WordWolf

Read the Book of Ruth sometime. A WIDOW REMARRIES. I'd be more than astonished if she'd remained a virgin throughout her first marriage. I'd be doubly astonished if you could find me a verse that said she DID. Ruth did GREAT. She was a non-virgin who married Boaz. Cuttings and markings in the flesh "for the dead" and in accordance with the worship of other gods is hardly the same as some woman getting a "tramp stamp" above her belt of a butterfly or something. Sure explains why Mary's husband had the option of divorcing his wife, and Jesus Christ himself said it was permitted..... Chapter and verse please. Judging from how your understanding has flubbed everything so far, I'd like to read that one myself. Define "long hair for men", "short hair for women", and who you THINK those rules apply to. I've seen male devout Jews with some hair I'd personally consider "long", who were following the rules as best they understood them. Oh, people, when are we going to stop reading AROUND the Bible, and stop reading what Right Reverend So-and-So SAID about the Bible, and actually READ the Bible? Please don't flail about with such a clumsy "argument", it's insulting to the intelligence of the locals.

Paul Mc Cartney's "Band on the Run"? I forget if this was a "Wings" release.

He claimed there were some African tribes where the fathers molested their daughters like this. Posters here have noted that there is no documentation in all of cyberspace to his sick claim. There was some evidence there's some tribe or other where the other women do something, but vpw's own claim was another claim that can only be traced back to vpw's sicknesses and not to any reliable source.

I took the later one, where vpw described the video rather than showing the video. I found a DESCRIPTION to be both disgusting and irrelevant. When I was in. If one's conscience is "seared", one no longer hears a warning when most people are recoiling in horror.

It's been said that insanity is doing the exact same thing and expecting different results. Someone mentioned "Groundhog Day". His life must feel like that, just a little slower, with him in an organization, then having to leave, then starting another organization, then having to leave...

"Amok Time'?

That's from the end of the Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin." (I believe that part has its own name, and that's "the Late Lament.")

We discussed "The Great Principle" here...

Reviving for the newcomers....

Was it that tired old saw about Proctor and Gamble? That one was so easily disproven, I heard it debunked in junior high school. So much bs grew wings in twi, but a good websearch can debunk so much of the bunk we were told. http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp This is probably the first website you should check, if you're looking to see if various tall tales of twi had some basis in fact.

Sometimes this is referred to as "being sick and tired of being sick and tired." If you want to be cautious about trusting strangers, caution is a good thing. It will help keep you from getting burned by another group of people the same way the last one burned you. You'll find we're all sorts of people here, so if you stick around long enough, you'll find someone post in a less-kind manner, because everyone has a bad moment. That's how life is, though-sometimes there's a careless word when people are actually free to THINK AND FEEL FOR THEMSELVES. In fact, with people relearning how to do that, it's a bit more likely here than a lot of places, but I find the candor and lack of disguises worth the occasional careless word. (If someone is especially rude, we report them to the moderators here- we're supposed to have a basic courtesy toward each other, and forgetting that is bad for discussion.)

An example for those who can't picture that in the abstract... "Do you speak Gaelic?" might be said as "Do you have the Gaelic?" to someone fluent in Gaeilge and English. I saw someone ask someone else's age in English by asking "How many years does she have?" which is the Spanish construction of the same question, rendered word-for-word in English. The literal English of that sentence would be rendered "How old is she?"

There's a bit more information on the Dave Arneson thread. http://www.dorktower.com/2009/04/08/dork-tower-april-8-2009-thanks-dave/ http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0644.html http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=21806 http://www.koboldquarterly.com/k/front-page460.php

Correct! As Regis Philbin says, "It's only easy if you know the answer." It's your turn.

Churches are one option in recovering from twi abusive thinking, abusive doctrine, and abusive practices. Some churches are quite good in helping people learn to actually treat others as if you love them like yourself. There's one in my neighborhood that would be a great place to learn substance over style. Do I agree with their doctrine? No. Can I work alongside the Christians there? Yes-and I have.

Where the heck are the younger players? They should have gotten it by now...

No.

