WordWolf

That's how the higher-ups did it, so, that's how they were gonna do it, and if they didn't, eventually, an encyclical from on high would dictate that it was now mandatory to do it that way.

While we wait for Sharon... "I'm the burning bush, I'm the burning fire, I'm a bleedin' vol-cano!"

Got it just before I started posting quotes that would actually be clues. :)--> Yours sounds oddly familiar. "The Peacemaker"?

"Bless my metronome!" "Help!" "No thanks, we don't need any."

Scream Drew Barrymore Riding in Cars with Boys

I think that everyone who was nuts in twi either was nuts before they arrived, or had all the ingredients for going nuts before arriving, and twi just helped them put it together. (I don't mean neurological psychiatric disorders, I mean the unstable personalities twi's become notorious for around here.) Some people DID go thru Corps and so on and remain sane, some even were good Christians-at least in the lower Corps numbers, at any rate. Of course, as more of those guys filled the staff, that changed.... ====== Nuts will show up anywhere and everywhere. Whether they CLUSTER someplace of not is a measure of the structures in place and the policies enacted. Since twi was designed to remove accountability whenever possible, and leadership below mimicked the dysfunctional behaviour of higherups, who mimicked the mog, that meant dysfunctional behaviour as Standard Operating Procedure, with no accountability and no means of recourse except to appeal up the ladder. Sometimes that worked-but often it didn't because you appealed to someone who had the same problems.

"Bless my metronome!"

*checks* CORRECT! Although I always liked calling them "John Cougar and the Singing Mellencamps". :)--> (With backup singers.)

My corrections were from memory! You didn't see me posting a stack of quotes from DC Cab, when I hadn't seen the movie since the 80s? The only thing I COULD look up was Elvis' birthday. When I posted the quote from Hot Shots:Part Deux, I noticed that nobody seemed to correctly quote the name "Tojo" when "Tug" Benson gave his speech. All online quotes give no name or a name like Hirohito, which he did NOT say. Usually I DO try to find a quote online to make sure I get it as correct as possible. Since we're not keeping score, I'm relying on the Honor System to keep people from looking up the answers without bowing out. I always do that with online trivia.

I didn't want this to slip by.

They don't have to "accentuate" those practices-just show they existed. They want to keep people's memories from fading. You choose to ignore those practices that vpw started and allowed to proceed apace that are ungodly, because you want to preserve the illusion that he was some godly person any way you can. He was a plagiarist, and a rapist. When he was caught, he covered his tracks and ruined people's lives to do it. He made his "son" (his disciple) two-fold the child of hell that HE was.

Sure explains those RED CURTAINS, doesn't it? I'm STILL waiting for an explanation on where God promised those.....

John Goodman King Ralph John Hurt

Ooooh, I've got what I think is a tough one. I'll be VERY impressed if someone can get this off the first quote without cheating.... " I haven't laughed so much since Pompeii! "

"Metamucil. it HELPS you go to the TOILET..." "Not ONLY will it scare you-..."

"They're boxy, but SAFE". Remember? Volvos are famous for being SAFE cars. George Carlin: "They give those out to people who drive Volvos and Audis! Or SAABs. 'I bought a SAAB.' 'Why'd you buy a P.O.S. like that for?' 'It's a safe car!' They think that if they buy a 'safe car' it excuses them from learning how to DRIVE the f*ing thing! FIRST you learn to drive-THEN you buy your ** safe car."

You're the man NOW, dawg! That's "FINDING FORRESTER". (I thought it was "Our Man Forrester." But I was thinking the correct movie and actors.)

I saw two "titles", but not two "artists"....

Me, I'm thinking that carrying: brass knuckles, a HOMEMADE sword (both classified as "deadly weapons" under US law) AND a chainsaw, a hatchet and knife (classified as "dangerous instruments" under US law) would be sufficient "probable cause" to temporarily detain someone long enough to do a background check on the guy, and confirm he wasn't ALREADY wanted for running around with a hockey mask and decapitating people at a summer camp or something. It says they checked for outstanding warrants and if he broke any laws in crossing the border-for two hours. Me, I would have figured "two hours" was NOT enough time for a thorough investigation. "They can't look at a chainsaw and decide if it's blood or rust or red paint." Based on him carrying the other stuff, doesn't it make sense to delay him while someone who CAN tell if HUMAN DNA is on the "blood" or if it's "red paint" runs a test? If it's "red paint", then fine-if it's ANYBODY's blood, then he's applied a CHAINSAW to human flesh. Without knowing WHOSE, I'm sure that SOME law was broken under Canadian AND US laws. (Unless the late Johnnie Cochran argues the blood was placed on a chainsaw that was turned off.)

Oh my goodness, in your dreams Sunesis. We were taught in twi that we will always sin, and we cannot perfect the flesh because of the old man nature. We were taught in twi that the renewed mind is the key to power... Not perfection... I wish some folks would abandon the propaganda already. In your haste to try to shout down Sunesis' point, you missed it completely. I was never in a room where someone said "If we work hard enough, we'll be identical to Jesus". (I don't dismiss the chance someone DID say that.) The manner in which twi approached Jesus' humanity WAS that we could emulate him in ability and receive comparable results- if not IDENTICAL results, then results in the same BALLPARK. "Signs, miracles AND wonders." Forgot about all that? We were taught that we could manifest the same results- in the Advanced class. That class spent a lot of time on the drama and power- as if that was the TRUE "Advanced" material, and what we REALLY needed to know to "excel". We were taught the renewed mind is the key to POWER. Jesus' POWER seemed to be the main thing we DID discuss when he came up in discussions-except when we were hearing that "The Word takes the place of the absent Christ." "Perfect" the flesh? We were taught the power didn't respect the flesh, so no point in "perfecting" it. lcm himself was recently quoted as seeing himself within reach of the goal of becoming Jesus Christ. I think he learned that somewhere. We were taught it was OUR manifestation that mattered..... "replace" Christ? We didn't need to- he was already replaced in twi dogma. He was replaced in emphasis by Bibliolotry, and in practice by ourselves generally, and specifically by the Man of God For All Time- whether he called himself "Doctor", "THE Teacher", or the man with the greatest revelation in 19 centuries. I wish some folks would abandon the propaganda already.

You "know" that, but you "know" wrong. vpw taught correctly on those subjects in a number of places and times (not "hundreds" unless you have access to his entire log of sermons), and INcorrectly-as Belle pointed out-on those subjects in a number of places and times. Do the math. How much time did we spend in the GOSPELS- which cover the very WORDS of Christ- and how much in the Church Epistles? We spent as much time in Ephesians ALONE than in all 4 Gospels. Most of the time we DID spend in the Gospels was in covering how "everyone else is wrong" in how many crosses were on Calvary, the number of Peter's denials, and minutiae of his Passion. Were the Gospels completely ignored? No. (Duh.) They were, however, de-emphasized except for where we were ridiculing other Christians. Was the Old Testament completely ignored? No. (Duh.) Where was the BULK of study done? The Church Epistles. Who determined what Books were emphasized over others? Stop and think. It's a VERY easy question to answer. You don't REALLY need someone to shove the evidence under your nose, do you? You've gone over hours and hours of his stuff.

Correct. Technically, "the spoken part" at the end is referred to as "the Long Lament", and I would have taken that as the "correct" title as well.

Re-possessed????

Gotta be Star Trek 4, when Spock is relearning how to curse. :)-->

"Never Tear Us Apart", by INXS. (Off the album "Kick", required listening back in the 80s.) ====== Since I'm also certain of my answer, here's the next one: "Cold-hearted orb which rules the night, removes the colors from our sight- Red is grey, and yellow, white"