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Boy, howdy. Ain't that the truth?

What do you think it means?

Who was that 8th man? In Genesis he was.... But, seriously (not). It kinda reminds me of a documentary I watched recently called Yeti: The Missing Teenage Years.

Ah, yes. Keys to walking by the spirit. Another bunch of useless mumbo jumbo. But, hey, look them over and cherry pick the ones that you seem to think make sense. You're free to choose. La Maka See Yay.

I tried reaching out to an old friend on facebook. He said if I had anything negative to say a "Dr." Wierwille he wants nothing to do with me.

She should have used birth control in this instance.

I wasn't really referencing polyandry. I was talking about households that are held together by the matriarchal figure. Many times it's a matter of necessity in order to maintain family cohesiveness. It's fairly common in the lower socioeconomic strata of our society.

Sounds like a real stretch of logic. The periods are just a convention of abbreviation, nothing more, nothing less. If it's the business organization you want to reference, why not simply say so?

Lots of them right here in the good old U.S.A.

Responding to oldiesman's questions: You can get benefit from almost any program if you have the will to do it. I mean, there are people in prison who get college degrees, but that's certainly not the best way to go about it. As to what it was about, it was like a microcosm of the corpse at the state level. One large difference was that we were not allowed to have outside sponsorship. We had to self-sponsor by working at full time, secular jobs. The balance of our day was spent living communally and providing support for the limb machinations. edit: That may sound something like a Way Home but it was entirely different.

Correlation does not necessarily equal causation.

Yeah, I should have waited a couple years before going into FellowLaborers. (The program was canceled 2 years after I graduated...Hahahahahahaha!)

Maybe his google button is broken.

That's a "one and done" sale and the number of potential buyers is limited. The profit is finite. Even a good car salesman doesn't just screw you over for all he can get and then forget about you. He gives you a deal you'll feel comfortable with and continues to court you with follow-up service promotions, new car news and the like, in hope of making more sales in the future. TWI is not a benevolent organization, they're a profit making business. The model they run on is is driven by repeat business. Again, that's why there was always such an emphasis on undershepherding and tithing. Tithing is their real source of predictable income. It's the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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Someday, you'll be a real boy.

This is just my opinion, but I think the real cornerstone of Wierwille's plan was to establish a base of followers who would consistently tithe, providing him with an endless stream of income. No work required beyond cashing the checks. Funds resulting from sale of the classes and books were icing on the cake. That's why "Christians Should Be Prosperous" became the focal point of those early sessions. There was no internet, no instant access to information. Who was ever going to find out the true nature of a scheme cooked up by a guy in the middle of rural Ohio? Or so he might have thought. I don't think he ever envisioned how big the ministry would become, but, when it did, he was perceptive enough to recognize the opportunities, some quite sinister, unfolding in front of him. It snowballed out of control and overwhelmed him. It grew like a cancer. And here we are today.

'So, if all your friends jumped off the bridge..."

"The interpretation should be about the same length as the tongue." Uh oh!

Yeah, it's easy to miss the mark when you're shooting at a target that doesn't exist. Kinda like how you missed the mark when Wierwille said the law of believing works for believers and unbelievers alike.

Is this opposite day? I must have missed the memo.

"The ministry that taught me the word." Tell me what you really think without telling me what you really think.

Equals? Seriously? This is one of the reasons some people find the Bible so hard to understand. They want to compare a culture that existed thousands of years ago to modern culture and expect that the same standards apply.

The way I recall it being taught was that he should be referred to as Jesus Christ when talking about him before he fulfilled his mission and Christ Jesus after he fulfilled his mission of becoming the Christ. Almost like Jesus was his name and Christ was his position. Some cultures that use honorifics still do something similar in that you address someone of a higher position by their title, instead of their name or before you say their name. For example, a student might address their teacher as "Teacher". Or you might address a family member according to their honorific family title rather than, or in addition to, their name. It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the general idea. TLDR: Jesus Christ before resurrection, Christ Jesus after. edit: Wasn't this in the PFAL class? Help me out here, Mike. What session is it? edit #2: Was it in that session where Wierwille says Christ is coming back as "King of Kings and Lord of Lords"? You know, that one where that we, as class instructors, were supposed to play down what Wierwille said and tell the class the Trinity implication was a slip of the tongue due to the emotion of the moment and his previous Trinitarian beliefs?

Throughout history, there have been, and still are, cultures that consider marriage to be a business arrangement and/or a matter of convenience. Marriage for love is a fairly new concept, dating back to about the eighteenth century. This needs to be understood and factored into any biblical discussion of marriage, concubines, courtesans, paramours and the like.