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No, And this was not a cartoon.

" Aww, what the hell, I don't got that long a lifespan anyway... Well now I'm standing. Happy? We're all standing now. Bunch of jackasses, standing in a circle. " "I have a plan." "You've got a plan? Okay, first of all, you're copying me from when I said I had a plan." "I'm not copying you, I have a plan, that's not that unique of a thing to say." "And secondly, I don't think you even have a plan." "I have part of a plan." "What percentage of a plan do you have?"

A long time ago, I was going to play in a LARP as a German with some resemblances to the Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger. To try to get the voice down, I sat down with a VHS tape of "Terminator 2-Judgement Day" and tried to get the accent right. Eventually, I got pretty good at it. Some of the lines must have filtered through "by osmosis." I was focusing on the pronunciation, intonation, and so on.

Addams Family Values (Tony was one of the sailors in the bar Debbie went to. "Your husband is a lucky man.") Nathan Lane (the cop who Gomez yelled at. "Who moved the rock?") The Producers (the newer one- Lane plays Max Bialystock)

I wondered why that sounded VAGUELY familiar. I saw something on TV about Patton (Patton 360), and they mentioned his voice in passing.

Although the sad part (for them) is that this is all about decreasing numbers and delaying the inevitable. They're not joining up because they're currently leaders of growing church organizations. They're both drawing from the ex-twi crowd. That number is smaller every year. So, teaming up to put together the remaining numbers so they look bigger or to try to slow departures from their own groups, or something along those lines. twi is progressively less relevant (although it still wrecks lives), and its ex-twi groups are likewise becoming less relevant.

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Those ALL sound familiar. That means I've actually SEEN this movie. "Terminator 2-Judgement Day"???

That's what happens when enough money/members is/are on the table.

I keep forgetting (or downgrading) the amount of plagiarism vpw did from Charles Welch. (Probably because he didn't use 2 initials like BG, JE, EW, EW,,,,) Thanks both of you. I wonder how Karl K is doing these days-I saw him adding some of his research there...

"King Saul and the Witch of Endor- did the Prophet Samuel Rise at Her Bidding?" "The Rich Man and Lazarus- an Intermediate State?" The latter is here- https://philologos.org/__eb-rml/

"Saul and the Witch of Endor- Did the Dead Rise at Her Bidding?" "The Rich Man and Lazarus- an Intermediate State?" Both by Bullinger, pretty much rewritten as the contents of 'ADAN?" The content was plagiarized, and even the "title with a question" format was ripped off. When I mentioned that, vpw defenders skipped over the "all the content came from 2 of Bullinger's works" and fixated on "the format was copied over" and took cheap-shots at me for pointing that out- which pretty much highlighted they couldn't dispute that vpw plagiarized about all the content off of those 2 works of Bullinger, so all they had left was to change the subject and insult me.

Scenes that slowed the movie down included the reading of Baron Beaufort Von Frankenstein''s will. (His distant relatives all got equal shares- unless, somehow, his grandson has decided to go into the sciences or medicine, and acquired a measure of success to counter what Victor Frankenstein did. Frederick was the 5th leading authority in his field- so he got everything.) I liked the scene, but it slowed things down. Then there was a merry highwayman who tried to rob the Frankenstein Monster- that scene didn't fit. The scene that showed Frederick smashing a violin +gave away he wasn't just a sane doctor. The actor who remained anonymous was Gene Hackman- who wanted to do the movie for FUN, and didn't want his name to distract the viewers. The director's way of filming was black-and-white, like the films he was spoofing. Gene Wilder's agent also represented Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle. The reference to "Darwin" was in Frederick's lecture. The annoying student brought him up. "Didn't Darwin preserve a piece of vermicelli until it suddenly seemed to move of its own volition?" "Are you speaking of the worm or the spaghetti?" "Why, the worm of course." "I seem to remember reading something of that when I was a student. But please remember, a worm- with very few exceptions- is NOT a human being." The 2 murders in this film- the Frankenstein Monster was hanged- but he got better, and the jailer with the matches who hassled the Monster until the thing choked him to death. Oh, and the scene introducing Inspector Kemp to Frederick explained his injuries- the Monster damaged his eye and his hand. Kemp was in one of the Frankenstein movie. Madeline Kahn got to sing on-key here, but her previous movie role was in "Blazing Saddles" as Lily Von Shtupp, and she had to sing somewhat off-key to play her.

IT IS.

For the sake of participating, I'll throw out one of my wild guesses and say "the Flip Wilson Show",

-This movie was a success. The original cut of the film was about double the final cut. A marathon editing session trimmed the film down, and dropped all the jokes that didn't work and all the scenes that slowed down the story (and a few that were just...off.) -One well-known actor wasn't credited when the movie hit the theaters- by his request. -Columbia Pictures refused to film this movie in the way the director insisted. So, he went to Fox and the movie was a hit- filmed the director's way. - Because the same agent represented 3 actors, 2 of them- who played major comedic roles- were suggested to the third as possible cast members. -The "Darwin" mentioned was ERASMUS Darwin, grandfather to Charles. - -Go ahead and count them- there's exactly 2 murders in this film- and one of them doesn't exactly count. -Deleted scenes included a reading of a will, and some exposition explaining who a certain police inspector was. -One actress had to sing off-key in her immediately previous movie role, but she got to sing on-key in this movie.

The dots are a visual representation of a category of how many posts a poster has made. The GSC has had that for a long time-since we moved off ezboard, IIRC. (I remember the 1.0 version of the dots rendering well for Internet Explorer, but not Firefox, and I saw the posting section of the page shoved over if someone's "rank" was high, to make room for all the dots. (That was fixed pretty fast once I mentioned something.) As for the phrases, messageboards tend to have a default "title" for posters based on number of posts. Often staff will give someone a unique title on their own, sometimes with their input, sometimes surprising them with it. The GSC is the only board I'm familiar with that lets the person set their own title. (I've seen a board where idiot posters were allowed to continue to post but their title was changed to "twit". And seen boards where I logged in, posted, and saw I had a title. And so on.)

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I have less than George.

With the emphasis on how freaking perfect vpw's system allegedly was, nobody's eager to REMOVE or REPLACE it. To keep the money moving and the people in their seats, they want to claim to just "revive" and "restore" the "classic" twi- since selective memory makes that a paradise that in few ways resembles the actual experience.

The word "study" is a poor translation of the word. The more modern translations don't shy away from translating it either as "be diligent" or "do your best" or "make every effort". "Spoude" doesn't have anything to do with "studying." Someone inferred that from the verse, and altered the verb in the verse to say that.

I'd question what was so arduous that Paw had to endure it, but we just had a rather vivid illustration of exactly what Paw's tired of. In good conscience, I can't ask him to just continue indefinitely.

Every single spinoff and splinter from twi started off saying they had the best intentions. Many of them started without asking for money, even hostile to the idea-at least openly. All of them EVENTUALLY asked for money. However, I'm sure that decades of experience with organizations with the same origin, the same history, and the same trajectory doesn't really count, and THIS TIME we see a group that does not want and never will want your money. Furthermore, they will be the one group to be open-door, and have people WELCOME to leave whenever they want, and say in EVERY way that all Christians are equal, etc....

Perhaps the mission definition changes depending on who defines it! For the others, it's setting up the new group, making it look like it's NOT about obedience and tithing, then sneaking that in the back door very slowly. For Rico, it's about making a name for himself so he can carve a piece of the RnR pie and grab some tithers later in the story.

Except... -Someone mentioned plans to start up some other group over a year before the big meeting. -Someone registered the domain name "revival and restoration" several months before the big meeting. They already had plans for a new group before they ever met with the bod. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise.