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  1. Nice. And I did NOT make this easy. The actual clues in there, as I saw them, were.... 1) Luke Duke was previously in the Marines, which came up a few times, like when he used a hang-glider, and in the episode I quoted. 2) Uncle Jesse told the others, more than once, to communicate by CD on the emergency frequency. Oddly enough, I didn't FIND that quote, I had to recall it. 3) As their parole officer mentioned, their first names were Beauregard and Lucas. Pretty quick, George, but now it's your turn.
  2. ckeer, Jun 16 2005, 02:38 PM , "Athletes of the Spirit" thread. "I assume you are talking about the movie Staying Alive and the Show within the movie- Satans Alley. I remeber LCM saying he used it as a basis for Atheletes- I think I rember him showing clips from it at an explanation/ teaching about AOS." TheHighWay, Jun 16 2005, 11:52 AM, same thread. "Do you all remember that Loy-boy accused Sly of stealing his ideas for this movie from their original Athletes ROA production? Supposedly that was part of the reason Loy wanted to do a full-blown AOS... he stated he wanted to "do it right" and thumb his nose at Hollywood's devil spirits. Oh my... talk about ego." Bob, Jun 17 2005, 11:23 AM, same thread. "Here's what I recall Craig saying about AOS and Staying Alive: Sometime in the late 70's / early 80's, TWI did a skit on the ROA stage about AOS. Supposedly, someone from Hollywood was in the audience watching, liked what he saw, and copied it for use in Staying Alive. Loy got ticked off when Staying Alive came out, said they copied their ROA skit. So Loy copied, verbatim, the Satan's Alley section for AOS. If anyone can be sued for copyright infringement, it would be TWI by the producers of Staying Alive." outandabout, Jun 17 2005, 12:53 PM. "LCM came through San Diego one time around 1984-85. He used a scripture about learning things from "a little bird." In other words, the devil could transmit info via devil spirits. Thus, the original Athletes from ROA was given to the people who made "Stayin Alive." Therefore, TWI could take what they did in the movie and use it because it originally came from TWI. Uh huh... of course it all made sense to me at the time because LCM said it. He also was on his Seed of the Serpent trip. His big example was Steven Spielberg." TheHighWay, Jun 17 2005, 09:35 PM. " I was in-rez the year they were working on AOS, and every time Craig came to town (Emporia) he would talk at great length about every aspect of the production... his thought processes, the reasons behind all the costumes and dance moves, blah-dee-blah-blah... I'm sure I have the specifics somewhere in my notes, but off the top of my head, he stated that Sly Stallone was clearly "influenced" because at the time he and his wife were planning the timing of the conception of their child with star charts and the like. Because Sly was "influenced" he was getting insight into how to put "Satan's Alley" together accurately... ruling spirits, underling spirits, the decadence,writhing, etc. Craig said he wanted to do it from a Godly, Biblically accurate perspective. (essentially showing the devil up, not that he put it like that)." My list of ripoffs from that thread: "I caught the "Satan's Alley" segment. They could have sued his head off. "Satan's Alley" features: the scaffolding the villianess in red the villains in masks the grasping/writhing the "hero" in white the rising podium section the grunting/yelling sound effects the jumping combat the flying kick the white light representing the presence of God the one-one-one combat towards the end with the guy's shirt off" ============== Rascal, from the thread on the Passion of the Christ, Mar 24 2004, 11:39 AM "This reminds me of the whole athletes of the spirit fiasco.... LCM came to the advanced class ...he was so excited about having seen the *staying alive* movie with John Travolta....there was a scene where in the production John Travolta was doing involving a battle with devil spirits....Lcm was all hepped up about how twi could do it better ....more accuratly more skillfully more dramatically...yada yada ...and thus the conception of aos was born...simply because HE, lcm wanted to show the wolrd how twi could do it bigger and better than Holly wood ever could...... You know........even vpw couldn`t dissuade him from it.... That ws the way it always was when I was in twi....if they hadn`t done it first....it wasn`t worth doing... Twi`s critisisms are so childish."
