WordWolf

Is it really THAT hard to admit one has an anger problem, and difficulty responding in healthy ways to things one dislikes?

"I can't believe I'm eating lunch with a man who thinks The Never- Ending Sacrifice is dull."

"I just thought it got a little redundant after a while.

I mean... the author is supposed to be chronicling seven generations of a single family... but he tells the same story over and over again... All the characters live lives of selfless duty to the state... get old... and die. And then the next generation comes along and does it all over again."

"That's the whole point, Doctor."

"I'm a doctor, not a botanist."

"Try not to yell at any more admirals for a while."

"I wasn't yelling. I was expressing my feelings.

Loudly."

"Don't you think you've had enough?"

"On the contrary. Anyone who talks about the numbing effects of liquor is severely overstating the case."

"He did ask for the specifications. Maybe he's trying to find a way to take it out."

"Either way, I think I'd like to have a talk with him when he wakes up."

"You'll have to get in line."

"I'm a doctor. You're my patient. That's all I need to know."

"Wrong again. You need to know who you're trying to save."

I googled Dooj's "clue" and didn't get a hit. :huh:

Maybe it's not a lyric?

George

*cracks knuckles*

Ok, let me take a whack at finding it....

I don't think this song's identifiable by THAT line, but we could do this SAME song

off a DIFFERENT one-line, I think...

"It's the way that I dance, the things that I do"

Here's another line from that song.....

"Stone cold sober as a matter of fact!"

or we could do the first line, which some people would also get.

Ok, let's see....

"I can't believe I'm eating lunch with a man who thinks The Never- Ending Sacrifice is dull."

"I just thought it got a little redundant after a while."

"I mean... the author is supposed to be chronicling seven generations of a single family... but he tells the same story over and over again... All the characters live lives of selfless duty to the state... get old... and die. And then the next generation comes along and does it all over again."

"That's the whole point, Doctor."

"I'm a doctor, not a botanist."

"Try not to yell at any more admirals for a while."

"I wasn't yelling. I was expressing my feelings.

Loudly."

"The Dukes of Hazzard"?

George

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.

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"

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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."

so did they steal the ideas from that movie?

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.

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."

"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."

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?

Just checking-these all DID get airplay of some kind on some radio station, right?

"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?"

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...

I missed the loyster's version of the sex class..

amazing though, how people who's definition of proper arrangement and deliberate decision is "I'll let you do whatever you want if you let me do whatever I want.." were sought out for their "wise counsel".

I wonder what they thought when they looked in the mirror.

Maybe they covered them all with black paint or something..

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."

I'm thinking that separating the person quoted from the quote is a good idea with this thread....

House?

Irish, there's a 1985 cut-off due to the advanced age of most of the posters here. Please keep the songs pre- 86

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.

If you google "[name of show]" and "quotes," you'll get a number of hits that you can use: IMDb, TV.com, maybe Wikipedia, and fan sites for the show in question. That should hopefully give you enough quotes. (TV.com often has quotes for individual episodes.)

Give it a try!

George

Between the IMDb listing and a Wikiquote page, I can usually find a lot of quotes,

at least for more recent shows.

Was it "Phat Girls?"

I know you.

I thought you were gone!

Were you expecting some sort of guilt feeling to arise within our hearts? Or was it fear you were searching for, aiming at, trying to stir up within others here?

This is the worldwide web.

Think about it.

Let's see...could it be that anyone could read about our experiences and we know that and that's why we tell, tell, tell???

What was that poem about the bridge? It fits here nicely, imo.

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."

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.

I grew up in TWI until I was about 16 or so. I have no idea why my family left or was forced out, I don't even know which.

For a lot of people, it's not clear if they left or were forced out...

We went WOW to Abilene, TX twice (home WOW? something like that) in the early 80's. I was going through an old jewelry box the other day looking for earrings for my daughter and came across my mini-WOW pin. Talk about a blast from the past. From there, we went to Lake Charles, LA. I remember taking a Grayhound bus by myself at 13 from there to NK for Teen Summer School. I have the group picture somewhere. I really enjoyed parts of TSS, especially the greased pig contest and the concerts, and picking fresh cherries off the trees by the dorms. But that summer was where my comfort level in TWI really went south. I had a 'boyfriend' there, and the adults encouraged me to sleep with him in his sleeping bag. He was the son of some fairly high-ups, and really intimidating. It was difficult not to go along with everything he wanted me to do, and some of it I only got out of because I had my period.

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...

I also remember being sent into a dark closet to SIT continuously until I could be heard clearly from outside the closet because I was too timid and not filled with the Spirit. I learned very quickly to make up a few SIT's and Prophecies and committed them to memory so I could fool them into thinking I finally figured it out so they wouldn't send me to the closet again. I sat through PFAL so many times in my youth that I still know the song word for word, and could probably teach the darn class myself now if I hadn't burned my syllabus. Same with the advanced class.

twi was a good place to learn to fake godly phenomena, depending on where you were.

Here's a question I have long wondered, that maybe someone here can answer. I was just a kid, so I really don't know. Did TWI encourage homosexuality or pedophelia? I remember one adult woman who always wanted to hold my hand and kiss me while we were walking around at ROA. I never remember anyone telling her to leave me alone, or chastising her for behavior, but rather telling her what a sweet friend she is to take such good care of me. She'd always go with me to the showers. It always felt so freakin creepy.

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.

And that stupid armband, what was that about? I remember white, yellow, and blue, different years. It was always so hot at ROA, and that band was itchy.

I'm now a fairly well-adjusted adult, almost 36, very happily married, three kidlets ages 15, 12, and 3. We're in southeast Arkansas and sometimes attending a Baptist church. I look forward to getting to know y'all!

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.

WOW! It really got THAT hokey?

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.

Oh, and please pass the link along to someone...

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

"He could never sneak up on me. Father would tell me."

WELL I SNUCK UP ON HIM. Well I caught him with just his fruit of the lums. There was a meeting at the University of Houston back in 76/77. Someone told me to go out to the buss and get some boxes of material. I go bounding into the buss and there is the good old Doc in his skiveess. Shouldn't he have known I was coming. That is the only time I had a one on one meeting with him. I can still remember the look he gave me. Just ask me what I was doing and let me get the box and leave. No face melt or anything.

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.