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Not it. And although I read the body count as including a MOUSE, it was probably a RAT IIRC. Not that the difference affected the movie in any way (except for the extremely specific, I imagine).

Right genre, wrong movie.

twi's had a "do as I say, not as I do" policy from the beginning. Every once in a while, vpw said something publicly about fidelity, and the rest of the time was into encouraging infidelity-especially if it was with him-and covering his tracks. vpw made a passing comment buries in "The Way-Living in Love" that what he taught wasn't original, but putting it together that way was. A few people seem to think his comment that one time, buried in one book many twi'ers never even HELD IN THEIR HANDS was the same as giving proper accreditation to all the material he blatantly plagiarized. (Anyone who wants to see how that would work should look over an old copy of "Babylon Mystery Religion." It was a reworking of the public domain book "The Two Babylons" and it was completely credited properly throughout the entire book. And most people aren't even AWARE of it unless LOOKING for it, so there goes the notion that doing so would be intrusive or distracting.) ) But, yes, twi often had sensible things to say in public- and the privately instructed people to do the opposite when the microphones were off. It's obvious now. It fooled us somewhat back then, but with the bright lights shining on the dirty secrets now, only the vpw fanatic or the twi fanatic can think it's anything other than obvious in hindsight.

This movie was not a war-flick. However, it still ended up with a body count of 77 people (plus 1 mouse.)

"Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease." "Hey! I got a social disease!"

Dr Christian Szell Dr Totenkopf Ezra Lieberman Admiral Hood Douglas Mac Arthur Duke of Wellington Fitzwilliam Darcy Heathcliff Horatio Nelson

That's it. Eventually, they learned other songs but this was still their signature song. There was one gig where they played nothing but variations of this song all night. When they took a break, someone started music on the jukebox, and the dance-floor filled up instantly.

:o Ah, "The Babes in Toyland"?

A) Thank you so much for adding some spacing. I am absolutely certain that will increase the number of people actually reading your posts here. B) The things of God and matters of the Bible are NOT confined to one teacher, one program, one system of study. Even when I was in twi and bought into the "we're the best" stuff, my thinking was to draw from all other Christians who had something to contribute, then improve even further by both taking the best of what each had, and by improving the twi system wherever possible (I did believe that was a reasonable task because I didn't believe it was perfect and immutable), and the result would be far greater than JUST the twi system even if that was the best ISOLATED SYSTEM of teaching. So, the last word on things is not, and should not be, "How much of vpw's publications did you memorize?" (Especially when SOME of the errors therein have been documented, and it was a long list.) Furthermore, in discussion, there's no "winners" and "losers" as such. It's not a formal debate where you have to be on the winning side. We can all "end on the winning side" and this would be more about what we all learned and how we grew than about who had the last word or who said the most clever thing. So, in discussing, you "have the same chance" as everyone else. Mostly, if you're rude, then you can be said to "lose", mostly because others won't want to play with you (listen or add to your existing knowledge.) C) If you're going to address some stuff about the Bible, at least around here, and you want people to take it seriously, you're going to need to include the verses, or at the very least, cite the specific verses you're addressing. Otherwise, it's a matter of "thus saith the poster", and the GSC especially is a place where that doesn't fly. We all got burned by that sort of thing already.

The second half could be "Babes In Toyland," but the version with Laurel and Hardy's also known as "March of the Wooden Soldiers." I'm stuck on the first half.

It's in my "queue" of movies to see. Is it any good?

On this show, for a while, the characters had their own band, but the only song they knew how to perform was "Splish-Splash."

Eddie Murphy Shrek Cameron Diaz

It's "Splish Splash", isn't it?

There's twi, and there's making sense. Sensibly, twi should have left groups intact until there were more than 8 regular attendees plus new arrivals. Then they should have considered how to make a division so you had at least 4 regular attendees plus new arrivals. As it was, the appearance of growth was more important, and other appearances were more important, so they made all sorts of decisions that didn't work so they had the appearance of doing something. Splitting already small "twigs" up meant neither was sustainable, so they either had to re-form or BOTH were destroyed in the process. I saw a corps assignee once arrive, then arbitrarily decide he was going to have a "twig" right where he was operating from, so he began assigning some locals to it to start attending it. There were a number of ways to handle it, but I'm sure he picked one of the least-successful ones so that it looked like he was doing stuff. (He got people to smile and nod a lot until he left.)

By now, either Johniam is unable to see those points no matter how often they are articulated, or he knows darn well he's standing up a squad of strawmen and is doing it deliberately. Yes, he should be called on it each and every time, but don't expect him to get it at any point. (The response is necessary, but not for him.) I suspect that Johniam thinks THAT end justifies ANY means- providing that HE doesn't have to sacrifice the means. So, meaningless, casual sex to get a Green Card signed, for a student for "the class"? Sure-so long as it's not John or anyone he lays claim to who has to provide it. So long as someone else is volunteered to prostitute themself for it, that's fine, although he's hoping nobody's caught that he's supported that across this page.

PULP FICTION. And frankly, I think we all thought that guy deserved to get shot at that point. I think he reminded EVERYBODY of at least one moment from work at some point.

Dr Christian Szell Dr Totenkopf Ezra Lieberman

Taking a swing here... "Kingsman"? I thought of that before, but not with any confidence.

....What?......OW!!!!

It reminds me of "At The Hop", but I don't think that IS the song.

....What?...

The rule of thumb I heard was to double the attendance# of any ROA to get the total# of adherents at that time. I heard the largest ROA had an attendance of 14,000, which doubles to 28,000, which is about 30,000 adherents "standing" at that time, and that was the apex of attendance. (Numbers went up to that # for 1 year, and fell thereafter starting the next year.)

Depends on your perspective, and place and time. vpw used to claim 100,000 members. That was based on a supposed number of 100,000 total who ever signed up for pfal. That neglects that some who signed up for pfal never showed up for Session 1. That neglects that some who showed up for Session 1 never showed up for Session 12. That neglects that some who showed up for Session 12 weren't around within 3 months of completion. When I took it, IIRC, there were 7 signed up, and 3 of us finished it, although all of us stuck around. (Me, the wife of a coordinator, and the son of a coordinator.) The times of the greatest growth were also the times of greatest attrition- not counting the exodi- because we had a lot of "member churn." People showed up, stayed a while, then left. If my class was any indication, and my experience later supports that- then many people showed up for a month or a year and were gone within 6 months or 2-3 years. So, the numbers of new faces was often high, and the numbers of old faces were less than 1/2 the room. Nowadays, that's totally changed. ANY new faces is news, or the result of staging an 'event', dragging in every body within miles, then saying "see-we can fill a room when we want to".