CKnapp3

Happy birthday to you too Alfakat. How many candles is that? I'm 2 years short of 50 Chuck

Well, I certainly can "SIT". At least I know how to babble in a manner that sounds like I'm speaking a foreign language. I also believe it doesn't take a Christian to do it. I also believe it is of no basic benefit to anyone, except those who believe it to be so. It doesn't come naturally to me, heck, in fact I can barely even get myself to do it at all. It sounds so ridiculous. And to think that we were taught this is PERFECT prayer?? What? "Well, it's the spirit that's praying to God, after all, SIT cannot be understood by men". Does the spirit find it necessary to utter strange sounds into the natural realm when it prays? You know in your own mind what your needs and your praises are. I find SIT relatively an unnecessary gesture. To me, SIT is purely a mechanical function. I fail to see anything spiritual about it. I can't say for sure what that mircale was a Pentecost, but I'm sure the disciples weren't just babbling a bunch of words that came to their mind at random. It turned out they were speaking in the languages of the locals. This "toungue of angel" is just a cheap justification for something that clearly makes no sense whatsoever. Besides, angels are spirit beings, they don't have tongues, so they have no audible language anyhow. Chuck

Well, actually, nobody got blessed by me via TWI. I guess I really didn't harm anyone either, maybe because I was willing to respect a person's individual conviction rather than try to convince him/her of the "truth". The whole experience would end up a waste of my time, so I'd just soon forget the whole thing. On a side note, I guess the only redeeming thing about this is I did make a few friends. Chuck

My screenname is no big secret. My name is Charles L. Knapp, III. Everyone who knows me just calls me Chuck. Thus, CKnapp3. I chose Bugs Bunny as my avitar because he represents the might that arises from amongst the weak. Chuck

I took the class in the summer of '77. I sort of faded away shortly after LCM's inauguration in the fall of '82. I was never really committed to TWI, and for the life of me I'm not sure why I even got minimally involved for 5 years. The people? Quite possibly since I was practaclly a loner at the time I took the class. Chuck

Thanx everyone! :D--> I'm not sure how I want to spend my birthday today. Either just rest a home or go out to a nice dinner. 48 down and 2 to go to my golden birthday. Chuck

I may have had a waybrain, but I didn't quite have a wayheart! For instance, I bought into this "eternal life is eternal life" and this "I'm going to heaven and all hell can't stop me from going". At least in my mind. Buy my heart wasn't quite buying it. Perhaps the Holy Spirit was grieving me at the idea that I'm going to heaven come hell or high water. Not so much that as the idea that I could sin and vitrually get away with it. I have since come to this conclusion: God is not going to just let me sin and get "away with it", but if He is in fact all good, neither will he sentence me to "eternal torture" for it either, which was by biggest concern rather than was I going to heaven. Not only was I waybrained, but I was also brained by other corrupt forms of religion as well, and perhaps even poisoned by it. The immortal soul doctrine for instance appalls me, especially in the case of one who might have to spend such a life in eternal torture, but I have a difficult time trying to shake it off, even though total logic tends to tell me that when you are dead, you are indeed dead! In my case, TWI may have only added poison to the dosages my parent religion doped me up with :(--> . Some help that was! Chuck

Hi Chris, Many happy returns to you too :)--> I got your message on my birthday thread How many candles if I may ask? I'll be 2 shy of the golden year. Chuck

A lot of people I know tend to think negatively about (re)making movies based on TV series of the past. ie. Beverly Hillbillies, Leave it to Beaver, Dennis the Menace, just to name a few. They feel, and I might agree somewhat to nix the idea as you can't improve on a classic. What's your take on it? Chuck

As far as that is concerned, you ARE a revvie, Raffi :D--> ;)--> Maybe I should get one of those ordinations myself, I've always wanted to perform marriages. Maybe that can be a second income for me ;)--> Reverend Chuck, kinda has a ring to it :D-->

WOW!!!! When's Dinner Dot? :)--> Well, I got a 60 dollar bonus last week, so I used it to buy me a new DVD player. I donated my old one to the office so that everyone (me included) can watch some movies when everything is quiet. Chuck, aka Santa Claus

Hi Lindy. I'm quite sure we've talked before, either in a chat room or on the forums. Chuck

