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  1. "The Way:Living in Love", copyright 1972. pg-34 "But what The Doctor teaches in that class in 33 hours I couldn't teach you in 33 hours. He's been doing research and teaching for 30 years now and he's a terrific teacher." pg-82. "They were black and white clips from the TV program called 'The Teacher' that he had made out of Lima in 1963." pg-215. "It had never happened before that a man of God and his whole family went on a missionary tour. And I went unaffiliated, not under the flag of any denomination." "
  2. Great episode. "You Are Cordially Invited..."
  3. I'm sure that's it, so let's keep this moving. :)
  4. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533871,00.html "Alamo's 'Child Bride' Says Evangelist Leader Controlled All Aspects of Life TEXARKANA, Ark. — In the years after evangelist Tony Alamo took the 14-year-old girl as a bride, she said, she caught glimpses of her father on the surveillance cameras that fed into the minister's office. As her father walked by outside, monitors provided views from every angle. But even though only a few walls and doors separated them, leaving Alamo's home without permission was unthinkable. Alamo was a prophet, she'd been taught. He was "God's chosen one." And she was scared. "I felt uncomfortable asking Tony to see my dad," the woman, now 20, testified at his federal trial on charges that he took underage girls across state lines for sex. "So you had to ask Tony's permission before you could go outside and see your father?" a prosecutor asked. "Yes." The woman, who left Alamo's compound in Arkansas three years ago, was one of many witnesses whose testimony offered a rare glimpse inside the evangelist's secretive ministry. They said Alamo made the decisions: who got married, what children were taught in school, who got clothes, who was allowed to eat. He also chose which of his followers to "marry," witnesses said — including one girl who was 8 years old. "He had control over everything," testified a 30-year-old woman who said she was another child bride. Families moved state to state at Alamo's command, living in apartments, trailers or houses owned by the ministry. The church had a language of its own: Alamo as "Papa Tony," new members as "baby Christians" and those suspect few living outside as "visiting Christians." At his compounds in Arkansas, students learned Alamo-approved curriculums, with ninth-grade biology tossed aside because the course material discussed sex, one witness said. Alamo began separating the sexes in the 1990s, and by the time he was released from prison following his 1994 tax evasion conviction, brothers and sisters often lived separate lives, another woman said. In the 1980s, Alamo's ministry sold elaborately designed denim jackets made by members to celebrities. At the compound more recently, followers filled out request forms for everything, whether clothing or toiletries. Alamo himself approved all expenditures, witnesses said." ================ That's a lot of different things. Which one did you want to know about- if anything like it happened in twi that we know about?
  5. This is longer than a single line, but it is continuous. "Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong. But we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question?"
  6. "Gary, do you feel like a chicken?" "Well, if I could shoot an egg outta my @$$ right now, I would." "But...won't these people think that we're cowards?" "Yeah, okay, but we can deal with 'shame'. 'Death' is a much greater issue." "There are motorcycles in my house!" "Accident? An accident?! Do you realize it's snowing in my room?"
  7. "He has joined the cult of Baba Bebe." "Baba Bebe? You mean the one who brainwashes young people? My kind of guy!" "My name is Abu Kareem Hassan. What is, is. What was, will be. What will be, was, but will be again." "We better hurry up, I'm startin' to understand him." ...miracles cannot be rushed." "Look, Arnold, I am... Arnold, what you just said, that was beautiful. It made a lot of sense." "Of course! Births cannot be rushed. For example, first, the stork has to be notified." "What's that?" "That's a Bicentennial Knish." "..what's that satchel for?" "It's for the money. What am I gonna do, stuff 250 G's in my pocket?" "Hey, Juan, um, they gonna give us a check." "Oh, no, I don't take checks. Checks bounce." "Well, this one's gonna be from New York State." "Especially those!"
  8. "The Man of God of the Whole World." "Is 'the MOG of our times' biblical/godly?" "False Prophet or good minister with problems?"
  9. " Is the MOG of our times Biblical/Godly?" "VP, who called himself the "Man of God," which was inscribed on his little bracelet, was not the MOG."
  10. "Okay, but we can deal with 'shame'. 'Death' is a much greater issue." "There are motorcycles in my house!"
  11. Ok, let's see..... "He has joined the cult of Baba Bebe." "Baba Bebe? You mean the one who brainwashes young people? My kind of guy!" "My name is Abu Kareem Hassan. What is, is. What was, will be. What will be, was, but will be again." "We better hurry up, I'm startin' to understand him." ...miracles cannot be rushed." "Look, Arnold, I am... Arnold, what you just said, that was beautiful. It made a lot of sense." "Of course! Births cannot be rushed. For example, first, the stork has to be notified."
  12. Was that "Star Trek V: the Final Frontier"? If not for the first line, it might have been "Peter Pan"....
  13. "You know, I'm a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump." "WHAT hump?"
  14. "Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring".
  15. And that's been it. That's nearly 10 days since he's attempted to answer questions- of which there have been many on this thread, many of them respectful. Then again, someone else suggested he may have been silenced by the Powers-That-Be in SOWERS or somewhere else. That is another possibility....I've posted more than that and been out of town....
  16. It might. Our new poster's entire posting on this thread has been, so far.....
  17. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
  18. If it isn't "Splash", I don't think the quote "immediately identifies the film" and we should move on.
  19. Bingo. The "flag" was Colbert's comments about never seeing race- people tell him about it and he supposes they're correct...
  20. "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."
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