Oakspear

Rafael: I was being a bit of a wise-guy, but I really do hate to see a thread that has, for the most part, been sane and logical, get derailed by illogical ramblings. The participants in this thread have generally refrained from Wierwille bashing; the focus on the facts, rather than opinion or interpretation has been invaluable. Might I suggest not letting Mike derail this thread by not engaging him in pseudo-debate over his "ideas". Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

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socks: I don't remember "Curly Cook", but music was one big incestuous family back then :P-->, so perhaps you are right. Peter Green has been out and about playing these last few years, but I haven't heard any of his new stuff. The album Jumping at Shadows has a great version of Black Magic Woman (written by Green, not Carlos S, as you know) Rosedale Tom "I'm goin' down to Rosedale..." Robert Johnson

It was so peaceful over on the "music" thread. I was grooving to the memories of Ted F and socks and posting my Bedtime CD Picks, really enjoying my escape from the Mike Wars. I have liked the "Actual Errors" thread from the start...so logical...so rational... :)--> But it has turned into another Mike thread Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

I'm not Jerry Barrax, but I do play him on T.V.... :D--> In handling any kind of contradiction one looks for internal consistancy. If one part inarguably disagrees with another part, then we have an inconsistancy or a contradiction. If one accepts the premise that what one is examining is by definition without error, then all inconsistancies and contradictions become only apparent inconsistancies and contradictions. Many of us applied that rule to the bible and our study of it. If one wants to objectively handle inconsistancies and contradictions, then assuming, before any evidence is presented, that there are no errors is dishonest, even when dealing with the bible :o--> What is being done on this thread is identifying actual errors in PFAL; not differences of opinion or of interpretation, but identifiable, verifiable errors. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare [This message was edited by Oakspear on January 27, 2003 at 12:42.]

Tied in with this is the Wierwillian definition of "interpretation". His definition of ????????/?????? - epilusis/epilu? is based on Bullinger's definition given in How to Enjoy the Bible, but as usual, without fully understanding it. Bullinger defines "interpretation" as a "letting loose" and gives several non-biblical uses of the word in context, one of which is to unloose dogs, as upon the game. Bullinger's further examples, as well as his citing of bible verses using forms of ????????/?????? - epilusis/epilu? indicate that the emphasis is on unloosing, unbinding, opening, etc. Wierwille, again, without really understanding what Bullinger is saying, emphasizes the "dogs upon the game" part of the example, writing that we must not let our minds "run vagrantly" as dogs might. This is not to say that Bullinger was necessarily correct, or to cite Bullinger as a higher authority, but to show that Wierwille did use Bullinger as an authority when it suited him, but that his poor understanding of the point Bullinger was making twisted his definition. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Tom's Bedtime CD Pick: for Sunday night is Fleetwood Mac, Live in London '68 Lest you think that Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham are involved in this album, this is the original, pre-Stevie, blues band Fleetwood Mac. Mick Fleetwood (drums), John McVie (bass) and Peter Green (guitar) - all alumni of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, with Jeremy Spenser and Danny Kerwan also on guitar. Eventually the guitarists dropped off one by one to join cults or get institutionalized, and Bob Welch became the guitarist (Sentimental Lady) and Christine Perfect McVie was added on keyboards. Welch left and Buckingham and Nicks formed the band that became the top 40 monster that most of us are familiar with. But I still love the three guitarist, bluesey, Fleetwood Mac the best. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Those on-line directions are great! I was visiting a GSer this summer who was not a native of the city she was then living in, so she was not able to give me adequate directions. I tried my old method of checking a street map, and found three streets named the same as the one she lived on in the same general area, all intersecting her cross street. Finally, I broke down and went to the internet, and had detailed direction right to her door. Although when I met with Hills, we just met at the Wendy's, and I followed him to his house :D--> Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Tommy Z You are correct Thanks dude Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

thump...thump...thump...thump Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

