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I'd disqualify "Zeta" as being some way to get the "Zee" sound, primarily because it's not even a "Zee" sound. It's a "Zay" sound. I'm not nuts about the Saw Knife Red Engine, either. :)

Happy Birthday ILB! And WELCOME MR. PIPES. Welcome to Greasespot. Welcome to Freedom. Welcome to Fresh Air. And welcome to Greasespot Coffee: Better than Starbucks!

Oldies, lean real close to the monitor for this one: It was an intentional, systematic, planned, event by Hitler and Co.

Because a. it is not worthy of an intellectual response, and b. an intellectual response was provided and ignored. Let's be real, here: The Ashkenazi Jews for the most part share a genetic link with other Jews, proving the very common background ck claimed would not be found. Somewhere between five and six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Many were gassed. And it was a coordinated campaign to exterminate Jews. This is indisputable history, not some idea the Jews made up to gain sympathy from the world (fat lot of good that did them, anyway: much of the world still hates them). We've documented this, and anyone who cares to do the slightest research on this, real research, will see it because it is so well-documented. So the people who believe in documented history are now the "detractors" who "smear," according to WTH, and you demand OTHERS provide an intellectual reply? Here's an intellectual reply: If this thread were the only posts I'd ever seen from CK and WTH, I would be forced to conclude that they are among the stupidest people on the face of God's green earth.

I'd put it second. Oh, wait, "intellectual." You're right. :) I had no bad experiences during the time I would count myself among Geer's "followers," but the limited foreknowledge thing was my breaking point. Not because it's wrong and my view is right (although that is my belief) but because it was so easily refutable. The CES/STFI presentation is tougher to argue with because they have thought through the very verses WordWolf and I raised in objection to Geer's presentation. I disagree with STFI's conclusion, but their presentation is at least 50x better than Geer's. Still, I always thought of Geer as a good presenter and a decent teacher, if not a terribly exciting one. I didn't find out the bad stuff until Waydale/Greasespot.

Hey, Star Trek fans: note anything interesting in this pic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germa...entration_camps

Answer away!

The chapter is a highlight itself... I keep reading it just to prove to myself it was actually posted.

Lest What the Hey's "highlights"... hahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! HA!HA!HA! Hah. Sigh. Where was I? Oh yes: for those interested in a refutation of the nonsense that appears in What the Hey's Greatest Hits list above: Click here to see the evidence that, yes, there were gas chambers and, yes, there was a concerted campaign to exterminate Jews and, yes, the figure six million is a pretty good estimate. I'm still at a loss for words over the actual post, but why stupidity should surprise me at this stage is probably the greater mystery.

What the Hey, And to think, I've actually tried using reason to argue with you. You have absolutely outdone yourself. The whole chapter is a highlight? Woohoo!

You shouldn't find it odd at all. No one's heard of TWI, pretty much. It was always a wannabe organization. About a year or two ago, I did a story noting that the greatest increase in the number of Hispanics in America was in Raleigh, North Carolina. True story. No other region had seen a greater increase: 900%. I loved saying it, because it's so counterintuitive. But while that fact is true, it can be misleading. The addition of every single Hispanic in the community had an effect on the numbers because the numbers were so small to begin with. If the Hispanic population of Raleigh went from 1 to 10, that would be a 900% increase. But it's still only nine people. Why am I saying this? Because TWI was called something like the second fastest growing cult in America. Well, duh, of course it was. The baseline was so small and the introduction of the marketing device of PFAL contributed to produce seriously impressive numbers, when you look at percentages. When you look at raw numbers, I've never even heard anyone claim "200,000." The most I ever heard was 100,000 having taken PFAL (though I imagine the actual number probably is closer to 200,000). So, let's be generous. 200,000 members (assuming everyone who took the class stayed for a little while). In a population of some 250 million (give or take 50 million, depending on what year we're looking at). Someone check my math: 0.08 percent? One in every 1,250 Americans. And that's assuming a number of participants, 200,000, higher than anyone has ever claimed. Jehovah's Witnesses, by contrast, have 5.6 million worldwide, 1.064 million in the U.S. They increase by 280,000 a year (in one year, they outdo TWI's 60-year track record. Think about that). They probably lose more people in a year than TWI ever had, too. And we wonder why even a cult researcher never heard of TWI? Simple: TWI is a pis/s/ant organization that would have loved to be the cult everyone feared it would be, but it was at most a blip on the radar screen as far as these organizations go. We think of it as significant because we were in it. But as far as anyone looking to study cults, TWI was way low on a list of way lows.

No. I've done it before and I'm tired of having to restate what I've already stated. You already know everything you need to know in order to look it up. Hint: It starts with a G and ends with an oogle.

It was page one.

Tom, you must have missed this post:

THE-Day. April 21, 2000. A day which shall live in TWIstory.

The problem is genetics has proven that the Ashkenazi Jews share a Middle Eastern, not Eastern European, ancestry. Which makes Koestler's thesis moot. It's like saying the moon is made of green cheese. A while ago, we couldn't really disprove it. But after we sent people up there and they came back with rocks and not cheese, you would have to revel in your ignorance to hold onto the green cheese claim (and the Thirteenth Tribe).

This is THE

It is THE's birthday today!

I've always heard this the other way around: How do you know the toothbrush was invented in Arkansas? If it were invented anywhere else, it would have been called a teethbrush.

Wow. That IS a HUGE volume difference. Be warned, folks.

Check the anniversary thread. Click here.

Crash!

A computer burp gets half of an anniversary thread. Unbelievable.

Ok, I need to step in here... Listen, guys, I'm all for flexibility, but I must say that a Broom is not Doom, and another pic should be chosen for that. You can't get "doom" from "broom," or even "dustbroom." That's taking flexibility a tad too far (and this is coming from the yutz who posted "big apple, big apple," so it's not that I'm being completely inflexible).