WordWolf

It's the classic line from JULIUS CAESAR, and also appears in DISNEY'S ALADDIN.

8. Do not tell all you know. Receive the word of wisdom. Judges 16:4ff, Mat 7:6, II Kings 20:12-19 Judges 16:4-14.(KJV) 4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. 6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. 7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. 9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known. 10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound. 11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. 12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread. 13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web. 14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web. ================= [it didn't say where to stop, but that's enough to give us sufficient context. Supposedly, this suggests a spiritual "key" about not telling all that you know, and "receiving the word of wisdom." In this case, Samson completely FAILED to "receive the word of wisdom." Samson lacked even PRUDENT wisdom. His SO tried to have him captured, more than once. He stayed with her and didn't have her killed in his place. Eventually, she harassed him until he gave away his big secret, and by the end of the chapter, it had cost him his life. As for "not telling all that you know", that really is common-sense. Anyone who really tells all that they know will be considered both tactless and a know-it-all. ] ====================== Matthew 7:6 (KJV) 6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. ===================== [Again, we have not telling everything you know-but not as some sort of spiritual "key." We are still missing "receive the word of wisdom" in an account.] ================== II Kings 20:12-19 (KJV) 2 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. 14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon. 15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord. 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. 18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days? ============================= [What lesson does this account teach? It teaches not to practice full and open total disclosure with other countries, as it gives THEM an unfair advantage. Again, there was no "word of wisdom" mentioned in the account. So, once again, we have some common-sense, mixed in haphazardly with anything else. This supposed "key" falls down at a glance.]

