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He called you out for being condescending. HE wasn't the one being mean or arrogant. Since there's something you can admit you don't understand, you can TRY to phrase a question-without an accompanying insult- to one of several posters here who actually can explain. Instead, you drew a conclusion. You also engaged in the "no true Irishman" logical fallacy. If you're interested in learning, you can ask questions. If it's a matter of being offended by being around people with whom you disagree, well, then we know why you stopped coming around here. BTW, nobody is even asking you to change your opinion to make it less offensive. When you post, however, you should make an effort not to be so transparently offensive. No, you didn't MEAN to be offensive- but you were, nonetheless- and that's coming from someone whose worldview may not look that different from yours.

Good points. A) vpw was put forth- by himself and others- as some sort of super-believer. lcm was convinced he was some sort of super-believer once he was twi president. It would be obvious who needs to set the good example and super-believe to blow the rain out of the area for the next few days. Done from the main stage, it would have allowed them to be fully theatrical AND settle the issue of just HOW bad@$$ they were- as much as they claimed to be, if they could alter weather patterns on command and in a minute. Yet, they never tried. That vpw CLAIMED he could do such things but he never TRIED to do something like that from the main stage just shows that vpw was secretly well aware just how POWERLESS he was in comparison to his claims. I once walked some kids home in Summer, Once I got them to their block (a partially-protected block), I agreed they were safe enough to walk the last few steps by themselves (they were young teenagers walking less than a block.) I asked them to promise that- as soon as they got home- they would stop and pray for the coming rain to hold off until I got home. They agreed. I saw them off, and marched home with all reasonable speed, hoping to get home before the rain because I didn't pack an umbrella. As it turned out, they did exactly as requested, calling their family to the door so they could pray together immediately. Me, I prayed, marched, and just focused on making the best time. There was occasional thunder, and once a few drops began to fall, then stopped. I might say that the charged air even felt a bit frustrated- but that could easily be argued to be an active imagination. When I got home, I got as far as the elevator before the thunderstorm dropped, so I missed the sound of it starting. I did, however, get inside my building seconds before the storm hit. Naturally, one might consider this a fascinating coincidence, or think I'm exaggerating, or that I'm outright lying. (I insist I'm neither exaggerating nor lying.) Nobody made a big deal out of this at the time, but I respected those teens BEFORE this, and if anything, respected them more AFTER this. So, a couple of teenagers were cool with praying to delay some weather for 20 minutes. For one super-believer, it should have been a piece of cake to MOVE some weather with a single prayer. B) Yes, there's mundane solutions- which were NEVER put into actions. They knew where the tents were going to be. They knew where the rain runoffs happened. They knew where the relief was going to be needed (same spots as the last several years...) Why not make preparations during Corps Week- either something temporary for the next few weeks, or install something useful that could be maintained lightly each year? It would have been good for the people who showed up, and made for happier attendees. They had the people, they had the resources. The remaining reason they didn't do it was that they didn't CARE that anyone's tent was at risk of flooding every single year. If they were seen as PEOPLE and not as RESOURCES, this would have been very different. From the main stage, vpw would often talk about how much he loved the people who attended. But his love ended there- because after that, he elected never to TAKE ACTION to DEMONSTRATE that love- which means, of course, it was ALL TALK. Little of this should surprise anyone, any more.