Well, I corespond with CES myself, and I purchase materials from them. Love them or hate them, at least they don't tell you you're gonna be a greasespot by midnight if you part ways with them. I think they do leave room for an individual's personal level of faith. I personally would have second thoughts about getting into Momentus myself, though I have heard both pro and con about the seminar. Other than that, I continue to check in from time to time, and I still recieve The Sower and have considered another subscription to their magazine The Contender. I wish them Godspeed in their quests. Chuck

Hi Wonder, Well, everyone has pretty much summed it all up, but I might as well jump in and put in my nickles worth. I stopped going to TWI fellowships shortly after LCM was installed as the president. I felt a certain void, even though I was glad to be able to make the decision to do what I damn well please. I actually got involved for a short time with a tele-vangelist ministry that was pretty parallel with TWI, but got disillusioned with the preacher's legalisms. I found that I'm stuck in a lake when there's an entire ocean to discover and explore. It's ok to retain some of what you were taught and to reconsider others, what ever makes you comfortable in you heart. You can also take the teachings that are the most dear to your heart, and find a fellowship that will be in harmony with such convictions (I was surprised to find there are many). Many also don't make too big a fuss of the relatively minor issues you may not agree with, and even if they do, so what? Also, the offshoots can be beneficial, depending on whether or not they shy away from crappy TWI traditions. I personally would recommend CES. They even have levels of memeberships, depending on your individual beliefs. (BTW, I'm in the third category, where I don't agree with everything they teach and harbor some ideas they may not agree with.) Finally, if you are longing for the friends you made in TWI, you will find that many of your true friends probably left before you did. There is a forum on GS where you can look for old friends. Also the Cortright website can also be of good help. Also, it's kinda fun to make new friends who actually never so much as even heard of TWI. I remember the friends I have made, but I also enjoy the friends I have now. Welcome to Greasespot, and don't be surprised to find you will never become one :)--> Hey, after millions of midnights, I still haven't become one :D--> Chuck

Garth, I have that one on mp3. When I first heard it in 1972, it inspired me to make up a really twisted version of my own story of Santa Claus, so much that they thought it was one of the symptoms of a psychosis. :D--> Chuck p.s. Don't confuse my picture with that guy in the red suit ;)-->

"It's Christmas at Ground Zero" By "Wierd" Al Yankovic Chuck

I live in Baltimore City at upper Charles Village. I'm 1 block from JHU. Chuck

"Well, well, well, for seventy-five bucks I get to make it with a rubber dolly!" Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in "The Enforcer"

For those who want to sell anything that has been recorded, either a piece of music or even a video, consider this: A lot of material that was made before 1963 (particularly vintage tv shows) have entered the public domain. If an item is in the public domain, then it's fair game for anyone. I don't have the time or energy to go into all of what consitutes public domain, but a simple key word in the web search like "public domain" can definately help you, and also you can look at the copyright archives to see if an item has been in fact renewed for a copyright. Just a little tip I'd thought I'd pass on. I tend to think that much of the golden oldies music is in the P.D., which is what constitues most of my mp3 collection. I do understand the need to deal with those who deprive new artists of fresh materials however. But even then, if you're a hot item (Britney Spears, i.e.), then fans will pay to see you in concert, so as an artist you really didn't lose all your due revenues. I think the ones who really are doing the bitching are the record producers because you're cutting off their piece of the pie by producing your own disks. Hey, many aspiring musicians can pretty much cut out that middle man and produce their own CDs for a fraction of what it used to cost to sign a contract with a record producer (especially in the days of phonographs). Chuck

Q: How can you tell if Miss Piggy and Kermit tied the knot? A: Your pork chops start to taste like frog legs. Having ham with a few frog legs on the side, Chuck

"I like beer, it makes me a jolly good fellow; I like beer, it helps me unwind, and sometimes it makes me feel mellow...." ~Tom T. Hall Chuck

A veggie dog! Now I've seen everything :D--> Feeding the puppy after mowing the lawn, Chuck

Very funny :)--> I'm also a native of Oakland. Chuck

Naturally the Chesapeake Bay, Quiet, Vast, and Fascinating

......you can drink a 12 pack of beer and have a ball!!!!! :D--> ......it's perfectly all right to call on God to damn something that doesn't bless you! ;)--> God Dammit!!!!! :D--> Chuck