The numbers suddenly went from "incidental" to your main focus. That was fast. And incorrect. It was based on the long-discredited idea that 100,000 people took the foundational. No, supposedly 100,000 people SIGNED UP for it. Not everyone who signed up showed up for Session 1, and not all of them made it to Session 12. When I took it, 7 of us were signed up. 6 of us made it to Session 1. 3 of us made it to Session 12. If those numbers were actually representative of twi as a whole, less than 50,000 people took the entire foundational class. And that still says little about them. Saying 50,000 people took a class hardly qualifies as "God opening big doors" for people when it represents DECADES of twi recruitment. The "Jehovah's Witnesses", the Mormons, and Scientology claim numbers that dwarf that easily. (Compared to each, twi is statistically "insignificant.") The panicky people were worried about twi for a few years, but compared to the Moonies, considered twi to be very small potatoes for the exact same timeframe. Furthermore, in that same timeframe, the number of people panicking about youngsters in twi was NOTHING compared to the number of people panicking about youngsters playing Dungeons and Dragons. Was satan very concerned about them also? It should be obvious that the panics were manufactured by small, easily-frightened minds, and were not a supernatural attempt to hit twi because twi was almost a rounding error when compared to the overall panic. Bob Dole mentioned twi almost in passing when discussing cults. The Senate is supposed to look out for the public welfare. So, they did some inquiries about cults. Was that because twi was causing a big stir at the time? No, it was because Jim Jones had just caused a big stir, and they wanted to know if all the other cults were similar ticking time-bombs ready to go off. They were not, and so the Senate hearings didn't amount to a modern-day witch-hunt, at least not on the part of the US government. No, it was panicky individuals who were convinced they should be scared of ALL those groups, including twi. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443686004577634230036422926 "For a few years in the late 1970s, Moon was the most notorious public face of a cult scare. Through that decade, a series of small religious groups earned a controversial reputation by drawing young people away from their families, often to isolated compounds. These were the years of the Children of God, the Hare Krishna movement, The Way International, and the Unification Church—the "Moonies." "The Jonestown massacre of 1978 (a mass suicide instigated by Jim Jones, leader of the People's Temple cult) suggested that this total obedience might extend to real violence. When then-Sen. Bob Dole chaired a joint congressional session on "the Cult Phenomenon" in 1979, a parade of witnesses presented the problem in sensational terms. One described cults as "one of the most dangerous threats in the history of this country."" Many lives were destroyed or thrown off track by the influence of such cults. But the problem was nowhere near the scale suggested by the media, religious leaders or even the U.S. government. Cults had no great power to brainwash, as indicated by their embarrassingly poor retention rates. Most recruits stuck around for a year or two before drifting away, either gravitating to a new group or returning to normal life." The panic over cults resulted partly from savvy media manipulation by a variety of interest groups. Mainstream religious organizations played a role, as did networks of families who feared that they had lost their children. More sinister were so-called deprogrammers, self-appointed experts who would—for a hefty fee—kidnap cult members and reverse the "brainwashing."" So the media decided that the rise of cults was the nation's most important religious story. The topic received vastly more attention than several other developments that, in retrospect, were incomparably more significant. The 1970s marked a historic resurgence of evangelical Christian faith, for example—a new Great Awakening that reflected a general return to orthodoxy across the religious spectrum. And in South Korea itself, we see the triumph not of cults but of sober, mainstream, Christian churches. In other words, a lot of important things were happening while the media were chasing moonbeams." =================================== Bragging that twi was famous because they made it into passing references of Senate committee hearings is pretty desperate. You don't get out much, do you? Interested people show up for events from all over the world all the time. Ever attend the World Science Fiction Society's convention? If so, you showed up at a meeting that has had people show up from all over the world, and has been HELD on 4 different continents. People have traveled to each over great distances. That's dedicated to Science Fiction. They get further than twi, and have lasted a lot longer, without the involvement of a higher (or lower) power. College students from all over the world attend US colleges. Many of them show up at National Conventions of Alpha Phi Omega every 2 years (which is when they are held.) Since they're college students, any travel is, of course, a significant event. That's dedicated to service, primarily to the community where the individual colleges are located. They've been around a LOT longer than twi, and get further than twi, without the involvement of a higher (or lower) power. Every year, people from over 20 countries show up in Pittsburgh for a few days of puppet shows, cartoon discussions, and mascot displays. They show up from North and South America, Australia, all across Europe, as well as Asia. (The numbers and exact locations fluctuate between years.) They get that far without the involvement of a higher (or lower) power. Attendance numbers for a group are hardly evidence of the involvement of God Almighty, and it's kinda sad when one's reduced to making such an obviously false and easily-refuted claim. A vague claim, and one that doesn't require that the location and the setting actually BE of God. God can work with anyone, anytime and anywhere. Supposing it's true that people were delivered, it's not required that twi have any kind of connection to God that people got the deliverance there. People get delivered from afflictions and saved during huge revival meetings in stadiums and in convention halls. That doesn't mean the stadiums and the convention halls have any kind of connection to God Almighty. Sure explains why the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses fizzled out decades ago. Oh, wait, they didn't-they started long before twi and claim far greater numbers than twi, and they're not "Pentecostal"- which means they're not drawing people in with claims that healing is even POSSIBLE, let alone ACCESSIBLE. Besides, twi was on life-support up UNTIL the end of the 60s when vpw conned godly young Christians who were making a difference in California. Reliable accounts of healing and blessings can be traced to THEIR involvement. Ending a string of unsupported, unsupportable, disproven claims with an appeal to reality appeals to my sense of humour.

