WordWolf

The title's getting you because you're thinking "Norse" or "LotR" for a title, and the title doesn't sound anything like either. (And I dropped a clue when I hit the buzzer.)

When we had about 20 players, even the obscure stuff got answered pretty quickly!

Correct, and correct. (Except, I suppose, for getting a parachute to work properly.)

You mean like how vpw took the "From Birth to the Corps" required papers and used them to screen the applicants to see which women would be, in his estimation, easiest to sexually assault, and how he sometimes even had the papers in his hand when summoning her to a private location so he could try to sexually assault her? Maybe.

Jeffrey Jones Sleepy Hollow Richard Griffiths

Consider this round no longer here. FREE POST!

"Sunshine Superman", Donovan. But we're back at the previous song, still.

BZZZZZTTTT!! This was NOT "the Battle of Evermore." Do not pass go, do not collect $200. You may not cross the border.

Acts 17: 16-23 (NASB) 16 Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he observed that the city was full of idols. 17 So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be present. 18 And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers as well were [o]conversing with him. Some were saying, “What could this [p]scavenger of tidbits want to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And they took him and brought him [q]to the [r]Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is [s]which you are proclaiming? 20 For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.” 21 (Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.) 22 So Paul stood in the midst of the [t]Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects. 23 For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 2 ====================================================================== [When I was in twi, I was taught something specific about this incident. I was taught that Athens had SO many gods that they set up an altar to cover whoever was left out, a miscellaneous altar, and labelled that "TO THE UNKNOWN GOD." Furthermore, I was taught that after this, it was illegal, under pain of death, to bring any more gods into Athens. No citation for any of this was given. I'm now of the belief that no citation was given because there was none- somebody made up that entire explanation out of whole cloth. Apparently, historical sources agree on a completely different story. The short of it was that they wanted to stop a plague. They offered on altars for every god they knew. No improvement. So, they offered up offerings to a god they didn't know, and the plague stopped. They concluded (post hoc, ergo propter hoc, after this, therefore because of this) that "the unknown god" accepted their sacrifice and stopped the plague. So, there were some altars made up to that "unknown god." THAT's what Paul saw and commented on. So, Paul used the monument as his "conversation starter" on Mars' Hill, a point to begin his exposition and explanation. Biblical Archaeology "To the Unknown God" https://odb.org/AR/1994/03/11/to-the-unknown-god https://www.biblehistory.net/newsletter/the_unknown_God.htm I don't know what prompted people in twi to make up explanations out of whole cloth and pretend they had researched something and found that as the answer, but I've never liked that. Allegedly, in pfal, it was stressed not to say you knew if you did not, or to guess. It would have been nice if that really was the practice of twi and not just the profession of twi.

Well said.

I can't guarantee what it says, but- to a fair degree of accuracy- I know the essence of it. When the twi seal said "The Word over the World" in English, there was a phrase in Aramaic. From right to left, it read "word over the inhabited earth." This phrase is written differently, so that's not it. With the seal saying "the prevailing word", I'm fairly confident that the Aramaic is a phrase that's roughly analogous to "the prevailing word." The original WOW program had so many problems with it, I'd hardly know where to start. If I had to try to fix it, I'd start over from scratch and redesign it from the ground up. There were too many things wrong with the old versions, and society has moved on from "the hippies hitchhike everywhere and hope the cops don't arrest them and they don't get raped or killed." Besides, some WOW grads were raped and some were killed, so that was defective even then (not counting crippling injuries resulting from forcing the students to travel in an unsafe manner and believe God to arrive safely", a clear violation of twi's fiduciary responsibilities to their students. That one was in the corps.)

