WordWolf

Actually, once in a while, a wild guess is correct around here... ========================= Next one.... "As you wish."

Ralph and Schonheit... To hear their own accounts, as soon as Ralph began to hear things, he said something and was forced off-grounds. Schonheit said he was faced with the chance to cheat, and realized all his twi background left him absent a good verse to use to refuse it. This started his study- and things snowballed from there. ==================== Concerning vpw and his rationalizations, don't blame them on any doctrine. Lots of people hold that doctrine and are NOT sex maniacs. vpw was going to rationalize no matter WHAT he had to work with. In private, he took a verse that said to avoid fornication and claimed it actually meant fornication was fine. He didn't need a specific doctrine to support his lusts- he was just fine making things up out of whole cloth. Whether or not dispensationalism is right or wrong, the problem is not dispensationalism as much as it is a lone sex maniac who would have grabbed any straw and woven it into a "sex-positive" message.

socks was not born- socks was built. socks was the last in a design- because when they made socks, they broke the mold. :)

Ah, yes, the "mid-life crisis" and twi, where a person's glory days depend on an organization that views them as cattle. On a fashion note, 80s styles are coming back, too. Where did I leave my sunglasses? I may need to wear them when passing these styles on the street...

Possibly. Then again, hiding the evidence of their activities instead of transparency has a proud tradition at twi. Other Christians might consider that disgraceful.

Taking a swing at it. "Heat"?

"Star Trek II-the Wrath of Khan".

As much as I appreciate the chance to hit something that needs breaking, the chance to meet with Christians through the centuries and ones I've met before will be much more interesting. That's not even counting the chance to be face-to-face with my Lord and Savior. I've tentative plans for a barbeque at my place the second Tuesday after we meet up.

It helps if you know a name to narrow down the search. I remembered the author's name was "Ernest Martin" and that made it a LOT easier. Ernest Martin's book is "The Star That Astonished the World." http://www.askelm.com/star/index.asp His previous book was in JCOPS's bibliography- "The Birth of Christ Recalculated". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_L._Martin "In 1974 Martin wrote the first of five editions of The Tithing Dilemma of which over 100,000 copies were sold. It was this work which triggered the first of many major schisms within the Worldwide Church of God. In 1978 he first wrote The Birth of Christ Recalculated; in 1984 Restoring the Original Bible; in 1987 Secrets of Golgotha; in 1991 101 Bible Secrets; in 1985 The Biblical Manual; in 1996 The Star that Astonished the World; in 1999 The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot and in that same year The Essentials of New Testament Doctrine. His book The Star that Astonished the World claimed the "Star of Bethlehem" was the planet (or "wandering star" in antiquity) Jupiter, or Zedeq ("Righteousness") in Hebrew, leading the wise men to Jesus in Bethlehem on December 25, 2 BCE, coinciding with the Jewish Festival of Lamps or Hanukkah that year. Dr. Martin claimed that the birth of Jesus happened on the evening of September 11, 3 BCE on the Gregorian calendar, or the first of Tishri on the Jewish calendar which marks Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year." http://www.amazon.com/Star-That-Astonished-World/dp/0945657870

vpw, as usual, extended his double-standards to us having emotions. The man had poor impulse control and would fly off the handle all the time- yelling, storming off, and engaging in loud and florid displays. Whenever asked about it, he always gave some rationalization for it- how it secretly was done to build character in the observers, how it was "spiritual" anger or whatever, and so on. lcm and others just copied what vpw did..... However, vpw taught that it was always wrong for US to display emotions. WE had to be disciplined- something vpw COULD NOT teach by example because he was a slave to his vices and passions. Having us be the same would not benefit HIM, however, so most of us were TOLD to be disciplined, and sometimes TOLD that vpw was disciplined- while he was obeying the lusts of his flesh, the lusts of his eyes, and his pride of life. Then again, he wanted us to be ROBOTS- MACHINES that OBEYED without question and otherwise were not underfoot and requiring any kind of help-or even "preventative maintenance" like any machine cared for, even. Everyone with a hint of talent is run off as a threat- if they get popular, it draws from rfr's authority. Everyone with a hint of emotion is run off as a threat- if they're feeling rather than obeying coldly, it undermines rfr's authority. Life in twi is pretty barren.

It's factually correct that he's dead. However, you didn't address what you think of him at all. You changed the subject- which, I think, is rather telling. His actions which still affect some of the living, his practices- which some still carry out, and his doctrines-some of which are still taught, those aren't buried with him.

Ooo- got it in one! The man obviously remembered "Hawk."

Congratulations on the radio show and enjoying life post-twi. Even Rosa-lie can't say as much- she's stagnating and you're growing.

Next show. This SF TV show about the future featured a few pilots- including a pilot who supposedly was some sort of bird-person. It ran in the '70s/early '80s.

History of the World Part 1 Dom de Luise the Muppet Movie

Right. Ultimately, either we'll find out when we're "upgraded"" (or maybe later), or it's all smoke and we'll never find out. Either way, speculating can be FUN ((maybe tolemerase production has degraded due to chromosomal aberration, maybe A Wizard Did It), but won't get us very far.

I found myself wondering if "GALACTICA 1980" had floating motorcycles or if I imagined it. (I don't think I've seen the series SINCE about 1980.) Battlestar Galactica was an SF version of "Wagon Train." It was about the JOURNEY. Universal said to Larsen: "Let them reach Earth." "Yeah-THEN what?" "Doesn't matter." But they showed us it darned well DOES matter. Worse, they slashed his budget, so everything was done even cheaper than before- and they didn't have enough money to pay the original cast. (Starbuck made an appearance.) Larsen was going to make it several generations later, but Lorne Greene was SO sad-puppy about the thing that he couldn't bring himself to fire Lorne with the rest. So, he stayed and the story made even LESS sense than it would have. And no, I have avoided the new series ENTIRELY.

It oould be any of the series, but I'll take a swing at it. "For Your Eyes Only"?

Don't measure ALL of Christianity by twi/ex-twi. I've seen better than that in denominations since twi. That includes the Roman Catholic Church- and I do NOT particularly LIKE the Roman Catholic Church. (So I have little reason to laud them to the sky.) Credit where credit is due.

If one entertains the possibility, then another consideration would be problems with limited genes. The problems would either crop up immediately (unless "perfect" genes in the first generation forestalled that) or later, whenever the gene pool shrank. As it turns out, the death ages begin plummeting just after The Great Flood. That's when the gene pool really shrinks. I'm certain the people who set ink to paper in the original didn't have a modern understanding of genetics. That means-if it isn't somehow an accurate account- it forms an interesting coincidence.

That's it. Go.

"The two of us need look no more. We both found what we were looking for. With a friend to call my own I'll never be alone And you my friend will see you've got a friend in me." "You're always running here and there. You feel you're not wanted anywhere. If you ever look behind and don't like what you find There's something you should know you've got a place to go." ¨I used to say "I and me" Now it's us now it's we (I used to say "I is me") (now it's us now it's we)¨ This song's from 1972 and has been re-released a few times. (11 not counting remixes and covers.) The movie this was the theme song to was NOT ¨Willard.¨

I WAS thinking of ¨All in the Family.¨ I wasn´t sure how you were classifying ¨drama¨ and whether, say, ¨Gloria¨ or ¨Maude¨ might qualify. BTW, the movie ¨Alice Doesn´t Live Here Anymore¨ was the basis for ¨Alice¨.

That´s not the correct movie and not the correct theme song, but......

I´m fairly confident it means that-somehow-they think he didn´t do it. Me, I think US law is too lax on this sort of thing, and jail or prison is too good for them. (Criminals of this type.)