WordWolf

Sounds vaguely familiar, but nothing's clicking yet.

I'm going to take a shot and guess "EMINEM", Marshall Mathers. Here's my thinking....The key to the specifics was when it was performed. It was obviously rehearsed, them performed in front of a live audience at a tremendous show that was seen nationally or internationally, and not aired for a repeat. That suggests either a live performance at an awards show, or a live performance at an event. I'm thinking this might have been performed at a SUPER-BOWL HALF-TIME show. The other year, when Eminem was one of the performers at the Super Bowl, there was all sorts of controversy, including whether or not he was kneeling at any point in his performance. In all likelihood, I'm far off, but that's what I'm thinking at the moment.

"As for the trinity, the devil is laughing (rotflmaopimp) at mainstream Christianity just like Hogan's Heroes laugh at Klink and Schultz." [bI'm curious what Bible verse supposedly alleges that one.[/b] "A talebearer is a liar. The devil is the father of lies. Every time you repeat all that crap, you parrot the father of lies. I don't care how factual you think it is, " It's fascinating how things that are factually correct are actually labelled "lies" here. The key is the conflation of "talebearer" with "bearer of bad news." The watchman was supposed to warn the city, and that was a respected job. So, it isn't just bearing bad news that's a problem. Concordances mention a connection between a talebearer and SLANDER- which explains the conflation between "slander" and saying something bad about someone. It's slanderous if it is FALSE. So, to warn about a corrupt official is recommended. That's not "slanderous." It's "slanderous" if an honest, respected person is maligned- like someone claimed he went around slandering others when he did no such thing. So, someone went step-by=step, conflating one thing with another, until telling the truth was labelled "being a liar" and "parroting the father of lies" even if factually correct. It's like going step by step from "You shall surely die" to "You shall NOT surely die." Now, someone's gone and done the same thing. Someone seems to have parroted the father of lies. For an encore, they accused other people of what they themself did- which is something I was actually warned about in twi. By lcm.

Lots of people have come forth and claimed the GSC has helped them, over the years. So far, we've had a few people disagree with the GSC and laud vpw to the sky, but only one person seems to have claimed the GSC has been "harmful" to them, and that they see no benefit in it. Well, as to "no benefit", they're definitely in the minority. Again, if there's no perceived value in posting somewhere, why post there?

He's been spending a lot of time among fishermen from Rhode Island and points past Montauk, on Long Island. He made a political statement by getting arrested for fishing outside regulations. He's insistent the rules have squeezed out families of fishermen for generations, who no longer can make a living by fishing unless they break the law.

"We've got to catch those thieves red-handed." "What color are their hands now?" "Let me talk to them. WOOF, WOOF! WOOF-WOOF-WOOF!" "Nice work." "It pays to know a second language." "But I hate pepperoni!" "You can't even SING! Your voice was DUBBED!"

The man has said he hates walking into piano bars because if he's recognized, the pianist will play "Piano Man." That's gotten really old.

Probably either law or medicine. I know Darma and Greg from "Darma and Greg" walked on some other show, but this doesn't sound anything like that.

No, but at least you're thinking logically....

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Tim Curry Oscar

The Beach Boys. "Da Doo Ron Ron."

Was this "Cop Rock" and "NYPD Blue"???

No, And who is WoldWolf?

"We've got to catch those thieves red-handed." "What color are their hands now?" "Let me talk to them. WOOF, WOOF! WOOF-WOOF-WOOF!" "Nice work." "It pays to know a second language."

Ok, next one. Midnight Madness Light of Day Casualties of War

With "Robin and the 7 Hoods", I was going to guess Frank, but he wasn't in Cannonball Run 1.

