WordWolf

"I think having that information that the "profit" that founded the Way and was in my eyes close to faultless as a person can be, was not as Christ like as they played themselves to be will be a final blow to deconstructing all of my beliefs. " This is easy to find around here. What can I say, briefly? According to his own words, vpw chose between 3 professions, 1 of which was ministry, 1 was business, 1 was music. So, it wasn't a calling, but a vocation. Besides, the other 2 would have been more work. vpw plagiarized his way through his early years as a minister, and in his first year, he REPEATEDLY considered giving up- in his own words! How would he have treated any twi'er who even CONSIDERED giving up twice in a year? When he set up the way corps, he did so with no experience in ANY form of training program whatsoever, and the only official rule for determining if someone was ready was what he said to lcm- "YOU CAN STAY AS LONG AS YOUR MONEY HOLDS!" vpw dismissed an entire early group of corps abruptly. He went to each one later, and offered them a "second chance" -if they were willing to swear an oath of loyalty to him PERSONALLY. Not all of them accepted, but most apparently did. vpw's claim to fame was the pfal class- all 3 levels of it. Nearly the entire contents of them were plagiarized from BG Leonard, EW Bullinger, JE Stiles or EW Kenyon. Early versions of the White Book (RTHST) mentioned him meeting a man who put the subject together like a hand in a glove- that was JE Stiles- but by the 3rd edition, this mention was dropped completely. The White Book's 1st edition was largely Stiles' book "Gifts of the Spirit" just retyped with a few words moved around. If you have your copy still, you can prove it right now. Flip to the FAQ. There's a question where the answer is phrased that vpw calls some type of people "FAITH BLASTERS." vpw NEVER called ANYONE "faith blasters"- that was Stiles. According to vpw's own claims, he should have called them a "believing-blaster" if anything- but he ripped the FAQ off of Stiles. BTW, if you move the words around and rip off the content but rephrased, that's still plagiarism. If you remove from the pfal classes everything that came straight from Stiles, Bullinger and Leonard, you have less than a session of the foundational, and something like that for the others. Keep in mind that vpw never said that pfal was a compilation of the works of others. A few times he made off-hand comments about SOME content. If you have the book-length advertisement for twi, "The Way- Living in Love," about 200 pages in, vpw said that nothing he did was original except for the way he put it together. Apologists for vpw like to claim that one passing reference, buried in the book, qualifies as him saying pfal was a compilation and not original. It falls far, far short of either. BTW, the very first pfal class was Leonard's class on "Receiving the Holy Spirit Today" that vpw sat through 1 1/2 times. vpw retaught Leonard's content entirely. (People who were grads of Leonard's class were considered automatically to be grads of vpw's class.) vpw rarely mentioned Leonard because the plagiarism there was blatant and too obvious if one looks closely. Not long after that, vpw ran across Stiles, then got Stiles' book and retyped it into the White Book. If you actually caught vpw doing that, he occasionally would claim he worked all the error out of the works of others- but he did not. He seemed not to understand their work, and copied it over with errors intact. So, Bullinger's errors got included (like the difference between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God) and Leonard's errors got included (like the definitions of the manifestations), and so on. He moved some words around to make plagiarism less obvious, and made some things wordier, but did not improve upon their substance. Most people would claim that the sheer dishonesty involved with all that would disqualify vpw as a leader of anything. But that's only part of things, since it leaves out the molestation, the rapes, the drugging, and so on.

Going out on a limb here.... "The Flying Nun"?????

In case "Leia" is Leia Organa, I'm going with CARRIE FISHER and thinking "Mystery Woman" was her surprisingly-unnamed character in The Blues Brothers (the beautician with the flamethrower and the rocket launcher.)

Most obviously. Probably the only movie where a clown steals a million dollars.

Carrie Fisher the Blues Brothers John Belushi

"is this a common idiom or a theological one?" That's a much more interesting question. However, you'll need someone who's put in serious study time into HEBREW specifically for that question. I'm more familiar with studies of modern language, and even have a better chance of answering questions about Koine Greek (but I'd recommend someone who's worked on translations there more formally for a better degree of answer.)

