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Sorta Strange, I never knew him from TWI, but a blues guitarist friend of mine raves about him, I saw him at a festival a few years back performing. After checking his schedule I just missed him earlier this week when I was down in Mystic. Connecticut, He is passing through and playing in my town on the 23rd. If Im in town I'll go check him out at the Red Lion -- write down your comments, memories or whatever --I'll print out the thread and give it to him-or at least tell him y'all say hi

I havent read through this entire thread but doesnt it seem strange to anyone else at all that Wierwille is being compared to King David ? Wierwille was just one of hundreds of thousands (millions maybe) of ministers priests and rabbis that is around at any point in time. He was a little charismatic but nothing special, he wasnt even all that good ( fired from his denomination and plagiarised his books and classes) and certainly not honorable at what he did do---and David (David?!?)is the first thing out of the hat to compare him to? You cant really be serious are you? wierwille? He was second rate in his own lifetime in spite of all his scamming and built a small corporation. He wasnt anything even closely (within a few trillion billion lightyears) approaching David no matter how imaginative or VPidolatrous you get Why not compare him to the high school teachers we read about that have sex with their students, they too must've taught "thousands' of students, At least then you would have a realistic comparison But cmon King David? Get Real Maybe this should be in The Just Plain Silly Forum

Here's a review of where we are so far of probably the best show that has ever been on TV( not for the easily offended) any predictions?

I may bequeath my seat to Bolshevik A few weeks back MLB.COm ran an article saying that the Cy Young was Matsuzakas to lose, and rated him higher than Santana. It seemed a bit of a stretch considering he had yet to through a single major league pitch at the time, and guys like Verlander didnt even make the list We will see what the new wunderkind does, so far so good on the diamond. Its going to be an adjustment to see signs for Dunkin Donuts and Sullivan Tires in Japanese around the ballpark though as well as the mob of Japanese Media that is everywhere all the time Speaking of different announcers I understand that the Red Sox games are now all on TV in Japan ( The Red Sox had alot of plans up their sleeve besides pitching when spending the 100+Mil to get him-like opening up the asian market..) Im gonna have to try and find a Red Sox broadcast in japanese one of these days-that ought to be an experience. So far no injuries from JD, although he looks just a bit too mellow after years of watching Trot Nixon in right.

although wordwolf interjected , i still havent heard where Lone Wolf, precise researcher that he is ,came up with the 100,000 Born Again number, Like most things in the TWI arsenal of truth it is either overblown or not true at all. i have no doubt that some people learned how to do what The Way calls "speaking in tongues" , whether anyone was actually regenerated or born anew in TWI is questionable, no matter how many doctrines and books they came to memorize, how many classes they attended, people stayed pretty much who they were except with a new spiel and something else to keep them occupied on weeknights. The lazy stayed lazy, the hard working kept being hard working, the honest were still honest, the dishonest still dishonest, and the criminal still criminal. and their lives followed a natural arc that didnt change all that much because of some misperceived divine intervention other than some tossed their dollars to build VP a nice corporation. Some gave up drugs,or alcohol, bought a new car or got 'mraculously' healed from a cold or something and credited God but it all most likely would have happened anyway. I'll agree with Abigail on this one, although I have met many churchgoers that far exceed any wayites in biblical insights, the primary focus of most churches isnt to produce walking lexicons, but unlike The Way, people that walk the walk

7 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 10 K's The Beginning of an Era??

Serious question ----How did you come up with this 100,000 number, was this some special revelation, a voice out of a burning bush or something?