Ocean's Eleven Andy Garcia The Untouchables

I've never considered it a good sign when posters can spend 10-15 years or more posting and still be unable to avoid mixing their posts with those they respond with. It either means they are technologically incompetent (unlikely) or really don't care about honesty and communicating clearly (bingo.) Johniam: "During Living Victoriously VP said "Spiritually I've seen 4 things in life: religion, no religion, corrupt religion, and true Christianity. Still rings true for me. " WordWolf: "Corrupt religion" is not separate from "religion"- it is a subset of religion where it is misapplied. So, if you've seen "corrupt religion", you've seen "religion"- and that's just following the rules of the English language. For that matter, "true Christianity" and "religion" are not exclusive categories, either. James 1:26-27 (KJV) 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Here, James was making "religion" sound like a POSITIVE thing, something done by "true Christians." In fact, he gave guildelines for how to properly conduct one's "religion." Yes, the word "religion" in the Greek is "threskeia", which refers to actions, but Bullinger seemed to be obsessed with considering it a diametrically-opposed OPPOSITE to godliness. If James 1 is correct, then Bullinger was wrong, plain and simple. (Go ahead, check his Greek lexicon. I once used the definitions for "eusebia/ godliness" and "threskeia/religion" and how they contrasted, according to Bullinger, and wrote a whole teaching around that, a long time ago. So, that's going to stay with me.) James wrote about right actions. He concluded James 1 with that comment, and all of chapter 2 seems to be about how important it is to ACT rightly, to DO rightly, to PERFORM rightly. He talks about the importance of "works"- of acting rightly. If one is determined to ONLY see "works" as "the opposite of grace and unnecessary for Christians"- which WAS pushed by vpw- then one's understanding will be stunted, as will one's spiritual growth. In the Bible, neither "works" nor "religion" are dirty words.... no matter who taught you otherwise. Johniam: "If someone's religion is vain, that isn't intended to be positive. 2Cor11:12-15 - But what I do, that will I do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion, that wherein they glory, they may be found as we / for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ / and no marvel; for satan himself is transformed into an angel of light / therefore it is no great thing if his (satan's) ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works Any church minister could earn a spot on that roster. The devil gets more mileage from religion than God. God's 'mileage' (the finished works of Jesus Christ) exponentially supersedes the devil's. It was religious people who had Christ crucified. 2Cor2:17a - for we are not as many which corrupt the word of God... Many, not few. Corrupt means water down. Those 'he gets us' ads are a good example of that. One of them says Jesus was trying to change the world. Jesus warned his disciples that in the world they would have tribulation, which is still true (John 16:33). He wasn't trying to change the world. John 4:34 - Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish His work. That was the entire basis of EVERYTHING he did and said. His whole focus. Mainstream Christianity still teaches that Jesus is God, the dead are alive, and SIT went out with the first century. They are watering down the accomplishments of Jesus Christ when they do that. They are carrying the devil's water for him. That does not please God. I am a true Christian, and I don't always see religion as positive." WordWolf: "Anyone who read that same passage in James could see that James made a contrast between VAIN religion and TRUE religion- HIS terms, not mine- and gave examples of TRUE religion. Nobody should need me to tell them that's what it said, since that's what it said. In the Bible "religion" isn't a dirty word, no matter who taught you otherwise. Now, VAIN religion is bad- which is really a stupid thing to have to specify. "Bad religion is bad, good religion is good." "Vain religion is bad, true religion is good." If you're determined to argue against that, well, you're arguing against a plain read of James, and that's on you. The digression into church ministers is dishonest. Are there ministers who are dishonest? Sure- vpw was one, lcm was another, and there were many before them, after them and operating at the same time. Can we FAIRLY say ALL ministers are dishonest? "Any church minister could earn a spot on that roster." No, we could NOT fairly say that. Right now, there are ministers-in-training who put everything they've got into trying to be their best for God. Right now, there are serving ministers who put everything they've got into trying to be their best for God. They put in hundreds of hours of work, thousands of hours of work- to help people, to understand and teach clearly, to pray for God's people, to live spotless lives as examples to God's people. There's lots of them right now, all over the place. If that's so, then why don't you trip over them? Well, I've bumped into some. If you're not, perhaps it's an example of how a thief never seems to find a policeman. Oh, and it's cute that the one measure of who's a "true" Christian is "the Christians who agree with me are the true Christians, and the ones who don't, are not the true Christians." Signs and miracles appear with plenty of Christians with whom you disagree and on whom you slap a label. "I don't always see religion as positive." Nobody does, and pretending they do doesn't change that. But I agree with James that there's a place for pure religion, and there's a place for doing good works. I've found that those determined to vilify ALL doing of good works CATEGORICALLY are doing so for an unstated reason- usually to excuse themselves from lifting a finger. That certainly was what we were taught in twi, quite often.[/b]

That sounds familiar, but no names leap out at me yet.

And his knowledge of history was a bit shaky- I don't know it it's improved since then. He wrote a song once about a New Yorker and said he was born in West Virginia.

"Corrupt religion" is not separate from "religion"- it is a subset of religion where it is misapplied. So, if you've seen "corrupt religion", you've seen "religion"- and that's just following the rules of the English language. For that matter, "true Christianity" and "religion" are not exclusive categories, either. James 1:26-27 (KJV) 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Here, James was making "religion" sound like a POSITIVE thing, something done by "true Christians." In fact, he gave guildelines for how to properly conduct one's "religion." Yes, the word "religion" in the Greek is "threskeia", which refers to actions, but Bullinger seemed to be obsessed with considering it a diametrically-opposed OPPOSITE to godliness. If James 1 is correct, then Bullinger was wrong, plain and simple. (Go ahead, check his Greek lexicon. I once used the definitions for "eusebia/ godliness" and "threskeia/religion" and how they contrasted, according to Bullinger, and wrote a whole teaching around that, a long time ago. So, that's going to stay with me.) James wrote about right actions. He concluded James 1 with that comment, and all of chapter 2 seems to be about how important it is to ACT rightly, to DO rightly, to PERFORM rightly. He talks about the importance of "works"- of acting rightly. If one is determined to ONLY see "works" as "the opposite of grace and unnecessary for Christians"- which WAS pushed by vpw- then one's understanding will be stunted, as will one's spiritual growth. In the Bible, neither "works" nor "religion" are dirty words.... no matter who taught you otherwise.

"We've got to catch those thieves red-handed." "What color are their hands now?"

https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/25452-dark-world-of-megachurches/

Ah, the prosperity gospel, name it and claim it, is also known as the Word of Faith movement. We were already discussing them.... https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/25436-the-dangerous-word-of-faith-movement-and-how-it-harmed-christians-in-twi/

It's "the Wizard of Oz."