WordWolf

I believe I can see the actor saying it, but the episode is escaping me...

Kudos to him for being able to SIT STILL that long. I tried that once and got bored after the first 1/2 hour. The SIMPLE concepts are often the most effective ones. One year I put that into practice, too. I put up a HUGE sign that said "Beware of the werewolf", which was big enough to read from many steps away, but small enough that you'd have to read it as you approached-unless you were smart enough to stop your ENTIRE group and read. And who can stop a handful of kids when they see an obvious indicator free candy is imminent? As they approached the door, I sprang out of plain sight in a werewolf outfit. How close I let them get, or how much I moved, depended on the size of the kids. (The smallest, I stayed where I was. The teenagers were treated to a leaping werewolf as they got CLOSE to him.) Naturally, NOBODY (3 people all night) saw me coming because they were all focused on the sign and figured I'd spring out from behind the door, and they were safe until they rang the doorbell. (The sign was to HIDE the werewolf, not WARN them. ) After I sprang out, I immediately said-sounding annoyed- "Can't you read? It SAYS *pointing* 'Beware of the werewolf!' " and handed out candy. A lot of the parents and all of the teenagers got a big laugh out of that one. Yeah, they WERE warned well in advance.... Well, the main laugh for the parents is some relief from the fairly monotonous door-to-door, and the teenagers didn't have a real Halloween without ONE decent "boo" incident. Frankly, the disappointment that year was the little effort spent on costumes by the families & kids and stuff.

"We will cease dispensing the canned consumables. It is permissable to dispense fried chicken embryos?" That's all THEY called the beer. (Besides "beer" when handing it out once.) The other parents ("We LOVE your costumes!") called it "liquor" and "six-packs of brewski."

How about a white costume with rainbow trim and headband, and a big, big forehead? (Will need a "bald" headpiece) Some people still wake up sweating if that flashes in their dreams.... Well, you have a cute dog, in a costume, which adds cuteness. And you give out candy. Of course the kids are going to remember to stop by. :) Any thoughts to trying a different costume for her once in a while? Just asking.

"Uncle" Harry gave some interesting biographical details that help fill in some of the blanks, especially about the youngest son in the family, vp. page 77 quote: "I didn't see much of him when he was growing up. When I was seventeen, I started to work, was away from home most of the time. That's near about when he started school. We all walked a mile to the same red schoolhouse. We all had chores to do: milking, feeding the cows, horses, hogs and sheep." quote: "When VP was in high school, Dad wanted him to take over the farm later. You see, that was the tradition-that the youngest son take over the farm, just as he had done. But VP emphatically said no. He'd always liked to study and said he wanted to study for the ministry. Our Dad said 'You haven't even learned to work well on the farm. You'll never make a good preacher.' But VP used to practice by preaching to the trees." Uncle Harry chuckles at the recollection. "He'd go out to the woods for hours. Dad thought he was loafing, but I knew what was going on. He was preaching to the trees." Really, Harry? You admitted you didn't SEE him most of the time. Why wasn't he doing his chores in sight and preaching to the animals on the farm, or, you know, the other kids, people who might actually hear something of use? Maybe Dad was on to something. David was a good shepherd FIRST, then a good man of God.... Later, we'll see what vpw has to say about kids and their work ethic. pg-78, Harry again. quote: "Our mother encouraged Dad to send the boy to seminary. He was always full of pep and vinegar. But he never hurt a soul. He did a few boy's tricks, though, I guess. He played basketball, was always very energetic. That drive and desire for an education VP had is inherited. It came from his grandmother on our father's side. Even three years before he was ordained, he was preaching. In 1941, when he headed the church in Payne, Ohio, Dad and I went to hear his trial sermons. That was his first church- Payne, Ohio." I thought he'd been preaching for years, Harry-to the trees. Also, Lamarckianism has been thoroughly discredited. You can not inherit an interest in learning. You can ENCOURAGE it, but not pass it along from birth. Finally, Dad seems to think vpw lacked drive, but you said he DID, at least about preaching. Hm. Maybe he had drive for preaching, but neglected his chores. Harry spoke about their father's will. quote: In the transaction of the legal settlement of the estate in January, 1957, VP and I paid cash to Reuben and Charles for their shares. The we, VP and I, bypassed ownership and put the deed directly in the name of The Way, Incorporated. We took the name from the book of Acts where people who believed were called followers of 'that way.' =============================== I just found out something interesting. Just like he stole everything else, I think vpw stole the "I was preaching to the trees" thing Uncle Harry believes happened when he himself was far away and could not confirm this. Billy Graham did this. This is from Rick Warren's Ministry Toolbox: http://www.pastors.com/article.asp?ArtID=7650 "He transferred in January of 1937 to Florida Bible Institute (now Trinity College) from which he graduated in 1940 with a bachelor of theology degree. Graham's mother and younger brother Melvin had gone to visit him there and found him talking to the trees, Melvin Graham said. "When we arrived, someone at the Bible Institute told us Billy was out in the woods practicing his preaching," he said. "We walked out into the woods and there he was doing an altar call to the trees." " Seems like Billy Graham had EYEWITNESSES to this. And Graham's story, I'd bet my life, was common in ecclesiastic circles by 1970, so there was plenty of time for vpw to read this, and start a viral campaign that this was HIS story as well. As for Graham, the reason, I heard earlier today, was that he felt shy at the pulpit and clumsy (my words), so he was out there PRACTICING. ============ Does anyone actually believe vpw really was preaching to the trees with no witnesses rather than just slacking off on his chores? Did the man ever have an original thought in his life?