  3. lcm had a short "athletes of the spirit" thing- BTW, that term was used quite a bit before lcm got it, by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and others- a few years before. That one, vpw supposedly complimented. One poster said that lcm came back from seeing that movie, and insisted they could do that scene a lot better- the scene titled "Satan's Alley" in the movie. That's how it officially started. Supposedly, lcm didn't announce he wanted to star in it, and was surprised when someone suggested it. I think it was another case of lcm hinting around, and when someone finally said it, he jumped all over it. Watch the scene sometime. You've got the scaffolding, the oppressed, the saved ones, the good guy as the male, the bad guy as the female, the corresponding uniform colours match, and the big fight scene has the good guy without his shirt. Honestly, they took everything from the few minutes of the movie, and started from there.
  4. There's actually a couple I saved on the "Gems" thread, because they sat there, "like a duck." One poster spoke with an innie, who looked and saw the Utah landscape, and said, "Everything is so out of order here- God would have never created such an irregular and desolate landscape." Meanwhile, I saved one from ck: "While Dr. Wierwille might have had a devil spirit I don't see why that really matters." and from the numbered greg: ""That is what the KJV says, the only version that is right."
  5. "Do you like scrambled eggs?" "What does that got to do with this?" "Where there's chickens, there's eggs." *smash* "That was a funny place to put a barn." "You try that fool stunt again and I'm gonna find a funnier place to put one." "Why don't you use some of that fancy stuff they taught you in the Marines?" "That's what he just used on me." "I still think what you need is a good scare, and the best way to do that is to eat the food here." "Well, how do you think I got the hiccups in the first place?" "Be ready to make the pick-up in exactly five minutes. Copy that?" "Check. Exactly five minutes. Give or take a minute 'cause I ain't got no watch." "We'll communicate on the emergency frequency!" "How bad is it?" "Real bad. If it was a horse, we'd have to shoot it." "Hey, when all this is over, I'm gonna adopt you two. "That might not be a very good idea. He'll eat you out of house and home." This was one if the rare tv shows that featured a character whose first name was "Beauregard."
  6. This is the series conclusion for Deep Space 9. NOT the last episode- it's the one where the Dominion War is finally concluded, Cardassia's liberated, losing the Dominion their Alpha Quadrant base, and the air-war is taken to its peak. Cisco meets with the Founders one last time, and convinces them to take an active step in the episode-by controlling the Wormhole. Am I right?
  7. Just checking-these all DID get airplay of some kind on some radio station, right?
  8. "Do you like scrambled eggs?" "What does that got to do with this?" "Where there's chickens, there's eggs." *smash* "That was a funny place to put a barn." "You try that fool stunt again and I'm gonna find a funnier place to put one." "Why don't you use some of that fancy stuff they taught you in the Marines?" "That's what he just used on me." "I still think what you need is a good scare, and the best way to do that is to eat the food here." "Well, how do you think I got the hiccups in the first place?"
  9. I still want to know what the idea is in naming a hospital show "House." If they make a show about a house, would they call it "Hospital"? Ok, let's see, I need a tv show...
  10. Finally remembered what I was reminded of when you asked about the mirror. The lyrics to a Rush song called "War Paint." The chorus goes "All puffed up with vanity We see what we want to see. For the beautiful and the wise The mirror always lies."
  11. I'm thinking that separating the person quoted from the quote is a good idea with this thread....
  12. That's not a RULE, but a general "rule-of-thumb" I came up with for myself. Seems most times I post something after 1986, I can post the whole song and nobody gets it. Around Halloween was the last time I tried to disregard my personal "rule", and we had about a week where I was posting songs nobody'd heard of.
  13. Between the IMDb listing and a Wikiquote page, I can usually find a lot of quotes, at least for more recent shows.
  14. The Bridge Builder Author: Will Allen Dromgoole An old man, going a lone highway, Came, at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide, Through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim; The sullen stream had no fears for him; But he turned, when safe on the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide. "Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near, "You are wasting strength with building here; Your journey will end with the ending day; You never again must pass this way; You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide- Why build you a bridge at the eventide?" The builder lifted his old gray head: "Good friend, in the path I have come," he said, "There followeth after me today, A youth, whose feet must pass this way. This chasm, that has been naught to me, To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be. He, too, must cross in the twilight dim; Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."
