WordWolf

I don't even want to know where they stuck the swordfight. I didn't spot the guy spitting, but from the front row, I felt the heat wash over me when the Phantom disappeared in a "flash" of light. I suppose they left that out of the movie.

Written in a friendly style, anyway, which does bode for more civil discussions-and civil disagreements-at any rate. LLP, in EACH post, I said BOTH the RCC and twi bore blame for their actions, and NEVER claimed I preferred one over the other. Your question about how my comments applied to ONE and not the OTHER were without basis. I was consistent in saying BOTH organizations needed more than a slap-on-the-wrists. What I wrote about the RCC, I wrote about twi at the same time and in the same comment. I still don't get what would cause the impression I was applying one set of rules to one, and one set to another. Please supply the quote if there is ANY ambiguity about it. Further, if you can interpret a double standard in a post that uses identical terms and advocates identical treatment for 2 different organizations, there's probably nothing I can do about that. I don't know any clearer way to communicate. Thank you for clarifying the previous issue-whether or not organizations should bear some of the responsibility in such situations. Seems that, to some degree, we agree that they do, and measures should be taken regarding those organizations. Thank you for saying you were not trying to suggest I advocated closing down either group. By tossing that comment in when you did, it certainly gave the impression that you were saying the opposing viewpoint (as in, mine) was that very position. It seems you don't see that your comments concerning who saw what can be easily seen as a move to discredit the testimony of witnesses, which has been a popular sport among twi apologists here in the past. Well, I can't do anything about that, either. BTW, both of us have been posting here for years, and your current posts DO reflect an improvement of style, as I see it. As to the prior substance of your posts, I'll drop it, since I see no profit in pursuing it for anyone. As to maintaining your own posting style, fair enough. If the lurkers have difficulty separating the comments, they can just read slower and more carefully. Personally, I prefer to make things easier for the readers. As has been pointed out, my preferences are hardly universal nor universally-embraced. Feel free to post in whatever style suits you, without thought of me measuring your style against mine. (As if such a comparison mattered.) By "those playing along at home", that's one of several cultural figures of speech I use to refer to lurkers and nonparticipants in a thread. If I didn't take the threads seriously, I wouldnt put thought and time into them.

Casting "the Phantom" with a guy who can't sing should be considered a criminal act. The least they could do was overdub him with a real singer. I'll probably have to skip it just to keep from getting traumatic flashbacks of the horrible swordfight you mentioned.

Hm. Some good points from both of you.

[i'll keep that in mind, but it's been my custom to place my comments, especially when alternating with another person's, both in boldface and brackets. The boldface makes it easy to spot when the speaker changes, and the brackets stay there if they quote back, allowing them to remain offset somewhat while allowing them to boldface THEIR comments. I've been doing that for a few years, now. ] [ JWBM made several comments that I thought should not go unchallenged, drawing attention away from twi's complicity in the criminal actions of its "employees". I refuted them, then LLP tried to make it sound like I was saying the RCC deserved a light hand, and twi a heavy hand, in response to the criminal behaviour they were complicit in. I challenged that as well. Perhaps this will not change LLP's mind. LLP claims to be giving things an honest look. If that is so, then LLP will slowly increase in learning as a result. If that is not true, refusing to allow misdirections and mischaracterizations of my positions at least benefits the other readers. Frankly, once LLP and JWBM entered this thread, and posted to the effect that twi as a corporate entity is innocent of wrongdoing, this thread no longer reflected an intellectual exchange of ideas in the truest sense. Perhaps LLP will demonstrate otherwise in his next post. (Perhaps not.)

LLP posted the original. [WordWolf replies again in boldface.] [bTW, LLP, please make it easy visually to tell when you're quoting me and when you're speaking for yourself, for the benefit of those playing along at home. Also, please try not to trim RELEVANT parts of my comments out-you seem to have done that somewhat.]

Holy carp! How many times have we heard things like _that_? TWI leaders made (and still make) a lot of assumptions based on the TWI world-view that they have absorbed. "Surely God would have told me if so-and-so was a child molester" they tell themselves, "God would not let evil like this flourish...he would give me revelation to _smoke him out_" So, is TWI a haven for child molesters? If the so-called leaders who "stand in the gap" for God's people think like this, then the answer is "hell yeah". I thought this bore repeating.

LLP in normal. [WordWolf in boldface.]

I do fine with ZoneAlarm, the free version of that software.

I don't think enough people have HEARD of twi to make a "celebrity" of anyone turning state's evidence. Also, I don't think there's one person orchestrating things. I think there's a bunch of selfish people who want things to go for their convenience and exploitation, and that's as far as their planning goes.

COULD happen, and would be appreciated, but smart money's against it. I'm figuring this was a "drive-by". Of course, I could easily be wrong.

That would have been my first guess about the initial post/er, as well. That pic may be less tame than most Christian organizations prefer to use. However, compared to the old "parent" organization's talk about the subject, it's pretty tame. :)--> It hardly would fit in with the pornographic videos vpw showed some of you people in the live CFS classes. I wonder how much of his "sex maniac" stuff snuck into the splinters. I'll probably never know.