How quickly you guys forget "your history." September 1942 was "the 1942 promise", aka "the snow on the pumps". October 3, 1942 was vpw's first radio broadcast. Supposedly, the name "the way" was in the documentation of that from 1942. However, Uncle Harry claimed they incorporated under "the way" in 1957, when they took control of the wierwille farm and bought out the other 2 brothers.

Correct! Trelayne was the inspiration for Q in the series premiere of ST:TNG. One of the novels later said that Trelayne was actually a Q child. ========== I didn't recognize the officers from Temporal Investigations, George. Meanwhile, it's hiway29's turn.

"But where's the sport in a simple hanging?" "The sport?" "Yes... the terror of murder; the suspense – the fun!"

Right. See, this is called "Argument by Selective Observation," or "Cherry-Picking", or "counting the hits and ignoring the misses." http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic...html#selective# "Argument By Selective Observation: also called cherry picking, the enumeration of favorable circumstances, or as the philosopher Francis Bacon described it, counting the hits and forgetting the misses. For example, a state boasts of the Presidents it has produced, but is silent about its serial killers. Or, the claim "Technology brings happiness". (Now, there's something with hits and misses.) Casinos encourage this human tendency. There are bells and whistles to announce slot machine jackpots, but losing happens silently. This makes it much easier to think that the odds of winning are good. " Saying "thanking God for stuff gets results" and ignoring all the times "thanking God for stuff DIDN'T get results" is "counting the hits and forgetting the misses." It's supposing this works as a principle when it utterly FAILS as a principle. Who would count as trustworthy a safety system that saved your life "at least 1/2 the time"? A principle or guiding rule has to work almost all the time, and a supposed LAW has to work 100% of the time, no exceptions. Further, anecdotes are hardly scientific. Thanking God in advance for a good parking space, then finding a good parking space, is hardly "confirmation" that the "thanking" did ANYTHING.

To those of you who use Thunderbird, is there any way she can get all the functionality she wanted in an open-source ("I'll install it wherever I want") format? I think most of us agree "OpenOffice" is at least the equal of "Office." (And FireFox is at least the equal of IE.)

"We do not discuss it with outsiders." That's "Trials and Tribble-ations", DS9's tribute to "the Trouble with Tribbles." "Do they still sing songs of the Great Tribble Hunt?"

Matthew 5:15-16. "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." ========= Of course, the twi excuse is that the Gospels don't really count anymore. Jesus' injunctions-which were written after Pentecost- were inapplicable from the time they were written down! So, here's a quick look at an Epistle. James 1:22-27. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." Sounds like God really wants us to do stuff.

What? That WAS the instruction EVERYONE got in the 90s, when lcm got tired of seeing wow-mobiles and other stuff.

James 4:2 "Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not" Somehow, I don't see the "believe God for perfect health" thing working for vpw. He didn't ask, and did whatever, and then dropped dead young.

To those of you who use Thunderbird, is there any way she can get all the functionality she wanted in an open-source ("I'll install it wherever I want") format?

You missed it by a whisker, so I'll say you have it. (Since you'll obviously know it as soon as I say it.) It was the previous film, "Addams Family." Morticia told "Uncle Fester" the family motto when they walked in the graveyard. The discussion with "the Doctor" is when they discussed how hard the human spirit is to kill. Gomez elected to defend his legal rights over the Addams family fortune. The last 2 were quotes from Morticia, and a little harder to place PRECISELY. ============== Go, George!

