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I can save you reading the article. It says to read to "see how" they're doing that. They are incapable of originality. This is just a new call for WOWs, possibly international WOWs, since they're putting that in the context of flags from different continents. The odd thing about the original claim of "the Prevailing Word" was that AFTER twi lost some 80% of its people came lcm's announcement that he got revelation that "The Word is over the world." The explanation, when asked, was that everybody was within reach of a fellowship. Again, that was after 4/5 of twi's membership had walked. So, from there, lcm had to give twi a new purpose and focue. He'd stolen the spotlight with his little announcement, but in the process, he'd effectively said there was no need to "go witnessing" or, frankly, any impetus to show up anymore. So, his "promised land of the prevailing word" stuff was next on the agenda (along with all his purges of the unfaithful or suspected unfaithful.)
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Could have named a few other people in the movie I knew better. What was he in... oh, right.... Supergirl Brenda Vaccaro Zorro the Gay Blade
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songs remembered from just one line
WordWolf replied to bulwinkl's topic in Movies, Music, Books, Art
I only know the chorus of that song. However, at least I've heard the song before. It's not "Stuck in old Lodi again?" I thought "old" was in the lyrics, at least, that's how I heard it on the radio. -
Seriously no. (Although this isn't a very serious film.)
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A Sociology teacher of mine liked to mention the lyrics of a song, when speaking about bias. He pointed out that people LEARN their values, and are TAUGHT their values. https://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/r/rodgers_and_hammerstein/youve_got_to_be_carefully_taught.html "You've got to be taught To hate and fear, You've got to be taught From year to year, It's got to be drummed In your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade, You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or eight, To hate all the people your relatives hate, You've got to be carefully taught!" =================================== For high school, I went to the Bronx HS of Science. I found that a good place to address racism. When everyone in your class is above-average, and you have a variety of ethnicities represented in every classroom, the idea of some "race" being better or worse is easy to discard. BTW, it's not that Asians are automatically better at math, it's that many are "carefully taught" to push for higher and perfect grades in math and hard sciences, so that a kid making a normal mistake may freak out about it because the family's pushed for a perfect score. So, when you're shoulder-to-shoulder with a roomful of skllled people, their skin color can quickly become the least valuable piece of information.
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"Ooh, I fell on my keys! " "About six months... but I'm on probation, so it's all good, baby!" "No, I mean, what do you do best?" "I can't do that here. That's why they put me away, baby! " "He who signs a lease must pay rent. That's the law." "You miserable wretch! How dare you take the last penny out of a poor man's pocket?" "I have to. I'm a landlord." "Oh, Lord, hear my plea; destroy him! He maketh a blight on the land!" "Don't listen to him; he's crazy. " " I am the author. You are the audience. I outrank you!" "We find the defendants incredibly guilty." "And may I humbly add, your Honor, that we've learned our lesson and that we'll never do it again."
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With twi, it's always what they DON'T say that carries all the real information. IIRC, they've never mentioned the mandatory tithes of 10% or more, or how BLIND obedience to the people at the top is mandatory as well.
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BTW, the 'most recognized song" isn't "Moving Right Along", (which I like), but, obviously, "The Rainbow Connection."
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (#3) Gary Oldman the Dark Knight
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Correct! "The Muppet Movie" was the correct answer, which you said, more or less.
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That's him. The radar operators were from the Austin Powers movies, and Randy Grainger was a boy in the big brother/little brother program Oscar Madison once tried in "the Odd Couple." Usually you make me post a page of names until I drop the Blalok puppet from "Star Trek"(TOS.) Studied his roles since? ;)
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That's it.