On behalf of those who helped you, I'd like to say: It was our pleasure. On behalf of those who didn't help you, I'd like to say: I hope you've enjoyed the journey. Feel free to be social here and have a good time. Also feel free to leave whenever you want, or leave and return whenever and as often as you want. You're free now.

"Wow, look at all these people playing right now!" "Yeah, it's bull crap. I bet half of these people are Koreans!" "Whoever this person is, he's played World of Warcraft nearly every hour of every day for the past two years. Gentlemen, we are dealing with someone here who has absolutely no life." "How do you kill that which has no life?" "We can't give the Sword of a Thousand Truths to a newb!" "If you had a chance right now to go back in time and stop Hitler, would you do it? I mean, I personally wouldn't stop him because I think he was awesome, but YOU would, right?" "I'm just going to stop playing." "When Hitler rose to power, there were a lot of people who just stopped playing. You know who those people were? The French. Are you French, Clyde?" "No." "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, Clyde?" "Okay, all right, I'll do it!" "Congratulations! You played Guitar Hero enough to score one million points!" "Dolphins and whales were framed by the real bombers. A chicken and a cow." "Chicken and Cow? CHICKEN AND COW?!" "CHICKEN AND COW USED POOR DOLPHIN AND WHALE AS A SCAPEGOAT?! THIS IS OUTRAGE!" "Hi, Billy Mays here for the little Country Handy Pillow. Are you tired of sitting in limbo? Lost somewhere between planes of existence? Well now there's a product that can help you--" "'....I love you all, but I have to move on. I'm going to Somalia to be--to be a pirate'? Oh, sh*!" "Who is Mysterion?" "Who is The Coon?" "I'm not doing it. Being in a dance group is totally conformist." "Yeah, I'm not conforming to some dance-off regulations. "I'm not doing it either. I'm the biggest non-conformist of all. "I'm such a non-conformist that I'm not going to conform with the rest of you. Okay, I'll do it. "Great!" ".....Whoa. I think we just got put in our place. "Yeah, we just got goth-served." "The Disney purity ring venture will most likely now prove a marketing bust, as Mickey returns to Valhalla to slumber and feed." "....Bugs Bunny and Superman and Harry Potter. They've changed my life, changed the way I act on the earth. Doesn't that make them kind of real? They might be imaginary, but they're more important than most of us here. And they're all gonna be around till long after we're dead. So in a way, those things are more realer than any of us." "I'm supposed to be in school right now, but instead I have Snarf, Popeye, and Luke Skywalker all ....ed off." "It's like a half-man, half-bear!" "And half-pig!" "I'm pretty sure killing Jesus is not very Christian." "The Hare Club for Men." "That kid's got as much hope as Steve Irwin in a tank full of stingrays." "This is too big a mystery for me, I think we better call in the Hardly Boys!" "Oh no, not the God d*--" "The Hardly Boys: two young whippersnappers with a taste for solving mysteries. The Hardly Boys in: The Case of the World Trade Center Conspiracy." "What the hell is this?! Skinless chicken, boiled vegetables and salad?! This is just like Auschwitz!" "Because they're people and you're a towel." "YOU'RE a towel!" "No, I'm a big book publisher whos not the least bit interested in your stony memoirs, you're a towel." "I'll sue you! I'll sue you in England!"

AFAIK, vpw ripped this part off of EW Kenyon. Basically, if you used initials, vpw would rip you off. JE Stiles, BG Leonard, EW Kenyon, EW Bullinger.... Those of you who sat through pfal may remember him mentioning the idea that people would thing what he was teaching was "just v.p. talking." Apparently, he tried to swipe the initials format, but it didn't work for him, so he dropped it early. He also dropped early the "w" hand signal, which supposedly just would have stood for the WOW program. (Don't remember it? There's a photo-with explanation- in twi's book "the way:living in love.")

Hey, if you want to keep your life private, that's fine. I've been here for years, and I keep my personal life private. I just don't like putting the details in cyberspace. So, anyone trying to spy on me online will only find out but so much. Not that I think I'm worth spying on in the first place, but there's a few sick people out there, and at least one HAS thought that, so... No, they weren't ex-twi. Twi never did have an exclusive right to anything that matters. They didn't even have an exclusive right to religious frauds or crazy people.

Of course, there's peers and there's peers...