WordWolf

It might. Our new poster's entire posting on this thread has been, so far.....

Indeed. Your turn.

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

Is this "the 4400"?

Got to be "the Shining."

If it isn't "Splash", I don't think the quote "immediately identifies the film" and we should move on.

Bingo. The "flag" was Colbert's comments about never seeing race- people tell him about it and he supposes they're correct...

"She said one of her favorite movies is The Wizard of Oz. Well, I re-watched it recently, and I can't believe I never noticed the liberal subtext before. Judy Garland--gay icon--stars as Dorothy, an innocent girl from the Heartland, who gets swept away to a drug-induced fantasy land where's she's greeted by labor activists from the local guild. After she murders a powerful Oz official, she becomes a fugitive, hitting the road with a racially diverse group including a laborer, an animal-rights activist, and a treehugger. Who are all, for some mysterious reason, great dancers. And along the way, they get so high on poppies they think they're being attacked by flying monkeys. Folks, there's a short walk from 'There's no place like home' to 'It Takes a Village.' " "I actually do think that Wikipedia is an amazing thing. It is the first place I go when I’m looking for knowledge, or when I want to create some." "Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'." "Which brings me to threat number one: gravity. It is not enough--it is not enough that everyone in the mainstream media is against this President. Now even the laws of physics are jumping on the anti-Bush bandwagon? 'Course, I've known about gravity's liberal bias ever since my tenth grade science teacher, Mr. Stamp, dropped a bowling ball and a feather in a vacuum. Bowling ball should definitely have won. There's only one way that feather could keep up: affirmative action. Point is, we've lost gravity to the liberals, folks; but inertia, I hope you're listening! You of all principles of physics should know to stay the course."

Paul spoke to the real deal. Paul was zealous enough of his job- rounding up Christians and imprisoning them- that little short of that would have gotten his attention. Paul's entire life changed from that moment on- with God showing him many things after that. Paul didn't squirm in- he was selected by Christ. Matthias was voted in by a church council. What do you think the Christians said when they met this guy, claiming to be the same Saul who was imprisoning them a few days ago, a man complicit in Stephen's death, but was now claiming to be a Christian who spoke with Jesus? Right- they could not initially take him seriously- it most obviously would be some kind of ploy to find more Christians and imprison them. Eventually, they were convinced not only that he spoke with Jesus, but that he was chosen by Jesus and sent to bear witness of him. It must have taken a LOT of proof to convince people. How convinced would YOU be if Osama showed up in the public eye and claimed to repent his past, having spoken to Jesus and been taught of him to repent his talk of hatred and violence? It was much the same for Saul. Years down the line, Paul was in charge and was given the authority to write several Epistles. I reject the notion that the early Christians could not tell what was legitimate Scripture and what was some schmuck in a corner. Which reminds me- Paul spent the rest of his life persecuted, beaten, imprisoned, and more for the witness of Jesus. Do you really think 1 hallucination could fuel that much zeal? I don't. After a while, lack of positive reinforcement would mean Paul would just "retire."

I "got over it" years ago. Your opinion is in error. Yes I do. That's why I don't park myself on this website day in and day out. If you REALLY knew what was going on- the druggings, the rapes, the wholescale fraud- and you were complicit enough that you enforced the will of the fanged adders by the point of a gun- then I can see why you'd want us to "move on"- with "move on" defined as "never discuss the evil deeds performed then, and who did them." I know Kurt Waldheim was especially keen for people like Elie Wiesel to "move on"...

Seinfeld is the only series you mentioned. It's not Seinfeld. For free, I'll throw in that it's not Foxworthy or Carlin either.

As I see it, there's a short, working definition for each ministry, whether or not it's a "gift" ministry. As for apostle, the short definition is "SENT ONE." There was never any sriptural backing for a definition involving "light", whether "new" or "old". Yes, my opinion is that vpw deliberately phrased his definitions so that people could come along and say "that's what vpw is" while giving him plausible deniability because he never actually came out and said "that's what I am." Thus, there's an element of vagueness in some of his definitions, allowing him to slip between the cracks.

