaking in tongues, and what they had in common, and what they did not. As the discussions ran their course, and I examined everything said, and everything I COULD say, I changed my position. I have no proof that the speaking in tongues, as mentioned in the Bible, does not occur today somewhere, nor that it is not "available" today. However- I am convinced beyond any reasonable doubt, that what we learned in twi, and what is practiced today as "speaking in tongues" is neither the thing from the Bible, nor proceeding from God, but rather a secular activity which is done by actors every day. The only difference is that we THINK what we're doing is from God, and they know they're doing it of themselves. (Likewise, people who think they have to throw themselves on the floor when doing it are choosing to do so, and so on.) So, I don't think that what we called "speaking in tongues" was anything of the sort, or any kind of language. (I can link you to several threads where we discussed this. We split the discussion into different threads, so that someone who only wanted to discuss one thing could find it- and the main discussion kept getting side-tracked so badly that I felt very good points were getting lost. So, we had a thread on the secular practice that performs EXACTLY like what we did, we had a thread on what language is, and so on. To explore ALL of it would take a LOT of reading, which is one reason to look at the threads individually.) So, where would that leave "interpretation of tongues" and "prophecy"? Although I do think that OCCASIONALLY we got an actual message from God through them, the vast majority of the time, I think they were from the minds of the people performing them- which is understandable and to-be-expected under the circumstances in which we learned how to do them. ============================================================ Taking all of THAT into consideration, what would I say about what you're doing? I think it's much the same. OCCASIONALLY, there MIGHT be an actual message from God that gets through. The vast majority of the time, it would be you, thinking about what a message of God is SUPPOSED to look like and say, and producing a message that fits your own notion as to what that would be. That doesn't make you a bad person, nor crazy. It doesn't make you right nor receiving messages from God, either. That's my honest, measured opinion, for all that it's worth. You're free to consider it carefully, or dismiss it automatically, or anything else.

Next song. "Everybody else is just green, Have you seen the chart? It's a hell of a start, It could be made into a monster If we all pull together as a team."

Without a link, we either need the EXACT name of the video, or who posted it, or (preferably) both. A search with only the titles you gave turned up lots of video games and stuff.

That's why I'm thinking SOMETHING was exaggerated. Comatose instead of dead, for example. THINKING he went to Heaven, when there may have been a vision, normal dream, or a hallucination, rather than actually visiting the place. BTW, Raf (a journalist) is not exaggerating about finding the story if you give him what he asked for.

Ok, let's see. I'm thinking "Mary Tyler Moore"-verse. That could meant that show (I doubt the title character was Jewish, and I don't think that was a spinoff of something. It HAD spinoffs, though. I have trouble picturing "Lou Grant" as the one described here. So, I'll go with "Rhoda." (Did we ever see Carlton the doorman?)

(Brad Majors was the guy who stumbled his way through Dr Frankenfurter's mansion in "the Rocky Horror Picture Show." Whenever he says his full name, the audience insults him.) Ok, classic role, since we have a Barrymore and Orson Welles. William Hurt in a classic role suggest something classical and British. Cautious to avoid spoilers, I looked up "Lethal Weapon" and confirmed Danny Glover was the other cop, the one who was getting too old for this. He's African-American. I'm thinking Shakespeare. Although it's not ridiculous to see a "black" man playing a (white) Shakepearean role, it's also not ridiculous for the reverse. So, which direction do I guess? I'm going with the title role of The Moor of Venice. My guess is "OTHELLO." (This was actually an Irish role, spelled "O'thello." Most people drop the apostrophe. ;) )

Another wild swing here. Whenever I don't take the shot, the answer is usually "SOAP". Is it this time?

Wild swing here- "BRAD MAJORS"?

At his burial, she said "He was a mean man" to someone accompanying her. Considering the usual habit of people only speaking well of someone at their funeral, I think that said a lot.

IIRC...... In the final weeks before vpw died, he (vpw) flew to Scotland to cry on cg's shoulder and get him to fawn on vpw and make him feel better, since lcm and the Board were ignoring him now- as per his own strategy of ignoring anyone who retired. Some weeks after vpw died, cg wrote "Passing of a Patriarch", about what vpw said, and how twi, in discarding vpw, was discarding God, and how the Board killed vpw because they made him feel bad- and they were why Mr Superbeliever vpw didn't super-believe and obliterate his advanced cancer from his body with a display of his Super-believing, and get up fully healed. (If they'd still sucked up to vpw, he would have Super-Believed and gotten fully healthy again, according to geer.) When cgeer was done writing this, he went to read this to the Board and to residents on-grounds. When he reached the podium to begin speaking, he took out a handgun, and placed it in the podium, where he could reach it quickly. THEN he began reading his little book aloud. Why, in his mind, was this necessary? I can throw lots of guesses around. Perhaps he liked the feeling of power by intimidating the room. Perhaps he thought that someone would have tried-with violence- to silence him as he read this letter/book thing. Perhaps, having been there, he knew they WOULD offer violence if he didn't preempt the violence himself. Perhaps he thought vpw prophesied he'd need to do that. (And so on, and so on....) There's lots of possibilities. It obviously isn't common nor healthy for supposed Christian groups to have things like that come up no matter the motive.

