WordWolf

Funny to see such a SELECTIVE quote. Genesis 2:18 (NKJV) And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” (NASB) Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." So, what did the LORD God do about it? Genesis 2:21-24 (NKJV) "21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." (NASB) "21So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." 24For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh." From this Rabbi's comment, one would think that God said "It's not good for man to be alone" and then endorsed any and all types of companionship. The LORD God seems to have set up a rather specific answer to this from the beginning. This Rabbi's entitled to his opinion, certainly, but he seems to disagree with the very passage he's quoting. (That's probably why he cut the very sentence in half. It's as honest as saying the Bible says "There is no God" because Psalm 14:1 and Psalm 53:1 say "The fool has said in his heart,'There is no God.' ”) False Dilemma. There's more options than saying "You can either consider those who dedicate themselves to a specific sin as convenient scapegoats upon whom to blame all of America's ills" and "You must consider all positions and beliefs as equally valid, true and beneficial to self and society." In between are things like praying for adulterers while still saying they should "Go and sin no more", and so on. That's true of any sin. I see no reason to polarize the discussion of any sin to only the two polar opposites and leave out healthier approaches.... ....unless one means to distort the point of view one disagrees with and wishes to pretend one's own POV is the only one approaching reasonable by hiding the truth. That's neither logical, honest, nor compassionate to those who hold honest beliefs different to one's own. I wouldn't bring this up, but this Rabbi WAS the one who made the comparison in the first place.

Here's how the quotes went... "Who is it?" "It's Idi Amin!" In Czechoslovakia, Winger about to spring the other soldiers. He knocks when he reaches the door. "No." "Oh,yeah." "No." "Ho ho yeah." "No." "Yeah." "No." "Yeah." "No." "Yeah." "No." "Yeah." "No." "Yeah." "No, John,no." "I'll drive." "OK." Winger and Russell arguing about whether or not to "borrow" the vehicle for the weekend to go hang out in Germany with the girls. "I wish I was a loofah." Captain Stillman. John Larroquette was told to improv the scene where his character was spying with the telescope. So, he just improvised that whole monologue. Including this line. When they ended the scene, the director came over and asked him "What the * is a loofah?" Your turn, George. And a bit sooner than I expected...

Got it in one!

Page-235, TWLiL (same book): ""We started the first Way Corps then, the fall of 1969, especially for that purpose, to prepare leaders. There were nine of them-some married, some single, younger and older. They stayed until the spring, and then I gave them the privilege of leaving. You see, they never got it together among themselves. They didn't have that commitment, that discipline." That was the so-called "Zero Corps."

"Who is it?" "It's Idi Amin!" "No." "Oh,yeah." "No." "Ho ho yeah." "No." "Yeah." "No." "Yeah." "No." "Yeah." "No." "Yeah." "No." "Yeah." "No, John,no." "I'll drive." "OK." "I wish I was a loofah."

Judge Reinhold Fast Times at Ridgemont High Sean Penn

Matt Murdock, the blind lawyer. aka DAREDEVIL, the man without fear.

Which means Gen-2 should be posting now...

Ok, Oak seems to be out of town or something. *checks* The episode is DS9's "Captive Pursuit." It's described by both George and Gen-2, but George got the earliest correct answer. So, it's George's turn. Unless he wants to step aside and let Gen-2 take it for a change.

Thomas Crane! "Thomas" means "twin"- there's 2 halves to the brain, separated by the corpus callosum. "Crane" short for "cranium"- the bone that protects the brain (the skull).

Right. That was the scene when I-gor first met the young Dr Frahnkensteen. Your turn.

"My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course, the rates have gone up."

The REALLY funny part was when people started copying him with no idea what they were doing and WHY. So we had people putting out BROKEN mints on hand at their podiums. Because they had been putting BROKEN mints on hand at HIS podium. Which he eventually COMPLAINED about, since he could never find an INTACT mint (anymore). So, they said he said he broke the mints- at which point he clarified "I meant I break them in my mouth!" So, he broke open the intact mints in his mouth, so the center with the most powerful mint was exposed directly to his mouth, hiding the alcohol reek more quickly. Of course, he NEVER explained that he was hiding Drambuie smell, or that his "coffee" cup (like one obscure MASH character) was either alcohol or mixed with alcohol, but so many people knew SPECIFICALLY that he drank Drambuie all the time, and he even had locals go out and buy him a full bottle of it sometimes when he traveled. (Naturally, he expected them to pay for it. He expected not only to be able to dip his hand in the twi till, but for twi'ers to always pay his way everywhere at all times- as if they hadn't already paid by filling the twi till.) The more one learns about him, the more disgusting he sounds. The more one learns about him, the more thorough he sounds. (Couldn't just be A LITTLE disgusting- he covered his bases.)