Sorry, it sounded to me like you were asking how one knows when a figure of speech means something it literally does not say. That's a legitimate question about figures of speech in ANY language, so I answered accordingly. I'm not an expert on Hebrew- neither as a language nor as a historical study. I'm aware similar examples exist in studying other languages, and translating between them and English. The easiest examples I can think of are between Spanish and English. In English, we can say, directly, "I like this movie", or "I love to dance," and there's equivalent phrases in Spanish. However, translated word for word, the Spanish would be "This movie is pleasing to me", or "To dance is enchanting to me." They're translated "I like this movie" or "I love to dance" anyway, as idea-for-idea translations, not word-for-word ones. (Just like people translate Bibles idea for idea or word for word.) I think it's clear this idiom doesn't apply to ALL of Yahweh's actions- but familiarity with the language or usage would clear that up if there really was confusion-just like with any other language.

Beetlejuice Cutthroat Island The Long Kiss Goodnight

"Nuuuuuuude women. Nuuuuuuuude women. Cloooooowns welcome. Cloooooooowns welcome. Nuuuuuude women. Clooooooowns welcome." "Man, it's bad luck just SEEIN' a thing like that." "Dubuque?" "Des Moines." "Does the clown work for Lombino?" "THOSE are what the people will remember. Who will remember a clown stealing a million dollars?" "............." "Jesus, we gotta catch this guy!"

In any language- including English- it's possible to switch from the active voice to the passive voice. The most reliable method to determine which is being said is practice and paying attention. It can be done sincerely, or in humor, at least when it comes to English. If you drop or knock down a plate or glass jar, you might say "The plate fell." "The jar broke." Literally what happened was you dropped the plate, you broke the glass. I've seen a small child do this. They picked something up, flung it to the floor, and announced "It fell." It can also be used in humor. "He had an accident. He fell backwards on a knife 27 times." "What happened to him?" "Bad heart." "I heard he was stabbed through the chest." "Yes, that's about the worst thing you can do to someone with a bad heart." Figures of speech are common in every language- they don't just show up in the Bible- or in Hebrew or Greek or Syriac only for that matter.

"Nuuuuuuude women. Nuuuuuuuude women. Cloooooowns welcome. Cloooooooowns welcome. Nuuuuuude women. Clooooooowns welcome." "Man, it's bad luck just SEEIN' a thing like that."

That's it.

I'm not sure about "Tropic Thunder." With "Garfield" I'm not confident. "The Tuxedo" starred Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt- who was one of the 2 titular heartbreakers. So, JLW.

With the first line, I wasn't sure if this was Sister Hazel. With the second, I could hear the harmonica. Few music acts include a harmonica- Bob Dylan, INXS, the Blues Brothers, Blues Traveler, and anyone featuring John Popper (of Blues Traveler.) But anyway, this was "RUN AROUND," by BLUES TRAVELER.

"Order, order. God^&%&it, I said "order". " Y'know, Nietzsche says: "Out of chaos comes order." " "Well, that's the end of this suit." "Yankee bean soup, cole slaw, and tuna surprise. " "We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately!"

"Clean suit, new shoes, and I don't know where I'm going to."

"'Out of order' . I show you 'out of order'. You don't know what 'out of order' is, Mister Trask. I'd show you but I'm too old, too tired, too f*ing blind. If I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a FLAMETHROWER to this place!"

"JOY TO THE WORLD."

Most obviously. And those who are bored should go to YouTube and type in "Viking Kittens" for the current home of the Rather Good video.

And then "I'm feeling kinda oogy."

"Nuuuuuuude women. Nuuuuuuuude women. Cloooooowns welcome. Cloooooooowns welcome. Nuuuuuude women. Clooooooowns welcome."

"The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands. To fight the horde, sing and cry, 'Valhalla, I am coming!' " "We come from the land of the ice and snow. From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow. How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore, of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords. On we sweep with threshing oar. Our only goal will be the western shore. So now you'd better stop, and rebuild all your ruins. For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing." This is a well-known song. Seriously. When I began typing in the band's name in the search, autocomplete offered me this song as an option before I finished typing in the band's name.

That has to be "SERENITY", which followed "Firefly." That show had a lot of potential, but the network kept changing when it aired and didn't promote it, so naturally it didn't build much of an audience until after it was cancelled.

IIRC, that was "PREDATOR." (Seriously, never saw "Ghostbusters"?)

Right, so that makes this "Batman Fever." (That's what David Letterman called "Batman Forever.")