I walked away in early 1983, but never really lost my belief that Wierwille and the Way taught the truth. Walked back in in 1990. Was kicked out in 2001. What a relief. I had been "out" in my heart for a long time, so it was not very traumatic for me. They actually thought that they were hurting me and tried to manipulate me into a probation situation. What was traumatic was being asked by my wife to leave two months later. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Tom's Dinnertime CD Pick for Friday: Crossroads the Eric Clapton boxed set. Thought I'd throw on another Yardbirds guitarist this afternoon. I took off early from work (they still owed me a day from the holidays), did some laundry, vacuumed, dusted, tended my pet plants, caught up on emails, and listened to music. The EC boxed set starts off with the Yardbirds, a little John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (two bands that spawned some great musicians btw), Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and the Dominoes, and EC's solo work. While I don't like everything Clapton came out with, what's on these 4 CDs is pretty much all stuff that I like. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Chatty: You were the 700th post on this thread! Way to go! Tom's Bedtime CD Pick for Thursday night is Jeff Beck Group aka The Orange Album, or just Orange by The Jeff Beck Group. This was the second incarnation of The Jeff Beck Group, the first included Rod Stewart and Ron Wood, this one had Cozy Powell on drums, Max Middleton on keyboards, and Bobby Tench on vocals. My favorite cuts are Going Down, which I think was a Freddy King number, and Definitely Maybe, and Highways two smooth instrumentals. Jeff Beck was one of The Yardbirds' guitarists who later made it big on his own; appearing first on For Your Love. Jeff's albums were varied and he completely changed his direction every album or two. This particular album is very R&B oriented, especially the vocals. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Wait a minute, I thought God emphasized things in his words by using italics. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Hmmmm....Takit...I think David Garibaldi was the regular drummer and Skip played sax and other. Dean E on bass, Danny Hoefer on guitar, and one other guitarist whose name escapes me. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Skip Mesquite

