WordWolf

quote:

Originally posted by Bob:

That, and it rained on the day we were to have an outdoor dance.

Supposedly, God told Craig to schedule the dance for that night months ago. When it rained, it was our fault. Yelled and ranted about it for quite awhile.

Interesting how rain was your fault,

when EVERYBODY knows that God makes "the rain to fall on the just and unjust".

He might have tried actually READING A BIBLE.

Not that the situation has changed at hq- remember?

The current pres has said there's no need to read the Bible if you're

following the current teachings from hq instead. She's said that's why

she doesn't read the Bible.

I'm not getting the name, either.

However, I'd like to this this now, based on the quotes. :D-->

Looks like the early favourite to unseat Rozilla will be R#pp,

with Je@n-Y^es as the "dark horse" candidate.

I wonder if they'll get that "Highlander" lightning when one of them

finally unseats her. -->

Harve's been sh**canned-that will teach him for logging onto the GSC-

he read threads and got possessed!!! :D-->

Moneyhands is being moved completely off the continent-that's the last

we'll hear of HIM! Must not have been sufficiently servile.

This is referred to as "tall poppy" syndrome.

Rozilla sees anyone with even a lick of talent, and she's got to

"take them out" before they replace her "wet cardboard" personality.

Thus, she is "culling" all the talent out of the leadership ranks.

This is a GOOD thing.

It helps set the stage for the ultimate collapse of what's left of the

organization. ;)-->

quote:

Originally posted by Jbarrax:

Of course that means VP's memorable PFAL declaration, "You say it, you believe it, God will bring it to pass!" is hogwash, but I think we all know that already.

Speak for yourself.

I know that.

You know that.

I can name at least one person who DOESN'T know that-or at least, refuses to ADMIT

that.

That's how the higher-ups did it, so, that's how they were gonna

do it, and if they didn't, eventually, an encyclical from on high

would dictate that it was now mandatory to do it that way.

While we wait for Sharon...

"I'm the burning bush,

I'm the burning fire,

I'm a bleedin' vol-cano!"

Got it just before I started posting quotes that would actually be clues.

:)-->

Yours sounds oddly familiar.

"The Peacemaker"?

quote:

Originally posted by WordWolf:

quote:

Originally posted by WordWolf:

Ooooh, I've got what I think is a tough one.

I'll be VERY impressed if someone can get this off the first quote

without cheating....

" I haven't laughed so much since Pompeii! "

"Bless my metronome!"

"Help!"

"No thanks, we don't need any."

Scream

Drew Barrymore

Riding in Cars with Boys

I think that everyone who was nuts in twi either was nuts before they

arrived,

or had all the ingredients for going nuts before arriving, and twi just

helped them put it together.

(I don't mean neurological psychiatric disorders, I mean the unstable

personalities twi's become notorious for around here.)

Some people DID go thru Corps and so on and remain sane, some even were

good Christians-at least in the lower Corps numbers, at any rate.

Of course, as more of those guys filled the staff, that changed....

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Nuts will show up anywhere and everywhere.

Whether they CLUSTER someplace of not is a measure of the structures in

place and the policies enacted.

Since twi was designed to remove accountability whenever possible,

and leadership below mimicked the dysfunctional behaviour of higherups,

who mimicked the mog,

that meant dysfunctional behaviour as Standard Operating Procedure,

with no accountability and no means of recourse except to appeal up the

ladder.

Sometimes that worked-but often it didn't because you appealed to someone

who had the same problems.

quote:

Originally posted by WordWolf:

Ooooh, I've got what I think is a tough one.

I'll be VERY impressed if someone can get this off the first quote

without cheating....

" I haven't laughed so much since Pompeii! "

"Bless my metronome!"

*checks*

CORRECT!

Although I always liked calling them

"John Cougar and the Singing Mellencamps". :)--> (With backup singers.)

My corrections were from memory!

You didn't see me posting a stack of quotes from DC Cab, when I hadn't seen the

movie since the 80s? The only thing I COULD look up was Elvis' birthday.

When I posted the quote from Hot Shots:Part Deux, I noticed that nobody seemed

to correctly quote the name "Tojo" when "Tug" Benson gave his speech. All online

quotes give no name or a name like Hirohito, which he did NOT say.

Usually I DO try to find a quote online to make sure I get it as correct as possible.

Since we're not keeping score, I'm relying on the Honor System to keep people

from looking up the answers without bowing out. I always do that with online

trivia.

quote:

Originally posted by def59:

TWI and vpw were focused on power.

The renewed mind was about power.

Walter Cummings taught that if you renewed your mind, you could live forever. (Perfecting the flesh indeed!)

The class was about power.

Believeing was about tapping into the power.

Our lives in twi was all about power, both real and imagined.

The holy spirit teachings were all about power

But Christ talked about love. Reaching out to the lost and sacrificing one's needs for the sake of another.

The church is supposed to love others and that is to be a sign to a sin-starved world.

twi was all about giving glory to vpw, lcm and now rr.

Where did God come in? or Jesus? or the Holy Spirit?

OM and Mike, you may have the doctrines down, but the practices is what we remember, making the words all the more worthless.

I didn't want this to slip by.

quote:

Originally posted by oldiesman:

You choose to only accentuate those practices that represented sin and the worst in people, because you want to degrade twi any which way you can.

They don't have to "accentuate" those practices-just show they existed.

They want to keep people's memories from fading.

You choose to ignore those practices that vpw started and allowed to proceed

apace that are ungodly, because you want to preserve the illusion that he was

some godly person any way you can.

He was a plagiarist, and a rapist. When he was caught, he covered his tracks and

ruined people's lives to do it. He made his "son" (his disciple) two-fold the

child of hell that HE was.