He´d been referring to himself as "The Teacher" for something like a decade before pfal, with that first series he'd filmed. He pushed it enough, here and there, that at least some people referred to him primarily as "The Teacher." I'd heard from NY'ers about a visit from him. There was a crowd greeting him. "The Teacher! The Teacher!" I was told "We always called him 'The Teacher'". If you think that wasn't entirely due to the hard work of vpw promoting himself to being called "The Teacher"..... well, I don't know what to tell you.

vpw's bait-and-switch was sometimes used right in pfal, but other times it was not. If 100% of all you knew about vpw came straight from pfal tapes/films and the books of that class, you'd be surprised to hear that vpw claimed to have been appointed by God. In pfal, vpw was specific about the holy spirit field being a field to which he had dedicated his life. Period. It was a few years after the filmed pfal class that the 1942 Promise was ever spoken to anyone, whether spoken to the early corps or put in print in "the Way-Living in Love." If you focused exclusively on the class, you might be surprised when someone said that vpw made such a claim. (I know because I was surprised, and I felt uncomfortable about it, for reasons that went right back to what vpw taught about revelation.) But lots of people were taught this- AFTER being taught pfal, and after buying into it. Second, yes, pfal ended with references to the church epistles- in the actual film. When you sat a class, the staff would advertise reading pfal materials for 3 months or more. Why was there no such advertisement in the pfal film? One, there WERE no pfal materials to study way back when the film was made. There were a few pamphlets, and that was it. LATER, we got "Christians Should Be Prosperous" - and all class coordinators were instructed- by vpw- to make sure that was read early in the class. So, I'm sure someone will insist that this was NOT something vpw pushed. I'm sure someone will suggest that- since it wasn't in the filmed class, that vpw had nothing to do with it. So, it's important to remember what he DID say on the subject. Over the years, people complained about his practice of "put aside all reading external to pfal for 3 months" thing. Did he take this moment to correct people, and redirect them to read THE EPISTLES for 3 months and chide them for switching to vpw books for 3 months instead? NO. He did take the time to address complaints. He didn't say "My detractors confuse the Church Epistles with twi materials." He talked about the complaint of 3 months of only twi materials. He DOUBLED DOWN on it. Rather thah say "It's 3 months of the Church Epistles, read your Bible!", he emphasized that people should do it. Then he got cutesy, "I'll make you a bet. If you put aside all newspapers and magazines for 6 months, when you pick them up again, they'll be just as negative as they were 6 months ago. I will add, however, that they may be MORE negative." So, once there WERE pfal books, vpw instituted the practice of having the students told to focus on THOSE for 3 months, even if the films/tapes said to focus on the church epistles. Thirdly, the final segment of pfal had a bait-and-switch built right into it. Even though vpw liked to read Ephesians 6:10 to crowds and make like he didn't want people to follow him, but rather The Lord, in pfal he did a bait-and-switch. "Finally, my brethren, I want you to be strong in the Lord.' Strong in the Lord, not strong in what a theologian might say. Not strong in what a Bible teacher may say. But if that theologian says what the Word says, if that Bible teacher says what the Word says, then you've got to be strong in what they say. " This came at the end of 12 sessions where we are all aware he'd been badmouthing all other teachers and theologians as useless for learning the Word, and putting himself forth as some great one, indeed, as the sole Bible teacher who understood what we needed, who didn't actually plagiarize others, but was the SOLE source of sound teaching. So, after 12 sessions of selling himself as the SOLE Bible teacher saying what the Word says, he said that- if you find a Bible teacher who says what the Word says- then you've got to be strong in what they say. What does all of that say, once stripped of the jargon? "God is telling you to be strong in what vpw is teaching." It's that simple, that's what he was dancing around, INSINUATING, IMPLYING, SUGGESTING, but never having the guts to say directly, leaving that for other people, all so he could say "I never said that" if asked. All of that is as elaborate a set of THEATRICS as I've ever experienced.

Nice try, but I was emphasizing how little time that was, that wasn't a clue to the title. (That was the following sentence.) I usually try not to use words from the titles in my clues- so if it seems I'm working hard NOT to say something, that's usually worth examining. Odd usages of synonyms aren't unusual in my rounds.

