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Obviously, it REFERENCES Twilight. So, it can't BE any Twilight movie. It sounds like a vampire flick. It has to have come out in the last decade because it presumes the public knows what Twilight is. It sounds serious, otherwise I'd guess "Vampires Suck" (a spoof of the genre.) I'll need to think about what movies this COULD be.

vpw's greatest successes always happened overseas with no way to confirm them. For example, the miraculous arm healing that even Mrs W said NOTHING about in her account of events. (Her silence on what was supposedly an incredibly dramatic miracle that shaped his ministry says quite a bit even if she never came out and said "It never happened." In her account, it never DID happen because she wrote about what DID and that wasn't there.) So, twi has LOTS of faithful followers in Africa who we NEVER hear from and who NEVER videotape themselves in action or even send a group photo. You KNOW twi would make a major deal of ANY evidence they had of growing influence anywhere. If they're CLAIMING that much to this day, I am confident it's all bull.

For the other people who may not know, twi's undereducated staff made up the redundant term "international countries." Any time you're talking 2 or more countries (nations), you're talking "internationally." It's sometimes amazing what impact twi's poor practices have had on all of us. It can take decades to catch it all.

The ones I remembered that weren't mentioned were: Kindred:the Embraced (I was a White Wolf Publishing reader, so that was an obvious show for me) Right now, more or less, is a show called "the Gates", about a gated community with supernaturals. I imagine it's interesting. Then there's "Being Human", in UK and US flavors, with a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost. There was briefly "Moonlight", which looked like a cross between Forever Knight and Highlander. Would you believe Count Duckula was the SECOND one of his type? Filmation made up "Quackula" in 1979. There's quite a few shows that had a vampire at some point- like Tales from the Crypt and so on. =========== I'll think up another question unless you want to take it.

I know "Drac Pack" was a bit too late for you, but you don't remember "the Groovy Goolies?" I'm thinking you at least HEARD of Count Duckula at some point. With the movie, I thought "Dark Shadows" would have come up fast. Any others spring to mind before we move on?

I reserve the right to call all this "Indigo Children" stuff hokum. Everybody wants a special title. http://www.skepdic.com/indigo.html http://www.crystalinks.com/indigochildren.html The second links shows that even people who are into psychic phenomenon call "shenanigans" on this "Indigo Children" business. If your kid has ADD, you can love your kid and work with them, or you can decide the problems are really side-effects of being supernatural and do NOTHING to help the kid fit in. This will make the kid feel entitled rather than teach him to try to succeed. I consider this label to be HARMFUL to the children.

Ok, According to www.dcwg.org/detect/ the site you named was A site to check for specific malware. There's a list of similar sites, some of which have an option to switch to English. So, try http://www.dns-ok.fi/ and http://www.dns-ok.ca/ for the Finnish and Canadian sites. I just ran them and my PC shows up clean.

Well, I can't get into www.dns-ok.us either. According to www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com, that site is DOWN. Other than that, I'm not sure what you wanted. If it's about some malware, maybe you can post a link to where it's explained or mentioned or something, then I'll have a better idea what you need and what to recommend.

I'm sure Rosalie and Donna have pondered that same question, and came to the same conclusion- with about $50 million missing, the IRS/FBI would follow them to the ends of the earth. Current twi cadre have limited skills. They all (AFAIK) only speak English (if Rupp is already on the outs, at least.) The number of countries they could flee to is limited, and the IRS/CIA would find them easily. This is 2012. Everyone leaves a data trail. The only way to drop that would be to go "off the grid"- but that would mean living in a tent or a cabin somewhere with no electricity-which defeats the entire purpose of running off with the money. They have more "benefits" by staying and milking the twi cash-cow, and collecting the golden eggs than they'd have if they killed the golden goose looking for the gold. We're all confident the motivation of twi's top people is MONEY and LUXURIES. They'd all leave and retire with the money if they could. I wonder how the remaining innies feel, answering to people who are in it strictly for the paycheck... So, 30% full is overly optimistic, and it's more like 5%-10% full except when there's people bused in or brought in for a promotional event?

There's a lot more than either of us were thinking. I wasn't even thinking of 2 shows that are currently in circulation. (Not counting "The Vampire Diaries".) Then again, since they don't have "vampire" in the title and I'm not watching them, that's not hard to do. George, for fun, how many cartoons with vampires can you name? I was thinking of two, there's at least one other I should have remembered.