I love all sorts of music, Im especially fond of things that just sort of happen in front of me with no effort of my own, I didnt know what to post on this thread, as most of the music I listen to, is normal people pickin on the backporch, or relative unknowns and not real music 'biz' or well known stuff, just things that crosss my pathI was working in a big old Episcopal church earlier this week, and they were rehearsing music for Holy Week, Im just as apt to listen to someone playing a banjo, Im a big old guy but this particular piece in that setting was so sublime it nearly moved me to tears.I hope that you dont mind a change of pace.St. Matthews Passion- J.S. Bach

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Loincloths are big with the church crowd, maybe I can sneak a Hanes tag on my next one So far Ive managed to avoid the type of controversy stirred up earlier this week by the restaurant in NY that chose neither boxers, briefs or loincloths and wanted to display a lifesize, naked chocolate Jesus on Good Friday over their buffet table. The Catholics got a little upset...gees i cant understand why

Im sure that if you looked hard enough someone out there still believes that Koresh was the "real Deal", or Moe Berg or any of the off the wall bible quoters anywhere. People still hold a religious fervency for L.Ron Hubbard and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi even though their stuff has been debunked time and time again for decades, it goes with the cult territory Im not going to get worked up that someone thinks Wierwille is 'The Real Deal", go right ahead believe it. Its your life The Titanic is unsinkable and the moon is made of creamcheese too.

At least you were smart enough to put it in just plain silly. Years ago I put a stained glass window of Adam in some offbrand church and had to remove it and redo the chest-without a naval- ( iwas tempted to give him a big old potbelly when I had to change it all but I didnt..) Ive only done a few since then but I always ask how they want him- So far Ive got 4 with, 1 without and 1 half hid behind a bush. and No-- Ive never put a depiction of Eve having a lesbian affair in any house of worship

Send him packing [ 6 ] [30.00%] Let the Lowlife stay [ 14 ] [70.00%] I dont know how this will break down when it comes to the electoral votes or if there were/are any irregularities in South Florida or Ohio If there are hanging chads will they be fixed with ductape?

I may do that Rock Its amazing what a difference a day makes---Ive been sort of take it or leave it so far, but its mid afternoon and today I am home and watching Papi drive in the first run of the year and Schilling on the mound again... Opening Day Opening Day despite all the trite comments about how everyone is even today, and the hope,rebirth life and spring all those things that we have read a thousand times about opening day I do know one thing, After battling through a long cold dark New England winter, no matter what happened yesterday-good or bad- today is better, because today there is baseball and I finally feel like Im home again

I wish I had a nickel for every Im gonna leave thread on GS, Id have my own jet on 24 hour call by now. So there is a bit of a CLASH, big deal. Decide what you want to do and do it, be responsible for yourself

Some Red Sox fans might pay that much, I would hope that the oldtime fans like myself would constrain themselves somewhat. The problem has been that the new owners are so good at marketing that it has not only brought new fans to the park, but it has also become the cool and hip place to go-baseball fan or not. There are mountains of people who will spend any amount to 'be there' and have the expereince, while only being casual fans, who would just as soon go to the Art Museum, or take a weekend trip to NYC instead. Fenway only seats 35,000, they could probably sell close to 60,000 per game now, so tickets skyrocket. So , for me it will be once and awhile, and high school and minor league games -which suits me just fine. Some of the best games that I have seen in the last few years have been in the Little League

O No 5 bucks? what is this world coming to? The Red Sox not only have the highest ticket prices in the majors but they are next to impossible to get at face value, The entire season is already totally sold out, ticket agencies and scalpers have the only 'ins' 'to gobble up any nonseason ticket holder tickets, so unless you are close in and have a connection (which I am not anymore), have business with some corporation that has tickets or are just plain extremely lucky, you pay through the nose.. HERE'S an average link to buy early season, midweek tickets against the Mariners from a ticket agency. Box seat $1495.00 each down to obstructed view standing room at $195.00 each. Thats just one ticket, bring a date or god forbid a coupla kids, park and allthe extras and ...well...its truely obscene. There is a part of me that wishes that the Red Sox would s u c k for a few years, so all the people who have showed up in the last 4-5 years would leave, things could get somewhat back to normal, and you could walk into the park whenever you felt like it and enjoy a game without mortgaging your future. Being the 40th anniversary of the 67 RedSox Impossible Dream Pennant Winners, I hunted down my World Series Stub. It was $3.25 to sit about 20 Rows right behind first. There is something vastly wrong when you can afford great seats at a World Series game when you are 12, but even mediocre seats at a regular season game is a stretch when you are 51