I may recognize songs through the 90s, and generally as far back as the 70s (unless it's really well known.) A lot of songs I like, I can't post due to the "airplay" rule. Unless you bought the album, you wouldn't know them.

The link above, labelled "WordWolf debunks the Great Principle." I had put the sentence in quotes but didn't cite my source. It was too good a sentence to leave alone, now that it was being looked at again.

Name ANY to take the round. A) Guy Fieri invites the best of the best chefs in a single-elimination, winner-takes-all contest, each going one-on-one with another chef until one is left. Different challenges will affect each round. Two neutral food experts interview the chef during the cooking process, and describe the dish to the judging panel to ensure the panel has no idea who cooked what, preventing them from favoritism. B) 3-4 chefs are called into a parking lot set up as a kitchen. They have to get ingredients by stopping real customers leaving a food store and buy individual ingredients or the entire contents of their cart, sight unseen. They have to cook a successful dish in the provided time- and the time getting ingredients is part of that time! So, waiting for perfect ingredients can eat up all your cooking time (or get expensive in the early rounds when you can buy entire carts sight unseen.) C) The host of the show mentioned in B), now challenges chefs from all over the US to try to out-cook her, 3 at a time. D) The show sets up a kitchen in the middle of a suburban street, with houses on both sides. Contestants must pick a house, and get their ingredients from what the residents have on hand (yes, they're paid for all the stuff.) E) 3 chefs divide the pool of chefs into 3 teams for the season, each of them leading their team. Each episode, the chefs have to cook a dish that fits a description. Each episode, each team picks randomly, and ends up cooking in one of 3 kitchens. The top floor has high-tech, fancy appliances, the middle floor has regular restaurant kitchen appliances, and the bottom floor has appliances like a home cook. The ingredients for use come down and stop for TEN SECONDS for chefs to get ingredients- stopping at the top floor first, then the middle, then the bottom chefs get whatever is left. When it is time to plate, the moving platform stops first at the bottom floor, then the middle, then the top, again for TEN SECONDS. This show involves trying to find a chef of surpassing skill and potential. F) So you don't like shows about cooking food? How about cooking metal? This show (with at least one overseas version) has 4 weaponsmiths compete in their knife-making skills on-site, then the last 2 competitors go back to their home forges, and have a few days to produce a copy of a famous weapon. Their weapons are examined, and tested with violence, and a winner is chosen from the blades that survive the tests. One less dramatic test is the apple slice- comparing a line of apples to see which are sliced cleanly and which are split. One more dramatic test is the "bulletproof sword club." The resulting sword is set up, blade forward, and a single bullet is fired- resulting either in a split bullet or a shattered blade as the bladesmith enters the "Oh, my God, they shot my sword with a gun" club instead of the "bulletproof sword club." Viewers can learn all sorts of things about weapon- making, metal-forging, and related skills, as a panel of judges comments on the techniques as they're being used. One blade was disqualified because it was completely shaped by use of grinders and sanders, and not even a little by the process named in the show's title.

1."Hello, and welcome to "TV Car Trivia!" First question, who was the driver of a '73 Firebird? Uh, Otto?" 2."Uh, Jim Rockford, "Rockford Files"." 3."Gimme "Columbo"." 4."A Peugeot convertible." 1."What color?" 4."Gray." 5."How do you know that?" 4."'Cause I love that show." 5."Man, I got three words for all of y'all: Get a life!" 6."What's on Magnum P.I.'s license plate?" 7."ROBIN-1" 4."Wait, wasn't Robin that faggoty guy that always hung with him?" 8."Naw, that was Higgins. That was Higgins." 2."Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?" 3."Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. " This remake did well enough in the box office, but I can't help think part of that was due to the advertising. One supporting character was made to look like a main character with most of the screen-time. This is one of the appearances in media of the "coroner with an iron stomach" type of thing. When one character answers the phone, he's at work in a crematorium. He puts down his sandwich- on the corpse- to answer the phone. "If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of criminal life, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate. You say 'poor Toby'? I say 'poor us'. " Cast includes Delroy Lindo, Christopher Eccleston, Giovanni Ribisi, Arye Gross Angelina Jolie, Nicolas Cage, and Robert Duvall. "Well, without disappointment, you cannot appreciate victory." "Did Eleanor tell you that?" "Well that's hitting below the belt." " One: You kill me, they kill you, your brother dies anyway. Two: You lie, you accept the job, you take your brother, you run. I hunt you down, I kill you, I kill your brother and I kill your mother for the aggravation you cause me. Three: You accept the job, you steal some cars, you make some money, and you be a big brother." "You don't know the first thing about stealing a car! You need a role model!" Just take a minute and review the clues. The last quote showed it's a movie involving stealing cars. How many of those do you know?

