WordWolf

...and in this specific instance, how might one appropriately express or extend that love?

Should you? YES. The more security-conscious here have a firewall and an external router with ITS firewall. The firewall is like installing a lock on your front door. Without it, passers-by can just stroll in. Mind you, some people just do random scans on the internet looking for computers without security, "like jiggling the doorknob." *checks* According to my firewall, I had 29 of those attempts within the past HOUR. Figure you've had about the same. So, if someone's been helping you, you probably DO have a firewall. (If not, you can get one FREE online.)

BTW, I'd recommend the following: A) go to Microsoft's Update site and download all the critical updates B) update your AdAware and Spybot: Search and Destroy. Your firewall and antivirus, while you're at it, also. (Each one should have an option to do so right on it, so long as your internet connection is open.) THEN run everything again. Your security will seem upgraded. Once you've done all that, let me know if you need more advice. Remember, I'm not that technical, so if I can do it, you can do it. :)-->

I don't have a short answer for that. Call up google or your favourite search engine and type in "what is spyware" in quotes. You'll get a bunch of links to sites explaining it.

"Notifications:ON" means you get an e-mail saying "someone added a reply to this thread." Ten replies later, you turn this off because your e-mail is filling with notifications for something you were going to look at in 2 hours anyway. I don't know about your first question.

What was his name? I know the name of one of them, and can easily check if the OTHER name appears anywhere...

Bumping this to the top....

vpw: "I took every correspondence course ever put out by the Moody Bible Institute." Really? Moody keeps records of the people who take their courses....no mention of vpw ANYWHERE...

Let's all come clean and be honest. What do you REALLY think about the place you left? ======================================== (Edited to add the word "POLL".)

Strange- I don't remember "the Thing" ever saying that. Zixar, did you ever see it? You might remember the 70's FF better than me. I didn't start reading them til Mr Fantastic lost his stretching power. (Literally with that issue.) That must have been around '77, though.

I used to have that on a shirt....

We actually discussed this at the GSC before. I can answer without looking at the site. My spook's bigger than their spook. ;)-->

Yeah, I can't top that quote for sheer over-the-topness. ---------------------------------------------------------- I know they did a New Testament Aramaic Interlinear in 3 volumes. I know this because I own a set. It's 3 volumes for ease of reading. The pages are formatted to include the actual word order, and to put them left-right instead of right-left like Aramaic is written. All of that takes space, and the typeface is nicely sized for readability. It's not too shabby. If someone claimed there was an 18-volume set, they need to just say no to drugs.

Taking it as a given that you did exactly that, and he responded exactly that way, it's easy. They programmed more than one response to some menu items. The program selects randomly among the options for which response is played. I put in different commands that resulted in EXACTLY the same footage. (100% identical). "Watch tv" and "take a break". Ever play "OutSmart"? Same basic principle.

My interpretation of things was that he felt things had progressed to the point that no man of conscience in his situation could do otherwise BUT to speak out about a miscarriage of justice, even if he DID want to be left alone. That's my interpretation, though. I have mine, you have yours. One of them might be right (or neither).

The "contacting chicken" thing makes it look like you're on live webcam with him or something. No, that's clever programming. They filmed him doing about a hundred or so things. If you pick one off their list, he does it. If you pick one off the "unapproved" list including "take off mask", the movie clip is of him shaking his finger. I think the concept is hysterical, but the clips are funny for about 3 minutes.... I think it's funnier that this is Burger King's way of saying "have it your way"......

Or maybe he's hoping to regain some vestige of privacy after enduring the 3-ring bot circus of twi. JP never ASKED for the limelight-unlike some bot past and present. He's never sought it that I know of. I don't see the point in shoving him into it. If you see a reason I don't, feel free to post it.

twi could have taught James Brown and Don King quite a few lessons about shameless self-promotion. twi had all the greatest living scholars of greek/aramaic and so on. (It had a few good ones, but they kept leaving or getting kicked out.) The copse had a training the equal of any college or university out there. (With no college-level professors, and a library composed of second-hand textbooks, this doesn't even look viable on paper...) You'll grow ten year's worth in one year on the wow field. (Some grew, some learned little.) The top leaders of twi could easily run a Fortune 500 company, the average leaders were all equal to middle management. (We've seen how well that's worked... Between ballyboi and all the copse who struggled once they were shoved out. Some were more employable than others, the current innies will probably need to start at the bottom once they're squeezed dry and swallowed.) way productions was the equal to any musical group or mass-media production anywhere. (Run by people with neither experience in media nor music nor entertainment.) aos was the equal to other productions out there. (I've seen one that's worse, but that's it.) The time would fail to tell of them all....

Probably what you mean by "least intrusive". However, even the "least intrusive" answer contradicted what you just filled in immediately preceding it. A lot of people noticed it, too. They all had one question for the proctor, and it was at the approximate time they each reached the second question. Sort of like: 1) "How often do you beat your wife?" Uh, never, I like her. I don't even call her names. 2) "When you beat your wife, how quickly does she recover?" What?

Shaz, Statistically, it's more likely those "bless" notes were props to hold up his ego, ego massages with all the sincerity of canned applause, the equivalent of what God would have gotten from us if he'd made us robots instead of beings with free will. They were all basically carbon copies of 3 or 4 originals, so it would be impossible to see any victims unless someone wrote something truly original there. Personally, I doubt lcm had the brains to pull that one off by himself.

Ex, he'll need to "dumb down" his answers so he's in step with his teachers.... =============== Zix, No, some standardized tests have contradictory information. I took one where one question was based entirely on scenarios in the previous question, where the most common answer was zero, as in "this never happens". So, we filled in "this has never happened to me" and then the next question asks "what do you usually do when this happens?" without a "n/a" option.

I got the joke.... But there's always someone who doesn't get the joke..... So I warn juuuuust in case. Besides, I thought the title of this thread meant the "chain letter warning" was dangerous, meaning "don't take this seriously if you see it"...

Not meant to derail this, but.... Am I the only regular poster here in regular contact with teenagers who are Christians who are NOT ex-twi or splinter connected? In case I am, I'd just like to point out what I keep hearing from them, VOLUNTEERED by them, to be specific.... they mention they don't have any plans of fooling around outside of marriage. Perhaps they are naive and don't know what they'll really do when they get there, perhaps they are fully aware. I just think it's so peculiar that people in twi, especially certain leaders *cough* lcm *cough* would think this is such an impossible task, when these kids think it's VERY possible, and plan and act accordingly. Some of them are already past 20 and in college, BTW. twi has/had a very atypical view towards sin compared to other Christian groups. Perhaps sometimes that was healthier, but it also became a license to sin all too often, and for the mog, it was carte blanche. (Or possibly 'cart blanche', as in "Find Blanche and cart her over here- I'm in the mood for a quickie.")

There's links on the GSC main page http://www.greasespotcafe.com that talk about clergy and conduct and stuff. I won't rehash that here. I WILL point out the hypocrisy between claiming to be an authority on the Bible, and a leader according to Biblical principles, and violating its ordinances against fornication, adultery, etc. God never approved of it, whether or not the local government would consider it a crime. For those of you who don't care what the Bible says, this is simply hypocrisy. For those of you who DO care, it is sinful.

Those of you who don't have http://www.snopes.com saved in your favourites, I recommend you do so. I read about this months ago when I sat down and started to work my way thru the entire site. It's one of the sillier e-mail scams, but, apparently, it's still going around, like the "just announce you're not going to incur any income they can tax, and they can't touch you" e-mail. No, you'd still have to pay, and probably add on late charges plus a fine for being an idiot and dragging it out.