We've discussed this before. It's listed as a non-profit organization. If they just close shop and grab the money, the IRS will go after them and put them in prison. They have to pretend to actually do things to provide "benefit of the doubt" so the government just doesn't nail them for fraud or whatever.

If the locals will forgive me for making a straight trivia question.... Name 4 (or more) shows that feature/feature at least one vampire in the regular cast. (I'll accept analogues, where "we won't call it a vampire" applies.) (I can name 8 without getting into analogs, all off the top of my head, and most of them, I've never actually watched.) Oh, and to be specific, they should all be LIVE-ACTION shows, although I can name at least 2 cartoons as well.

The worst part of socialism is that it discourages excelling and rewards the lazy. The worst part of capitalism is its callousness-the poor are left to starve. (When these don't happen, the systems aren't taken to their extremes, and people MODERATE them somewhat and don't let them get that far.) twi actually inflicts the worst of both worlds on its worker bees. The people at the top are lazy and rewarded. Everyone else is stifled and prevented from excelling-they must CONFORM. Everyone except those at the top are left to find help ELSEWHERE after spending 15% of their income (at minimum) fattening twi coffers. twi believes that once you have their money, never give it back.

The second was a Woody Woodpecker cartoon that spoofed Dragnet. "If Woody had gone right to the police, this would never have happened."

It is indeed! Here's how the quotes went: "Arrivederci." "Au revoir." Matty and Jenna's catchphrase is repeated in the movie a few times. "Eminem's on the phone; he wants an answer now." "Umm... plain. Peanut? Plain!" When 30-year old Jenna arrives in her office and has no idea there's a difference between M&M's and Eminem. "Who's your daddy?" "Wayne Rink!" Jenna Rink and her boss in their first scene. "I wanna be thirty. Thirty, flirty and thriving.' Jenna's wish after reading a magazine and feeling like being a teenager is awful. "Everybody Wang Chung tonight." Jenna at the dance. "I want a fluffy pillow!" Jenna to Matt, when she's realizing what happened. The next scene shows her with a fluffy pillow. "Matty! It's Thriller!" At the dance- the Thriller scene should be memorable. "You don't always get the dream house, but sometimes you get pretty close, you know?" The dream house is a running theme in the movie. "Who are these women? Does anyone know? I don't recognize any of them. I want to see my best friend's big sister, the girls from the soccer team, my next door neighbor, real women who are smart and pretty and happy to be who they are. These are the women to look up to. Let's put life back into the magazine. And fun and laughter and silliness. I think we all - I think all of us - want to feel something that we've forgotten or turned our backs on because maybe we didn't realize how much we were leaving behind. We need to remember what used to be good. If we don't, we won't recognize it even if it hits us between the eyes." A high-fashion magazine focusing on real people-imagine!

One of the great joys of life post-twi is the freedom to just ENJOY YOURSELF without the need for official permission. One poster posted once about a great, unplanned get-together at their house that was fun until some coordinator decided to make it a formal event (at their house) and BEGAN PASSING OUT SONGBOOKS- which resulted in the non-twi people all heading for the exit and the fun leaving ahead of them. If anyone still in reads this- we're all having fun whether or not twi would approve. WE approve, and often God Almighty is fine with it whether or not twi is fine with it. Life after twi has room for pleasing God and room to live your life.

"Arrivederci." "Au revoir." "Eminem's on the phone; he wants an answer now." "Umm... plain. Peanut? Plain!" "Who's your daddy?" "Wayne Rink!" "I wanna be thirty. Thirty, flirty and thriving.' "Everybody Wang Chung tonight." "I want a fluffy pillow!" "Matty! It's Thriller!" "You don't always get the dream house, but sometimes you get pretty close, you know?" "Who are these women? Does anyone know? I don't recognize any of them. I want to see my best friend's big sister, the girls from the soccer team, my next door neighbor, real women who are smart and pretty and happy to be who they are. These are the women to look up to. Let's put life back into the magazine. And fun and laughter and silliness. I think we all - I think all of us - want to feel something that we've forgotten or turned our backs on because maybe we didn't realize how much we were leaving behind. We need to remember what used to be good. If we don't, we won't recognize it even if it hits us between the eyes."

"Arrivederci." "Au revoir." "Eminem's on the phone; he wants an answer now." "Umm... plain. Peanut? Plain!" "Who's your daddy?" "Wayne Rink!" "Thirty, flirty and thriving.' "Everybody Wang Chung tonight." "I want a fluffy pillow!" "Matty! It's Thriller!"