"'Sic gorgiamos allos subjectatos nunc'- 'We gladly feast on those who would destroy us.' Those are not just pretty words." "The human spirit-it is a hard thing to kill." "Even with a chainsaw." "They say a man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client. And with God as my witness, I will be that fool!" "I'm terribly worried about him. He won't eat, he can't sleep, he keeps coughing up blood." "He coughs up blood?" "Well, not like he used to..." "Last night - you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me. Do it again!"

THE BRIDGE BUILDER An old man traveling a lone highway, came at an evening cold and gray To a chasm vast, deep and wide through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim, the sullen stream held no fears for him; but he turned when safe on the other side and builded a bridge to span the tide. "Old man," cried a fellow pilgrim near, "You're wasting time in building here. Your journey will end with the close of day; you will never again pass this way. You have crossed the chasm deep and wide, why build you this bridge at 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 stream, which has been naught to me, to that fair-haired youth may pitfall be. He too must cross, in the twilight dim, Good friend, I am building a bridge for him." -Will Allen Dromgoole

Nothing so serious.

"'Sic gorgiamos allos subjectatos nunc'- 'We gladly feast on those who would destroy us.' Those are not just pretty words." "The human spirit-it is a hard thing to kill." "Even with a chainsaw." "They say a man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client. And with God as my witness, I will be that fool!"

I think that's ENOUGH cheap-shots on a thread where someone didn't invite them, guys. Please reserve attacking a poster until they invite it by posting something obnoxious. THEN you can let them have it. Nobody thought "the Fugly Life", lacking a fat clown, or stunning a small moose was funny? Tough crowd!

Ok. For the first time ever, here's the introduction to the Orange Book like you've never expected to see it..... =================== ""Introduction: the Fugly Life. Jesus' proclamation as recorded in John 10:10 is the weird Scripture for this book. ...I am come that they [believers] might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. This verse literally bamboozled my life. My wife and I began in the Christian ministry, plodding ahead with the things of God, but somehow we lacked a fat clown. Then one time I was especially impaled when I read from the Word of God that Jesus said He had come to give us life more abundant. I was startled into bewilderment. As I looked about me at communities where I had deranged them and among the ministers with whom I had worked, the nefarious tomato was frequently not evident. In contrast to these Christian people, I could see that the secular world of non-Christians were stunning a more bilious life than were members of the Church. Thus I earnestly began to launch the machine: 'If Jesus Christ came that men and women might have a MORE FUNKY ARMPIT , then why is it that the Christian believers do not hook even an SAUCY OCEAN?' I believe most people would be thankful if they ever stunned a small moose; but The Word says Jesus Christ came that we might have camel not just large, but more saucy. 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 sleeves, mice, to guide us to the understanding and the receiving of this detergent which is more than marvelous. This book, POWER FOR MELANCHOLY REBOUNDING, is one way of showing interested people the unctuous outhouse 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 wheezy straitjackets. 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 dull munchkins in the Word of God so that Genesis to Revelation will fart and so that the precocious mountainpeak which Jesus Christ came to make available will become evident to those who want to appropriate God's bartender to their lives. "

For me, harder, actually. Seems I lost track of a few words, and had to juggle the order of the answers a little to fit the blanks, and was short a word or two, which I pulled from the other submissions on the thread. (I did my best to fit the GRAMMAR and the SUBMISSIONS, and do nothing to try to guide the content at all. I think I succeeded, but this is a bit harder than I anticipated.) ============= ============= =============

Ok, I've culled the following list from all the responses, with priority towards who posted first, what was funniest-sounding just as a word, and what seemed least likely to fit in a twi-writing. :) So, here's our list. ('scuse me while I whip this out.) 1)fugly weird bamboozled fat clown =================================== 2) impaled bewilderment deranged stunning ========================================= 3) nefarious tomato bilious machine launch ========================================== 4) funky armpit hooked saucy ====================================== 5) ocean moose small large ========================== 6) sleeves mice detergent ======================= 7) marvelous saucy rebounding ======================= 8) unctuous outhouse wheezy straightjackets ======================= 9) dull munchkins fart precocious ======================= 10) mountainpeak bartender Now I'll take this and plug it into the "story." I underestimated how much work this takes to do, start to finish....

BANG! ==== Ok, that's it for this writing. Now I have to plug everything in. This will take me a bit....