WordWolf

Nice use of logic equations. :) Let's see, more quotes, same episode...

Maybe you were spared from the sun tea as a blessing.... http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/suntea.asp

You're presuming he cares about intelligent discussions. He got to make his declarations, and when intelligent discussions-including disagreements- were offered, he just labelled them and began tossing out insults and jokes. Seems his interest in "discussion" ends there.

You're half-right.

The GSC is a website that welcomes all people, primarily twi survivors, but will accept anyone who wishes to post, preferably in a civil manner. It is NOT a requirement that the poster be a Christian. That would deny a voice to those non-Christians who felt driven from Christianity after certain lewd fellows of the baser sort AMONG Christians (and leaders appointed under twi) did things and said things that no human should. I recommend giving this a once-over: http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=7913 Sorry to hear that. Unless the therapist was an incompetent- sadly, that happens in ALL professions, not just religious "leaders" like twi people- then what you got out of it was equal to what you put into it. That is, those who saw a therapist after twi often had their first chance to evaluate in a reasonable, normal manner, what they were told to do and told to think, and to come to their own conclusions-without the listener influencing them- as to what was healthy and what was unhealthy in it all. That has great value to people. So long as they are ready to do such evaluation, and need to do so. Me, I didn't need that SPECIFIC help, since twi's touch on my life was very light. I just needed distance and time. Others, under more restrictions and under longer "sentences" of twi, found such assistance necessary and valuable. (Plus, I found the posts at the GSC provided the information I needed to complete closure.) Similarly, if I DID need such help, but was not ready to evaluate rules, restrictions, actions, and so on, I could have gone in for sessions all century, and accomplished nothing, because I was not ready to put INTO the sessions what I needed to get OUT of the sessions.

"No yelling." "I DO NOT YELL." "Then you should have no trouble with that part." "But mostly, a true friend is a person you can always tell the truth to without worrying about it." "The higher, the fewer!" " They are my worlds, and I protect them. I am a master of worlds, and they fly only as I wish."

Richard Gere First Knight Sean Connery

Obviously a James Bond flick, complete with traditional female character's trick name. It's possible it's a spoof, but, say, Austin Powers doesn't reply with James Bond's slick responses.

"No yelling." "I DO NOT YELL." "Then you should have no trouble with that part." "But mostly, a true friend is a person you can always tell the truth to without worrying about it."

Why does that not surprise me?

Maverick James Coburn Hudson Hawk

"Woof woof tweet tweet baa!"

So, Chas, did you take the WOMBAT?

Honestly couldn't say, there's no posted time and apparently it went up Thursday. I'd take it tonight. Make sure you have about 45 minutes of uninterrupted time. It's a TIMED test. It's also amazingly difficult. The last one was hard-this one is harder. If I get the same score this time as I did last time, I'll be impressed. Oh, and the entry code: by one ON the other, that doesn't mean stacked in a pile, it means each superimposed on the last, into one symbol.

No, you're trying to get scores. What you want to do is sneak in and take the next test. First, click on the eraser on the desk- it is a Portkey. It takes you to the door to take the (TIMED) test. You can spend time working it out yourself, but last time, I wasted a lot of time on that. So, per Mugglenet, here's the access: 1. Click on the fly (on the window). It turns into a key. 2. Drag this to the keyhole. 3. Stack the shapes on top of each other: Triangle on line, circle on triangle. 4. Click this shape, then click the exam paper to begin. Expect it to be hard. Part II was.

Forgive me for considering him either A) mistaken, or B) a liar, or C) both. It's been a long time since they could claim 5000, and they've been hemorrhaging members since then for years. Granted, the more people leave, the more hardcore the remaining handful are, and are less likely to leave, but they still lose numbers from 1) adults leaving 2) kids growing up and leaving 3) deaths of innies for any reason (happens everywhere) Even if they stopped actively KICKING people out, that's still true. Meanwhile, the only ways to increase membership #s are to either: 1) attract new people, or 2) increase #s of births. twi was officially anti-births for a very long time. What other Christian organization ever had a top leader encourage abortions? Kids were-AND STILL ARE-seen as INCONVENIENCES since they can't be controlled like an adult can, and don't produce income. That's more people that can't give twi 10% of their income, and money spent to raise them doesn't get sent to twi. If they suddenly changed polices and did a 180 and recommended EVERYONE have kids, they'd really end up in a jam. They'd lose more control over parents, and have less to offer FAMILIES, REAL families with REAL lives than they do singles or married "singles". As for attracting new people, don't make me laugh. twi has nothing to attract them. Older folk are set in their ways, and younger folk would see twi as quaint, outdated, and lacking anything to offer. So, less than 3000 people, including children, in the US. I can't speak for other countries. As for 7000 in the US, I say, "Bushwah."