"Arrivederci." "Au revoir." "Eminem's on the phone; he wants an answer now." "Umm... plain. Peanut? Plain!" "Who's your daddy?" "Wayne Rink!"

You make it sound like those of us who married older than 20s or 30s failed somehow. What were my other options? Mostly, "settling." Being willing to get married while accepting that at least one critically-important criteria to me was unmet and off the table. I "kept waiting", I kept looking, and kept hoping. I'm very happy with how that turned out. There's sensible choices between the 2 extremes. "Of those two," I'll try to reject both extremes and manage something sensible. (Which I did.) Sounds like you might have done that yourself.

Raf didn't answer me, but I was correct. I was asking him, in a roundabout way, if this was "West Side Story." The lines are from the song "Dear Officer Krupke." (The "social disease" thing was mentioned twice in the song.)

I agree with John here. It's easy to focus on things you've lost, whether they're impossible to measure or very specific objects. It's not always easy to STOP doing that, but try to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and work with what you DO have. twi is not WORTH the energy of continually obsessing about once you're clear. There's a saying that "living well is the best revenge." I'm not sure about that, but it sure beats the alternatives.

Ok, this thread's asking about experiences and requests (nicely) that we skip doctrine for the thread. I can cooperate. No, can't say I've had any such experiences. Mind you, I suspect there can be emotional residues, emotions impressed on a place or thing from a person feeling them, which would be different. I haven't had any of those, either. I'll let you know if that changes.

*thinks* By chance, did he have a social disease?

There were some incidents concerning vpw's visit to India that we've discussed before. There's what vpw SAID, and what HAPPENED. For example, vpw said something about there never before having been a minister who traveled there with his whole family- saying he was the first. Supposing there were none before him, he wasn't the first because he left his youngest son separated from his entire nuclear family for several months when he was tiny. vpw also claimed he had entre to all sorts of things there. This is true. His host, Dr Williams, had entre and walked vpw through everything. vpw responded by swallowing Williams' line of talk about missionaries- which vpw later spoke on and had someone transcribe into "his book" "The Dilemna of Foreign Missions." vpw claimed that his entre into things all over India was the result of some miraculous healing he performed. The truth is that Dr Williams opened all the doors- as Mrs W's account clearly stated in her book. vpw told us all that it was all because he supposedly was standing on the back of a train as it was preparing to pull out, and there was a man with a withered arm there, who was not a Christian. He asked the man if he wanted vpw to pray for him and if he believed he would be healed if vpw prayed for him. The man supposedly replied 'yes' to both, but was clear he did not believe in Jesus. vpw supposedly prayed and the man received a miracle of healing, his arm suddenly becoming whole and strong in a few seconds, just as the train was pulling out. Supposedly, vpw was shouting to him about him receiving his healing in the name of Jesus. Then someone came up to vpw on the train, said he was representing some official who saw the entire incident that happened back there, and was responding to such a healing, gave him the keys to his city, and said the doors to "the East" would always be open to him as a result. Mrs W's account of the train incident said he was asked to perform a special blessing for the people there, Christian and non, and he prayed publickly. Then a man came up on the train and said he represented an official who saw the prayer, and was impressed a Christian minister would pray for non-Christians. Later, Dr Williams arranged for vpw to get a key to a city and speak at the convention. Mrs W's account skips this entire supposed miracle. No surprise, since a poster who knew her and saw her notes said there was no such miracle in her notes of the time. The entire supposed incident was ridiculous, and cinematic. vpw supposedly is on the back of a train, and is permitted to hang off the back as it's prepared to move, and a crowd is allowed to surround the back of the train. As the train begins to pull out, vpw is in physical contact with someone on the ground, and the train is beginning regardless. Furthermore, he's with NO support, standing at the back of a train, bent over the back as it's moving, and he is immune to the laws of inertia and general physics because he's shouting slogans rather than struggling to stay onboard a train. So he obviously lied about what happened, and Mrs W refused to include that lie in her notes and in her book. An interesting side-note is that one poster who knew her claimed she pointed to a man in photos and said that was the man- but there's no such account in her notes and her OFFICIAL accout of what happened skipped over it. Does that mean she told ONE person the truth, and hid the truth from the rest-who wanted to believe it? Or did she lie to one person and tell the truth to everyone else even though it would have been easier to just give the lie they expected? I think we all would draw the same conclusions. ================================= Some threads that touched on this: wierwille's stories in pfal The Indian that was healed on the train by VP Keys to the city