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Keats?

Woman comes to town with some caged companions. The locals gets their feathers ruffled and chase her out of town.

A friendly note on kids: We love them :) BUT kids will hate this weekend! :) It's a fairly adult time and there's nothing for them to do. Even ex10's own darlings (especially the darling that still lives at home) are opting to be as far as possible from our fun.

Footloose?

I agree, P-Mosh and Groucho. Why I posted C.S. Lewis's POV is because he didn't use Christianity as an excuse to limit space exploration. In effect, he said, "Look all you want. Learn all you can. You can't screw things up any more than has already been done." Now, that being said, it seems to me that there is a certain amount of mythology that causes people to blame their religion for not exploring and learning. Sure there are ethical questions that will arise - but the alternative is that we stay stuck in some backwards mentality while we fear venturing out. It reminds me of the movie "The Village."

I recall reading that C.S. Lewis believed in life on other planets, and also believed that the distances between our star and theirs was intended by God to quarantine Earth from them, because Earth had succumbed to original sin. In his view, Earthlings are the virus and the rest of the universe needs to be protected from us. It's an interesting theory. I'm not sure I believe it - but pondering different possibilities is infinitely better than the alternative. Inquiry and exploration is woven into the human fabric.

Or we can do both...;)

Is this a sci-fi author? Or is it at least an author primarily known for his sci-fi work?

Yer up, bfh!

"What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful." "People kept robbing it." "That's a small price to pay for beauty." "Well, it looks like you just about cleaned everybody, fella - you haven't lost a hand since you got the deal. What's the secret of your success?" "Prayer." "Let's just you and me play. "

Aretha Franklin - "Respect"

"Maverick"?

"Boston Legal"?

(Yes there was that one verse in Ezekiel - but why was it blown out of proportion?) It's really very easy to understand the "standing in the gap" thing if you can wrap your mind around the distinct possibility that der victoid didn't believe his own BS. That explains why "grace" was used as a get out of jail free card for his lustful appetites. For vp it wasn't about Gawd or jeezus at all. It was about what vp could get away with. The loopholes... This also explains his love affair with OT judgement - this is how he controlled the masses. Grace was reserved for the ManO'Gawd - but you better get in lockstep with with him or else the wrath of Gawdawlmighty would be upon your head. Why? I'll tell you why... because the law of believing made us wrongly believe that the creator of the universe was a puppet that we could corner with His own written words and manipulate with that magic phrase, "In the name of Jeezuzschryst." Meanwhile vp was playing ventriloquist as he spoke for Gawd. Can you say C U L T?

Side note about "Bicycle Race"... I read somewhere that when Queen went on tour with this song that so many fans bought bicycle bells that the city would sell out of them. Back to Chas's clue...

Oh yea, You drink it all up and call me in the morning I looked it up after posting and Harry Nilsson sang that song. Let's see if anyone knows this one: You say, Coke I say, caine You say, John I say, Wayne

I know the title of the song. Don't know the artist (and writer.) I'll wait and see if anyone else gets it.

You put the Lime in the Coconut and drink it all down... Dr John?

Has anyone ever noticed that while der victoid spouted grace, grace, grace, he was also was very into Old Testament judgement? This is from the thread, “You Really Caught My Eye”: (Then he realized? WTF? Did he forget what he had been doing for the - oh, say ALMOST FORTY YEARS by that point? And just how much "standing in the gap" did he do on that motorcoach?) This isn’t the only occasion. What about when he blamed a Corps member for another’s death because he helped him get some cookies while on the colon cleanse? It seemed any time anything went wrong it was because of one little insignificant thing that he regarded as disobedience. “Oh boy, don’t want to bring the ministry down to its knees! Better obey the MOG. The suggestion of a general is tantamount to an order. Just like David the King” Now that I think about it, vp also loved military order and regime but he had no military sense of honor. Bah! This whole idea of “sin in the camp” was a real control device. It had nothing to do with loving people.

I don't think you implied that at all. Sick and sad - but true.

I stand corrected LindaZ. I wasn't really involved with twi very closely when he died. I was busy rehearsing my final departure from Wayworld. I got a phone call telling me what happened. Still, given the promoted teachings - not wanting prayer? How many "lesser" folks were chided for this kind of refusal?

I'm going to add some... When we were in twi we searched for a "why" to everything. "How did we open the door for the debbil to get a foothold???" So while the average person, regardless of religious beliefs, who got a flat tire on the way to work just got out, cussed a little, changed the tire and went on his or her merry way. The twi believer first went through mental gymnastics wondering why... why did this happen?... what wrong turn did he or she miss?... what first thought did they miss?... did Gawd tell her not to have that second cup of coffee so that she would have time to get this tire changed?... Then he or she finally changed the tire. Maybe then that believer settled into the "I must have missed a big accident down the road. Gawd was taking care of me after all." Isn't this the same mentality? Vp was a human. Humans get cancer. Period. The only difference is that most folks tell people what's going on and ask for support and prayer (assuming they believe in prayer.) I think how the subject of vp's cancer was handled in twi points more to what der victoid truly believed and didn't believe regarding healing and believing in general. Either that or (even worse) maintaining his "untouchable" image was more important to him than opening up to the masses that he needed help.

It really doesn't matter how he got cancer. I really don't care if monkeys flew into his eye and infected him with cancer. I think what angers most folks is that the very fact he even had cancer was covered up. Was a prayer vigil called for when he went in for surgery? What about prayer for healing from the cancer? See - we were taught this great law of believing where basically Gawdawlmighty was our puppet, but the message sent out to the masses was that der victoid was bigger than Gawd Himself. He didn't need prayer. He didn't need the Body. He was the ManoGawd!

Her name was Lola