WordWolf

"She's into superstition, black cats and voodoo dolls. I feel a premonition that girl's gonna make me fall."

"Now when I was just a little boy standin' to my Daddy's knee, My Poppa said, 'Son don't let the man get you, do what he done to me' "

BINGO.

A quick online search shows that what you THINK may have been a bad dream after a spicy snack one night. I find NOTHING to suggest Leonard was either a rodeo clown or an Alcoholic. Please support such a claim if there IS support. A) When we trust people, despite warnings from God, we can ignore warning signs from God as well as our own instincts. Leonard was used to teaching ministers from all over, even strange ones. So he obvioualy gave vpw the benefit of the doubt and trusted him far more than he deserved. B) It's certainly possible that vpw knew he was in a "Red Light District", but it's equally possible that he just went for the cheapest hotel he could find in the area, and didn't find out why it was cheap. vpw had a history for being incredibly cheap whenever he actually had to pay for something, and generous whenever it was someone else paying for it. I know I don't know the Red Light District in ANY city, not even Manhattan (which used to be easy to spot.) I also know it's easy now to check and see if a hotel has a reputation online, but that's no guarantee now anyone will know it. The evidence supports either idea- vpw was too cheap to check, or vpw wanted a sleazy motel on purpose. I think it's a smaller jump that he was just very cheap. (Not that he was any less a pervert, but it takes work to find a "Red Light District" in a city and I don't think vpw had information resources to tell that back then.)

If twi didn't emphasize avoiding the Gospels over the Epistles, every member would know in their sleep Jesus' temptation to jump off a roof so that he could "prove God", and how Jesus Christ disapproved of such stunts. For all their supposed knowledge of Scripture, twi is irrelevant and outclassed by MANY Christian organizations extant.

In fairness, it does indeed SOUND LIKE an extra-Biblical term. It's not, but it DOES sound like it is. And if the question wasn't raised, we couldn't point out how it does appear in Scripture. --------------- Other subjects on that include whether someone even understands what they're objecting to OR approving of. My favorite criticism of SIT came while IN twi. Raf and I heard an audiotape some street preacher made. At one point, she tried to criticize SIT but didn't do so competently. (Anything can be criticized- correctly.) She pointed out that people claimed that there were Biblical accounts of "speaking in tongues." Her response? "They weren't speaking in tongues- they were speaking in LANGUAGES!" That just got a laugh from both of us. It's like saying someone misunderstood when giving a drink order because they were offered a BEVERAGE instead of a drink. The words are used synonymously. In Spanish, the word "lengua" means the physical tongue as well as the word "tongue" as a language, and the word "idioma" means "language" specifically, so the pattern is the same as in English. My personal opinion is that tongues is real, but misunderstood and thus misused in twi. twi made it a part of how to operate their magical believing, and made all its practitioners into OCCULTISTS, hoarding supposed hidden wisdom to perform magic to compel either God or reality to do what we want. If SIT has a spiritual reality, it's very different from that. A separate question is whether all things that are claimed to be "speaking in tongues" are anything alike. Is the one in the Bible in any way similar to how it's practiced in twi, or in a spiritualist meeting, or by some Voodoo houngan, or anyone else? If some are different than others, calling them the same thing will only confuse issues. It's like using the word "vampire" for goth kids with fangs, AND lifestylers with velvet and coffins, AND blood fetishists, AND cannibals, AND fictional peopls sparkling in sunlight, AND lawyers AND IRS agents. They really shouldn't be confused for each other.

"California Girls." Either David Lee Roth or Van Halen with DLR singing. ===================================== ===================================== "She's into superstition, black cats and voodoo dolls"

"Cross-Eyed Mary", by Jethro Tull.

Man, this is gonna be good! That was from "Superman 2." "Superman, thank God. I mean, GET HIM!" ==================================== ==================================== Next one. "Assimilate THIS!"

"I bought a toothbrush and some toothpaste, a flannel for my face, Pajamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case. I said to my reflection 'Let's get out of this place.' "

Apt time for this song.... 'cuz I'm THE TAX MAN..... The Beatles did this one. (I was humming this one to myself the other day.) ====================== Next song: "I bought a toothbrush and some toothpaste, a flannel for my face"

That's it. I'm thinking the last quote was the giveaway for you.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277371/ When you have the actual name of a movie, you can look it up on Wikipedia or imdb. Keep in mind, however, that looking up a movie BEFORE we have the answer is cheating. Once it's named, we're all free to look up that movie. ====================================================== "Good teacher, he really seems to care....about WHAT, I have no idea." "Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out. And then bring one every ten minutes." "The football team at my high school, they were tough. After they sacked the quarterback, they went after his family."

Well, yes. It takes 2 people to keep a peace. It only takes one pinhead to ruin a discussion. But we can't blame others if we're looking for a fight. In twi, that was the default for a lot of people, and getting rid of it is healthy for everyone. Outside of twi, that's often the territory of people who don't need anything because they have Jesus. "Do you want some gum?" "I don't need gum-I have Jesus."

Not "Animal House."

"Good teacher, he really seems to care....about WHAT, I have no idea."

"I'm king of the world!"

That's it.

Gene Hackman's last line as the blind hermit in "Young Frankenstein." For Mel Brooks fans it can be identified by this line, maybe. It's probably unfair for anyone else.

I've noticed some Christians are actually quite nice to get along with... so long as I'm not trying to start a fight. Some, I've let know my beliefs on doctrines they disagree with. They accept I disagree, and we talk about all the other things that we can do something about. The other way is to waste time and energy picking fights with Christians who should be doing other things, and pretending the fight mattered, while we take time away from doing something that could actually get somewhere.

Don't give vpw more credit than he's due. He was a SCHEMER but not a MASTERMIND. Everything was around laziness, and getting him MONEY, POWER and ADULATION through DECEIT. According to lcm's own account, lcm chose Donna to marry, despite not knowing her very well. (His own account in "vp and me" said vpw made special exceptions for the 2 of them so they could spend time and get to know each other- AFTER they decided to GET MARRIED.) lcm, supposedly, chose Donna, and didn't know her very well. Donna had previously said she was planning on marrying someone influential in twi. According to lcm's account, as soon as lcm told vpw he wanted to marry Donna, vpw went off and told her how influential lcm was going to be in twi. vpw didn't need to convince Donna of anything after that. Would they have problems? Probably- but vpw was neither trained in counseling nor concerned about other people's problems. If they had a problem, they'd work it out and he'd stay out of it because he didn't care. My opinion is that vpw MIGHT not have known Donna ONLY cared about marrying for influence, but if he did, it worked out perfectly for that and he phrased himself accordingly. I don't think vpw understood people as well as he thought he did. He billed himself as an excellent thinker and believed his own press.

Another teen movie? No, it's Not. It's "Not Another Teen Movie."

Iron Man 2 Jon Favreau DareDevil

How do you simulate flight? You lie down on a table with a blurring background behind you and the audience just has to go with it.

Superman II Terrence Stamp Star Wars Episode I: the Phantom Menace