WordWolf

But it is by the Eagles- it's "LYING EYES." (I listen to their Greatest Hits every once in a great while.)

This goes back to "why do people join cults?" People never join a cult- they start associating with some people, and the associations become inclusive, making them one of US rather than one of THEM, and then the rules slowly move in, and then one day, the person's in a cult. People keep being shocked how much they liked hanging out with people in twi, with no rules chaining them, and then, years later, how the rules slowly creeped in to choke the life out of them.

No. Although this was also a black-and-white show, I don't think Jackie Gleason ever appeared on it. Oddly enough, he inspired the personality of one of the characters, though! It was also a scripted show, not a variety show of any kind.

Ok, next movie.... Michael Clarke Duncan Temuera Morrison Geoffrey Rush Tim Robbins Angela Bassett

Sean Connery Avengers Uma Thurman

Yeah, we're good. BTW, "Marrakesh Express" is fairly well-known, so it was on us for not recognizing it. Myself, I know the tune and the chorus, but didn't know the rest of the song despite sufficient airplay. THIS song has gotten a LOT more airplay. It's also on the artists' "Greatest Hits". So, it shouldn't be TOO hard to recognize. (Unless some younguns show up and wonder if we're going to post any Rob Zombie or something.)

So, who is it that really draws "First Blood" in the book?

The show's theme song was instrumental, but an actor on the show did write words for the music. Here's the lyrics: "So you think that you've got troubles? Well, trouble's a bubble So tell old Mr. Trouble to get lost! Why not hold your head up high and Stop cryin', start tryin' And don't forget to keep your fingers crossed. When you find the joy of livin' Is lovin' and givin' You'll be there when the winning dice are tossed. A smile is just a frown that's turned upside down So smile, and that frown will defrost. And don't forget to keep your fingers crossed " This show ran for 5 years and got 15 Emmys. TV Guide rated it #13 on Greatest Shows of All Time, with one of its episodes ranking #8 on their Best Episodes of All Time. The 1.0 version of the show, an unsuccessful pilot, was titled "Head of the Family." Jamie Farr appeared 4 times playing a character in season 1.

BTW, the current song is definitely not "Witchy Woman." :)

I can look up anything I want, anytime I want. If I try to answer a round in a thread based on looking something up, however, that's a different thing entirely- THAT is cheating. (I also think it's fair to ask Mrs Wolf if I think she knows something, but she already knows that I do NOT want HER looking it up because that would be the same cheating. And if she gets the answer, I credit her with answering it since she doesn't log in here that much. It's a standard practice here that the person giving the clues should look things up to give correct clues. However, no guesser should look them up. If a guesser looks it up, he has given up answering and disqualified himself from answering. I usually announce when I do that, since that means I can't try and answer the round anymore. As for "googling in 3 days", that's for the Triple Movie Links thread, since we go from link to link. Other threads just get another round going.

"Have you heard of this guy" is not doctrinal, but "Have you heard of this guy who was big in promoting this doctrinal practice" is doctrinal, as is any discussion of "this guy" because it's not going to be about where he grew up or something, but rather about his doctrinal practice.

