By the 90's it was no longer good vs evil....it was actually between good and best. The adversary would give you several "good" choices so we couldn't see the best choice. Talking about pressure!!
With debbil spirits around every corner, it's always amazed me that craiggers didn't end up in a room with padded walls, wearing a white jacket with wrap around sleeves.
I remember during my AC (Emporia '84) LCM kept showing scenes from the movie 'Stayin' Alive'. This heavily influenced his portrayal of the seed of the serpent in AOS.
I remember during my AC (Emporia '84) LCM kept showing scenes from the movie 'Stayin' Alive'. This heavily influenced his portrayal of the seed of the serpent in AOS.
It did more than "heavily influence" his portrayal.
Watch that part of the movie sometine- "Satan's Alley", the musical show in the movie.
You'll see the entire thing was ripped off as AOS.
The costumes, evil spirits, SCAFFOLDING, the shirt-off-for-the-final-combat,
there's little that didn't find a home in AOS.
If AOS had been the same length, it probably would have looked "separated at birth."
I distinctly remember LCM on the ROA stage saying he had the original revelation for Athletes of the Spirit. He learned well from the inventor of the hook shot.
I distinctly remember LCM on the ROA stage saying he had the original revelation for Athletes of the Spirit. He learned well from the inventor of the hook shot.
Yes; LCM thought Stayin' Alive was a ripoff of his ideas for AOS!
Besides that, though, the whole mentality of "kickin' devil spirits' butts" (in AOS and in things like this video) influenced many leaders in TWI. The result being that they focused on THEIR ability to "win the competition" and missed the whole point of relying on the Lord. If you remember, Jesus Christ was barely (if at all) mentioned in AOS. It was all about the Minister.
By the 90's it was no longer good vs evil....it was actually between good and best. The adversary would give you several "good" choices so we couldn't see the best choice. Talking about pressure!!
I remember those kind of choices:
1. Get involved in a GOOD career, requires cutting into "twig time" a couple times a week..
2. College education. Same thing..
3. Spend the majority of your spare time during adolescence and adulthood going to meetings, running classes, door to door and mall witnessing. Do your best to run devils out of people and communities, whether they are really there or not.
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waysider
Wow!
Must be LONG after my time.
They might have done better showing the scene from Disney's "Fantasia".
At least it had good music.
Oh, wait.
I just remembered; Disney was a "seed boy".
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TheInvisibleDan
Disney is reputed to be a frozen sperm-cicle.
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excathedra
nike is the antichrist ?
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waysider
Is that anything like a Creamcicle?
OOPS! I may have just crossed the line.
You know, the one that seperates good from evil?
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penguin
By the 90's it was no longer good vs evil....it was actually between good and best. The adversary would give you several "good" choices so we couldn't see the best choice. Talking about pressure!!
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ChasUFarley
uh... a Nike commercial?
puleeze...
With debbil spirits around every corner, it's always amazed me that craiggers didn't end up in a room with padded walls, wearing a white jacket with wrap around sleeves.
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Bolshevik
I don't understand.
I didn't see lcm anywhere. How can good compete??
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I remember during my AC (Emporia '84) LCM kept showing scenes from the movie 'Stayin' Alive'. This heavily influenced his portrayal of the seed of the serpent in AOS.
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TheInvisibleDan
In a top-secret NASA mission, Disney's cryogenic seed was shot into outer space,
where it descended into a "Black Hole", emerging on the other side in that phantom zone of "the Great Deep" -
where all frozen spermcicles are farmed by a host of gigantic archangels for producing baby "Derbil Spurts".
Or something to that effect.
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excathedra
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha hahahahah
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ChasUFarley
don't bogart whateverthatis you're smoking...
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Bumpy
NOW, we're getting somewhere!!
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TheInvisibleDan
Loose pages out of the "Advanced Class" syllabus, hung upside down from the rafters in the attic to
render it more "potent".
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It did more than "heavily influence" his portrayal.
Watch that part of the movie sometine- "Satan's Alley", the musical show in the movie.
You'll see the entire thing was ripped off as AOS.
The costumes, evil spirits, SCAFFOLDING, the shirt-off-for-the-final-combat,
there's little that didn't find a home in AOS.
If AOS had been the same length, it probably would have looked "separated at birth."
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T-Bone
I distinctly remember LCM on the ROA stage saying he had the original revelation for Athletes of the Spirit. He learned well from the inventor of the hook shot.
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Yes; LCM thought Stayin' Alive was a ripoff of his ideas for AOS!
Besides that, though, the whole mentality of "kickin' devil spirits' butts" (in AOS and in things like this video) influenced many leaders in TWI. The result being that they focused on THEIR ability to "win the competition" and missed the whole point of relying on the Lord. If you remember, Jesus Christ was barely (if at all) mentioned in AOS. It was all about the Minister.
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excathedra
and some blob if i recall
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Mark Clarke
Yeah the blob represented the devil while God was a rainbow. But no Jesus.
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doojable
Yea - I bet the excuse would have been - "Well, Jesus is the head of the Church so he's IN the minister." - or some chit like that..
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Kevlar2000
Yeah, Martinduck did look rather ridiculous on stage.
Oh, right, he was the "Minister".
My bad.
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I remember those kind of choices:
1. Get involved in a GOOD career, requires cutting into "twig time" a couple times a week..
2. College education. Same thing..
3. Spend the majority of your spare time during adolescence and adulthood going to meetings, running classes, door to door and mall witnessing. Do your best to run devils out of people and communities, whether they are really there or not.
Like Mrs. Presky, "I'll take the bag".
"hey, this is a bag of ****!!"
"but it's really GREAT ****, Mrs. Presky.."
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Mark Clarke
Love it!
You're the first person I've heard in years to reference Firesign Theatre!
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waysider
Porgy Tirebiter-----------He's a student like you.
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Ham
"like meeeeeee?"
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