"Real Bible scholars focus on trying to properly understand the Scriptures through the context, biblical languages, cultural context , historical context, the systematic study of the texts, and plain logic – it really is a discipline, a science and an art – if any intuition is involved it's in gaining a feel for the significance to ascribe to certain data and where more attention would prove to be most beneficial. " It's been said- by Psychologists studying such things- that real "intuition" is the subconscious ability to correctly recognize patterns before they're evident to the conscious. So, actual study in a subject works WITH "intuition", not against it. The more you know and understand a subject's patterns, the more intuition can help bridge the gaps and point out where there are CONNECTIONS that may not have been evident. That actually goes hand-in-hand with "genius"- which has been described (at least some of the time) as an ability to see actual connections between objects that are not related. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| There is obviously a difference between "I can see a connection between the bus being late this morning and the secret messages in the commercials while I ate my breakfast" (not ACTUAL connections) and genius because genius sees connections that ARE and dismisses those that are not, or at least is skeptical of them. Humans normally try to find patterns in their everyday existence, but that doesn't MEAN that, say, the clouds actually have the shape of the thing you see in them. Similarly, just imagining what you saw was an actual pattern isn't the same as seeing a legitimate correlation between things. Yes, it's next-to-impossible to find a taxi on Halloween or New Years Eve. However, that's not because The Revolution Has Arrived, it means those evenings ALWAYS strain the taxi delivery system all over the USA. Within 12 hours, the wait times return to normal. Anybody who doesn't understand Occam's Razor has no business trying to figure out what's a coincidence and what's significant.

Ezra Braithwaite Anton Valine Abe Kemper Nathan Perlmutter Jake Corelli Lyle DeFranco Angelo Giancarlo Paul Castellano Will Cassady Don Frito Layleone Salvatore Valestra Abe Fossi

well, see you all in 3 days again....

"I got into an argument with my father the other day. I argued that Plato was the Father of Philosophy. My father took the contrary position that I should wax the kitchen floor. I said, 'Well, the kitchen floor doesn't exist- at least not in the permanent sense like the CONCEPT "floor" does.' He replied, ' Does the concept "your skull" exist?' Then he surprised me by juxtaposing the two concepts." - Emo Phillips. In early Genesis, we see Jubal and Tubal-cain referred to in that sense of being the father of musicians, and blacksmiths and blacksmithing, respectively. Didn't suggest all musicians were genetic descendants of Jubal or all blacksmiths were genetic descendants of Tubal-cain. (Moreso than anyone else at that point, at least.)

(For the curious, LE and DT were both also on "The Devil's Rejects" so I could have linked to him through there. Trejo's been in a LOT of stuff, but I thought I'd toss a softball in here, so I linked out with a known movie with lots of known actors.)

Ok, she was the pistol-packing blonde in the Police Academy movies that got along great with Tackleberry. However, she was also in Halloween Danny Trejo Anchorman-Legend of Ron Burgundy

Ok, next one, presuming this post saves. Name the actor. Ezra Braithwaite Anton Valine Abe Kemper Nathan Perlmutter Jake Corelli Lyle DeFranco

That's because JALvis never thought about what he was doing and why he was doing it. He was just plodding along, trying to redo the same things he did decades ago with young innies, when he was facing mature ex-twiers. Few people were foolish enough to go along just on his say-so, and had many concerns the kids didn't HAVE decades ago. Since it was about what HE wanted, he just blew all that off, and approached us all like a used-car salesman. To this day, he STILL doesn't get it!

That's it. I was a little surprised it took a second line, but that's how it goes sometimes.

Nick Rivers and Chris Knight are my favorite roles FOR this actor, especially Chris Knight. If this post will save this time, my answer will be VAL KILMER.

Next song, if this will save tonight.... "It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside. I'm not one of those who can easily hide. I don't have much money, but boy if I did, I'd buy a big house where we both could live."