The more I hear about McCourt the more he sounds like a world class idiot, but ...on the otherhand (which I know is no consolation) I could say 'Gees you got parkin? Im payin at least $40.00 and handing my keys to some dude who could be the neighborhood crack dealer for all I know, everytime I want to park--and then I still have half a mile at least to walk..." Maybe you'd feel better if you let your inner NewYorker out on someone in the front office. I do every once in awhile and occassionally it nets some results. If not at least I get to vent my frustrations on some poor soul and I feel a little better I read that Nomar and Mia just had twins, Id be concerned how Nomars gonna play with about 10 minutes of sleep a night this year

Go Kristopher! I love watching little ones play, Im not touching that bet! I was 3rd base coach for my friends Tball team a few years back-- I spent most of the first few games running into left field to pick the kids up and aim them towards third. They would hit second and just keep going straight into left field. Also, I would get them ready to run home on contact - more kids than you think would just get so keyed up they'd take off for home without anything even happening. By the end of the year I had those kids running the bases like Maury Wills. Watching those kids enjoy the game as much as I used to, and passing it on to them was fantastic.

I grew up in the Boston Suburbs. It was a buck to get into Fenway and 85 cents for the trainride in those days. I had a paper route which was good to get me to 4 or 5 games a month, and of course like any kid I was good at sneaking down to the field boxes since Fenway was rarely more than half full in those days. I miss the flagpole in center which actually used to be on the field until 66 and would cause for some interesting play a few times ayear. I still have a huge slice of green paint (about 20 coats thick) that I scraped from the left field wall. I live almost exactly equidistant from Fenway and Yankee Stadium now. Cant say that Ive ever met Marichal or Mantle, nor knowingly shot pool with any big names... I met Bernie Carbo, (in his "Legends Of The Game" jacket) in a crummy Laundromat in Florida, had my brakes done in Puerto Rico by ex Soz pitcher Rogelio Moret, and got in a baseball argument in a diner with some guy who later turned out to be Hall Of Famer Johnny "No Hit" Vander Meer...and a few other short encounters. I wonder what Mantle was doing in Rome City

One of the things that sticks out to me right now as an amazing memory was seeing Joe Dimaggio hit a rocket line drive single in an old timers game at Yankee Stadium in the Mid-70's, He had to have been in his 60's and was way before my time as a godlike legend. Most of the oldtimers, looked like old timers, playing soft toss and looking sort of out of place in the batters box. Joe still looked svelte, in shape and like Joe in the batters box-He hit a solid line drive to centerfield on the first pitch I can say I saw Joe D get a hit. There has been a lot of other moments, back to back to back homeruns in game 6 of the 67 World Series..d series, Denny Mclains 27th win in 68, Mantle hitting 2 in the first game I ever saw at Fenway... Did you bring home any part of the Polo Grounds? I have aseat from Fenway (long story for another day) Ive had a few encounters with ballplayers. Jim Bouton is a townie I see him every once in awhle

Im primarily Scottish with a touch of German on my fathers side, and English/Welsh on my mothers side, with (im sure) the occasionally thrown in odd duck on both sides. My Scot ancestors gave a whirl to Ireland for about 40 years, but there was antagonism toward the scots who had been moved in by the English so they then migrated after a short stay on to America in the early 1700's. As far as I know not a drop of Irish blood, but St. Patrick was actually a native born Scotch lad, so I'll still take time to recognize his life and accomplishments, (quite the WOW he was ) I'll be skipping the green beer though

Weve had a few talks in here about having a balanced view of things especially during some of the previous years Sox-Yankees games when they were at fever pitch that I got caught into-- (at least to me)...I enjoy the game for itself but do have a tendency to get swept away-you make watching the game an art form. Is that normal? Well it wouldn be bad if it was.. They'll never know and never ever come close, I was raised from the womb with stories, of Ruth , Foxx, Lefty Grove Ted Williams, Jimmy Piersall, and intricacies of games 50 years past, as was everyone that I knew growing up..It was (and styill is a common bond for New Englanders.... I got my own baptism during the Impossible Dream season of 1967, which season rekindled the (sometimes rocky) love affair that still burns brightly.