WordWolf

Rob Zombie did a song and video called "Dragula." It was named after a racecar that was built in an episode of a television show. The name was appropriate- the body of the car was built from a coffin. What was the show?

Ok, let's see. 4 Jewish names. One is Lawrence- or "Larry" for short. If I trimmed "Moishe" down, I might get "Moe". "Shmuel" might be changed to "Shep". So, I might have Moe, Larry, Shep, and Shep's replacement(s), Curly. That would make any 3 of them "THE THREE STOOGES."

It was a lot nicer than the truth. One person who researched the twi history got ahold of some rather hard-to-get documents. The reason vpw was FORCED TO RESIGN involved (no surprise!) some rather inappropriate behavior concerning a church secretary. In typical vpw fashion, vpw pulled a "you can't fire me-I quit" and sent off the letter we just saw, claiming his motives for leaving were pure. The Church, of course, said, "Sure, just as long as you're leaving" and let the matter drop. The letter he fired off said he was leaving because God was directing him to spend more time with others and so on. Later, vpw told twi innies he left because he got static because he exposed "foreign missions." Typical vpw style- he told DIFFERENT lies to DIFFERENT people at different times, each tailored to their audience of the time. As we can see, he was already rewriting history when he sent off the letter.

Yet if one bothers to read vpw, it is obvious that he began the entire "POWER FOR ABUNDANT LIVING" setup specifically selling MATERIAL ABUNDANCE, and he says so right in the very beginning of the Orange Book, "Power For Abundant Living"... ================================= ""Introduction: the Abundant Life. Jesus' proclamation as recorded in John 10:10 is the foundational Scripture for this book. ...I am come that they [believers] might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. This verse literally changed my life. My wife and I began in the Christian ministry, plodding ahead with the things of God, but somehow we lacked an abundant life. Then one time I was especially alerted when I read from the Word of God that Jesus said He had come to give us life more abundant. I was startled into awareness. As I looked about me at communities where I had served and among the ministers with whom I had worked, the abundant life was frequently not evident. In contrast to these Christian people, I could see that the secular world of non-Christians were manifesting a more abundant life than were members of the Church. Thus I earnestly began to pursue the question: 'If Jesus Christ came that men and women might have a MORE ABUNDANT LIFE, then why is it that the Christian believers do not manifest even an ABUNDANT LIFE?' I believe most people would be thankful if they ever lived an abundant life; but The Word says Jesus Christ came that we might have life not just abundant, but more abundant. If His Word is not reliable here in John 10:10, how can we trust it anywhere else? But, on the other hand, if Jesus told the truth, if He meant what He said and said what He meant in this declaration, then surely there must be keys, signposts, to guide us to the understanding and the receiving of this life which is more than abundant. This book, POWER FOR ABUNDANT LIVING, is one way of showing interested people the abundant life which Jesus Christ lived and which He came to make available to believers as it is revealed in the Word of God. This is a book containing Biblical keys. The contents herein do not teach the Scriptures from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21; rather, it is designed to set before the reader the basic keys in the Word of God so that Genesis to Revelation will unfold and so that the abundant life which Jesus Christ came to make available will become evident to those who want to appropriate God's abundance to their lives. " =========== It's plainly obvious he wasn't saying the secular world of non-Christians had spiritual abundance. He said he SAW something. That's in the 5 sense category, which vpw said was antithetical to the spiritual. As in "the battle of the senses vs revelation/faith." That's right out of the same class.

The plagiarist plagiarized that from Billy Graham, who actually did that when younger to overcome shyness. Before the internet, that was possible to get away with. (The "praying for the trees" bit he stole. The "hide in the woods and neglect your chores" thing wasn't Graham. It didn't fool his father, either. According to twi's own publication, his father said that since vpw was too lazy to be a decent farmer, he'd be a flop as a preacher.

The "believing" occult practices were from the "Word of Faith" movement but especially from "Christian" (occultist) Albert Cliffe. http://www.precastconcrete.org/~messiah7/rsr_lawbelieve.htm ""I found the Kingdom-of Heaven within me and, oh, how my ideas of God changed.(3) God to me is all life, all power, all love."(4) God is the name given to that unchangeable principle which is the source of all life, of all existence. As God He is impersonal, but as we come to know Him day by day as expressed in each one of us, He really becomes personal to us...(5)" Man, Cliffe newly concluded, must contain the divine energy for "My mind is part of His divine-mind"(6) and "we are inseparable from God"(7), Cliffe wrote. Man's goal, then, is to grow, developing his latent "God power" since "...if there is an unpardonable sin it is the damming up of God's powers within us." (8) According to Cliffe, attainment of this goal is aided by the impersonal Christ force indwelling every human being. Since "there is no death"(9) a person simply goes to "that plane of thought which you have prepared for yourself" which can loosely be termed "heaven" or "hell."(10) Cliffe's pantheistic viewpoint combats Scripture, promoting man from sinful creature to a microcosm of the "Creator." These a-Christian beliefs have been marketed for centuries by mystics and occultists, often under the thin disguise of Christian terminology which Cliffe favors. "