I noticed you changed terms since the last one suited you so poorly. You said "Some people here say that VP/twi was insignificant, Not enough numbers to have discernible impact." We addressed what would be meant by "insignificant." (Statistically, twi was and is insignificant. On an absolute scale, those whose lives were ruined would consider it "significant." Now you suddenly stopped discussing "insignificant" (a term with a specific meaning in statistics) and switched to "irrelevant" without noting you did so. "Irrelevant" in reference to WHAT? It's a RELATIVE term and needs a point of reference to define it. In discussing internal combustion engines, eternal salvation is "irrelevant." When discussing eternal salvation, internal combustion engines are "irrelevant." And so on. Charles Manson's group is relevant to discussing statistics because they had a number. Statistically, the group was "insignificant" on a national scale because they were a handful of people who killed less than a handful of people. We lose more people every single day due to heart attacks than Manson's group killed in their entirety. But I've noticed you prefer to flee terms with specific meanings and cling to terms that can be "creatively interpreted." You made a similar mistake (accidentally or intentionally) above when you confused "irrelevant" with "insignificant". No He didn't. vpw ripped off several products from several people, plagiarizing them and impressing people by lying and saying it was all his own work. Later, he began claiming that God Almighty taught him this stuff, but it was all from the work of others. Except for a VAGUE passing comment buried in a book almost nobody ever read, no mention seems to have been made of the source materials as source materials. vpw found out the hippie Christians were having great success. He went to meet them in person, try to get into some orgies, tried to get the Christian hippies into orgies, and tried to impress them with his supposedly unique knowledge he claimed came directly from God Almighty. They didn't suspect he would lie and con his way through them, so some of them believed him. THEY were the ones who recruited all the people that swelled twi's numbers. All significant growth in twi can be traced to them and the people they brought in. That's why there was almost nobody in twi until then, and the membership swelled directly as a result of their involvement. twi got a different kind of notoriety when people got scared of youngsters in odd groups and made all sorts of claims about twi, accidentally giving them free publicity. NONE of that required vpw or twi to be anything remotely resembling CORRECT, let alone a movement of God, per se. twi never "stayed" any kind of course God Almighty would have approved. The Christian hippies opened big doors by reaching the young folk and relating to them as anti-establishment, which is easy to use to reach young folk. And when vpw clamped down on them, twi growth stopped exploding and began to trickle. Ok, we went through "insignificant" and "irrelevant", and are now on "incidental." Actually, the numbers are directly relevant to the "significance" we addressed earlier. I notice you laud numbers when you think they support your premises, but spurn them as soon as it's shown they undercut your premises.

Cool but completely fictional. he never auditioned for the Monkees. http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/monkees.asp Please consider fact-checking at least SOME of your statements before hitting "add reply."

15) Convinced someone to directly plagiarize the Dale Carnegie training course, so that they could run it for the Corps regularly without paying the legally-required royalties to the company. 16) Always ran the courses to make a direct profit. 17) Always charged retail for everything despite low overhead and doing everything in-house.

I hope you let her know she's welcome to socialize with those of us still socializing here regularly.

It's not "A Sound of Thunder." So, how about "Minority Report"?

That's nothing at all like he said. Read it again, slower. If you still miss it somehow, I explained it further in post 15 of this thread.

Puerto Rico may very well become a state. Discussions have been ongoing longer than I've been alive. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth and is a US territory. Alaska and Hawaii had that status before becoming states. Its residents are US citizens and the currency is the US dollar. For more territories, look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States

New York State's Dept of Motor Vehicles uses a point system. http://dmv.ny.gov/tickets/suspensions-and-revocations http://dmv.ny.gov/nav/tickets-points-penalties http://dmv.ny.gov/tickets/about-nys-driver-point-system That last link is a breakdown.

It's also a good example of vpw saying ONE thing while the cameras were rolling and ANOTHER thing that contradicted it when in private. In private, he said God was ok with orgies, and asked women he was not married to, to have sex with him in one form or another. In public, he spent whole minutes of the 7-session "Christian Family and Sex" class reading "flee fornication" and "avoid fornication" and so on. So, the gullible say "I heard him say 'avoid fornication', so it's impossible he was just deceiving me while telling other people to fornicate." (He even told lcm he'd need to get comfortable with having sex with women outside his marriage.)

