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MONSTER MASH!

I'll get back to this in a bit.

I'll get back to this in a bit.

Repeat after me- the next 2 movies never happened. The TV show was the sequel, and any movies after that. " I am Juan Sánchez Villalobos Ramírez, Chief metallurgist to King Charles V of Spain. And I'm at your service. " "Her father, Masamune, a genius, made this for me. "

(I just quoted this movie to Wordpup a day or so ago.) "Why is that toy on your head?" "Because if I wear it any place else, it chafes." "Kent put his name on his license plate." "My mother does that to my underwear." "Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?"

I'm almost surprised that worked. BTW, for those who forget, the seasons are mirrored in the hemispheres, so the Southern Hemisphere has Winter in July and Summer in January, and so on.

Charlie Sheen Ferris Buehler's Day Off Jeffrey Jones

I see it more as a trigger word- but I'm not entirely sure that I SHOULD- thus the discussion. I had been thinking that it was a twi-original word, meant solely to slam non-twi Christians. It was first used no later than the 1789, long before twi existed, before vpw was born, and before Ohio was even a state (or New Knoxville established as a village.) Granted, much of the usage we come across is along those lines now. But, should we be using it in some other manner, and if so, how? I'm not trying to come up with some Rules with the force of Law, I'm trying to see if there's some practice, some rule of thumb, that should be in effect here that is NOT twi or ex-twi specific. As seen above, if nobody else, Edwin Paxton Hood (1852) used it in a way to make a positive point by contrast.

"You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, GodD*it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' "

Obviously one I've never heard of. Even if I had multiple choice, I don't think I'd get it. "Equinox 42" or "Summer 42" or something like that (depending on where you are when Summer hits.)

"Red Dawn." (Another movie I didn't see.) The USSR invades, and the US and China have strong responses- with lots of casualties. (China may have lost 400 million casualties.)

Ok, taking a swing here.... "FLASH???"

Apples and oranges. Rocky, there was a legitimate point there- you didn't make a distinction between two things that can sound similar but are very different things. Please spell out the differences for those following along at home.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."

Having never seen "South Pacific", that last one was the only one that I recognized immediately, To me, that's a practical definition for this thread- quotes that people who didn't see the movie can recognize. Moving on.....

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I'm not sure the usage of "churchianity" here was meant to refer to ALL organized churches, or just those that seem to be organized only for themselves or something along those lines. I've started a new thread to explore the subject.

The word "churchianity" is certainly not a popular word outside of twi circles. In fact, I just discovered that the Merriam-Webster English Dictionary is the only collegiate dictionary that includes it, among those of which I'm aware. (It's not in the American Heritage, nor the Cambridge.) In twi practice, it's used as a general insult to all forms of Christianity outside of twi, period. In ex-twi circles, it's frequently used in exactly the same way- as a general insult to all Christian groups other than twi and ex-twi, period. It's among the trite phrases thrown around like saying Trinitarians pray to an oil-can. Should we even use the word "churchianity"? If we should use it, what, exactly, should we mean by it?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Churchianity Definition: "(derogatory) Any practices of Christianity that place a larger emphasis on the habits of church life or the institutional traditions of the church than on theology and spiritual teachings of Jesus; the quality of being too church-focused." Quotations: 1789, Samuel Parr, edited by John Johnstone, The works of Samuel Parr, ...: With memoirs of his life and writings, and a selection from his correspondence, volume 1, published 1828, page 341: In October, 1789 (says Dr. Parr in the Sequel, p.99), when I preached for the Charity Schools at Birmingham, I earnestly recommended to the audience two admirable sermons which Dr. Priestley had written, &c. &c. / This commendation gave great offence; the name of the arch-heritic was poison to the orthodox ears of many of the congregation. One of them in the vestry, immediately after the sermon, ventured even to expostulate with the preacher; and to represent to him that the sermon recommended might he admirable and good Christian doctrine, but that the author was an enemy to the Church, and therefore ought never to be named within its sacred precincts. Parr heard him out, and then calmly replied, "Sir, you are the best vindicator of Churchianity I ever knew." 1852, Edwin Paxton Hood, Lamps of the temple: shadows from the lights of the modern pulpit, page 329: Such religion is Churchianity; it is not Christianity. Christianity means the religion where Christ is all; Churchianity, the religion where the Church is all 1971, Paul Carter, The Spiritual Crisis of the Gilded Age, page 69: the sweet and ineffectual Jesus of American Protestant churchianity. 2002, Charles Jenkins, Keeping Sane in a Crazy World, page 84: The Priest and Levite represent Churchly Movements, They represented Churchianity that is powerless to lift suffering humanity. What is wrong with the world today is that we have too much Churchianity and too little Christianity