Don't forget ALBERT CLIFFE. http://www.precastconcrete.org/~messiah7/rsr_lawbelieve.htm "Though Let Go and Let God focuses on ten steps in victorious living, it also reveals Cliffe's beliefs on the important topics of God, man and Christ. Although he claimed Episcopalian beliefs early in life, he later the New Thought classic "In Tune with the Infinite" by Ralph Waldo Trine and took courses on spiritual healing from Metaphysical Schools which brought him to a new conception of God: "I found the Kingdom-of Heaven within me and, oh, how my ideas of God changed.(3) God to me is all life, all power, all love."(4) God is the name given to that unchangeable principle which is the source of all life, of all existence. As God He is impersonal, but as we come to know Him day by day as expressed in each one of us, He really becomes personal to us...(5)" Man, Cliffe newly concluded, must contain the divine energy for "My mind is part of His divine-mind"(6) and "we are inseparable from God"(7), Cliffe wrote. Man's goal, then, is to grow, developing his latent "God power" since "...if there is an unpardonable sin it is the damming up of God's powers within us." (8) According to Cliffe, attainment of this goal is aided by the impersonal Christ force indwelling every human being. Since "there is no death"(9) a person simply goes to "that plane of thought which you have prepared for yourself" which can loosely be termed "heaven" or "hell."(10) Cliffe's pantheistic viewpoint combats Scripture, promoting man from sinful creature to a microcosm of the "Creator." These a-Christian beliefs have been marketed for centuries by mystics and occultists, often under the thin disguise of Christian terminology which Cliffe favors. If Wierwille did realize Cliffe's alarming beliefs about God, man and Christ, he was knowingly exposing his Ohio congregation to possible great spiritual harm. If Wierwille did not realize Cliffe's non-Christian beliefs, he did not probe Cliffe on doctrinal matters or was theologically naive. In either case, Wierwille did adopt at least one key Cliffe teaching- that positive faith (which Wierwille termed "believing faith" in 1957 and "believing" beginning sometime after 1962) will yield health, happiness, prosperity and success while negative faith (fear) must result in failure, sadness and sickness because this is a law under which every human on earth lives. Wierwille's teaching and terminology closely mimic Cliffe's, as a comparison of their works indicates.(11) While Cliffe heads each chapter of Let Go and Let God with a brief Bible verse he does not attempt to prove his teachings with Scripture. Wierwille, on the other hand, attempts to illustrate from Scripture his theory of "believing" thereby "Christianizing" this spiritist's ideas.(12) One thing is sure. Wierwille's source far his teaching on believing was neither the Holy Spirit nor the Word of God, but Albert Cliffe, who spiritually stood far outside the bounds of biblical Christianity. "

I saw a "WOW" bumper sticker in NYC some years back, and several others. When I looked closer, they were for a radio station. When I did a little checking, I found out the morning show shock-jocks (Opie and Anthony) were trying to promote "Whip 'em-Out-Wednesday", a day for women to flash men on the highway or something. Then again, that has all the class of vpw and lcm, so it might not be irrelevant after all.

Some has been posted here. I can look for it when I have time. Of course, someone else can look for it when THEY have time. Me, I'm just a touch less eager when I find some time, spend 1/2 an hour digging up what appears to answer a question and posting it, and I don't even get "THANK YOU but I was looking for something else..." I should get back around to it at some point, but there were actual threads with Leonard's name in the title in AboutTheWay.

We posted quite a bit of it. If you're willing to look at the posts, you'll see that. I posted one link because I was in a hurry. =============== Leonard's printing house is "Canadian Christian Press." vpw, by his own admission, rushed over to interrupt Leonard's class in progress as soon as he heard of it, and demanded to be allowed to take it. Leonard indulged him. A few months later, vpw returned with others to take it, and vpw retook it. A few months after THAT was the first vpw class called "Receiving the Holy Spirit Today." vpw taught it and mentioned no one. What he told Leonard before this...he asked Leonard for permission to reteach Leonard's class locally one time. Leonard agreed, and added a photo of vpw's class to his scrapbook when vpw sent it to him. vpw continued to teach Leonard's classes. Leonard didn't sue, but he added elaborate copyright notices to his books and became more reluctant to put everything out there, which means vpw slowed down Leonard's ministry. Students of Leonard's class have said that Leonard's mannerisms and speech patterns showed up in pfal, as did his use of "Johnny Jumpup, Maggie Muggins and Henry Bollocco." ============================

