Raf

It's all on the honor system, Sudo.

A car stuck in a tree.

It was NEVER reasonable, and it wasn't carnal "all of a sudden." It was carnal when VPW did it. It was carnal every single time it was done, whether by VPW or LCM. One thing you seem to be missing is that regardless of your defense of LCM's letter, people saw through it. People knew this letter for what it proved to be, and that means looking beyond what's actually on the page and seeing what was really happening.

Fierce Creatures Jamie Lee Curtis Trading Places Note: Firece Creatures, though it featured many of the same cast members, was not a sequel to A Fish Called Wanda.

From the newspaper.

Umm, I looked for specifics. So did WordWolf. And again, we were told that God chose VPW and VPW chose Craig, so either Craig was right or God is stupid. Those were our options: follow Craig, or follow a stupid God. Specifically, we left right then, not to follow a vague VF, but to get away from a megalomaniacal LCM. We could see it then, and history proved us right, despite your protestations that things were fine for five years afterward. That's like saying the Titanic was fine for more than an hour after it hit the iceberg. Blissful.

Rascal, That's a winner!

Yeah, Pirate, come on. Stand up and deliver the name of this movie for us.

The Doctrinal section was the ideal place for the PFAL Review and Blue Book threads, back in the day. It was also the location of a real dragout fight between Jerry Barrax and me on the validity of the epistle of James. I think we both got a lot out of that one.

Some pics...

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

That's me.

I'm okay, family's okay. Just tired. Oh, and we stink. :)

I killed him. His body's decomposing in my lockerrrrrrr.

Let's bottom line this: If you didn't think LCM was standing on the Word, you left when you got that letter, because it was clear that he was using the ministry as a bully pulpit and had no intention of changing. If you did think LCM was sincere in his efforts to change, you stayed, figuring the people who were leaving were not giving him a fair shake, and that the demands for "change" were too vague anyway, and there was work to do that was not getting done. I think history proved the first group was correct, but I can't blame anyone in the second group for drawing that conclusion. It was reasonable, given the absence of information. However, I can't see how anyone could look back, knowing what we know now, and think staying was the right thing to do. That's just blissfull, in my opinion.

Guys, my car windshield got taken out by a palm frond. Yeah, putting out the garbage for collection is... funny. Not "dork of the year" funny, but funny. Dork of the year has to go to the guy who was arrested for armed robbery, including shooting a clerk. Police were interrogating him and told him they had a test to show if he had fired a gun. Then they left him alone, but videotaped him. The guy started licking his hands frantically, then (true story) his some of the money he had stolen. Where did he hide it? Umm, well, the sun doesn't shine there, and let's leave it at that. Doctors found $40. No one wants to remove it from the evidence bag during trial, though. :)

Come on, Ron, think BIG. For number 5, make it a rooster!

It could have been worse. I can't post long, because I am at work and there's much to do. But I made it. My car got smashed by, of all things, a palm frond (proving that mass times velocity equals holy crap get out of the way. Our Fort Lauderdale office is not passing fire safety code. Downtown Fort Lauderdale is... I can't describe it. It's unusual to see traffic lights that are not working. It's more common to see intersections where the lights are missing entirely. The enormity of what we've been through here prevents tears. One lady in my neighborhood introduced herself to me twice. I wanted some of what she was smoking until I realized she had lost her roof. Trees uprooted. Windows blown out. Power lines down. Me? No power. No water. Smashed windshield. And I'm one of the lucky ones. Very lucky.

That could have been it, considering where we were at the time.

Yeah, I found out that my source on hurricane collisions was mistaken. Oh well. That's why I'm not on the weather page. :)

Blame hurricane fatigue. Can someone else post the next one?

You'll understand if the coverage IN Florida is about Florida. I can't speak for the rest of the country. But yes, it would be nice if American media understood that when hurricanes hit Latin American countries, it's a story. Some of us are trying to change that.

Correct. See you on the other side of Wilma.

The Wait Begins Looks like this storm is finally moving away from Mexico and is heading toward Florida. I don't know how many chances I'll have to post. We're under a hurricane warning, which means we should expect to experience hurricane conditions within 24 hours. It's an admittedly premature warning this time, but they wanted to make sure everyone was ready. I have no idea how bad it will be for us. Once again, the models show it well to the north of us, but that did not stop Frances and Jeanne from hitting us hard last year, or Dennis and Rita hitting us hard this year (though the latter two were well to our south). I won't be posting much, so don't get jittery if you don't hear from me. My prayers are with Hope and Jon, Belle and others to my north. Let's be able to laugh about this one next week, okay? See you guys on the other side of the storm. Raf