WordWolf

Just a friendly reminder. The "rule of thumb" for this thread is movies that are fairly well-known, with lines that point specifically to that movie, with the goal that people who have never SEEN the movie would say "That sounds like (name of movie.)".

Right.

I try to leave a few "softballs" for new people to jump in on.

It's your turn, H w/o t b.

No, I'm just used to the songs all charting before I was born, so I don't follow the thread so closely.... ======================= Next one. "You could have a steam train, if you'd just lay down your tracks."

The idea wasn't "to look like a cult". The idea was to make money, get people, and allow victor paul wierwille to exploit both in God's name. That it looked like the cult it was wasn't the idea-it was a side-effect of it BEING a cult. vpw didn't care much if it looked like a cult- so long as he could spin it so as to get more money and people. Which he did.

Looks like the general pleasantries are over, and James Trimm is now trying to advertise for converts on the GSC. The GSC posters are all very cynical- once bitten, twice shy. We're not looking for another organization, another special group which is the elite group of Christian with the "exclusive" truth while all other Christians walk in darkness. We've been there, done that, bought the T-shirts. You've advertised your books, you've celebrated your victory over twi (if it actually happened as you stated), but that's as far as you can expect to get.

I think a fairly good case can be made for some, most, or all of the 4 Gospels having been given originally in Aramaic and soon after translated into Greek. From what I've seen, that can't honestly be said of the Epistles, and few people have attempted to make that claim. Basically, Lamsa did, and Lamsa disciples do, and vpw did as someone who parroted Lamsa as he parroted others. That is, not counting present company. I noticed that when you got to someone specifically claiming the Epistles had such an origin, your source was Lamsa. It's no secret around here that Lamsa was a crackpot and a megalomaniac, and might have been where vpw ripped off the assertion that he was some special unique Christian in his lifetime.

No, it's called "Mary Jane's Last Dance." "Last dance with Mary Jane, One more time to kill the pain. I feel summer creepin' in and I'm tired of this town again." IIRC, it's on Tom Petty's "Greatest Hits" album for him and the Heartbreakers.

Yes, and I didn't even get to any of the more telling quotes. BTW, if you help a woman deliver her baby because she can't reach the hospital in time, and she offers to name the baby after you, and asks your name, give her your FIRST name, not your LAST name. She might name a son "Stanley" but not ""Wojciehowicz." I've heard that when police are asked which cop show is most like real police work, they consistently vote for "Barney Miller." Out of all of them, it's the one show that shows trying to calm people down and get them to fill out the paperwork.

Billy, so many things happened right under your nose that since this is 2 other posters' words against yours, & I have to choose the more reliable source, I know which to choose. (Besides, even Jesus drew the line at "two witnesses" (Matthew 18:16.)

"I want to name my baby after you. What's your name?" "Wojciehowicz." "Que?" "I didn't know Orientals had a sense of humor." "Are you kidding? We invented gunpowder." "Hey, where's my sashimi and cream cheese on a bagel?" "Here it's called lox." "The hell it is. We had it before you did." "I think of you as experienced. In an emergency, you would be the first one that I'd call." "You SHOULD call me first. I need time to put my teeth in."

Nobody came up with ideas like that, until after most of the way ministry left in 1989-1990. Then there were all sorts of crazy new policies designed to make the much fewer people pull all the extra duty of all the people who left..... as time passed, the number of people applying to the way corps dwindled. It doesn't surprise me that they didn't come up with new, bizarre sayings to try to compel people to enter the way corps who normally would have run the other way.

I've gotten that impression, too. In some places (and times), people were smoking pot, messing around with each other and all sorts of things were permitted. In some other places (and times), they ran an incredibly tight ship and would never imagine that victor paul wierwille was encouraging some behaviors quietly or under-the-table with his selected cadre. It was largely also who would be considered corruptible, and who would be considered clean-cut Christians. twi had a home for both- the clean-cut were visible, tithing, etc. and the corrupt were feeding vpw's lusts, lcm's lusts, etc.

Well then I'll go again this time. *consults Wikiquote* "I want to name my baby after you. What's your name?" "Wojciehowicz." "Que?"

Is this the series premiere for "Enterprise"? (I forget whether that was titled "Broken Bow" or something.)

The automated curse censor changed the wording at one point (a certain word synonymous with "donkey" gets changed to "foot" like certain other words get substituted.) However, I saw it "in the original" and that's what it said. Out There said it.... It's a bit harder to take someone you've worked alongside, who's seen you do many boneheaded things, played the fool, and in general been a lousy leader when the cameras are off, and then tell them you're the Great And Powerful Oz and get it to stick. They've seen the man behind the curtain already.