As much as I like the idea, I've moved FAR too far away to make it feasible. Unless I hit a big lottery, in which case I'll see about hosting a get-together somewhere. ;) If I want anonymity for pictures, though, I wouldn't use a paper bag. I have at least 1 good wolfman mask for the occasion. :)

COULD he? We KNOW he did! We've discussed it a number of times, including "the way:living in wonderland" because vpw himself mentioned Leonard's class, and one of our posters has taken BOTH classes and met Leonard.

MASH ran for maybe 12 seasons. "Saturday Night Live" started before it and is still running. Is it that?

We know there were times they leaned on staff not to have kids, and the in-residence corps were not only leaned on to not have kids, but they were leaned on to have abortions if there was a pregnancy. At moments like that, the "convenient" doctrinal error of life beginning at birth came in handy- it was used to tell women that this wasn't a child until they're actually in labor.

Your guess would be correct. The "lost episodes" were additional material used on "the Jackie Gleason Show" but the series itself was "the original 39." The Dick Van Dyke Show had 158 regular episodes (plus 1 reunion.) Go, bfh!

Van Johnson did. The Green Hornet/Van Williams was in a 2-parter in Batman, and before that, had done a cameo with Bruce Lee/Kato with one of those windows while Batman and Robin climbed up the wall. Didn't realize it was my turn. ========================== Next show: Amazing how a show can become so well-known and well-watched when there were only 39 episodes.

Any candidate for a Masters in Theology should be well aware that Apologetics has nothing to do with "apologizing", but with forming and stating an "apologia." Rather than making excuses for the Faith, and saying you're sorry for having it, the apologeticist puts forth that it is logical and sensible to be of the Faith. vpw was a lousy Theology student. He probably managed with lots of plagiarism. We do know he picked the "softest" option by studying HOMILETICS and then pretending he knew about Bible History and Bible Languages and so on. From time to time, he made up some embarrassing explanations of words. One of the ones that made me wince was the one for "mortify" in the King James Version. Anyone who knows what a "mortician" is or who Morticia Addams was in the Addams Family should have looked it up in a dictionary. Anyone who knows a touch of Latin could probably rattle off that "mortis" means "death". So, the KJV word "mortify" would obviously mean "kill off." It came from the Greek word "nekrosate" in the same verse. In the Greek, "necro" means "death." Doctors know that necrotic tissue is dead, and many people know (most serious Bible students should know) that a "necromancer" is someone who supposedly deals with the dead using occult methods. So, what explanation was floated around twi? "Mortify- that means 'blow to smithereens.' " As if it said to "use a mortar on", which would be peculiar since the mortar cannon was not in use in 1611 when the KJV was produced. Anyone who sat through the Intermediate heard Earl B say it there, and it came up here and there other places.

Well, "Mork & Mindy's" Mork was INTRODUCED in "Happy Days", and Fonzie appears in the series pilot, but I don't think of that as a "spin-off." So, I'd go with "Joanie Loves Chachi." {Off-topic, Until the other day, I confused Van Johnson-the dancer who appeared on "I Love Lucy" for an episode- with Van Williams- who played Britt Reid/the Green Hornet.)

You say Bruce Lee was one of the main actors of this TV show? Yes, he was. And in Hong Kong, they said he had the title role.

Was that "the Mod Squad"?

Very true. However, it wasn't the matter of just photocopying Martin's work like had been done for other things. Also, the bibliography actually cites the source. So, the hard part was all done by Martin, which might be seen as somewhat deceptive. However, it was done (AFAIK) legally with regards to plagiarism, and not with the BLATANT dishonesty of the previous stuff. Don't confuse James Trimm with Michael Rood. They are 2 different charlatans who have worked together in the past. And Rood has never posted here, nor has twi ever caught him at anything. http://www.seekgod.ca/trfactor2.htm http://www.seekgod.ca/trfactor.htm

No, they were saying that it was normal for scholars to have grad students under them do all the work and write a book, and then the scholar puts his name on the result as "by (name)", (No, I don't know what they were smoking before they said that.) Trimm didn't do that, he just plagiarized.

BTW, the classic mirror skit was a reprise of the one Groucho and Harpo did in "Duck Soup." In the show, Harpo is the one looking into the "mirror."

Van Johnson appeared in the episode immediately preceeding it-"Dancing Star." Harpo Marx appears in the episode "Harpo Marx." Yours again, George.