I had also dropped a second clue, but you missed both since they weren't in boldface.

Next song. "We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow."

Since none of us can name the song yet, please add more to the clue. Another part of the song, or more of the same part, please.

BTW, the "God gave manna, God is not manna" was a direct quote from Raf. For the curious, here's a breakdown on "the 5 things to know to receive anything from God." Supposedly, they are: 1) What is available 2) How to receive it 3) What to do with it after you've got it 4) Your need must parallel your want 5) God's ability equals God's willingness. Ok, here's how that nonsense breaks down... 1, 2 and 3 are not informative- they're what you do to get anything. If you want to make a sandwich, you have to know there's fixings in the fridge. Then you have to know how to go get them from the fridge, and assemble them in the bread. Then you have to know how to shove the sammich into your piehole. How to receive a sandwich from the refrigerator: First you must know what is available, then you must know how to receive it, then you must know what to do after you've got it. No, that was no revealing of some great secret there, in either case. There's nothing in the actual Bible that says "needs must parallel wants." If anything, I can make a case for asking for what's promised," but, frankly, that's not REQUIRED for anything. I would think approaching God with an attitude of humility would be more important than any of this- I've certainly gotten better results that way- and far more SPECIFIC results that way. Finally, 5. "God's ability equals God's willingness." This is a bit of nonsense that is not true. God is able to destroy all life on Earth whenever he feels like it. (Job 34: 14-15 "14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; 15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust." ) That's God's Ability. He obviously is not WILLING to do so because we are still here. So, God's Ability is not equal to God's Willingness. God is All-Powerful. He could reach in and destroy our free will. He has the Ability to do so. He is NOT WILLING to do so. Whatever vpw was plagiarizing there, again, was something he didn't understand (or he plagiarized nonsense, which is also possible.)

twi's fond of not getting that. As far as they've taught, JC ascended and has sat like a bump on a log for 2000 years! That doesn't even make sense on paper! If he "ever lives to make intercession for the saints", that's a full-time job right there. We also have an advocate (defense attorney) in Jesus Christ. That's a full-time job right there, since the brethren also have an accuser. Even if JC has not been performing the tasks of Chief Operations Officer or Executive VP, those would keep him quite busy.

If your branch coordinator was so in tune, he should have ministered to you and healed your ankle, THEN told you off. You would have been a LOT more interested in what he had to say at that point, he would definitely have had your attention. And nobody give me the "he had to be in the same room first" because we know that's not a requirement. The centurion told Jesus that he was confident that if Jesus gave the order for his servant's healing here, it would be accomplished wherever the servant was. (Yes, that level of confidence was something, and that man wasn't a Jew looking for the Messiah! He was just a man who heard that when this man prayed, results got resulted.) No, the branch coordinator was all talk and no power.

Billy Joel once said he had written a melody, but had no lyrics. He went to dinner to his favorite Italian restaurant. The waiter said, "Bottle of red? Bottle of white? Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight!" Billy Joel replied "THANK YOU!" and went on to write the song with that melody and that line, inspired by Italian restaurants. Meanwhile, your song is one of Dire Strait's biggest hits: "THE SULTANS OF SWING."