Susan Sarandon Rocky Horror Picture Show Tim Curry (I'd link to Barry Bostwick, but that would be just plain malicious...)

Ah, I described 3 leaders, one leader, his successor, and that person's successor. I didn't mention any names, but they should be plainly obvious who they described. Oh, and that was "off-the-cuff". I didn't compile a list off any of them, I just thought a moment and typed. That's some of the evil things each has done OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. A more thorough list would include much more frightening things like suggesting it's ok to molest one's own daughters and implying it's something he'd already done, and so on.

Don't think someone might not say something like that. Among the many, many moronic things l craig martindale said from the podium was to say that there was a certain sound that scared "devil-spirits", and he demonstrated what it was by audibly cocking a gun. He never explained why a solid weapon would concern an incorporeal being, but that was ALSO typical of lcm's time with the microphone. "I can say any fool thing I want and you have to accept it and follow me blindly because I'm in charge." Don't think that's an exaggeration. One poster here, when asked to swear allegiance to lcm whom he'd known personally, phoned him and asked him if this was what it sounded like- a call to follow him BLINDLY. lcm replied that (according to lcm) this was what he'd been doing all along. lcm did NOT get the response he expected, somehow. The poster told him "If that's what you think, you can kiss my @$$" and hung up on him, which was the last he ever heard from twi.

Or, you know, going to Wikiquote like I said... Movies are a little easier, since IMDB tends to have a page of quotes for each movie already.

That's the plot, and the correct episode name. Riker's suspicions that something is up reveal it's all a Romulan plot..... and Riker's suspicions about THAT reveal the Romulan plot was a ploy, and it was all about a poor, lonely child stranded on that planet. Riker offers him transport on the Enterprise (which he accepts). The big clues for Riker of the original ploy were the computer pausing whenever he tried to go somewhere unexpected- it was stalling so the correct hologram could be set up.... ...and "Minuet" being his late wife when Minuet herself was only a holodeck program he met once! Of course, we just talked about the episode where she appeared, which probably made this episode easier to guess. (It's what inspired my choice.) It's George's turn again.

Yes, and it's been the case since vpw was in charge. He did that all the time and relied on "creative bookkeeping" to hide how much money he laundered and used on his luxuries. Meanwhile, the whole thing's BLATANTLY illegal, and a good audit of the way international's books would reveal what a money-laundering scheme the whole thing is.

A guy plagiarizes a bunch of Christians and claims to have revelation unique for the past 2000 years. He hints around and gets people to think he's the closest thing to the 12 apostles to walk the earth. He chain-smokes and boozes it up-and gets people to buy plenty of his favorite liquor and nicotine for when he comes to town. He calls all other Christian leaders living "inferior" to himself while he tries to find Christians who are fine with orgies, and has rationalized out for himself that God is FINE with orgies. He lacks any experience in ANY program, but sets up one where people pay tuition to perform manual labor and eat little, and that cheap food. He has the program entrants write an autobiography, and uses the autobiographies to help select which women to molest and rape. He claims he's never been sick or had a headache one single day of his life. He claims to have taken "ALL" the classes Moody offers- but their registrar's office has never HEARD of him signing up for a single CLASS. After decades of DAILY alcohol use and tobacco smoke, he gets cancer- which he blames on sitting in a room with bright lights over a decade earlier and says it has nothing to do with anything else. He claims people can believe away all sorts of illnesses and problems, yet manages to convince people that his inability to wave away his own fatal illness does not reflect an inability of himself to believe. For his successor, he groomed a man loyal to him beyond all reason, and made him twofold the child of hell he himself was, skipping over competent leaders and less stupid ones to do so. His successor becomes even loonier, saying the Pope owns an aircraft carrier and will begin forcing conversions to Catholicism at threat of murder. He announces that aome people (homosexuals) were worthy of being murdered, and that he'd be happy to do so if he were allowed. He also treated the women of the organization as his personal harem. His own successor said staff should not own pets- while owning a cat. She consented to the purge of homosexuals from the group while renting a residence to homosexuals, and sleeps in the same bed with another woman when traveling on vacation- all while twi still condemns homosexuals. Staff still live in basically walk-in closets with facilities no better than low-grade college dorms- while she says they live with "many privileges." If the Branch Davidian cult was downright loony, is twi loonier, just as loony, or less loony but still crazy?