It gets worse when you see the twisting involved to try to make this nonsense apply after that. In Genesis 3, Man has sinned and lost spirit. God communicates with him without any problems, making a voice (the first mention of the word "voice" in Genesis, the first time an audible sound is actually needed.) God can communicate any way He wants to -He is God. Makes the Universe, organizes the stars, fine-tunes details for the Earth, the biosphere, the plants, the animals, the humans. Communicate with something that isn't spirit? Sorry, too difficult! What is this nonsense? Anyway, then we get nonsense like Balaam's donkey had to have spirit upon him. Why can't God ALMIGHTY use a bit of that ALL MIGHT and make a miracle where a donkey briefly can talk and reason as a donkey? We also get the incident of "the writing on the wall". The Babylonian smart people couldn't make sense of it. So, according to vpw, it was "written in spirit" (WHAT? SINCE WHEN? ONLY HAPPENS HERE IN ALL OF SCRIPTURE) which is why they couldn't understand the writing. Couldn't possibly have another explanation, something more simple. FF Bruce had already explained that decades before. Somebody (like vpw) who was poor with languages couldn't even imagine it was a mundane TRANSLATION problem. The writing, if read in ONE language, was "weighed, numbered, divided"- and the specifics of what was weighed, numbered and divided was not provided- there you needed revelation. Read in Babylonian, and the writing- missing vowels like it did made it easy to mistake ONE language for the OTHER- and it read something like "a dollar, a quarter and change" (I'm paraphrasing, but it would have been a money denomination, a smaller one, and something like spare change.) Not terribly hard to understand the confusion when trying to make sense of something when reading it in the wrong language. Anybody who wants to discuss incidents of confusing language should probably start a new thread in Humor, or possibly Open. So, having to distort all sorts of incidents to try to make this silly explanation work is far too much work, and it's unproductive work because it makes one MORE confused, not less.

"Cosmic Thing"s 2 big hits got a LOT of airtime when that album came out. (3 hits? "Roam", "Love Shack", "Deadbeat Club" is 3 hits if that's all 1 album.)

If George drops a hint, I might think of something, and hopefully I can post after midnight my time this morning.

I grew up knowing a Linda, and Julieta is actually not uncommon in Argentina.

Doesn't ring a bell for me.

"Try, try, try to separate them, it's an illusion. Try and you will only come, to this conclusion." (Was unable to save this last night, sorry)

Anyone notice that "The Great Principle" was based on something that CHANGED? "God is Spirit, and God can only give what He is- which is Spirit." "God is Spirit, and God can only communicate with Spirit." Wherever he plagiarized those from, it's obvious he didn't UNDERSTAND them since they contradict so obviously when he phrases them. "God gave manna. God is NOT manna." So, the first statement is BLATANTLY wrong. If the second is supposedly true because spirit only communicates with spirit, then eventually there is a disconnect. "God, who is Spirit, teaches His creation in you, which is now your spirit, and your spirit teaches your mind. Then it becomes manifested in the senses world as you act." Well, how did my spirit teach my mind? Spirit communicated with not-spirit there. Is my spirit more capable than God Almighty, who IS Spirit?

You forgot Dean Martin was in that movie? He and Sammy Davis Jr were dressed as 2 priests driving a red Ferrari. "Pull over! We want to give you our blessing!" Terry Bradshaw was one of the drivers for the pick-up truck, the one that got re-painted to try to bypass roadblocks, and landed in a pool. The also prepped for the race by packing case after case of beer- and 1 bag of chips for food. Rick Aviles was the one who drove into the HOTEL LOBBY and did the Nixon imitation when asked about it. Also, he jumped the railroad cars and survived because he reached the moving train at a flatbed. "Evel Kneivel, you've got yourself some competition!" "I'm telling you, if the cameras had been there, we would have made CBS Sports Spectacular!" "What-you want to do it again?" He was also conspicuous in the fight with the bikers. "Man, you wouldn't last FIVE MINUTES in a New York Subway!" *smashes biker in shin with block of wood* *smashes back of biker's head, knocking him out* "That's how it's done!"

Doctor Strange Rachel Mac Adams Sherlock Holmes- Game of Shadows

I had posted the song in the wrong thread. By the time I'd re-posted it and deleted it from the wrong thread, you'd already replied. I left a note about it on the other thread. Meanwhile, I'm all set- I've brought my jukebox money!

That's it. All 3 were drivers for different vehicles.

Dean Martin Rick Aviles Terry Bradshaw