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It was circa 2002/2003 when a memo went out at HQ concerning the discontinued standard of the wooden spoon. Scripture interprets itself, so a child's understanding of when their believing is off shouldn't need to be repeated, unless it is.

Gotcha. *checks "Gen-X" box on Nathan_Jr's file* LCM wrote quoted a poem once or twice: Roses are Red Violets or Blue Some Poems Rhyme Some Don't He never cited his source. Jerk.

You looked it up on your phone . . . . later? Sorry I'm thinking the context is the 70s.

Young children copy to learn LINK Six-year-olds understand taking another's ideas is stealing LINK Malignant Narcissism is an arrested development, they cheat their way through college and often become clergy LINK

"claimed it to be his own" rhymes with "make it your own" and starts with word almost like "claim it". Phrases used often in TWI.

Criminals.

In my teens I was told about this person who was believing for red drapes in an apartment or something. This story was told to me directly a number of times and I believed the persons telling it knew the person in the story looking for red drapes. Why else would they tell it this way? Later, thumbing through a book called PFAL, I realized that they took that story from VPW, or behaved as if they had had that experience. Whole fellowships are sitting around experiencing non-experiences. I just googled "Anvil of God's Word" . . . that's one I heard a lot.

But. . . He was holding a Bible. . . Someone holding a Bible has to say nothing but the Truth, right?

I get your point here. For me, "do you believe in god/s" circle yes or no . . . . is not how I see the question . . . but for others the question is straightforward. For me it's a question of, what color is you favorite flavor? I don't think there's a bearded guy in the sky with naked winged midgets with harps. But clearly when you have more than one person other things are present. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Just as a conscious person is very different than a dead one. so a term like atheist for me would emphasize the more forceful use of the term, an active push away from something else, which is not straightforward

Oedipal defense mechanisms as symbolized by mother earth god devouring the . . . right nevermind. To lighten it up I'll bring back Dr. Tyson to show my appreciation for his ongoing efforts to bring science into discussions:

Oh I don't think he was suggesting "the Catholic Church came up with a good calendar we all use . . . we should all be Catholics . . . or the Church gets points". He is impressed. And he is showing appreciation. I absolutely agree on change being a constant. "Religious People" aren't stupid. They're describing something. I trying to imagine . . . I guess a 'thought experiment' . . . if other beings evolved a psyche as complex as humans . . . would they come up with similar religions? Just like a dolphin and ichthyosaur came up with similar adaptations, because it works, similar things evolve and re-evolve and come up again and again and again. Part of survival is coping. The human mind has an awareness that is depressing. And a complicated beings needs to pass down things that work, so the next generation isn't wasting precious energy reinventing the wheel. Evolution recycles. I think Dr. Tyson pointed out how the language (using goodbye) we used is recycled, and still meaningful, whether you subscribe to a religion/god or not. You can go from language and calendars to concepts of the individual and rights.

There's still, IMO, a difference in quality of education between face-to-face and online, today. But it is speculated? Rhoda (wierwille?) did the work for VPW? Not only did he go to low quality, questionably accredited, shadowy schools but he copied off the other kids? . . . Cheating is a habit started early . . .

Hitler certainly paid respect to Henry Ford, the only American mentioned in Mein Kampf. I don't agree with his take. Isaac Newton is certainly an example of how madness and creativity walk a fine line. The process of how you and I both think . . . It all evolved through "these religious people" . . . it's not arbitrary. There's no "reset button" . . . you can't whitewash to a purer state of mind . . . and if we whitewash too much we forget the why and the how and the reasons of where we are now.

Biologically, genetically, morphologically similar beings all over the globe independently come up with gods. That is a behavior that reflects the psychology of those beings. It's noteworthy to me that so many come up with a Father figure in the sky, and a Mother figure in the earth. It's like convergent evolution, sharks dolphins, ichthyosaurs are streamlined but didn't learn from each other how to swim. . . and it's fascinating. I consider it a natural process. Certainly that addresses behavior. A person who acknowledges a god or goddess or gods or flying pig is going to behave accordingly. A person who does not acknowledge them is going to behave accordingly. This binary of gods / no-gods I feel overlooks something. I mean, what area of human behavior isn't loaded with absurdity?

Indeed we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but doesn't putting on whole armor increase the likelihood of fatigue? I guess if we're just going to Stand there, like Moses. Boring.

It is a spiritual competition.

So I just googled "holding forth" . . . cause questioning https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hold-forth hold forth — phrasal verb with hold verb US /hoʊld/ UK /həʊld/ held | heldusually disapproving to talk about a particular subject for a long time, often in a way that other people find boring: She held forth all afternoon about/on government incompetence. There it is, fatigue is caused by holding forth things. To stop believing is to stop holding. Remember Moses? Others had to hold his forearms with four arms to part the Red Sea. Otherwise he'd fatigue, quit believing, or the waters would come forth. It's The Word folks.

Slide 2: "as they decide to raise their child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" . . . It's their decision is it? This is what a grandparent thinks about?

Hello Kblosser, I grew up in TWI and moved to HQ. I caught a lot of turtles out of Wierwille pond. I did not stack them because that is politics.

"He was the founder and first president of TWI" . . . "a non-something non-banana non-whatever something something ministry" That is a loaded sentence. "oh yeah while he was doing things he started this organization, not that we want to overemphasize him as the ministry is not an extension of him or anything but we just mentioning him in passing sort of . . . oh and by the way the ministry is defined by this sentence of preemptive words, words that have meanings, meanings that you shouldn't think too much about . . . we're for the The Word which is self-explanatory once you have the keys . . . and we have the keys"

This is basic name-dropping to establish legitimacy . . . I assume most here at GSC are in one accord on that matter

He had major energies. So he minored in something I assume. I recognize some but not all of the names listed. Apparently they also looked for these keys to doors.

Victor Paul Wierwille spent several decades vigorously and prayerfully searching out the truths of God’s Word. As part of his search he consulted and worked with many outstanding individuals in Christian studies for keys to power-filled, victorious living. Such men as Karl Barth, Joseph Bauer, Glenn Clark, Karl J. Ernst, Josiah Friedli, Louis C. Hessert, Elmer G. Homrighausen, E. Stanley Jones, George M. Lamsa, Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr, K. C. Pillai, Paul Tillich, Ernst Traeger, and many others were a part of Dr. Wierwille’s quest to find the truths of the Word of God. Dr. Wierwille’s academic career included Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology degrees from Mission House (Lakeland) College and Seminary, and graduate studies at the University of Chicago and at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he earned the Master of Theology degree in Practical Theology. Later he completed his work for the Doctor of Theology degree at Pikes Peak Bible Seminary and Burton College in Manitou Springs, Colorado. For over forty years, Dr. Wierwille devoted his major energies to intensive research and teaching of the accuracy of God’s Word. In 1953 he began teaching his Biblical research in classes on Power for Abundant Living. He was the founder and first president of The Way International, a nonsectarian, nondenominational Biblical research, teaching, and fellowship ministry. He held the presidency of The Way College of Emporia, and he was the founder and first president of several other centers of learning: The Way College of Biblical Research, Indiana Campus; Camp Gunnison; and LEAD Outdoor Academy International. As Dr. Wierwille persevered in his research of the Bible, he continued to write more research works and to develop further classes in Biblical studies, including The University of Life outreach courses, an international Biblical studies correspondence school. As a dynamic lecturer, he traveled and taught worldwide, holding forth the greatness and the accuracy of God’s Word with great intensity until his death in May of 1985.

https://www.theway.org/about-us/about-the-founder/ "dynamic lecturer . . . with great intensity" . . . I'm dying with laughter