All the bod is doing is maintaining a delaying tactic. The group is in "negative growth" (hemorrhaging followers) and has been for years. The people at the top want to maintain their "creature comforts" as long as possible. Sooner or later, they KNOW they will need to jump ship, when the Titanic sinks all the way past the waterline, if not sooner. Even the fox has to know that the bod will toss her out like yesterday's trash the same way they deep-sixed mrs w. So, this is all a delaying tactic. I wonder what their "retirement plans" are like.....

Great. It probably will be the most popular part of the site. Just keep my name off the thing. :)--> Maybe I'll be able to come up with some more of the little issues so common amongst the flock, when the flock was/is being sheared by the mogs.

Dear Hell-loise: I'm a young, impressionable female approaching 20 years old. Last month, we visited hq. While I was asleep, about 3am, I awoke suddenly to find the mog in my room (I was sure I locked the door), dressed in a smoking jacket and silk pajamas. He said something about healing me and a real man of God, and blessing me. Then he left. For some reason, he seemed discomfited seeing the dagger my Daddy always told me to hold in my hand whenever any man not my husband was alone in my bedroom with me. I'm confused by what happened. What was the mog talking about? Was something wrong with my knife? What should I have done? =========== (Someone else will have to answer this one. My limit was writing it, even as a hypothetical.)

Some people can eat a sandwich while watching an autopsy. Me, I'm pretty sure my "stomach" isn't that "strong", and I'd feel sick. I don't think that's a "failing" on my part, not having calloused to that degree. Similarly, the horrible things twi did are worth feeling sick over from time to time. If you feel nothing when hearing how they destroyed lives-like some of the current leadership-then something is wrong with YOU. Even the unbelievers feel sick to hear of the horrors that were perpetuated.

If I were to just make a snap-judgement on the little we know, I'd say he was afraid of something. "Mercy is for the weak." (Instructor villain, Karate Kid.) The concepts involved with praying for people who need more than 5 seconds of help made the corpse uncomfortable. People were supposed to be disposable, like pets, to these people, especially the later corpse. The guy may realize he has no idea what he's doing, since he was never trained for it, and was selected AGAINST for compassion before trained to teach people are disposable. (I'm not talking ALL corpse, but this applies to quite a few.) Maybe he actually gets uncomfortable when facing people who need real help. Then again, maybe he really DOES refuse to pray for people he doesn't like. It's his failing, no matter what.

Ok, the usual questions... Do you have a firewall? Do you have an antivirus program you keep updated? Do you have the latest editions of Ad-Aware SE and Spybot:Search and Destroy? By a firewall, I mean at least a software program designed for that, not the thing that comes with Windows or SP2. (Although the SP2 thing is better than the other one.) The online virus scan you saw is good, but it's better to have programs that prevent a virus from getting there or staying there. Furthermore, AdAware and Spybot handle spyware and malware, which can ALSO slow things down. There are free versions of each of those (Spybot's shareware, and accepts donations), and thus you can have a well-defended computer without paying for the defenses. Also, if you use Mozilla, Netscape, Opera or Firefox rather than Internet Explorer, you'll find fewer script-exploits can sneak in while you surf. ===== I knew someone who thought their computer was adequately defended. (It had almost no defenses.) By the time they put in serious time to clean it out (and asked me), they had over four THOUSAND viruses to clean out of the machine, plus what the spyware cleaners found. Afterwards, the machine ran a lot faster and they said it was like having a new computer.

Of course, a whole OTHER issue is just how much "writing" vpw did on books like JCOPS and JCOP versus slapping his name on what the staff did...

The "inbuilt" firewall-which is it? It's not that Microsoft Windows one, is it? If so, you don't exactly HAVE a firewall. You have a pretend-firewall. That thing's job is to lower the chances of infection while you download and run a REAL firewall.

Yes. A) Run an online scan for any viruses it mcaffee missed. http://www.trendmicro.com B) Download the latest versions of AdAware and Spybot:Search and Destroy, update them, and run them both. That, on top of changing your passwords, should be enough. You DO have a firewall, right?

Allow me to throw in another idea, one not so revolutionary. The problem is he's bored because Kindergarten is partly learning, and partly babysitting, and the 2nd part is putting him to sleep. I had the same problem in Kindergarten. For some bizarre reason, they let me make the decision on this. As ridiculous as it sounds, looking back, I think my solution WAS the best solution. I went to First Grade in the morning, and Kindergarten in the afternoon. Yes, I was doing both grades of work each day. No chance of being bored THAT way! Too much to do! Eventually, I decided to just stay with 1st grade, since I was up until 8pm some nights doing homework. This way, I eased into 1st grade and didn't have "culture shock". Did I end up insufficiently educated for my age? Well, for reasons unclear to me, my parents switched my school at the end of first grade (rather than starting 2nd grade at the new one.) I had about a month at the new school, and I made the Honor Roll, after which I settled in nicely. (Although they bored me from time to time also, just not so often.) So, it's possible that may work for him, without restructuring the school board this semester.

It wouldn't hurt to give them a copy of the e-mail, too....

I also see you were edited-get over it. Paw doesnt OWE you an explanation. If you don't like the way he runs things, leave and post elsewhere. No 1's forcing you to eat here.