waysider

Note to self: Mark all the clears (c) and unclears (u) in my copy of "The Way: Living In Love".

In the first twig I was involved with, there was a young lady, still in high school, who was missing an arm. If I recall correctly, she was born like that. We'll call her Suzie for the sake of simplicity. She was initially attracted to The Way by fellow classmates who told her that complete healing was possible. Now, there was always this undercurrent of "believing" for Suzie's arm to be completely restored. People spoke in tongues for Suzie's arm, cast out "doubting spirits", ministered to her, counceled her on "the law of believing", encouraged her to become more involved in the twig workings. She became more and more frustrated and depressed as time elapsed because her "healing" just wasn't happening. Then, her father caught wind of what was going on and was, to put it mildly, furious. He had spent years teaching her to accept her current condition and to adjust to the realities of life as a disabled person. He forbade her to continue associating with The Way and I never heard from her again. When I look back on my life and reflect on things I'm ashamed of, I have to tell you that this is way up there toward the top of the list. To all the Suzies who crossed my path in The Way, I offer you this humble apology. I surely never meant to hurt anyone.

Maybe it was a combination of both... a man with the ability to swindle, stumbling into unforeseen opportunity.

It's a dilemma for those who have yet to come to this conclusion.

Animals have some sort of instinct that allows them to sense if someone is intent on harming them or doing something they at least perceive as harm. (If you don't believe me, try putting an asthma mask on a cat sometime.) I think humans also have a sense that something may not be quite right. We are, after all, in the least common denominator, animals as well. Maybe that's what it is when we supposedly discern "devil spirits". One huge problem, though, is that we were actively taught to ignore these intuitions because, you know, something, something, natural man, something. Well, cutting to the chase here, this presents a huge dilemma. Either we were following a man who was chock full of "devil spirits" and we couldn't even recognize it or the whole devil spirit thing was a bunch of bovine excrement. Now, If we couldn't trust him to get this stuff right, how can we trust that anything at all he taught us was right? Hence, the dilemma.

Excuse me, Sir. Did you drop this?:... /s

What we should have "gotten right the first time" was recognize that we were being scammed. Woe unto those who haven't learned from the experience.

Cereal killer!

You are what you eat.

Watch over your heart bowels with all diligence, For from it them flow the springs of life.

My memory of 'smores will never be the same again.

This is spot on. He was not what is known as a method actor. In method acting, the actor, relaxes and becomes a kind of blank slate that can experience the emotions of the character they are playing. It's a process, for sure. Wierwille, on the other hand, was more of what would be known as an action based actor. In action based acting, if you want to appear happy, you smile. If you want to appear sad, you frown, and so on. You don't need to actually experience the emotions you are projecting. Wierwille was very good at this and fully aware of what he was doing, without actually experiencing the emotions he was portraying. That's what con artists do. They can't afford the luxury of experiencing the emotions of their marks.

There was a poster here, years ago, who gave account of seeing VPW turn his "spiritual anger" off and on at the drop of a hat. In other words, the "spiritually angry" guy was a character he played. He was an actor. He knew what he was doing and had full control of it. So, yeah, the guy was a con artist (among other things).

Talking to yourself again, Mike?

Yeah, sure. It's all our own fault. Could it have been the way we were dressed?

"Before the beginning, there was this turtle. And the turtle was alone. And he looked around, and he saw his neighbor, which was his mother. And he lay down on top of his neighbor, and behold! she bore him in tears an oak tree, which grew all day and then fell over -- like a bridge. And lo! under the bridge there came a catfish. And he was very big. And he was walking. And he was the biggest he had seen. And so were the fiery balls of this fish, one of which is the sun, and the other, they called the moon." Source: (Begins at 8:05)

42 is the number of times you can get away with saying "Lo Shanta Lo Maka See Tay Beep Beep Boop" before someone realizes you're really just babbling.

"Some Evangelicals have labelled the conservative or traditional view as "verbal, plenary inspiration of the original manuscripts", by which they mean that each word (not just the overarching ideas or concepts) was meaningfully chosen under the superintendence of God".......Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_inspiration#cite_note-12...Thy Word is Truth (E.J. Young) NOTE: I slaved over a hot google stove all day to find that. Okay, I lied. It took about 5 minutes.

Have an upvote for the 42 reference.

Dweeb (드위브) is a pet food/ pet supply company, located in Seoul. So, yeah, your point still stands. Associating with them will assure your life will "go to the dogs". And that, my friends, is how a word study can lead you to somewhere you never expected.

주입 (jueeb)

Why look outside the box when we have this to guide us? 2 Petered out 1:3 His divine power VPW hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him PFAL that hath called us to glory and virtue.