Must be that movie I didn't see with Tom Cruise about stopping a crime before it happened.... "Minority Report"???

Too small a quote to tell, but I'm thinking the vices to exploit might be Quark on DS9. Maybe it's from an early exchange with Odo.

My story was typical of the time. I was aware there were a few problems among the higher-ups, and I could tell they were problems with lcm. (Hey, I visited hq at the ROA and other times. Listening to him talk enough, you could tell he was at least part of the problem.) However, I was confident (being young and foolish and naive) that things could be solved internally by the others talking sense to him and lcm thinking it over and making changes. I even said so. A few weeks after I said that, hq sent a letter saying that all my state's leadership- including one of the people I thought could talk sense to lcm- were fired. It also included vague, serious accusations that ALL of them (a blanket accusation) weren't serving God, but rather their own appetites. Now, I hadn't met ALL the people on the list, but I'd met several, and knew people who knew others on the list. From what I'd seen, these people weren't perfect, but they were performing in a more godly fashion than lcm was. So, if SOMEBODY was "off The Word", I had a pretty reliable sense of who it was. That was Spring of 1989. In Summer of 1989, I went to the ROA. I figured one of two things would happen. One, hq would announce regret, contrition, and a plan to walk the straight and narrow like they had not been- and I'd be there when they said it (this was pretty unlikely but possible). Two, that hq would continue its present course, and this would be my last chance to be on-grounds, buy things at the twi bookstore, and so on (this is what I expected.) While I was there, I also had a week to listen to the people at the main podium, and all the people who weren't, and could get a lot more information that way. Well, the evidence was considerable before that week, but by the end, the evidence was pretty compelling. hq was planning on doing whatever they wanted, and slapping the label "godly" on it. So, when that week ended, we left the grounds, and that was a pretty final end. Of course, since my entire state was, in effect, excommunicated by the holy see of twi, we all stayed together as a convenient unit for some time.

"I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, Dear Father." "Bert! Ernie!"

Now, that IS remembered from just one line! That's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 KJV 13Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. NASB 13The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. 14For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. God's got a lot to cover. All we can understand are a few vague generalities. We know that He's got the end covered completely. Respect God and do what He says. Before the end, God will judge EVERY act, no matter how carefully hidden. Revelation 21:1-4 NASB 1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. 2And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 4and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away." Revelation 21:10-27 10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11having the glory of God Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper. 12It had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. 13There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west. 14And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its wall. 16The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal. 17And he measured its wall, seventy-two yards, according to human measurements, which are also angelic measurements. 18The material of the wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. 19The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone The first foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 20the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. 22I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; 26and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; 27and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. Revelation 22:1-5 NASB 1Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2in the middle of its street On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; 4they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. 5And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever. ================================= Before we get to that point, there's a lot to be attended to- especially considering that God has to get the details covered while still allowing people their free will and the freedom to do horrible things and mess up their lives- while not messing up salvation and God's plan as a whole.

Previous threads on the subject include: vpw's plagiarized sources Plagiarism 101 ====================== vpw's claims to why he could get away with putting his name on the work of others was explained by one poster as follows (who believed this tripe): "By the way, are you aware of the usual process by which a highly esteemed college professor writes his books? He has his trusted graduate students write most of it, under the professor’s supervision. After training them and getting them to speak his language and utter his thoughts, the grad students become a secondary mouthpiece for the professor." My response to it: "The TRUTH of the matter is that if a professor attempted to have a student write ANY portion of a book OR a dissertation he is going to attach his name to-without featuring their name SPECIFICALLY as having written part of it- the student could have the professor FIRED WITH CAUSE from the institution, and the professor's reputation would be DESTROYED. That's because colleges and universities take plagiarism VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY. Is it TECHNICALLY possible a professor (or professors) did this? Yes-but "getting away with it" makes it no less a crime than theft or murder ceases to be a crime if you don't get caught. A professor may have a respected grad student REVIEW his work before it's published-as a technical proofreader. A professor may ask a respected grad student to COMPILE DATA- which the professor will then read, evaluated, then write on. That's not "writing" his book-not even a single letter of text."

"When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you."

Got it in one!

I think he's having some fun with us over the "Revenge of the Jedi"/"Return of the Jedi" controversy. :)

"I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic circuit using stone knives and bearskins."

That's "the Seeker", from The Who.