WordWolf

You stated he was "born with an overabundance of brains and brawn." You stated that he was "OVERgifted." The man's brains and brawn were strictly average- as has been shown beyond any REASONABLE doubt. You don't have "a healthy distance" from him.

I don't remember that first clue, so it may not have been posted before. Was Mel Brooks involved with this one?

"Remember when you were young, and you shone like the sun?" "You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter..." "Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner..."

I guarantee this band is better known than King Crimson. I can't name any of their songs. I own 2 albums from this band, and you might own at least one. You've almost certainly listened to them at some point.

No, a much more recent character. The 2nd sentence was directed at the 4th wall. Also, I posted a clue, and apparently, it was brilliantly concealed because you missed it.

Let's see who remembers this minor, but important, line of explanatory dialogue: " I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself. That goes for you all, too. :

vpw was casual about plagiarizing all through his "career" so long as he knew he wouldn't get caught. Remember how we were NEVER supposed to go to other versions, just the KJV and whatever he said it meant? Well, he said Philippians 4:13 meant "I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses inner strength into me." There was even a song about it. Fans of the Amplified Bible would have found his statement interesting, to say the least. There, it reads: "I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to fulfill His purpose—I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency; I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace.] I'm sure fans of "his" "literals according to usage" should spend a lot more time in the Amplified Bible.

It means I've got you doing triples now, I need to think up the next round.

"You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter..." "Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner..."

Even the handful of people who buy into Holocaust denial because vpw taught it, and vpw's ridiculous 1942 claim long after it was thoroughly discredited, and laud vpw as some great one, STILL reject Mike's claim that pfal replaced the Bible. There's a limit to how much Kool-Aid each person can drink, and they draw the line there if no further.

I'm speaking my peace. What, now I can't even give my opinion about TV without being controversial?

No, the social cohesion was working fine. You were looking at the wrong target. The people at the location the wows went to were expendable and faceless. The wows who went there on their own dime and ran classes that raised a tidy profit for twi counted-especially once some of them started tithing. (Their money is welcome at twi.) The cohesion was between the wow vets, corps grads, etc, not with the peons on the field. They only count for the income they bring in.

He never sees the difference. I've said that's what he's been saying for decades, as have others. He keeps accusing me of misrepresenting him. To him, disagreeing OR presenting evidence he's wrong is "misunderstanding" or "misrepresenting."

"The moderators" didn't change it. There's an option in forum software that can be set for any messageboard for what words are allowed. The GSC has a few words that are translated into non-curse words. So, talking about the Aramaic, you might end up with the "Pedangta text" (you know what I typed in all caps.) Similarly, a word associated with a cat or a willow is translated into "wimp" So, we end up with "upset" and "dang" and "wimp". Also, someone once told lcm to kiss their posterior, which renders as "I told him to kiss my foot." It could be a LOT worse. I've seen boards where you can't type "slut" and not have it rendered as "VERY friendly person". My favorite: "Meanwhile, back at stately Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne and his faithful young ward thingy Grayson..." But moderators aren't going over all the threads and making changes, the software's doing that when you post.

Quite right! Correspondence schools don't have big graduating classes like Princeton Theological Seminary would be expected to have.

See what I mean, Rocky? If left unanswered, he will go on for HUNDREDS of pages like this and there will always be some excuse as to why he never actually made his point.

Keep trying, Rocky. It will help highlight that he will never actually DO IT. He responded to a point nobody made-in fact, the last post on this subject was by me, a few days ago, making the exact OPPOSITE point (I said that Princeton Theological was legit.) He responded to a point nobody made so he can claim he's too busy to actually make his case.

Recapping. A) "Princeton" rather than "Princeton Theological Seminary" is a rather specific mistake. I'd like to see a link to the original post to see if RG really posted it that way. Everybody who hears "I went to Princeton" will think that meant they enrolled in and took classes in Princeton University and not Princeton Theological Seminary. PTS is a real school, and there is no need to pad the account by trying to conflate the 2 schools (which twi did lots of times, and was right from vpw's playbook when he prevaricated and insinuated he did stuff he never did.) B) The comments about the graduating class are equally obscuring. "There were a number of people in his class." 3 is a number. 4 is a number. 10 is a number. 25 is a number. Leaving it like that is a deliberate decision to make it vague and INSINUATE greater numbers. (Again, make a vague statement which is not a complete lie but suggests the opposite of the truth, and show you learned that trick as well as vpw did it. We've seen it documented before-and again the other day.) C) Pike's Peak was UNACCREDITED. It did NOT attempt to meet the minimum standards for accreditation that prove it's worth it to pay them a single dollar or work for their degree. Therefore, they have as much degree-granting authority as Schlotsky's Deli. vpw had one unaccredited doctorate. I have 3 unaccredited doctorates, and I definitely have written out an awful lot if one only counts 1/10th of my output HERE. Yet no respect for my degrees? I've triple the doctorates he had! "Putting in the time" for an unaccredited doctorate tells us nothing- except that they put in less time than for an accredited one. vpw's curriculum and coursework was handled BY MAIL. Naturally, there's no way to tell how much of that was from him and how much ripped off from someone else since it was BY MAIL. That's why accredited schools don't handle doctorates by mail. D) "VPW not only earned his doctorate, but he performed far beyond what any PhD has ever done. He brought us God's light like it hasn't been seen in 2000 years. In my book that earns him credit far beyond a doctorate." No he didn't. That's supposing the 1942 promise wasn't already proven a failure AND a fraud beyond any REASONABLE doubt. His ability to make a grandiose claim like that earns him no doctorates in anything but chutzpah.

Irrelevant. Fogs the issue. Nobody questioned that Princeton Theological Seminary is legit. I even posted that a few days ago. A separate issue is how "Homiletics" is a very soft option to take in a school with many RIGOROUS programs one could take instead. It was a legitimate Masters from a legitimate school in a subject with questionable value. His DOCTORATE was unaccredited and not worth the paper it was printed on. THAT is what's brought up.

But vpw (who had no military experience other than watching movies and TV) wanted it like the imaginary military, where he could bark orders and everyone would fall in line. He taught lcm, who applied his own experience as a jock which were at least realistic experiences of athletics- even if they were completely irrelevant to a Christian organization by any name.

I see I'm not the only person who made that point.

Some of it, yes. vpw did plenty of it in the 70s in-house. It didn't just begin with AOS. He taught lcm that the yelling was approved and recommended. What vpw did in private, lcm did in public. What was in the 70s was out of whack also.

I supported that position the first time he showed up. Perhaps he will make his case this time and actually drop any substance- if there is any. Past experience is indeed a guide, and every time we danced this dance, his posts had sound and fury.

Prior experience shows he will do nothing of the kind- just label us for not bowing our knee to his premise. BTW, if you want to look at some good examples of Mike going on for pages and pages about how we didn't deserve him to get to his point or how we had to earn it, do a search on him talking about his "Table of Challenge." It goes on, and on, and on, and on...all with no substance from Mike. He missed his calling as a political speechwriter. But no, don't expect Mike to examine his thinking. According to him, he's done all the re-examining he needs, and it all ended with concluding twi documents of pfal were holy writ. It's only us that have to rethink anything.