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At the 1988 ROA (and, I presume, others before that, but NOT the 1989 ROA), there were plenty of people who made their own stuff and sold their own stuff from their tents and their cars, and so on. I bought Tom Burke's "A FIstful of Scriptures" that way- along with other music tapes from locals. IIRC, I also bought t-shirts that way as well. By the 1989 ROA, all those people had headed for the tall timber, and were no longer showing up at the ROA. That was back when lcm drew his line in the sand. For those of you who don't know what that was, lcm demanded that all the staff and corps swear an oath of loyalty to him personally. When someone asked, he confirmed that he expected to be followed BLINDLY. Anyone giving any other answer, even a Scriptural one, was fired or otherwise removed from twi. Since he removed about 80% of the leadership of twi all over the "way tree", it should surprise nobody that a lot of them stayed together and kept on doing things, just without having to report in to twi. (In NY state, the state/Limb coordinator and probably all the territory coordinators were canned at once, and stuck together. Most or all of the Branch coordinators went along with them. As I've said before, someone who'd been previously warming a chair at a local twig was suddenly moved up to territory coordinator, probably because he was the highest-ranking person who stuck with twi.)
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"The ocean is a desert with its life underground and a perfect disguise all above. Under the cities lies a heart made of ground but the humans will give no love."
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Randy Grainger Radar Operator Johnson Radar Operator Peters
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"Ooh, I fell on my keys! " "About six months... but I'm on probation, so it's all good, baby!" "No, I mean, what do you do best?" "I can't do that here. That's why they put me away, baby! " "He who signs a lease must pay rent. That's the law." "You miserable wretch! How dare you take the last penny out of a poor man's pocket?" "I have to. I'm a landlord." "Oh, Lord, hear my plea; destroy him! He maketh a blight on the land!" "Don't listen to him; he's crazy. "
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This movie could TECHNICALLY be described as an exploration of the path to stardom, with glimpses of the drawbacks on the way there. One character abruptly abandons the lead at a phone-call from their agent, another expresses the loneliness of the road and having to leave home behind, and the lead must continually face the prospect of selling out rather than following his dream of making millions of people happy. Supposedly, it was "sort-of approximately" how events happened, as if it was a dramatization of real historical events. This movie had an impressive number of cameo appearances by celebrities, in addition to those who appeared more than briefly. One cameo was by Paul Williams, who came up with several songs for the soundtrack, including the most-recognized song from the movie.
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13 Going On 30 Mark Ruffalo Marvel's Avengers
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Terrence Stamp comes to mind.
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This movie could TECHNICALLY be described as an exploration of the path to stardom, with glimpses of the drawbacks on the way there. One character abruptly abandons the lead at a phone-call from their agent, another expresses the loneliness of the road and having to leave home behind, and the lead must continually face the prospect of selling out rather than following his dream of making millions of people happy. Supposedly, it was "sort-of approximately" how events happened, as if it was a dramatization of real historical events.
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songs remembered from just one line
WordWolf replied to bulwinkl's topic in Movies, Music, Books, Art
You keep saying you've got something for me. -
Ben Affleck DareDevil Jennifer Garner
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"IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (and I feel fine)", by R.E.M. IIRC, it's off "Document." Their biggest hits were off "Green" (after "Document"), and IMHO, their best song, "Can't Get There From Here", wasn't on either album. All of those were 80s albums, I think.
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the trinity: asset, or liability?
WordWolf replied to johniam's topic in Doctrinal: Exploring the Bible
On the other hand, if scientists are correct about the meteor theory, then something struck the earth and devastated the ecosystem, raising a cloud of ash that blocked sunlight, which interrupted the food chain, and produced a global catastrophe, with plants dying, plant-eaters dying, then meat-eaters dying when they couldn't find plant-eaters to eat. Eventually, the atmosphere would clear, allowing light to enter the atmosphere once again. And so on. From the POV of the Earth, a description of all of this might sound awfully familiar. It might sound just like Genesis 1. -
Oh. I had the wrong Ophelia. I thought it was the Hamlet one. "JAMIE LEE CURTIS." She played the Ophelia in "Trading Places" that was named for the Hamlet one.