WordWolf

http://www.amazon.com/Powers-Testing-Psychic-Supernatural-Korem/dp/B001FFPEQO I read this back in college. Dan Korem wrote the book "Powers (testing the psychic and supernatural.)" Dan Korem is a stage magician. Where his book becomes relevant to the discussion here is in how he said a stage magician would fake the early plagues-if limited to the technology present at the time. The first fake would have to be the staff to snake. He said it could be accomplished with a collapsible staff which contained a snake straightened in it. (That's the one I'm least certain about.) The second fake would have to be the water turning red. They had dyes back then, including red dyes. Being unseen while adding the dye would be sleight-of-hand. The third fake would be producing frogs. Stage magicians can "produce" objects to hand. They could present a frog, or possibly a few if they were small frogs. The fourth fake would have to produce a cloud of biting insects. The stage magicians of the time would be unable to CONCEAL a cloud of biting insects, so they can't fake this one.

It is said that if a frog is placed in a pot of water, and the temperature is raised VERY, VERY slowly, he won't notice the change and die as the water boils. A number of people have said they've felt that wasn't unlike their experience in twi, where change happened very, very slowly, and they looked around one day and realized the organization they were in bore no resemblance to the one they joined. It was rather slowly that the "temperature"- the rules, the legalism- was raised, and it SLOWLY trapped them in a prison they didn't even notice. If someone's lowering the "temperature" of twi for now, remember that this isn't even the first time. Supposedly it happened about 1990 and again when lcm left. Then, the "temperature" was raised VERY, VERY slowly.....

"Look, a check. She paid me everything she owes me. She left me, but she learned something. She's a responsible person, or whatever." " We can go to bed, maybe get in a little quickie." "No. With you, never a quickie. Always a longie." "What do you say to that?" "I would say, leave Cindy alone and find yourself a nice Jewish girl, Doctor!" "Huh? Oh, sh*, it's the OTHER one, isn't it?" "I think they're from the government." "How do you know?" "They're wearing shoes." "It's dudes like you that give this neighborhood a bad name!" "You have 30 seconds to tell me where Miss Sondheim is, or..." "Or what? You'll eat your lunch in my office?" "No, my lunch will eat YOU." "...three silver bullets through the heart!" "Jeffrey!" "No, Rosenberg, that is a werewolf." "A werewolf? Really? Are you sure?" "It's a black chicken! Come here, black chicken! Come get in the pot!" "Come back! Come back, black chicken! At least leave us an egg or something!" "Children of the night, SHUT UP!" "I never drink wine, and I do not smoke sh*." "There is one small disadvantage. We can only live by night." "Oh, that's all right with me. I mean, I could never really get my sh* together till 7:00, anyway." "I thought you were having fun." "Fun? How would you like to go around looking like a head waiter for 700 years?" "Without me, Transylvania will be as exciting as Bucharest... on a Monday night."

Correct- the "outreach" is by just EXISTING, and people find their way here. That's how I got here, and how most people got here, not even by recommendation.

It IS the Simpsons. Look- why not actually POST SOMETHING after getting an answer correct? That's how we PLAY these games and it's unfair for everyone else that you ignore that. If you are having trouble coming up with quotes, you can PM me and I can fix that- which means the only real answer is you don't WANT to play right.

"Look, a check. She paid me everything she owes me. She left me, but she learned something. She's a responsible person, or whatever." " We can go to bed, maybe get in a little quickie." "No. With you, never a quickie. Always a longie." "What do you say to that?" "I would say, leave Cindy alone and find yourself a nice Jewish girl, Doctor!" "Huh? Oh, sh*, it's the OTHER one, right?" "I think they're from the government." "How do you know?" "They're wearing shoes." "It's dudes like you that give this neighborhood a bad name!" "You have 30 seconds to tell me where Miss Sondheim is, or..." "Or what? You'll eat your lunch in my office?" "No, my lunch will eat YOU." "...three silver bullets through the heart!" "Jeffrey!" "No, Rosenberg, that is a werewolf." "A werewolf? Really? Are you sure?" "It's a black chicken! Come here, black chicken! Come get in the pot!" "Come back! Come back, black chicken! At least leave us an egg or something!"

"The blues isn't about making yourself feeling better, it's about making other people feel worse." "You know, you play pretty well for someone with no real problems." "Hey, what'll I tell the boss?" "Tell him that I'm going to the back-seat of my car, with the woman I love. And I won't be back for ten minutes!" "Well, I was wondering... how important is it to be popular? "I'm glad you asked, son. Being popular is the most important thing in the world. "So, like sometimes you can do stuff that you think is pretty bad so other kids will like you better? "You're not talking about killing anyone, are you? "No." "Are you?!" "No!" "Then run along, you little scamp. Like I always say, a boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center." "Hand over all your money in a paper bag." "Yes, yes, I know the procedure for armed robbery. I do work in a convenience store, you know." "Say, who's up for a little cram session? I'll go first. What was the name of the Pilgrims' boat?" "The Spirit of St. Louis." "And where'd they land?" "Sunny Acapulco." "And why'd they leave England?" "Giant rats." "Cool, history's coming alive!" "As a natural enemy, I do not know why I am doing this, but I feel obliged to tell you the information you just received is grossly erroneous." "Speak English, man!" "A blindfolded chimp with a pencil in his teeth has a better chance of passing this test than you do!" "Thanks for the pep talk, poindexter." "Look at my eyes! See the sincerity? See the conviction? See the fear? As God is my witness, I can pass the fourth grade!" "And if you don't, at least you'll be bigger than the other kids!"

