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Au contraire. Wierwille did, in fact, teach, in the class, that he saw unbelievers being more abundant than believers.

I thought the red drapes story was meant to demonstrate the law of believing and the concept of needs and wants being parallel. So, now you're saying it was really about spiritual abundance? How does this relate to the unbelievers having more abundance than the believers? Curious minds would like to know.

How does this explain what Wierwille said when he saw the unbelievers being more abundant than the believers?

HERE is an interesting look at the authorship of the Gospels.

In Power For Abundant Living (PFAL), Wierwille said he saw unbelievers manifesting more abundance than the believers. Was he talking about spiritual abundance? If so, how was that possible?

Suppose for a moment your waitperson plunks a huge bowl of your favorite ice cream in front of you and says, "Enjoy! It's on the house." If you're anything like most people, you enjoy the opportunity. But, now, suppose they add, "This flavor may never be available again." Now you have a choice to make. Do you become saddened at that prospect? Or, do you find a special delight in every spoonful? Maybe you even see it as an opportunity to share a special treat with your dining partner. The choice is up to you. disclaimer: No lactose intolerant posters were harmed in this analogy.

Why would I need it if the collaterals are perfect?

Sadly, it did not. A street cleaning crew swept its remains to the gutter where it was picked up by a homeless person who did, in fact, find it to be useful for starting the fire in a warming barrel. Which, when you think about it, is a bit of a twisted miracle, in that it may have kept that man from freezing to death that bitterly cold August night in Ohio.

And yet there is. We have, on more than one occasion, examined weather statistics from the very time and place it supposedly happened. Not only do records indicate it did not happen, records indicate it could not have happened.

You wanna know what killed that lady with the FIRE ENGINE RED! drapes? Well, I'll tell you. Some little boy was crossing the street and dropped a PFAL book in the road (It was the older version.). A big 'ole battleship grey '39 Packard (with a rumble seat) being driven by a traveling salesman with a death wish came a barreling down the road like a house afire and swerved to avoid the little boy, as he paused to save his precious book.(The older version) The lady with the FIRE ENGINE RED! drapes, being traumatized by the event that she was about to witness, froze right there in the path of the big 'ole battleship grey '39 Packard (with a rumble seat) and commenced to yammerin' a string of strange words, the likes of which the little boy had never, ever heard before in his short but precious life. She didn't look left and she didn't look right and, well, you guessed it. She done got squashed like a June Bug on a hot summer night. I wish I could have been there to see it. It was really somethin'!

In other words, "you ain't got squat".

When you achieve fluency in a spoken language, it flows from you naturally, as quickly as your mind can think it. You don't overly concern yourself with mechanics or have a need to practice them. Why is this so hard for some people to accept?

The comparison between the unbelievers' abundance and the believers' abundance would usually be enough to lead most rational people to conclude he wasn't talking about spiritual abundance. But, then again...Well, you know...

Perhaps THIS will shed some light on your query. Also, please give up on the "mirror riddle." It's both childish and irrelevant.

Hello, RRnB. I hope you find the menu here to your liking. Here's to many more trips around the sun.

"Balls!", cried the queen. "If I had to, I could be king!" And the jester laughed because he had to.

I was searching for an example of cognitive dissonance and this is what I found.

Did you miss session 1? Such as?

A friend of a friend of mine's cousin's wife once saw a space alien. I, too, was a bit skeptical until I found out that her nephew had been a janitor at NASA and confirmed her description closely matched an alien he had seen in a Sci-Fi thriller in the 1950s. Life sure is strange. (Be right back. I have to go drop some coins in that parking meter I found using the law of believing.) edit: She no longer posts here, but you can take my word on this.

Is it just my imagination or does it seem like T-Bone's questions were sidestepped?

"Ah no! young blade! That was a trifle short! You might have said at least a hundred things By varying the tone."

Yes and no. If it's a really old boogie man, you might need the King James Version because of all the thee and thou references. Newer boogie men might be better addressed using The New Revised Version. If they're friendly boogie men, you might do well with The Good News Bible. edit. Oops! I almost forgot The Children's Bible. That one should handle those "under the bed" variety boogie men.