I've read the opposite here- that those asked pointed to Walter or someone else, and never lcm, but that vpw picked him over everyone's objections. BTW, back then, there was some SERIOUS disinformation going around. I had been told lcm had been chosen the same way Matthias was chosen- by prayer and a vote, and not by vpw's fiat. Over time, I started hearing contradictory information on that...and top innies, even, said vpw chose lcm. The supposed reason vpw picked lcm was that he thought the corps would follow where the former corps director led. It's also been reported that someone asked vpw, and he said lcm never questioned him, but did whatever vpw required of him. If that's true, then the POP comment about vpw considering lcm and cg his top men makes more sense, since they were the 2 men most likely to follow vpw off a cliff.

How confident are you, looking back, that this is EXACTLY what happened? http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/strobe.asp

I don't normally do this, but I'm bumping the thread so readers can see it in time...

"CSI-Miami?"

Is this the one with the 21st century humans cryogenically frozen and now unfrozen, and the Klingons from some time ago before the Federation/Klingon treaty? No, it's HEART OF GLORY, isn't it? When the 3 Klingons show up on the Enterprise.

Fans of the Harry Potter books, THE THIRD WOMBAT TEST IS OPEN! That's on JKR's website. It will be only open for a short time, so don't wait forever!

Just from where I'm sitting, avoiding social contact is probably a COPING MECHANISM for someone beginning to come down with Alzheimer's. If you only deal with people you've known a long time, then the effects can appear to be minimized. If you continue to deal casually with more people, then the effects of a drifting or vanishing memory become more prominent- you can't hide that you forgot their names, who they are, etc. Further, sheer frustration can cause you to not bother with people, which means to the outsider that you're anti-social. So, I don't think it's a symptom OR a behaviour that leads to it, just a response TO symptoms.

Here's where the quotes were: "The problem is, I feel responsible for her self-nullifying behavior." Wayne, speaking in Cantonese, to Cassandra. He was a beginner, but somehow he was able to put together sentences like that one. ""Turn it off, man! Turn it off! It's sucking my will to live!" Garth, trying to get free of the invention, the Suck-Cut. (Ever notice the Flowbee was the same invention, and that was sold to people?) "I mean, Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everyone liked. They left that to the Bee Gees." Wayne talking about selling out. ""Guys! Wait up! I fell on my keys!" Garth, when they were sneaking, and Garth slipped. "I'd never done a crazy thing in my life before that night. Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle it's called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion it's called murder?" Ed O'Neill plays this great role as the manager of that donut shop and hangout. "...marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries." Garth asked if Wayne was going to marry Cassandra. " Well, I'm a regular visitor here, but Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors. The French missionaries and explorers began visiting here in the late 16th century." Rocker Alice Cooper in his dressing room after the show in Milwaukee. "I'm not evil-I'm just good looking." Alice Cooper, the opening line to his song, "Feed My Frankenstein." "Anything wrong, Davy?" "Yeah, I got paid today." "Yeah, I know what that's like." "No. You don't understand. They laid me off. I got one of these." "Yeah, I know how that feels." "Know what I'd like to do?" "Yeah I know what you'd like to do. You'd like to find the guy who did it, rip his still beating heart out of his chest and hold it in front of his face so he can see how black it is before he dies." "Actually, I was thinking of filing a grievance with the union." "Well, the world's a twisted place." Ed O'Neill's character again. "Did you know that if you stab a man in the dead of winter you can see steam rising out of him? The Indians though it was his soul escaping from his body." And again. My next quote was going to be "Benjamin is no one's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavour, he would be 'Pralines and D**k.' " Your turn.