  15. Hello! I don't have all the answers, but I have a few, and I thought your post deserved some replies. So, forgive me if this doesn't seem to have helped. For a lot of people, it's not clear if they left or were forced out... twi was a pretty good place to be-if you were in the minority of the "Haves"-those with connections. If you were an insider, others covered your mistakes and so on. Most of us here were never in that inner cadre... twi was a good place to learn to fake godly phenomena, depending on where you were. As others mentioned, the OFFICIAL policy of twi was that homosexuality was wrong.Under lcm, that turned into "you will be ridiculed and belittled if you're even SUSPECTED to be gay", and a new label to slap on dissenters was invented -"homo sympathizer"- invented or promulgated by lcm himself. Unofficially, if you had connections, everyone looked the other way if you were gay, same as all the other stuff that OFFICIALLY was disapproved-like adultery and so on. At least one poster has claimed to have caught twi's current president in bed with someone of the same sex "while the crime was blazing", so to speak. As someone stated, the armbands were used at the ROA for id. When I was in, blue was pfal grads, red was outgoing wows, yellow was "haven't taken pfal", and white was "I turned my armband inside out to confuse people." Hope you enjoy your stay here.
  16. Yup. That was in the 90s, under the lcm regime. vpw made lcm twofold the child of hell that he himself was, remember. lcm made his own foundational class, etc. When each class was finished, the students were ASSIGNED to write letters about how great it was, using specifics. Those were then used at hq to legitimize the class, as if they were unsolicited testimonials. In short, it DID get that hokey.
  17. Oh, and please pass the link along to someone...
  18. http://www.freerice.com/ Play a game, and people get fed. The advertisers pay for the food. On your end, it's that simple. Snopes vetted this one: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/freerice.asp
  19. Then again, if my front door was open and anyone COULD walk in, I wouldn't be in my skivvies. I don't need Father to tell me that wasn't prudent.
  20. If you think it's fine for a church leader to show a pornographic scene from a pornographic movie to people in a leadership-training program, you might be in a cult. If you think it's fine for a church leader to show a pornographic scene from a pornographic movie to people in a class on Christian families, you might be in a cult. If you think it's worthwhile for a church leader to put together a class on "sex" for his congregation, and include stills from pornographic movies and descriptions of bestiality, you might be in a cult. If you think it's fine for a church leader to own a pornographic pen and show it to youngsters he's teaching, you might be in a cult. If you think it's fine for a church leader to be married and come on to other women, you might be in a cult. If you hear that a church leader came on to other women, and you're primary response was "he was trying to toughen them up spiritually", you might be in a cult.
  21. I believe we all did- we paid for its upkeep, maintenance, equipment, etc. not to mention all the people who worked there for free- no, wait-they PAID to work there!
  22. Matthew 13:55-57 (New American Standard Bible) 55"Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56"And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" Mark 6:2-3 (New American Standard Bible) 2When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands? 3"Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?" And they took offense at Him. Do I think Mary and Joseph had kids together? Sure. I'm pretty confident about that. Do I think they were considered Jesus' brothers and sisters? I'm pretty confidant about that, too. Some people don't count ADOPTED children as "really" children, but-unless one is talking about genetics and inherited genes-I beg to differ. And that's with NO parents in common. Some people disagree. Good for them.
  23. CORRECT! Which makes it your turn. Here's where the quotes fit. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death..." "You want to walk a little faster through that valley there?" Jack to someone 1/2 blocking his path, as the ship was sinking. "What's the use? Nobody's listening to us anyway." "Well, they didn't listen to us at dinner either." The musicians, trying to play to lower panic during the evacuation. "Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight." The last line of one of the musicians, as they finish playing. "I make my own luck." "So do I." Probably the line that gave Ca the answer. Rose's fiancee and that detective-guy, as one has a gun in his pocket, the other the diamond. "Everything he knows is wrong." Decades later, commenting on what the captain "knows"- he's presuming the ship can steer and corner enough to dodge anything it sees- so he has it go full speed into water known to have icebergs, but the ship's rudder is too small, and the ship masses to much, to make sharp turns like he's expecting.
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