Ok, here's a quote we haven't done before...... "She said one of her favorite movies is The Wizard of Oz. Well, I re-watched it recently, and I can't believe I never noticed the liberal subtext before. Judy Garland--gay icon--stars as Dorothy, an innocent girl from the Heartland, who gets swept away to a drug-induced fantasy land where's she's greeted by labor activists from the local guild. After she murders a powerful Oz official, she becomes a fugitive, hitting the road with a racially diverse group including a laborer, an animal-rights activist, and a treehugger. Who are all, for some mysterious reason, great dancers. And along the way, they get so high on poppies they think they're being attacked by flying monkeys. Folks, there's a short walk from 'There's no place like home' to 'It Takes a Village.' "

I've found that simply adding the "Flashblock" AddOn to my Firefox sped up page loading a lot. That substituted a clickable button for the actual video. Then I can click it if I want the video. Then again, NoScript will also speed it up for the same reason. For those of you using Firefox, that's a cinch. For those of you using something else, I recommend using Firefox! :)

If you're using Windows XP, I'd recommend Firefox instead of Internet Explorer 8. I tried Internet Explorer 8, and it didn't seem to work with my XP. It froze up until Data Execution Prevention closed it. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html I don't use it daily, but I HAVE been known to drop in from time to time, and have chatted with some of our rarer posters who checked in at the time also. If there's an option for chat that doesn't cause hardship, I'd recommend we use it. (There's always IRC, and someone mentioned something else, I think.)

I'll go with "Trust no one" being an X-Files quote.

"Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!" "STOP SAYING THAT!"

"A Few Good Men."

I didn't hear it used in twi either..... ...but in "Lifelines", that was attributed to vpw like everything else. "God is first, others second, I am willing to be third." Which is rather rich to attribute to a man who was never willing to be SECOND, let alone THIRD. To him, serving God was equated with making vpw first. Never in such direct terms, however...

By this time, we might reasonably suppose nobody who's seen it is checking in...

I'm glad people are checking behind me. This shows you how long ago it was that I looked this up. I ignored the nagging voice that says "check before you hit "reply" "earlier, as you can tell.

Walter's DwtA class covered Masada. I never saw any reason for it to COVER Masada, but it did.

This was probably a lack of education. Real writing uses different styles, each with their advantages. I'm not the MOST educated person there, but my own writing style, I think, is effective, and it's as idiosyncratic as they come. (In other words, people don't wonder if I copied over someone else's work, as nobody SOUNDS like me.) Of course, I could still have pulled a vpw and rephrased someone else's work to my own, but as a point of pride, and a point of honesty, I always did my own writing. Besides, most people's writing reflects a "regression towards the mean", it's "average." Copying an "average" paper, or in the case of this thread, an "average" style, will limit you. It's laziness, and it started with vpw, who copied the work AND the style of others entirely. It's sad but true that many ministers copy the STYLE of others- I consider that laziness rather than developing your OWN style. But to copy the SUBSTANCE over is laziness as well as a crime. If the Corps and the College Division REALLY measured up to the hype vpw and lcm gave them- the academic claims, at least- then the graduates would all be good communicators, having learned to write effectively. However, both programs were designed with lazy shortcuts, and the material never rose to the level of community college. Some of the students did anyway- but there will be those who rise above their education no matter what the education is. ================= The wordiness and expounding on minutiae, I'd expect, would be more a reflection of lcm than vpw. vpw copied- entirely- the work of competent writers and communicators. (He plagiarized their level of communication with the material.) lcm, on the other hand, always seemed to think that adding words to anything was an improvement. Look at the corps principles and the definitions of the manifestations. Under lcm, both got a lot wordier, sometimes doubling in length. I've noticed that my own style of preparation for a live teaching requires a minimum of 5 hours to prepare the material to my minimum expectations. I generally prepared a minimum of 6 hours, and each hour after the 5th SHORTENED the teaching, tightening the wording, cutting out wasteful comments, focusing the subject more precisely in the wording, and so on. In other words, I preferred a shorter, focused teaching on a subject rather than a long one, if I could manage it. ================== EDIT: This also applies to the "literal translations according to usage" and "expanded literal translations according to usage" lcm used. For those wondering, the "literal translations according to usage" seem to have been plagiarized from other Bible versions. The "expanded translations" were incredibly long-winded additions to a verse where lots of personal opinion was inserted. Example of a "literal translation according to usage": Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." "Literal translation according to usage": "I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses inner strength into me." (I can't even type it without humming it, anymore.) Amplified Bible: "I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me (I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency)." Anyone who thinks this MIGHT have been a coincidence, I have one question for you: If twi actually did their own work, why did "Christ" become "Him" when the Greek clearly says "Christ" but the Amplified says "Him"? Is it just an amazing coincidence?