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Maybe he meant Oxford, Ohio. http://www.miami.muohio.edu/ Not a bad school. Certainly not what one would think of at the mention of Oxford, though. (Fantastic school for hockey and synchronized skating)

I agree. I was really laughing at myself, for the most part, because people who knew me during my TWI years would probably tell you that it was my LACK of buttkissing skills that got me in the most trouble.

Well, let's see. 1. Not angry 2. Not bitter 3. Definitely not a "buttkisser" Nope. Shoe doesn't fit. Oh, by the way, VP wasn't really a "Dr.", but he played one on stage.

In light of the subject at hand, would "first" be an appropriate descriptor?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mojrls62Jes&feature=related

Well, there's "physical" polygamy and then there's "spiritual" polygamy, dontcha know? Haha!---Just playing off of Wierwille's old rationalization that adultery in the Bible is supposedly "spiritual" adultery. He taught it. Then he thumbed his nose at it in defiance. He was about as spiritually tuned in as my old crystal radio. My link

Only thing i can figure is there must have been some kind of MOG shortage at the time. Or maybe he just "embellished " his resume to get the job.

B.B. King for president (He could teach us all a thing or two about perseverance.)

My point was that he was a polygamist by his own definition, which I outlined in the original post

Wierwille said the words were changed to reflect predestination.(ie: we are His masterpiece, before the foundations of the world, etc.) It gave him a personal out from ever having to say he had been a wretch.

I'm not sure----but wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?

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I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this lately but VP wasn't really a "Dr.". (Just in case anyone was still wondering)

Yeah, I guess I posted that too fast. I went back and edited it. Thanks for catching that.

Remember this one?

It's been a common practice for centuries to interchange melodies and lyrics of songs. The words in the blue songbook, however, were intentionally changed to reflect Way doctrine. (Or as it was stated at the time, "to make them more accurate with the rightly divided Word.") One glaring example is the way Amazing Grace was changed to eliminate the phrase "a wretch like me". There was even a teaching (Possibly a Sunday Night Service) that made reference to the reason for this particular change. "Seated in the heavenlies" and "before the foundations of the world" and other such scriptures were used to show how the original phrase was "off". I don't remember much of the minute specifics. The brown songbook, on the other hand, was specifically changed because of conflicts with "permission of usage" problems. This explanation was given to me by someone who was very tight with the uppermost level of management and had been involved with the ministry since the 1950s. Out of respect for him, I won't use his name here.

It's hard to beat some of those great old songs, though. Songs like What a Fellow's Hip and I Don't Know About Tomorrow, I Just Guess From Day To Day .

I never paid much attention to it until one day I happened to notice I had 10,000. Holy crapioly! How did that happen?

Why didn't the L.E.A.D. participants simply use those MountainTop checks?

Some words get automatically filtered. :P

I remember that much, vividly. I think it was in the early 1980s but I could be wrong on the date.

They stick out their thumbs, "rev" up their believing and hitch a ride to the next latest and greatest God-on-a-stick operation.