No.

"Look, a check. She paid me everything she owes me. She left me, but she learned something. She's a responsible person, or whatever." " We can go to bed, maybe get in a little quickie." "No. With you, never a quickie. Always a longie." "What do you say to that?" "I would say, leave Cindy alone and find yourself a nice Jewish girl, Doctor!" "I think they're from the government." "How do you know?" "They're wearing shoes." "It's dudes like you that give this neighborhood a bad name!"

"The blues isn't about making yourself feeling better, it's about making other people feel worse." "You know, you play pretty well for someone with no real problems." "Hey, what'll I tell the boss?" "Tell him that I'm going to the back-seat of my car, with the woman I love. And I won't be back for ten minutes!" "Well, I was wondering... how important is it to be popular? "I'm glad you asked, son. Being popular is the most important thing in the world. "So, like sometimes you can do stuff that you think is pretty bad so other kids will like you better? "You're not talking about killing anyone, are you? "No." "Are you?!" "No!" "Then run along, you little scamp. Like I always say, a boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center." "Hand over all your money in a paper bag." "Yes, yes, I know the procedure for armed robbery. I do work in a convenience store, you know."

"I was mighty blue Thought my life was through"

I had a friend who used the first quote back when the movie came out. The paragraph was basically a boast that he was some sort of martial arts expert, and proof of that was that he was 'Oriental.' My friend, of course, just found the whole thing very amusing, and loved to quote it amongst friends. Ok, I had a movie in mind....

The movie is "They Call Me Bruce?"

No....

The Gospels were NOT written before the Epistles. Even if they HAD been, "by sheer logic", when a Greek word is translated one thing in one place, it should be so in another place, or the translator is using what vpw called "private interpretation." In other places, the word is translated DOCTRINE. What things were written aforetime, are for our DOCTRINE. This makes sense, because all Scripture is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction in righteousness.

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"The blues isn't about making yourself feeling better, it's about making other people feel worse." "You know, you play pretty well for someone with no real problems." "Hey, what'll I tell the boss?" "Tell him that I'm going to the back-seat of my car, with the woman I love. And I won't be back for ten minutes!"

*looks it up* Well, I was right, so time to move on, whether or not someone made it official. "I was mighty blue"

"Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week." "Change your stars and live a better life than I have." "It is strange to think, I haven't seen you since a month. I have seen the new moon, but not you. I have seen sunsets and sunrises, but nothing of your beautiful face. The pieces of my broken heart are so small that they can be passed through the eye of a needle. I miss you like the sun misses the flower; like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter. Instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world your absence has banished me to. I next compete in the city of Paris, I will find it empty and in the winter if you are not there. Hope guides me, it is what gets me through the day and especially the night. The hope that after you're gone from my sight, it will not be the last time that I look upon you." "You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly beat me? Come back when you're worthy." "What a pair we make, hmm? Both trying to hide who we are. Both unable to do so. Your men love you. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough. But you also tilt when you should withdraw." "Father, I am afraid, I won't know the way back home." "Don't be foolish, William, you just follow your feet."

"...when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."- George Santayana.

I'm only going by what so many of them have POSTED HERE. True, for all I know, all of the posters who said it were lying. I'm taking it as given that they told the truth.

"Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week." "Change your stars and live a better life than I have." "It is strange to think, I haven't seen you since a month. I have seen the new moon, but not you. I have seen sunsets and sunrises, but nothing of your beautiful face. The pieces of my broken heart are so small that they can be passed through the eye of a needle. I miss you like the sun misses the flower; like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter. Instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world your absence has banished me to. I next compete in the city of Paris, I will find it empty and in the winter if you are not there. Hope guides me, it is what gets me through the day and especially the night. The hope that after you're gone from my sight, it will not be the last time that I look upon you."

Actually, most of the people who left twi in more recent years read their way around this site, posted (or didn't), and then moved on with their lives with neither twi nor the GSC. To which I say "Good for them", and to which I say "Well done, GSC!"

There was definitely CORRELATION. Whether or not there was CAUSATION would be the question. (The ideas and practices co-existed in the same place at the same time. The question is if one inspired the other.)

*wild swing* Is that Disney's Pocahontus? (Or however it's spelled)