FYI, vpw (victor paul wierwille) organized twi (the way international) to run at a profit at every level- money was a big motivator for him privately, although he'd never admit it if asked. When he wanted a training program, he didn't waste any money on training programs, he guessed he could fake it- so he did. He had small cells set up for people to live in (tiny dorm rooms replaced shared RVs, although twi has both now) and retaught all the twi classes, and added lots of physical labor (an unpaid labor force that actually paid HIM!). There was some other stuff occasionally dropped in. Since vpw had no experience in training programs, leadership programs, or anything related, don't expect they learned much about REAL leadership. What they did have official training in... One of the Corps people took the Dale Carnegie Sales training course. vpw plagiarized ALL the content and retaught it to the corps. No, he did not pay their legally-mandated licensing fee for their copyrighted materials. No, he did not get them any OTHER training. They were a trained SALES FORCE, to sell twi and its classes to the masses. But, of course, that was never STATED. It's just what was done. What was stated was always something more in keeping with Biblical Christianity. However, as vpw himself said, if you take a jar of pickles, and you label it "apple butter", that doesn't change the pickles on the inside. So, running a profit with the Corps. Since he began by asking lots of money from broke young people, he instituted a system to get them to pool their money. Each Corps candidate had to beg others in twi for a pledge of money to pay their tuitiion. "Spiritual partners" or "Corps Sponsors", they were called, rather than "pigeons." Yes, the ROA was an annual event, eventually relocated to HQ. It welcomed the returning WOWs at the beginning, sent off the new WOWs at the end, and in between had music and stuff. There was official stuff, but the unofficial, just meeting people and so on, was usually better than the official stuff. The WOWs were "Word Over the World Ambassadors", in effect the missionary program. Usually, they were sent for a year to another location in the US, in groups of 4, to run pfal classes and run home fellowships that, hopefully, would continue after they left a few months later. (Sometimes it was another country, but that was rare.) The forum "GREASESPOT 101" has threads that explain all the jargon, at least in a basic way.

The lyrics were NOT used on the show. The show used an instrumental theme, for which someone wrote lyrics that did not actually appear in the show.

*checks* I've neither heard of this song nor its artist before.

Can we get a moderator to airlift this doctrinal discussion and drop it off in Doctrinal?

As to the thread, I expected it to go to Doctrinal, I mentioned Doctrinal as the place to discuss the subject, in fact, and suggested starting a new thread there- but the same thread could just be moved. As for the family thing, that's a shame. I also can't see eye-to-eye with anything like what they said. I thought that the moment of reflection during the invocation was a fair way to cover equal time, since that can be done respectfully and reverently, which, I imagine, is how an invocation like that is supposed to go no matter who makes it. Then again, it should be flexible enough to cover, say, Hindu, Muslim, Jainist, etc as well as Humanist, etc. Either that or show flexibility by dropping the formal prayer and just getting to the work for which they were elected.

I think a discussion of "why healings and miracles" and/or why not could make for an interesting discussion in Doctrinal. (That's no guarantee it WOULD, but it might make for one.)

Here's the lyrics to this show's theme song: "So you think that you've got troubles? Well, trouble's a bubble So tell old Mr. Trouble to get lost! Why not hold your head up high and Stop cryin', start tryin' And don't forget to keep your fingers crossed. When you find the joy of livin' Is lovin' and givin' You'll be there when the winning dice are tossed. A smile is just a frown that's turned upside down So smile, and that frown will defrost. And don't forget to keep your fingers crossed "

So, the title is really a misnomer, if he neither kills before anyone else, nor at all?

A Time to Kill Samuel L. Jackson Avengers- Infinity War

(Actually, it was how God provided for THE OTHER GUY. I was the guy who offered him a ride and a place to stay when he needed it.)

Yes. IF the Bible is right, its SIT, Interpretation and prophecy are supernatural. If it IS right, that's no guarantee what we taught was the same thing- if not, there's NO reason to think it IS supernatural. If the Bible is wrong, then there's no reason to think that the Bible's version or the twi version are supernatural. All of that pending further information. I mean, if it turned out that the Bible was wrong but there was some modern thing that was supernatural ANYWAY, it would remain to be seen that it was- and that would take quite a bit of proof in its corner, not just convictions.

It's old news that the splinters often act as airlocks. People jump from twi to a splinter, realize there's life outside twi, then realize there's life outside the splinters and that they can do better, so they jump from the splinter to anything else, whether another Christian group or denomination, or another religion, or another philosophy, or supposedly nothing at all, depending on their personal inclinations.

Yes. I didn't realize we covered him so recently. Human should have taken it when he had the chance.

Yes, and written they way their advertised it- so, written the way I liked to pronounce it when it hit the theaters- "Star The Empire Strikes Back Wars."