Sure explains those RED CURTAINS, doesn't it?

I'm STILL waiting for an explanation on where God promised those.....

John Goodman

King Ralph

John Hurt

Ooooh, I've got what I think is a tough one.

I'll be VERY impressed if someone can get this off the first quote

without cheating....

" I haven't laughed so much since Pompeii! "

quote:

Metamucil.

It makes you have to go to the bathroom.

If you don't take it, you'll get cancer and die.

This movie won't just scare you. It will f@#$! you up for life!

Crazy People.

Hello, hello, hello... what a wonderful word, hello....

"Metamucil. it HELPS you go to the TOILET..."

"Not ONLY will it scare you-..."

quote:

We're AT&T, and we're tired of taking your crap!

Volvos: they're boxy, but good.

Sony -- because caucasians are just too damn tall!

"They're boxy, but SAFE".

Remember? Volvos are famous for being SAFE cars.

George Carlin:

"They give those out to people who drive Volvos and Audis!

Or SAABs. 'I bought a SAAB.' 'Why'd you buy a P.O.S. like that for?'

'It's a safe car!'

They think that if they buy a 'safe car' it excuses them from learning how to

DRIVE the f*ing thing!

FIRST you learn to drive-THEN you buy your ** safe car."

You're the man NOW, dawg!

That's "FINDING FORRESTER".

(I thought it was "Our Man Forrester." But I was thinking the correct movie and

actors.)

I saw two "titles", but not two "artists"....

Me,

I'm thinking that carrying:

brass knuckles, a HOMEMADE sword (both classified as "deadly weapons"

under US law)

AND

a chainsaw, a hatchet and knife (classified as "dangerous instruments"

under US law)

would be sufficient "probable cause" to temporarily detain someone long

enough to do a background check on the guy, and confirm he wasn't ALREADY

wanted for running around with a hockey mask and decapitating people at a

summer camp or something.

It says they checked for outstanding warrants and if he broke any laws

in crossing the border-for two hours.

Me, I would have figured "two hours" was NOT enough time for a thorough

investigation.

"They can't look at a chainsaw and decide if it's blood or rust or red paint."

Based on him carrying the other stuff,

doesn't it make sense to delay him while someone who CAN tell if HUMAN DNA

is on the "blood" or if it's "red paint" runs a test?

If it's "red paint", then fine-if it's ANYBODY's blood, then he's applied

a CHAINSAW to human flesh. Without knowing WHOSE, I'm sure that SOME law

was broken under Canadian AND US laws.

(Unless the late Johnnie Cochran argues the blood was placed on a chainsaw

that was turned off.)

quote:

Originally posted by oldiesman:

quote:

Since, in TWI's thinking, he was a perfect human - it meant we could become as "perfect" as he is by our works, or renewed mind.

Oh my goodness, in your dreams Sunesis.

We were taught in twi that we will always sin, and we cannot perfect the flesh because of the old man nature.

We were taught in twi that the renewed mind is the key to power...

Not perfection...

I wish some folks would abandon the propaganda already.

In your haste to try to shout down Sunesis' point, you missed it completely.

I was never in a room where someone said "If we work hard enough, we'll be identical

to Jesus". (I don't dismiss the chance someone DID say that.)

The manner in which twi approached Jesus' humanity WAS that we could emulate him in

ability and receive comparable results-

if not IDENTICAL results,

then results in the same BALLPARK.

"Signs, miracles AND wonders." Forgot about all that?

We were taught that we could manifest the same results-

in the Advanced class.

That class spent a lot of time on the drama and power-

as if that was the TRUE "Advanced" material,

and what we REALLY needed to know to "excel".

We were taught the renewed mind is the key to POWER.

Jesus' POWER seemed to be the main thing we DID discuss when he came up in

discussions-except when we were hearing that

"The Word takes the place of the absent Christ."

"Perfect" the flesh? We were taught the power didn't respect the flesh, so no point

in "perfecting" it.

lcm himself was recently quoted as seeing himself within reach of the goal of

becoming Jesus Christ. I think he learned that somewhere.

We were taught it was OUR manifestation that mattered.....

"replace" Christ?

We didn't need to-

he was already replaced in twi dogma.

He was replaced in emphasis by Bibliolotry,

and in practice by ourselves generally, and specifically by the Man of God

For All Time- whether he called himself "Doctor", "THE Teacher", or the man with the

greatest revelation in 19 centuries.

I wish some folks would abandon the propaganda already.

quote:

Originally posted by Mike:

If your comments reflect what OTHERS taught you in TWI, then I can commiserate with you, but I know Dr did not teach that way.

You "know" that, but you "know" wrong.

vpw taught correctly on those subjects in a number of places and times

(not "hundreds" unless you have access to his entire log of sermons),

and INcorrectly-as Belle pointed out-on those subjects in a number of places and

times.

Do the math.

How much time did we spend in the GOSPELS-

which cover the very WORDS of Christ-

and how much in the Church Epistles?

We spent as much time in Ephesians ALONE than in all 4 Gospels.

Most of the time we DID spend in the Gospels was in covering how

"everyone else is wrong"

in how many crosses were on Calvary,

the number of Peter's denials,

and minutiae of his Passion.

Were the Gospels completely ignored?

No. (Duh.)

They were, however, de-emphasized except for where we were ridiculing other

Christians.

Was the Old Testament completely ignored?

No. (Duh.)

Where was the BULK of study done?

The Church Epistles.

Who determined what Books were emphasized over others?

Stop and think.

It's a VERY easy question to answer.

You don't REALLY need someone to shove the evidence under your nose, do you?

You've gone over hours and hours of his stuff.