"Regardless of the degree to which the 30% of Americans figure is fair or accurate, LOTS of people are coming around to seeing the folly in churchianity. " On the other hand, I don't think organized religion, in and of itself, is necessarily a bad thing. If it's organized correctly, it can be both efficient and useful. In my old neighborhood, there's a Roman Catholic parish that has evening Bible studies and a number of programs specifically designed to help people (feed the hungry, etc.) Walking into their parish and calling their activities "the folly in churchianity" would ring awfully hollow. The neologism "churchianity" isn't a very common word. In fact, it's not in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, nor is it in the Cambridge English Dictionary, nor Dictionary.com's database. (I did find it in The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, with a note that its first usage was in 1837, but no mention of where it's found from that year.) "a usually excessive or narrowly sectarian attachment to the practices and interests of a particular church." Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Churchianity. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved October 18, 2023, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/churchianity It's definitely another pejorative term, and one whose use outside of ex-twi circles is probably not that great (otherwise the other big dictionaries would have heard of it.) No, I'm not saying organized religion itself is necessarily a good thing either- I'm certainly well clear of it by any definition I use. But I am trying to make an effort to keep from blanket labels all around, or blanket accusations. Those were comforting-and easy- in twi. They were also wrong. In life, I've found they can usually be found more commonly the more error-ridden something is. I'll do my own thinking, thank you.

Plenty of people go for non-organized religion. A number of beliefs are not codified so precisely. If you know someone who says they're a wiccan or a pagan, you don't know much about their specific beliefs or practices, just a few generalities (starting with the lack of an organizational structure, generally.) There's a LOT of room for variety there, with names of specific flavors that still don't tell you too much. In fact, I would venture to say that the absence of structure is a selling-point for a lot of people. BTW, there's a bias exposed by calling it "disorganized religion", as if the only option for a religion without a hierarchy and a structure is anarchy. It definitely has a pejorative connotation. Saying a religion isn't organized is NOT the same as saying it's "disorganized"- although there's a few people proclaiming literally disorganized religions also (mostly discordians.) Of course, in many cases, it's all in how you phrase the questions. I don't think I'd say I was "affiliated with organized religion" at this time, Neither am I spellbound by any of the people circulating ex-twi circles and claiming the chief seats there.

So I can say I asked, "The Longest Day"????

For MIller High Life, obviously. The song's coming back to me a bit, now, but I really only remember the chorus.

"Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice...." The voice-acting star is TED KNIGHT. He was one of the main actors in "TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT", and wore all the sweatshirts. His character was the newspaper cartoonist for "Cosmic Cow", and he occasionally brainstormed his ideas with a Cosmic Cow hand-puppet, which I think was a good idea for stimulating thought. The other male lead was Jm J. Bullock, who was probably the assaulted guy, but my memory may be playing tricks on me. "Monroe" wasn't exactly the alpha male of the series. Then again, it was more about the sisters than their dad and friend, IIRC.

Trick question, since there's nothing saying they will be considered either, or that there's only 2 options here. However, in case this question was asked sincerely, I will give a sincere answer with information. For those people, and people like them, I would consider Matthew 18:6-7. "6 but whoever * causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. 7 "Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!" There's a considerable lack of detail and specifics there. However, the generalities are pretty clear that they should not look forward to rewards or approval- to put it very mildly. It sounds like they will be in a lot of trouble.