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War of the Worlds was also a movie. That doesn't make it possible.

No, you didn't stump us at all. Why, just the other day my friends and I were preparing a Traxx/Sand Pebbles double feature. Sigh!

After they're through with the Greek alphabet, they go with cartoon and/or comic strip characters. Hurricane Atom Ant Hurricane Bugs Bunny Hurricane Chilly Willy Hurricane Dumbo Hurricane Elmer Fudd Hurricane Fred (from Scooby Doo) Hurricane Goofy Hurricane Heckle Hurricane Itchy Hurricane Jekyll Hurricane Kenny Hurricane Linus Hurricane Marvin the Martian Hurricane Nancy Hurricane Opus Hurricane Peppermint Patty Hurricane Quick Draw McGraw Hurricane Raggedy Ann Hurricane Shaggy Hurricane Tweety Hurricane Ursula Hurricane Velma Hurricane Woody Woodpecker Hurricane Xavier, Professor Hurricane Yosemite Sam Hurricane Ziggy

Once again, for everyone who left: History proved us right! Justify your FAILURE to get out earlier all you want. I'm glad I left in 1989 and I'd do it again.

These came in from readers...

You sure you want your address on a public forum?

Jerry, He's implying no such thing. :)

It's all on the honor system, Sudo.

A car stuck in a tree.

It was NEVER reasonable, and it wasn't carnal "all of a sudden." It was carnal when VPW did it. It was carnal every single time it was done, whether by VPW or LCM. One thing you seem to be missing is that regardless of your defense of LCM's letter, people saw through it. People knew this letter for what it proved to be, and that means looking beyond what's actually on the page and seeing what was really happening.

Fierce Creatures Jamie Lee Curtis Trading Places Note: Firece Creatures, though it featured many of the same cast members, was not a sequel to A Fish Called Wanda.

From the newspaper.

Umm, I looked for specifics. So did WordWolf. And again, we were told that God chose VPW and VPW chose Craig, so either Craig was right or God is stupid. Those were our options: follow Craig, or follow a stupid God. Specifically, we left right then, not to follow a vague VF, but to get away from a megalomaniacal LCM. We could see it then, and history proved us right, despite your protestations that things were fine for five years afterward. That's like saying the Titanic was fine for more than an hour after it hit the iceberg. Blissful.

Rascal, That's a winner!

Yeah, Pirate, come on. Stand up and deliver the name of this movie for us.

The Doctrinal section was the ideal place for the PFAL Review and Blue Book threads, back in the day. It was also the location of a real dragout fight between Jerry Barrax and me on the validity of the epistle of James. I think we both got a lot out of that one.

Some pics...

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

That's me.

I'm okay, family's okay. Just tired. Oh, and we stink. :)

I killed him. His body's decomposing in my lockerrrrrrr.

Let's bottom line this: If you didn't think LCM was standing on the Word, you left when you got that letter, because it was clear that he was using the ministry as a bully pulpit and had no intention of changing. If you did think LCM was sincere in his efforts to change, you stayed, figuring the people who were leaving were not giving him a fair shake, and that the demands for "change" were too vague anyway, and there was work to do that was not getting done. I think history proved the first group was correct, but I can't blame anyone in the second group for drawing that conclusion. It was reasonable, given the absence of information. However, I can't see how anyone could look back, knowing what we know now, and think staying was the right thing to do. That's just blissfull, in my opinion.