What was he like as a person? (I don't know about now, so I will go with what he WAS like, and proceed from there.) He wasn't terribly imposing physically. However, it was not beneath him to consider violence as an option-nor threats, either. He was hardly alone in this. I once had a run-in with the late T0m M, years before he committed suicide because he couldn't stop lcm from nailing Mrs T0m M. He was a larger dude, and wanted me to stop an uncomfortable line of discussion (this was at ROA '89, when 1/5 of the previous year's attendees showed, and most of them left twi shortly after that event.) He tried intimidating me physically, and when that failed, he tried to get a rise out of me by threatening physical violence. I bugged him more by simply getting calmer and calmer the more he tried. His final attempt was to try to claim I was unemotional because I wasn't reacting. (No, just smarter and with better mental discipline. Plus, he grew up in the suburbs, I grew up in the 'hood.) Cgeer had no problem similarly trying intimidation OR threats, but was not a physically imposing man nor a trained fighter. So, he didn't default to it all the time, and he needed to use things to accomplish it. Cgeer and lcm (craig) were both the 2 biggest vpw-worshippers in twi. That's why vpw- who loved how they smooched his metaphorical tushie- made them twi elites. lcm was made his successor, and cg went from vpw's bodyguard to in charge of a twi property in a different continent than lcm. (When lcm and the others pushed the retired vpw to the side, vpw ran to cg to cry on his shoulder about how he was being neglected, and how this would destroy twi because they were forsaking Gawd Almighty by ignoring him they way he ignored others who had retired.) cgeer was used to taking care of vpw's dogs (vpw never took care of them), and walking around armed with vpw at public appearances. cg claimed-and I believe he was not lying- that he had been prepared, if necessary, to act as a human shield to take any bullets fired at vpw if something happened. So, how did cg intimidate people? His primary methods were threefold: 1) brandish a firearm, which is a crime in the US 2) use the dogs and menace them (menacing is also a crime in the US) 3) send someone else to intimidate them Others in twi were more fond of the "send others" than cg, but he seemed to like the feeling of power he got when he instilled fear in people by threatening them with a gun or big dog. Mind you, that was 30 years ago, literally. He's 30 years older, and doesn't have the physical power he DID have, such as he had. For someone who only feels secure wielding the power, to live without it is to live in fear. So, he naturally would go into hiding, and lay low or surround himself with security. For someone who is aware of how many lives he hurt, both in acting as a de facto procurer for vpw and in his own capacity to misuse power, he knows there's people who might harm him if they had the change to settle a score, and he's not young. So, that alone would send him into hiding. So, he goes into hiding, and cultivates a sense of mystique about him, making it look like the hiding is anything BUT the cowardice that it is. Mind you, the fact that he was more than a little crazy- and thus unpredictable and lacking self-control- was another issue, and people could be scared he'd go off without warning...which he sometimes did in imitation of vpw. All of that means he's not as scary as he was 30 years ago... and without a gun or a big dog to back him up, he wasn't really scary back then.

Freaking YES!!!!! I even made a reference "TO WIN". (To win? To lose?) Remember the Governor when the press asked his impressions? He did Harpo Marx, then Toulouse Lautrec.

Yes. 2 threads we said this on- 'Might this be why the Moneyhands were M& A?" and "R&R Group: Too Late, cult-sycophants already taken." https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/24458-might-this-be-why-the-moneyhands-were-ma/ https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/24586-rr-group-too-late-cult-sycophants-already-taken/

There's 2 Frenchmen famous for being short. One was not actually short, and has a connection to neither absinthe nor painting. That one's Napoleon. Who's the other?

Name the character. Jose Ferrer Vincent Menjou Cortes John Leguizamo (No, this one should not be easy, but I thought I'd try a short round in between some others.) Not a Spaniard, and he wasn't painted as a nobleman in any version of him that made it to the theaters. Peter Sellers (sorta) Règis Royer Mel Brooks (sorta) (I didn't think this would be so hard to win.... ) Other than the previous clues I dropped, Mrs Wolf said to mention "THE GREEN FAIRY" (which is a nickname for something.) She got it from the first 3 names plus a guess- then again, she's been around me and hearing what made me think of this character/real person. For the curious, Peter Sellers played a character who dressed as him, and Mel Brooks played a character who intentionally did an "impression" of him. Actually, he did 2 impressions- one of Harpo Marx and one of this person. Even if that reminds you of nothing, at least look back at the 3 clues I dropped before mentioning "the green fairy" (absinthe) in the preceding posts. Guessing this Frenchman is NOT a tall order.

No, and guessing this Frenchman is NOT a tall order.

Now I have to sit down and listen to the whole song. The lyrics are a lot more interesting than the chorus.