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This refers to the two Bible quotes from Luke shown above. I am sure that Jesus "re-searched" the scriptures. Worked through the Hebrew scrolls, listened to his teachers, looked at what the practice was among leaders of the synagogues and the temple. He might have been able to read tracts (targums) by older and maybe current rabbis. I am sure that he did as the OED suggests: "systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions." Because that's what enabled him to say, many times and in many ways, "Do what they say, but don't do as they do." Note that he "asked questions," not argumentatively, but to ascertain truths. The word "research" is undoubtedly from "re-search" but the aim would not be to validate previous works straight-out; but to ascertain whether those works were in fact (still) valid at all; if not, why not; what had been missed or corrupted, whether the hypothesis upon which the conclusion was founded was appropriate in light of later knowledge. Were it not so, we might still be dealing with Greek ideas of medicine and how to treat illnesses. Perhaps tying dead mice against our cheeks to ward off toothache, and such like. In Biblical terms, it may be that the OT prophets were such men (and women) who studied such scrolls as were available to them, and worked out new conclusions, not following ancient practices. They understood the heart behind the mere words, and were able to apply that in new ways. Perhaps not as superstitious as many of the general populace around them. Perhaps these OT prophets were more logical or rational men and women (except for Ezekiel, who was an amazing visionary). It was something that impressed me about the "research" aspect of TWI: that it studied current thinking and new discoveries (like the Dead Sea scrolls) and worked that new information into what they taught. Oh, what a fool I was. Mea culpa. I should have taken such information as was available, and good (ie, that which had been provided by genuine workers of the word, those such as Stiles, Bullinger, and others) and run!

1) Once he was in charge, lcm absolutely had to be in the middle of EVERYTHING. He was in "High Country Caravan" despite lacking talent. He showed up onstage when bands did musical numbers (not singing, not performing, just posing). So, of course he ended up in the middle of this. I'm fully convinced he hinted around until someone commented offhand that they thought he should be in it- then that was his excuse to say people wanted that, lack of dance experience or no. It sure explains why a football exercise ended up in the production, even if it made no sense. The previous male lead was still in the final product, if moved back behind lcm. 2) Does not surprise me that vpw's limit of understanding DANCE was limited to, say, square dance and clogging, and thinking that people with "dance training" and "dance experience" would be experienced CLOGGERS. 3) twi STILL billed AOS as better than the world could put out, because that's what twi has always said. So, no matter how much better trained dancers could have been, that was the party line, and that should surprise no one. 4) See previous point. Also, in answer to your question, someone here (JohnIam, IIRC) once posted he saw vpw at an ROA wandering around with a little guitar, a banjo-sized thing, and saw him/heard him play a little. Didn't say he was particularly good, but he gave the impression that he could do backup in a garage band or something. We knew vpw definitely could not SING, as in William Hung level can't sing. He apparently couldn't keep the beat, as you're saying. *checks* It was WhiteDove, who said of vpw's playing, "It was passable." (That was from a FAN of vpw.) (It was at a Family Table at a Sidney ROA, not wandering around.) It was A L P, among others, that said vpw was seen with the little ukelele sized guitar. dmiller later confirmed the size of the guitar ("Ala -- I remember that pic too. I think it may be in one of the old way magazines (roa edition -- mid 70's) I seem to remember that it was a Martin guitar he had. The reason it looks so small, is because it was a 00-18, or 000-18 size -- which is much smaller than the size one sees today.") Both posters saw the PHOTOS. WD was present when he actually played. 5) It's obvious in hindsight the obsession with sex would show up there. It was just plain uncomfortable every single time the video aired, especially if kids were in the room. The theology of the production was awful. The devils were given a LOT of time, and OUR goal was to "stand our ground." General Patton said "I don’t want to get any messages from the front saying that we are holding our position. We’ll let the Hun [Germans] do that. We are attacking constantly and we’re not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy." I thought we were supposed to go forward and witness the new kingdom so others would get born again. In the production, that happened for less than a minute in a 2-hour program. After that, we were smacking around devils or standing our ground. It was about devils and about US. Wasn't about Christ, the new birth, and so on. God was relegated to the role of background player and team mascot. Nice to see you drop in, Shaz.