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D) 2017 Moneyhands and a handful at the top. about to be cut off from the payroll, pretend to be outraged about doctrine and practice. They then storm off an announce a need to form a new group (with the name and URL they conveniently registered about a year before, and bring along some other twi'ers.

Hello, JCS! You probably already know this, but if you read around here, you'll find that all that was not only old news, but vpw's idea! In between infidelity while he was a minister, he heard about Christian hippies, and rushed over there. While there, he asked one of them (a former poster here) what it was like to ATTEND AN ORGY, and asked for details. vpw followed that up by telling him that "ALL THAT IS AVAILABLE," and that God Almighty was OK with ORGIES and that wasn't forbidden by the Bible. vpw went out of his way to set up a sexually-permissive group with sexually-permissive locales. (We can rehash some details if you need them,) So, one by-product of that was all the stuff that you saw. vpw had that in mind. It certainly paved the way for his successful rapes and molestations.

This was "500 Questions." I'll come up with something else, unless someone else has one.

" Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P. "

Um, "Alien"???

It's just a matter of time. When vpw decided to start his own group, he stayed on church payroll for several years, while he set everything up. Once he had his (plagiarized) class and (plagiarized) book, his congregation (who were part of the church first), and a location (the farm having been partly renovated), THAT was when he officially resigned from his church. The people here, most of the top ones were actually in when the first exposures came in the 80s. To have stayed through that-and then to have stayed through all the purges and exits in the DECADES since, only to leave NOW- well, the reason's rather obvious. They decided they were done taking orders and passing along donations. They want to be the last stop for donations and give the orders. So, they spent the last several months to a year setting things up. All of this is all technicalities and "going through the motions." They're already committed to their new organization, RaR.

David "the Marxist Minstrels" Noebel? What an unbelievable coincidence....

We saw it when we first heard "I am the future Flash". Mrs Wolf dropped her list to 1 suspect. I began with the comic book list of Flashes, instantly dropped all the ones that didn't appear in the show so far, and immediately ended up with 2 suspects-the correct one I figured was correct and the longshot that I kept around just in case. As the evidence piled up for the last 2 episodes, Mrs Wolf said she was beginning to doubt because it was all really piling up and getting obvious, so it must be a smokescreen to throw us off the trail,. I replied that she was confusing "Sherlock" (brilliant mysteries in a show) with DC's TV shows (which are not geared for mystery fans and must dumb down mysteries so everyone can see the answer coming.) So, yeah, we had his name fairly early and kept checking if we missed a suspect. BTW, my thinking is that the sniper rifle won't have a bullet- it will have the anti-speed widget or the not-yet-invented thing. Hey, George, when this unfolded, did you have flashbacks to the original conflict between Jim Starlin's Adam Warlock and Magus in Strange Tales, circa 1975? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Warlock#Other_versions I did. Mrs Wolf said that we've seen this a bunch of times. Then again, she's more fond of time travel stories than I am (she's a Whovian.)

"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." ~Pastor Martin Niemöller So, yes, every decade, twi has had the pattern repeat. Some people inside point out some things that are wrong. The response of the establishment in twi is to suppress discussion, kick them out-including leaders- and forbid anyone to discuss it or even THINK about it. It happened in the 1980s, and 4/5 the group left as leaders were kicked out for refusing to swear an oath of allegiance PERSONALLY to lcm in response to rape victims coming forward and rather vague things being discussed. It happened in the 1990s when lcm was making stupid decisions that kept getting reversed and upending the lives of leadership (now you're salaried, now you can't accept a gift of an apple but I can still accept the gift of a new car if I want to, now you're required to return to secular employment...) It happened in the 2000s when people wanted to know why the top leader (lcm) was in court, defending against charges of rape and other felonies, And here it comes again now. Every single time, there have been people who said "We can change twi, we can FIX twi, when WE act we will succeed where all the others have failed..." and were kicked out soon afterwards. "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”- Edmund Burke. "The lessons repeat until they are learned." -variously attributed

It hasn't aired here yet, and we haven't seen it yet, either. I'll put it in this weekend's "queue."

And the mid-80s. I'm not sure if there was one in the 00s, but it seems that there's been one of these futile attempts at reform each decade, resulting in some top dogs being thrown out, and some rank-and-file leaving. Amazing there's any left after all the exodi.

Franklin Nelson Esq, aka "Foggy" Nelson.

Futuristic movie, released in the mid 1980s and set in the "near-future." (And NOT a BttF movie.) Blade Runner?

That's him. He's had a liot of work, and not JUST as Severus Snape and Hans Gruber. I was saving his SF roles if nobody got this set.

Elliot Marston Sinclair Bryant Lukas Hart III Dwight Billings Franz Mesmer Grigori Rasputin Eamon De Valera David Weinberg Phil Allen P.L. O'Hara Det. David Friedman David Weinberg John Gissing Antoine Richis Alex Hughes Eli Michaelson Steven Spurrier Karl Hoffmeister

Undeniably correct.

Elliot Marston Sinclair Bryant Lukas Hart III Dwight Billings Franz Mesmer Grigori Rasputin Eamon De Valera David Weinberg Phil Allen

Elliot Marston Sinclair Bryant Lukas Hart III

For the curious, Ron Moody (AG/BK) played Fagin, both on stage and in the movie. In the book, Fagin ends up on the gallows as a result of the half-brother's involvement (and his complicity in trying to kill Oliver.) The heavy snow scene was the "Boy For Sale" scene, when Mr Bumble was slogging through snow, trying to sell Oliver. Oliver Reed played Bill Sykes, Fagin's former street urchin accomplice, now an adult burglar and eventually murderer. And Fagin owned an owl.

It was, indeed, "Oliver!"

Do you remember what they were trying to accomplish?

As Headmaster, Dumbledore no longer taught classes. He also sounded really mellow, and this quote definitely does not. It's prominent in both the movie and the book.

"There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few..Who possess, the predisposition... I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death."

Although this film was neither the first film nor the last film to adapt the book it came from, it is probably the best-remembered of the 3. One famous role in it was performed by Ron Moody- the same role was performed by Sir Alec Guinness and Ben Kingsley in the other live film adaptations. This version was the adaptation of a stage production, unlike the others. It did, however, add scenes from the book that were not in the stage production- the courtroom scene, an attempted break-in of a house, and a rooftop chase scene. Fans of the book might wonder where the titular character's half-brother is. His involvement makes the story a lot darker, and he's directly responsible for a number of deaths in the final scenes of the book, including of a character who gets to walk away uninjured in the film. BTW, the scene with the heavy snow was filmed in July. All the snow was fake. One improvised exchange made it into the movie. "Do you love me?" "Of course I do-I live with you, don't I?" Oliver Reed heard an exchange in the street in a bad neighborhood. A cleaned-up version of the actual exchange was what was added by the actors. Oliver Reed scared the kids he worked with-because he stayed in character on the set and gave them the creeps. The owl on set kept distracting the actors and workers-it kept spinning its head when the director yelled "Action!" This film won the Best Picture Oscar.

Here's something a little different, but hopefully, not impossible. This short-lived game-show of the last decade had a US and a UK version. In both, a contestant had to answer trivia questions, but could pick them (their order) from a list of categories they needed to exhaust to continue (usually 5 per category, a late season of one version changed that to 3 per category, but the entire board needed to be emptied to continue.) There was always a challenger waiting to take their place if they were eliminated. If they missed 2 questions in a row, the challenger got to pick the category of the next question. Any contestant who missed 3 questions in a row was eliminated, the challenger became the contestant, and a new challenger was brought in. The title of both shows was a misnomer, because at no time did they actually complete the task referenced in the title.