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It would because it is.

It is

Have fun storming the castle!
The Princess Bride

We had a zoom meeting this afternoon. It's over now. Those of you who have DMs, please ignore.

Ok, I have set up the meeting for 1 p.m. Eastern (about 1 hour, 50 minutes from now) DM me for the password or text me at nine five four, 304, five two five six. Make sure you identify yourself by GSC handle if you text me.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3538852813?pwd=WGJCSGFlcU5MU0lTNkMyZWxkcy9hZz09

The Amazing Randi died yesterday.

Gonna miss that codger. He was fun.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/obituaries/fl-ne-the-amazing-randi-obituary-20201022-ozcdmqbi5fdi5gkbozdybndxki-story.html

Couple of things:

1. Party in the Pastor's Room FB group remains open for anyone who wants to join. Follow the instructions I provided on the opening post in this thread. WW, don't know what went wrong today, but whatever, we can try again.

2. That does not preclude us from Zooming here, though I would suggest starting a new thread to announce it and giving members plenty of notice. I'm not sure how we would work out protecting the chat from being compromised, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

The trick is starting a room without TWI knowing about it, which is why FB and a closed group was my method...

WW, that's a fine idea.

Hey folks. I've started a GSC Facebook social group primarily for virtual meet-ups and wanted to invite you to it. It is NOT visible to the general public, so you have to send me a friend request first.

Group's rules are: Check your grudges at the door, no politics, no preaching, keep your clothes on and eat your veggies. Not necessarily in that order.

My Facebook account is here. Send me a request, let me know who you are on GSC, and I will send the invite to the group.

Thank you, George.Been kind of busy of late.

I can dig it.

On 10/11/2020 at 11:16 PM, Rocky said:

Rebekah Powers was 11 when members of her faith group, the People of Praise, gathered around as she sat on a chair and laid their hands on her to pray. Powers’ sister had shown a gift for speaking in tongues, a defining trait of the followers of the small charismatic Christian community, and Rebekah was expected to do the same.
 

But after what seemed like an eternity, she proved unable to produce a sound.

“I couldn’t get it, and I stayed there an hour and a half before they gave up and finally said, ‘You just have blockage. You need to just work on your sin and be more open,” she said.

The 41-year-old had a rebellious spirit and left People of Praise when she turned 18. It has taken decades of therapy and hard work to overcome the intense feelings of shame and fear of damnation that she said marked her childhood. The Christian faith group, based in South Bend, Indiana, dominated every aspect of her early life, she said.

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This thread can remain focused on the high profile nature of cults. I hope it does.

I can't relate to this emotional-psychological-peer pressure to speak in tongues at all!

And here's the static version as of noon Tuesday.

And yea, if I still believed in God, I would think She is seriously trying to send Louisiana a message.

I've already lost track of which stills I've already posted. Oh well.

This should be challenging.

This looks like

What Dreams May Come

Delta, on the other hand, is not @#$!ing around.

Oh, hi, Louisiana!

Well, it's more than 48 hours since the last image, so let's see how things are... oh looky here...

This one speaks for itself. Not sure what Greek letter we're up to, but I think it's Gamma: IF this one reaches tropical storm status.

I don't know why...

this scares the hell out of me.

And, of course, Beta, which George covered.

Whew. I'm beat.

I've been looking forward to this.

This is what's left of Alpha.

I had to triple check. Is that... Spain?