Charles Manson's group had a handful of members. In the scale of humanity, both the numbers of members and their murder victims are "insignificant" (STATISTICALLY, considering that there's over 200 million people living in the US this instant.) That same group was a cult, dangerous, and it DID ruin lives. If you had a family member who was in it, or who was murdered by them, you would consider them a big deal and worth discussing. ====================== Every SINGLE bullet shot in a war is "insignificant" (statistically.) We don't discuss the story, say, of every bullet fired by or at a US soldier in "Operation Enduring Freedom", not even just the ones fired in Afghanistan. Statistically, each one is "insignificant." However, for the family and friends of a soldier whose life was cut short by a bullet would testify it was indeed a dangerous bullet. It might even have been said to ruin their lives. "Where is God? God is everywhere. Why? Because He likes you." (Father Guido Sarducci's Religion class, 5-Minute University.) People are often blessed in the most miserable, seemingly-hopeless circumstances, during horrible events. Doesn't mean the hurricane was of God, doesn't mean the maniac shooter was an instrument of His Divine Will. God still answers prayer during genocides. Doesn't mean to thank God for the genocide, nor to claim it wasn't a big deal. Oh, and I don't think there's a single poster here who doesn't think the Catholic Church's dark side doesn't need excising, either. (Personally, I'm "old school" and would sanction stoning for a few of the perpetrators.) Ah, the label matters because twi fulfills the requirements of the definition "cult." If someone claimed that it would be no different to "put you in the box marked 'male'" than to "put you in the box marked 'serial killer'", you would object. You are unarguably a male-the definition applies to you, and using that word as a descriptive tells something ACCURATE about you. You are unarguable NOT a serial killer- the definition does not apply to you, and using that word as a descriptive tells nothing ACCURATE about you. (Although it would say something about the person who claimed you were one.) twi has been demonstrated- beyond any REASONABLE doubt- NOT to be nor to have been "God's Ministry." twi has been demonstrated- beyond any REASONABLE doubt- to have been a cult. I know that ignorant fools slapped that label on twi for casual and stupid reasons in the past. However, unbeknownst to them, the label actually DID apply-for far better reasons than they imagined. Their stupidity didn't actually invalidate the label when the REAL evidence was uncovered.

Ah, the 3 steps here have to go: actor from the Expendables (other than Mickey Rourke) movie that other actor was in different actor from that same movie You did Step 1 three times instead of steps 1-3. Please pick 1 actor and perform the other steps, preferably leaving us with an actor we can work with. (The other "obvious" movie for me was Iron Man 2. Rourke played Vanko, the most obvious villain in the movie.)

Could be "the Butterfly Effect."

To me, there's one obvious movie. I'll go with the other. the Wrestler Mickey Rourke the Expendables (I skipped another one that was obvious for me.)

Big Fish Helena Bonham Carter Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Strictly speaking, the live show was "The Ghost Busters." Everything else, including their cartoon, was "Ghostbusters." Their cartoon seems now to be called "Ghostbusters Animated" by some. Now that Raf named 2, here's the others... A) This short-lived show was about a small, close-knit community of werewolves in the Pacific Northwest. Lou Diamond Phillips, Mia Kirschner and Graham Greene turned in good performances, but it was still yanked off CBS far too soon. Short airings on UPN and SyFy didn't do much better in the ratings. Too bad-it was well-written and a better show than much of the new dreck out there. WOLF LAKE. B) This short-lived show was about a vampire detective, and should not be confused with "Forever Knight" despite that. He works out of Los Angeles, and should not be confused with "Angel" despite that. Alex O'Loughlin and Shannyn Sossamon couldn't save this show. MOONLIGHT. C) This short-lived show was about a private detective who operates out of Chicago. He's not a vampire-he's a wizard. It's based on a series of novels that do better than the show. (They got away with the line "You're a wizard, Harry" because he was one. Even the comic book seems more successful than the show. Paul Blackthorne was well-cast as the title character, but neither he nor Valerie Cruz nor Terrence Mann could make the show get ratings. THE DRESDEN FILES. D) This short-lived show had clans of vampires operating secretly in San Francisco. It was based on already-established vampire fiction- novels, computer games and role-playing games. It was described once as "a cross between 'the Godfather' and 'Melrose Place.' C, Thomas Howell and Kelly Rutherford were actors of note. But I'm sure White Wolf Publications made some nice change off of it. KINDRED:the EMBRACED. E) This short-lived black-and-white children's television show was about a trio of investigators of the paranormal and unexplained. All 3 wore hats, with one wearing a beanie with a propeller. Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch were 2 of the 3 main actors, playing Kong and Spencer. Oddly enough, Kong was a man and Tracy was a gorilla (with a beanie.) This was done by the animation company "Filmation." About a decade after it aired, Columbia Pictures paid Filmation to license the name- to avoid potential lawsuits when their new movie came out. After the movie was a hit (but before the sequel was filmed), both Columbia and Filmation made new cartoons, with Columbia's based on the movie, and Filmation's based on the show. Both aired around the same time, with Columbia's prefixed "The Real" and Filmation's often as "Filmation's" if at all, but certainly in TV guides to prevent confusion between the two cartoons. Columbia made a successful franchise with this name, since their cartoon had an "Extreme" sequel, there were video games, multiple toy lines, and comic books as well as an UPCOMING third movie. THE GHOST BUSTERS.

That's it. I was trying to name any recognizable actors for each show. Paul Blackthorne was great as Harry Dresden because he's tall and thin, and has a Chicago accent. For Hollywood, that's pretty close to the book series. (As Quentin Lance, I keep waiting for an explanation as to why he has that same accent, but they've not offered me anything.)

Both of those accounts matched Dot Matrix' discussions with Jim. "Weirwille sought things to validate his position. He did NOT research the word and change his opinion to IT. I became pretty good friends with Jim D**p. He told me that he, Jim, had a ministry where they were sexually loose and an anything goes kinda group out in California. Weirwille flew out there, telling folks it was to talk with Jim about the Bible and witness or something to him. Jim told me Weirwille flew out there to LEARN from Jimmy about the free sex thinking. Weirwille said he always believed sex should be free and allowed with as many as you feel you want to be with -- but could NEVER prove it from the Bible. He was there to see if Jimmy could prove it was okay via scripture. Dopp never really could and was more of a hippie minister than a sexual pervert looking for Biblical validation. Weirwille had these concepts, notions, urges, illnesses and tried to find a way to SELL them to us. He was not about to CHANGE his thinking according to scripture. He was not a researcher. He was similar to a lot of cult leaders. He had an idea and looked for people who would buy into it. Like Charlie Manson."

Technically, they are direct from his own book. AFAIK, he never had it mass-produced. One poster (ex-cathedra) had a copy and posted excerpts from it. =================================== http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/index.ph...st&p=160989 "As we relaxed and had a second drink, he asked Judy and me to describe what is was like to attend an orgy. We were taken back by the question and embarrassed by it, because even though it was part of our testimony in our deliverance from sin to God's righteousness, no one had ever asked us to describe what it was like to go to an orgy. We found his curiosity shocking. But we gave him a brief description which is really all we could give him since our encounter with an orgy had been so brief. We had attended one orgy sponsored by the San Francisco Sexual Freedom League, but we were so overwhelmed by the spectacle that we had left after twenty minutes. "You know that's all available," V.P. said. "God put it in I Corinthians 7:1 which He said 'It is good for a man not to touch a woman.' If it wasn't available to have sex outside the marriage God would have said 'best' instead of 'good.'" I could not believe what I was hearing. I responded with, "I just thank God that He pulled our soul out of that pit of debauchery." When Judy and I went to bed, I said to her, "I don't believe what he said tonight, and I'm going to forget it. I must have misunderstood him." ========================= A different poster (Sunesis) spoke directly with Jim, and he said the same thing to her. ======================== 'Anyway, Jim told me he had gone to one orgy, and he and his wife didn't like it and did not continue with them. But VP, when he visited SF and the Haight, kept pestering Jim for details. Jim also said, on their down time, he'd go with VP to the porno theatres. Jim said VP treated him like a son, it was the height of the hippie, free love thing, so at that time, even though he thought it a bit weird, he didn't think it was a big deal. He was also terribly hurt, "betrayed" was the word he used, when VP had the infamous meeting and wrenched control of the Way West from California and all the money now had to go to HQ because VP had promised he would never do that, it was all about the Word. " ==========================

Well, hindsight is often 20/20. However, from here, it's obvious he was trying to make an organization of youngsters who were fine with casual sex. When he heard about Christian hippies, he went right over. (Media depictions often made them seem like you could find hippie chicks into casual sex easily if you could find hippie chicks.) In TW:LiL he even telegraphed that. pg-232. "And I liked especially the tenderness among them. You see, they themselves had previously been on sex and dope, so they didn't find fault with everything all the time. They'd hug and kiss each other and that I liked. They were always affectionate. I saw a lot that I liked there." He also asked Jim D00P for details about orgies. Jim was happy that his limited involvement in those things was past and that he was delivered from them. vpw tried to tell him that he was mistaken-that God Almighty was ok with ORGIES. According to Jim's account, "You know that's all available," V.P. said. "God put it in I Corinthians 7:1 which He said 'It is good for a man not to touch a woman.' If it wasn't available to have sex outside the marriage God would have said 'best' instead of 'good.'" I could not believe what I was hearing. I responded with, "I just thank God that He pulled our soul out of that pit of debauchery." When Judy and I went to bed, I said to her, "I don't believe what he said tonight, and I'm going to forget it. I must have misunderstood him." ================================== I wrote this once before: "I thought I saw someone comment about orgies in twi. As far as I know, there were no actual orgies in twi. (At least, I've never heard of any, and I wasn't invited if there were any.) However, now that I give the matter a little thought, it's obvious this was something vpw WANTED but couldn't HAVE. Look back at when he hijacked the hippies. He read about Christians in the Haight-Ashbury area omong the hippies. He'd heard that there was a lot of "free love" among hippies, including orgies. vpw headed out specifically to THOSE Christians. (Not any more local to him, even though it would have been easier to stay in contact with some, say, within a state or so at some college.) He approached them, and noted (even in the sanitized version) how comfortable they were with each other's bodies. He EXPECTED to find hippie Christians who were comfortable with orgies, and that seemed to support his expectation. When alone and drinking with J1m D00p, vpw asked him-repeatedly- about attendance at an orgy, and pressed for SPECIFICS. At that moment, vpw VOLUNTEERED his own invention- a twisting of a verse to claim God was ok with orgies. When D00p resisted the idea, vpw dropped the subject. Time for Plan B- sex with individual hippychicks without orgies. When pliant hippychicks failed to drop out of the sky (boy, what a waste of time to have gone to Haight-Ashbury, he hasn't been able to score any boom-boom from the trip, even after!) he goes to Plan C- using the recruited hippies to recruit youngsters (which he was already doing), and recruit from among THOSE youngsters to bring some on campus, where he could try to cheat on his wife and see how many were willing to have sex with him. That led to Plan D- tricking women into having sex with him from among those on campus. If you look at this from a perspective of "was vpw looking to score sex partners?" then the entire history of twi becomes frighteningly CONSISTENT and makes a lot of sense. Granted, I think he also wanted money, a comfortable living, and much bestowed respect, but the path he selected seems to have been steered straight for "youngsters who might be ok with casual sex with an old married guy."

The thing was that lcm wasn't looking to UNDERSTAND, he was looking to excuse himself from producing any RESULTS. Otherwise, he'd have followed his line of reasoning to its logical conclusions. Look- for the sake of discussion, let's suppose for a moment that his entire system of "believing is a Green Lantern ring" worked IRL, and that fear worked in an opposite direction that was otherwise the same. Let's say he was also correct about a "spiritual temperature." That would mean that, before trying to "believe for" something, it was to his advantage to change the environment by bringing in others to "alter the temperature" before trying. So, he should have filled a room with serious twi'ers who, by definition, would "believe with" him on things, both on the general and on the specific. So, when he had a roomful of the way corps, say, he had changed the temperature as much as could be done, before attempting his feat of "believing to alter reality." Having all of that in place, and lcm STILL being unable to alter reality would mean either one of 2 things: 1) the system is wrong and should not be expected to produce an altering of reality 2) lcm was a spiritual willpower weakling, who was unable to "lift the weight" even with other people nudging the barbell up and reducing its weight, thus making it easier. But anyone thinking this through, if there was anyone left TO think this through, would have been discouraged to do so, and ostracized and kicked out if they did it.

Obscure supernatural shows. Name any to take the round. A) This short-lived show was about a small, close-knit community of werewolves in the Pacific Northwest. Lou Diamond Phillips, Mia Kirschner and Graham Greene turned in good performances, but it was still yanked off CBS far too soon. Short airings on UPN and SyFy didn't do much better in the ratings. Too bad-it was well-written and a better show than much of the new dreck out there. B) This short-lived show was about a vampire detective, and should not be confused with "Forever Knight" despite that. He works out of Los Angeles, and should not be confused with "Angel" despite that. Alex O'Loughlin and Shannyn Sossamon couldn't save this show. C) This short-lived show was about a private detective who operates out of Chicago. He's not a vampire-he's a wizard. It's based on a series of novels that do better than the show. (They got away with the line "You're a wizard, Harry" because he was one. Even the comic book seems more successful than the show. Paul Blackthorne was well-cast as the title character, but neither he nor Valerie Cruz nor Terrence Mann could make the show get ratings. D) This short-lived show had clans of vampires operating secretly in San Francisco. It was based on already-established vampire fiction- novels, computer games and role-playing games. It was described once as "a cross between 'the Godfather' and 'Melrose Place.' C, Thomas Howell and Kelly Rutherford were actors of note. But I'm sure White Wolf Publications made some nice change off of it. E) This short-lived black-and-white children's television show was about a trio of investigators of the paranormal and unexplained. All 3 wore hats, with one wearing a beanie with a propeller. Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch were 2 of the 3 main actors, playing Kong and Spencer. Oddly enough, Kong was a man and Tracy was a gorilla (with a beanie.) This was done by the animation company "Filmation." About a decade after it aired, Columbia Pictures paid Filmation to license the name- to avoid potential lawsuits when their new movie came out. After the movie was a hit (but before the sequel was filmed), both Columbia and Filmation made new cartoons, with Columbia's based on the movie, and Filmation's based on the show. Both aired around the same time, with Columbia's prefixed "The Real" and Filmation's often as "Filmation's" if at all, but certainly in TV guides to prevent confusion between the two cartoons. Columbia made a successful franchise with this name, since their cartoon had an "Extreme" sequel, there were video games, multiple toy lines, and comic books as well as an UPCOMING third movie.

Obscure supernatural shows. Name any to take the round. A) This short-lived show was about a small, close-knit community of werewolves in the Pacific Northwest. Lou Diamond Phillips, Mia Kirschner and Graham Greene turned in good performances, but it was still yanked off CBS far too soon. Short airings on UPN and SyFy didn't do much better in the ratings. Too bad-it was well-written and a better show than much of the new dreck out there. B) This short-lived show was about a vampire detective, and should not be confused with "Forever Knight" despite that. He works out of Los Angeles, and should not be confused with "Angel" despite that. Alex O'Loughlin and Shannyn Sossamon couldn't save this show. C) This short-lived show was about a private detective who operates out of Chicago. He's not a vampire-he's a wizard. It's based on a series of novels that do better than the show. (They got away with the line "You're a wizard, Harry" because he was one. Even the comic book seems more successful than the show. Paul Blackthorne was well-cast as the title character, but neither he nor Valerie Cruz nor Terrence Mann could make the show get ratings. D) This short-lived show had clans of vampires operating secretly in San Francisco. It was based on already-established vampire fiction- novels, computer games and role-playing games. It was described once as "a cross between 'the Godfather' and 'Melrose Place.' C, Thomas Howell and Kelly Rutherford were actors of note. But I'm sure White Wolf Publications made some nice change off of it. E) This black-and-white children's television show was about a trio of investigators of the paranormal and unexplained. All 3 wore hats, with one wearing a beanie with a propeller. Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch were 2 of the 3 main actors. 11 years after the show ran, a cartoon version was adapted from it, airing alongside a rival cartoon with a nearly identical name.