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Sophie Donner Gwen Grayson Wendy Christensen Susan Taylor Heather Fitzgerald Lauryn Kirk Ramona Flowers Dr. Kate Lloyd Mary Todd Lincoln Helena Bertinelli Lucy Gennero-McClane Lee Montgomery

Ok, George. I'm not gonna be mean and drag it out all week. It's "SHAZAM!" The movie didn't take place in Fawcett City, it took place in Philadelphia, Rocky's home. They even did a scene by the Rocky statue by the library, up past the steps to run up. And after Fawcett Comics was sued into oblivion by DC for outselling Superman, somebody attempted to keep making Captain Marvel stories by making a thinly-veiled expie of him called "Marvelman", which was later changed to "Miracleman" when the lawyers started asking a few questions. In either case, the entire "family's" magic word was "KImota!" ("atomic" backwards, more or less.) So, I teased George with that, rather than "Shazam!", the magic word for the Marvel/Shazam family.

KIMOTA!

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I'm not feeling it at the present. Maybe I'll post something eventually, but not now. If you're feeling it, then FREE POST! You can take the turn, whoever you are!

vpw never actually said you'd go to hell if you didn't serve him. HOWEVER, he DID say that you'd have to comply with every single commitment you'd EVER made to him- or lose all your eternal rewards. He didn't phrase it in that simple sentence, but he claimed that refusing to live up to all covenants - thus all promises to him and all agreements made with him- would mean losing one's rewards. He started by claiming that ministers who stopped being ministers (i.e. stopped sucking up entirely to him) would lose ALL their rewards. Then, it was all corps grads, and so on. vpw spaced out his nooses. When you took the Foundational Class, everything was sweetness and light. But you were pushed to take the Intermediate. When you took the Intermediate, you were pushed to retake both and prepare for the Advanced Class. Then it was the push for the Advanced Class. As an Advanced Class Grad, the nooses began to drop, In between pushes to go WOW, to go Corps, and so on were claims about how faithfulness to God meant you HAD to be faithful to twi and vpw- "The Word is the ministry and the ministry is the Word" and so on. Eventually- or faster, when lcm was tying the nooses and more upfront about it- to be less than enthusiastic about twi was to betray God Almighty, for only twi was actually serving him and all other Christians walked in darkness and ignorance and unwittingly served the adversary. So, to leave twi was to completely abandon God Almighty. The nooses descended very, very slowly. They were much more effective that way. People didn't see the nets drop over them. "In vain is the net spread in sight of any bird."

The guys name was T0m Br0wn. There´s been some posts about him, so I´ve previously found them and linked them, in the thread with his name on it. https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/15967-tom-brown/?tab=comments#comment-383937 About half the thread is reposts of vpw and Tom incidents.

It's obviously "Rocky."

Oddly enough, NO. I named ALMOST all the big names in this movie, IMHO.

There's a claim that, if you put a frog in a pot, and heat the water very, very slowly, the frog won't notice the water getting hot and will boil to death. (Real frogs will actually notice and jump out.) The figurative meaning is that people won't notice big changes if they changes are done very slowly. A long time ago in twi history, the hippies were the ones doing all the work on the field. All the people they spoke to, and themselves, made parts of twi very happy places to be. That lasted until vpw infected those areas with his practices. The hippies spread the Christian message and healthy practices. vpw acted as an opportunistic fungus that lived off those people and siphoned health off of them. AFTER vpw, the fun leeched away to what degree his influence was allowed directly. In NYC, the worst of it often didn't hit the field, which is why there was so much growth there for a time. That even lasted- partly through inertia- through the 80s and lcm's fog years. When lcm drew his line in the sand and demanded an oath of loyalty to him PERSONALLY to "follow him BLINDLY" 4/5 of twi jumped ship. The remaining 20% got MORE legalistic and LESS fun, and that kept continuing as trends. Right now, twi's basically got legalism and a PRETENSE at fun, but nobody IN twi anymore knows how to have fun! Oh, a few of the kids may have picked up something from outsiders, but they're deluded into thinking they have a VOICE in twi. Nobody's allowed to hand them the microphone, let alone make a policy no matter how brief. So, the Way Disciple years were a lot more cheerless than the horror stories of WOWs that come through here, and that's why.

The ROA was primarily about welcoming back the returning WOW's. That's why they had "WOW Festivals" on other continents to welcome them back. That having been said, I'm sure it was obvious from early on that the ROA served both to increase group cohesion, and to serve as yet another revenue stream for twi. After all, all food was paid for with RETAIL prices, and all the workers were volunteers working for FREE. So, everything above cost went to twi's coffers. The bookstore, of course, did very, very well during the ROAs. So, the first few ROAs were at campsites, but were hosted at HQ as soon as they could figure out the details. That helped twi's bottom line. Furthermore, it was a chance for the people at HQ to get their messages more directly to people and make them look more lockstep. So, win-win for twi.l Naturally, lcm did away with the ROA while he was otherwise driving twi directly into a ditch. I can't think of one decision of his that actually benefited twi in the long run. The arguable exception was charging all the grads to retake everything, but since they had to push a cheaper, inferior version of the classes, I don't call that a long-term win but a short windfall.

Whether it was classes, Sunday Night Teachings, or the main stage of the ROA, vpw always sought to be the biggest deal around. When people got to talking about how this one expert on hunting and stuff was excellent at hunting, vpw couldn't stand someone getting more credit than him, even if it was something about which he was incompetent. When he overheard that people were saying the guy could stalk and catch anything without it hearing him, vpw went on the microphone (at lunch) and asked, with a skeptical voice, if people really thought the guy could sneak up on him. When asked later, he clarified that he meant that God Almighty would tell him if someone was sneaking up on him. But vpw couldn't stand the guy getting a compliment, even if it was about what he was supposed to be teaching them.

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Sometimes I open another tab in Firefox, and am able to save that one, and sometimes that one behaves the same. The convenient thing is that the site saves the content of the "unsaved" post so I can call it up from the new tab and click "save." The only question is if it will officially "save" or hang there "saving."

That's it. The previous list reminded me a little of this one.

Ok, name the actress. Sophie Donner Gwen Grayson Wendy Christensen Susan Taylor Heather Fitzgerald Lauryn Kirk

Sherman Hemsley Arte Johnson Isabel Sanford

"I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, @$$-kickers, $h1t-kickers and Methodists."

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The last 2 nights, I pretty much wasn´t able to post anything.

Caitlin Snow (if I have the spelling right) is Danielle Panabaker's role. (Unless you count "Killer Frost", which should also count.) She was also the plant chick in "Sky High", right? *checks* "Layla Williams" was right in your list. I can never remember her name....

The 2nd and 3rd movies there, IIRC, included JIM CARREY.

"...you hit the nail on the head citing vpw and lcm as your examples to follow...they knew nothing about inspiring others to follow – but they sure knew how to demand folks follow them...that may work as a role model in the military but that's not how you motivate people in the business world or in religious and social settings..." Actually, that's not how it works in the military with the POSSIBLE BRIEF time in Boot Camp. vpw used that as an example- but he had no experience with the military, neither direct nor through family members in the military. So, his total exposure to the military was how movies depicted the military- and that didn't reflect reality. lcm used vpw's example, and used the partial example of coaches who yelled at him in modeling his own behavior. Outside of training a sports team, that doesn't work, either- and there's plenty of examples of people who thought you could take "jock ethics" (from colleges that allowed their winning athletes to get away with a lot) into real life and got into a lot of trouble.

That's it.

I still haven't seen the whole thing yet but... " BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY???"