WordWolf

That was from ROA '76, Trefor.

Here's an exact quote, because I thought that was one of the best teachings

I'd ever heard him teach.

===

He was covering Ephesians 6 and starting in Eph 6:10.

As he sometimes did, he deliberately misread the verse aloud so that the

audience could catch the difference.

vpw: "Finally, my brethren, be strong in VP Wierwille."

audience: "No."

vpw: "Say it LOUDER!"

audience: "NO!"

vpw: "That's right. You're not strong in VP Wierwille.

Many of you have heard The Word from my ministry, but I didn't die for you."

man from offsides: "It was Jesus Christ!"

vpw: "You said it man!"

=========

Mind you,

this should be taken in context of everything else.

Personally, I think he alternated between publicly teaching stuff that

was right on the money and privately or publicly doing or saying things

that were completely off. Humans can be contradictory and hypocritical when

they want to be.

I know at ROA '89, right after lcm drew his line in the sand,

that donna kept calling him "Our Spiritual Leader" and

"Our Spiritual Head" at one of the keynotes, which is on tape.

Ishtar

Carol Kane

Princess Bride

George's movie is more than 20 years old.

So, that means it's not "To Wong Foo...".

*another wild swing*

"Big Trouble in Little China"?

I think that's about 20 years old.

"They call me Bruce?"

"Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" was a movie so bad it was on

"Mystery Science Theater 3000."

It's notable for references to Casablanca and starring Raul Julia

(who probably thought of the movie as a "resume stain".)

Pirate was correct on mine.

Figured many of you were fond of black-and-whites. :)-->

He stopped me just before a few more memorable lines. :)-->

*wild swing*

" Overdrawn at the Memory Bank"????

For those of us who don't know the contents of the servers

(me and all the posters),

can you tell us a little more of what we can reasonably expect during this

time?

Will it be maybe an hour totally affecting the board?

30 minutes? 12 hours?

Will it knock out posting only, or will we be unable to read threads as well?

Will the documents and editorials from the Main Page still be accessible?

Will it affect all forums at once, or roll thru them one-at-a-time

allowing us to hop thru the ones that arent being worked on right this second?

I'm certainly not complaining, I'd just like to know ahead of time and

possibly plan accordingly.

They could have saved themselves the trouble of copywriting that.

Nobody would use it who wasn't being indoctrinated it was the greatest

poetry since Walt Whitman or something.

quote:

" A battleship in 'La Traviata'! "

"Boy-how'd you like to feel like she looks?"

"Have you got any stewed prunes?"

"Yes, sir."

"Well, give them some black coffee-that will sober them up!"

"Yes, sir."

(I'm thinking karmicdebt was right on George's quote.)

Picking up from Mel Gibson...

Hamlet

Glenn Close

Mars Attacks!

quote:

Originally posted by Mr. Hammeroni:

I notice not one of the articles are titled with "prevailing", "household", "victory", or similar Vey speak. Has the leopard indeed shed its spots?

More likely, they have been reading some of our assessments here.

Can't get much of an honest assessment out of a Veybot-

"So, how was the article, what do you think?"

"Well, I was so blessed. In fact, I was so blessed that I was blessed.."

I agree.

However, I bet the actual articles are still LOADED with them.

If not, this could really take the fun out of the twi-speak drinking game....

To those of you still on the twi payroll....

I left a note for you on the "way corps to real life" thread.

To any of you currently on the twi payroll....

This is just a friendly reminder of your future.

http://www.greasespotcafe.com/waydale/editorial/waypay.htm

A) twi has no retirement fund for employees whatsoever.

B) twi does not pay into Social Security for its employees.

(How it manages that without breaking the law is beyond me.)

C) twi does not pay enough for you to put in $10 per paycheck

into an individual retirement fund.

D) twi does not have a 401(k) program.

E) twi has a standard operating procedure of dropping people who are no longer

of any use to them (like mrs wierwi11e)

F) if you think twi will make an exception for you, please reread the previous

line

G) twi does not have any kind of job training program

=======

What all of this means when you put it together:

Financially,

twi currently makes no effort to give you backup or a reserve of any kind.

Sooner or later, it will cut you loose, probably later. Once twi cuts you loose,

you will be unemployed with few job skills-if any,

with no retirement fund and no money in Social Security.

So, you will work fulltime until you die.

From a financial self-preservation point of view,

your best bet is to acquire job skills outside of twi,

and work outside of twi.

At least that way you have a chance to actually retire.

A number of people in the "prevailing household"

won't have that option.

Sharon,

just as I couldn't link back thru the same movie,

you can't link back thru the same actor (Rip Torn).

Please link from "Men in Black" thru a DIFFERENT actor.

Defending Your Life

Rip Torn

Men In Black

Sounds vaguely familiar....but I don't have it yet.

quote:

Originally posted by Belle:

... and asked how, if he was doing things like that, could he come up with so much of the amazing and incredible teachings we were hearing and how was he getting so much revelation from (their) god? Moneyhands agreed. He said that obviously we had been hearing hotter bible than ever in TWI and that he just couldn't explain it.

As Research Geek pointed out once,

a lot of people sent in studies and things that were used BY lcm,

who made it look as if it was all HIS ideas and so on.

Never admit you have any sources-that was the lesson he was taught by vpw,

and he remembered it.

What would a bright stage-light have to do with a devil, anyway?

quote:

Originally posted by rascal:

Vp told everyone at some teaching (musta been roa) that his eye was burned up from the lights on the set when he did the pfal class on film.

He talked about how they were on a time constaint so he couldn`t stop to rest, just put cold wet cloths on em so he could continue....

He said that the pain was so bad in later years that he had it removed.

He claimed that he had *given his eye for God* (sounds a lot more dramatic than cancer no?) closely followed with demands of what *were WE were willing to give up for God*?

I've never heard that ANY kind of light can cause eye cancer.

(Except excessive sunlight, now that we have a thinner ozone layer.)

vpw used to claim the lights filming pfal in the EARLY 70s cause PERMANENT DAMAGE

to his eyes.

What kind of lights were these-industrial lasers??

This was less than a month of filming.

Does anyone remember the film being washed out due to blindingly white light?

Me neither.

Was film of such low quality that they needed floodlights just to get the normal

room-light on the resultant film?

Not since movies added SOUND was it THAT severe.

vpw WAS exposed to a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) all the time.

He chain-smoked all the time. He also DRANK all the time, which did not ensure a

healthy immune system to filter out the cancerous substances.

====

Is it possible that eyes that are cancer-infected due to exposure to carcinogens

can be more sensitive to bright-but not harmful- light levels?

Now, THAT I can believe. I'd guess that he got his cancer, and MAY have felt pain

with the bright lights because he had damaged eyes.

It's also possible (since I dont have firsthand accounts from witnesses)

that the lights never hurt him,

and that story was completely added like his "miraculous snowstorms."

Improbable?

No, just the type of spin control he regularly engaged in.

"Yes, my eye was destroyed. It wasnt my fault-it was the price I paid to bring you

pfal, the greatest revelation of God to his people since Paul dictated from his

prison cell, and I would gladly do it again for you all and lose my OTHER eye

because that's how much I looooove you, keeeds.....

*lights another cigarette* "

While we're waiting...

" A battleship in 'La Traviata'! "

If you need to recover after seeing this,

see the BBC version.

quote:

Originally posted by Raf:

I could be completely wrong on this, but wasn't that me?

It was a family-member almost exactly 10 years younger than me.

I did, however, love retelling that story to you, more than once.

The surreal part is how spot-on the imitation was, considering who said it.

=====

Steve!,

Miyagi met with his old flame on Okinawa.

She was forbidden to marry Miyagi long ago-she was promised to Sato, Miyagi's

best friend.

Faced with possibly fighting his best friend to the death for her, Miyagi left

Okinawa years ago.

She now told him that she NEVER married (rather than marry someone she didnt love.)

Miyagi replied HE never married EITHER.

I STILL say he lied thru his teeth. Under the circumstances, it didn't hurt her,

and made her feel a lot better. (A separate discussion would be if the Categorical

Imperative would make this a bad thing regardless.)

I saw that coming when I realized they sacrificed the very recognizable

description of Zaphod Beeblebrox in exchange for adding a cheap visual joke.

He's supposed to have two matching heads above his necks, and a third

arm which he had added to help improve his ski-boxing.

The BBC version (of books 1 & 2) was produced on a shoestring budget, and, IMHO,

is superior to what little I've seen of the current thing.

*waits for pawnbroker*

I wonder how Marcus is doing-I called him "Daniel-san" once......

My usual complaint about Karate Kid II was that it was soooo predictable.

Every scene on Okinawa was interrupted by Sato's "Miyagiiii!"

Someone walked by and guessed it seconds before the ONE time it was interrupted by

the storm, when Sato was trapped under the log. I myself guessed the entire

end-scene when the dance-performance began. I was interrupted by the events as

I finished explaining them.

My usual complaint about the trilogy was that they kept contradicting each other.

Movie 1, Miyagi's lamenting the death of his wife, and Daniel sees her obituary.

The secret to the Miyagi family karate: the Crane technique.

"If do right, no can defend." There is NO move that has no counter.

Of course, in the end, he wins by using the Crane.

Movie 2, Miyagi says he never married. [My answer: he lied thru his teeth.]

The secret to the Miyagi family karate: the Drum technique.

Daniel attempts the Crane against Sato's student, who uses the counter and hits him.

Daniel wins by using the Drum technique.

Movie 3, early on, Miyagi announces he will teach Daniel the secret to the Miyagi

family karate: the katas. (The forms, or demonstrations.)

Daniel seems to have completely forgotten the Drum technique in this movie,

and gets beat down in the arena.

Daniel wins by using Kata in the arena.

When we heard they were making "the Next Karate Kid", someone did their impression

of Miyagi contradicting the previous movies for me...

"*miyagi voice* You my first student!"

It was such a good impression I have to mentally separate it from the actual movie.

*still swinging*

Johnny Mnemonic ?