Hope: I always liked covers, but not so much when it's a "cloned" version. The beauty of a good cover is changing it up enough to make it fresh. In my deejay days, I produced a show called Shades of Blue which was probably 60% covers; usually a classic blues song followed by a rendition by a rock band, e.g. You Need Love by Muddy Waters, and Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin; or Crossroads by Robert Johnson and by Cream. I lost track of how many versions I had of Baby Please Don't Go. And those 60's/70's rock bands were gold mines for blues covers. Foo Fighters do a great cover of Baker Street that I've been hearing a lot; and I liked Metallica's version of Bob Seager's Turn the Page; heard a heavy version of Kim Carnes' Total Eclipse of the Heart by a local band last month. Sometimes a cover is a quick and dirty way to gain a wider audience, sometimes it's a tribute to an artist that influenced the band, hard to say. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Tom's Bedtime CD Pick for Wednesday night: Flight of the Cosmic Hippo by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Béla Fleck plays electric banjo in a manner that will cause you to question whether you have ever actually heard a banjo before! He is backed by some great musicians, including Victor Wooten, one of the better bass players to come down the proverbial pike, and Howard Levy, a genius on harmonica. Also featured is Lamont "Future Man" Wooten, playing something called a "Synthaxe Drumitar" that synthesizes drum and guitar from the same guitar-shaped instrument...very strange This particular CD has a cover of The Star Spangled Banner and The Beatles' Michelle, a couple of killers called Flying Saucer Dudes and Turtle Rock; the title cut is a slow, funky, jazzy number that will take over your mind if you're not careful. I once closed a Way branch dance with it when the BC asked for something slow to end with :D--> I discovered Béla when I was late night deejay Rosedale Tom on a local radio station and have been hooked on the Flecktones ever since. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Monday night I went to an "open stage" at a local bar. They have a "house band" start things off, and then invite folks to jam with them, or if you have your own band, do a short set of your own. It is very popular and usually draws a big crowd. Monday night, after the first set by the house band, a band of junior high kids played some speed metal that was a little rough around the edges, but had a lot of heart. Next set was more blues. About halfway through the set, the MC convinced a guy sitting in the back to join the band on violin. Turns out he was a violinist with the symphony and has played in symphonies around the country. He was amazing! After a set of blues, he was joined by a symphony colleague and they did a duet that was hard to categorzize into a particular genre, but had the audience enraptured. After the set, he recieved the first standing ovation I had ever seen given at this bar. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Sure.This appendix was an expansion of a monograph called Was Abraham a Jew? that Wierwille did in the late 50's or early 60's. There is no doubt that a tribe or nation called the Khazars existed and little doubt that the rulers converted to Phariseeic Judaism (which effectively meant that the whole tribe or nation converted). Arthur Koestler, in his book, The Thirteenth Tribe makes that case very well (even though it is very boring reading). Wierwille, perhaps hoping that no one would really read Koestler, or maybe because he didn't understand The Thirteenth Tribe himself, makes several errors in Jew and Judean that wayfers have repeated without question. All modern Jews are the descendents of Khazars.Koestler does not make this point. He posits that most Askenazim, i.e. Jews living primarily in eastern Europe, Poland, Russia, Germany, are descended from the Khazars. The Sephardim, Jews mainly living in Palestine, Turkey, North Africa, and the Iberian peninsula, are the second main division of modern Jewry; KOestler makes no claims that these Jews are descended from the Khazars. Yiddish is the Khazar language written in Hebrew characters, with some changes and adaptions over the years. Yiddish is a dialect of German, as are High German and Low German. It deviates from the latter two languages in that it has admixtures from Polish and Russian, as well as Hebrew. There are few words that can be traced to a Turkic tongue, as Khazarian must have been. A similar language is Ladino, spoken by many Sephardi, which is a Romance language similar to Spanish, with admixtures from Hebrew and Arabic. The modern English word "Jew" is somehow different than the biblical word "Judean". Actually, Jew is a corruption and abbreviation of the word Judean, and in many languages the words are identical. Anyway, the Aramaic word was probably Yehudiim or something like that (no "J" sound in Hebrew or Aramaic!). "Judean" is only a rough transliteration of the Hebrew and/or Aramaic. Wierwille gives a list of English words that meant "Jew", culminating with the modern spelling. Any descent history will show that Jews were present continuously from biblical times through the present. Believing that all modern Jews are descended from the Khazars requires one to believe that the original Jews were wiped out at some point. There is no evidence that this happened, but plenty of evidence to believe that they have survived to the present day. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Tuesday night's Tom's Bedtime CD Pick is Quadrophenia by The Who. This is still one of my favorite albums. I bought it back in 1974 (?) on the recommendation of a guy that I worked with at a summer job. There wasn't too many radio-friendly cuts on Quadrophenia, but a few still get played on "classic rock" radio like The Real Me 5:15 and The Punk Meets the Godfather. One of the things that I enjoy about this album is John E's bass playing. I don't know enough about music to tell if he's just playing the higher notes, or if he's got it tuned higher, but there's a melodic quality to his bass playing that almost makes it the lead instrument in some places. I went back to the doctor To get another shrink Started tellin' him 'bout my weakness But he never would change what he'd think Can you see the real me? Can ya? can ya? Socks: Is that Roy B bio widely available?, I'd like to read it. Some of Roy B's early song and album titles lead me to believe that he was (at some point) a Christian. His third album was called A Street Called Straight and he had a cut on his first album called The Messiah Will Come Again(a very soulful instrumental). Not familiar with "Blues in E". Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Socks: The Roy tunes you mentioned are all great. John's Blues was one of my favorites...I think it was on A Street Called Straight or one of those other early albums. Those soulful instrumentals were always his best work IMO, but he got more recognition for burner albums like Dancin' On The Edge and When a Guitar Plays The Blues. He did a funky version of Green Onions that I really liked too. I agree with your assessment of Gatton. I have a few albums of his here at home that I really enjoy. I think that the comaprison was largely due to both of them being big in the D.C. area at the heights of their careers. Really sad that both men decided to end their own lives. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

thump...thump...thump...thump...thump (sound of dead horse being beaten) Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Missed the bedtime pick last night, so we'll go with Tom's Breakfast CD Pick this morning: Deluxe Edition, a compilation of music by Roy Buchanan. Roy was a guitar genius and was known in the 70's as "The World's Greatest Unknown Guitarist". He mostly played blues, but did a mix of fast instrumentals, as well as some fine R&B with stalwarts such as Steve Cropper and "Duck" Dunn. When I was a blues deejay here in Lincoln I used Buchanan's Peter Gunn Theme as intro music to my show, Shades of Blue, and played some Buchanan every week. Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare

Okay.... "I wanna wash my feet, cuz they smell wicked" ...are those the lyrics? Oakspear "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare