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I see what you did there. Did you see what I did? Cool.

Wrong Black wiseass.

Nope. Spoil away, I say. Gonna be a while before I'm caught up.

By the way, if you want to explore what you believe and what others think about it, we have a whole section dedicated to doctrinal discussions. By all means, chime in!

The ability to deceive yourself is crucial to the kind of group cohesion TWI tried to cultivate. Trick enough people into deceiving themselves, each believing that no one else is deceiving themselves, and you have mass delusion as cult paste! That's why it was so necessary for them to get as many of us as possible to speak in tongues at the same time, and for TWI to be the people who taught us how to do it. The notion that you faked it is easy for you to believe. The notion that everyone faked it is harder for you to accept, because now you're thinking evil of people, and thinking evil is a big no-no, don't ya know. Most people think too highly of their critical thinking skills to even begin to entertain the notion that they might have participated in their own duping.

Fisher and Lucas were the couple kissing and floating into the sky when Tink takes adult Peter from London. Gwynneth Paltrow was a montage Wendy ["Peter!"] Amber Scott was Peter's daughter, Maggie. Caroline Goodall was his wife, Moira.

Phil Collins Maggie Smith Glenn Close David Crosby Gwynneth Paltrow Amber Scott Caroline Goodall Carrie Fisher and George Lucas (though you'd never know it).

Phil Collins Maggie Smith Glenn Close David Crosby

I'm counting about a thousand posts on this thread, so the likelihood of a repeat is high. Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino had acted together in the Godfather Part II, but they had no scenes together because their scenes took place in different timelines. The "now that we're face to face" conversation had a double meaning for that reason. This was indeed Heat. You're up.

I like the guess. It's wrong, but I like it. Think "face to face" in its more common usage, not literal (literal, but not THAT literal). It wasn't just the CHARACTERS who got face to face for the first time in this scene.

Oh good, he got Beat Shazam already. The Wayne Brady show was called "Don't Forget the Lyrics"

To me, everything about "The Mike Wars" is encapsulated in the following: Mike believes PFAL is God-breathed. PFAL defines the qualities of the God-breathed Word. PFAL does not meet the qualities of the God-breathed Word. PFAL is not God-breathed. The end. I truly don't understand why it's still a conversation, except that Mike (like every religious adherent before and after him) simply ignores the evidence to the contrary and insists his position has "stood the test of time" for the simple reason that he refuses to abandon it. The test of time is not relevant. The test of critical analysis is. Here's what we did NOT address in "The Mike Wars." PFAL is not God-breathed IF it is correct about the qualities of the God-breathed Word. The Bible is not God-breathed if PFAL is correct about the qualities of the God-breathed Word. Now, here's the amusing thing: The Bible never claims, of itself, that it is God-breathed. The Bible actually makes ZERO claims about itself, because the Bible is not an "It." It's a collection of many books, only a very few of which even recognize the mere existence of other books in the collection. When "Paul" wrote "All scripture is given by inspiration of God," he was in all likelihood not talking about his own letters, and all but certainly not referring to gospels that had yet to be written. Is PFAL God-breathed. I can't participate in the discussion anymore. Nothing is God-breathed. But if you want to engage, you need to be consistent: If PFAL is not God breathed, what's your standard for reaching that conclusion, and does the Bible itself meet that standard? If not, how does anyone deny Mike's position (my original answer still holds).

"You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we've been face to face, if I'm there and I gotta put you away, I won't like it. But I tell you, if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow, brother, you are going down." "There's a flip side to that coin. What if you got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way. We've been face to face, yeah. But I will not hesitate. Not for a second." [Major clue: "Now that we've been face to face" is a reference to the plot, but it was much, much more than that.]

So you're saying I shouldn't fail to recall the words of the song

I used to watch the Wayne Brady show, but I could never remember the line.

Man man man man man man man Patricia Clarkson as the dutiful wife man man man man Untouchables? Nope, no Cromwell. LA Confidential? Nope, no Clarkson. Shawshank... Green Mile... Wait, yes Green Mile. Final answer.

"Why'd I get mixed up with that b*tch?" "Because she's got a GREAT A$$! And YOU'VE got YOUR HEAD ALL THE WAY UP IT!"

John, As a whole, I think the ex-way community owes you a tremendous debt. I am not terribly impressed with this video, even though I agree with your assertions and conclusions. I feel like you never quite decided who your audience is. For example, when I worked on my original review of the Blue Book, my audience was Christian former Way believers who did not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. When I worked on Actual Errors, my audience was people who need to understand that PFAL is not God-breathed because it fails to meet its own definition of the term. It was never intended to discredit PFAL. Just to show that it was not inerrant. Specific purpose and specific audience. I can't tell who your audience is with this video. Is it us? Is it the current TWI follower with a few doubts? Is it the longstanding splinter group follower? I cannot tell, and that weakens the video. I strongly suggest re-thinking your approach and maybe tackling it one audience at a time. Again, I am in your debt and grateful for your stand. Peace.

Actually, I think No Way Out was made first (I THINK), but The Untouchables was released first, and THAT was his breakout role. Pretty sure I've done this before, but whatever: "I'm angry. I'm very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullsh** house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my f***ing television set!"

Yes, that was a hint. "No Way Out" is the correct answer. An updated remake of The Big Clock, based on a novel by Kenneth Fearing.

I haven't followed any of these shows since CRISIS/COVID. I did keep up with God Friended Me and Zoey's Extrordinary Playlist, but I have no idea how last season even ended on all the shows we've been discussing here. I suppose I can catch up over the summer (yes, I know Supergirl is ending). Is Flash even on?

Oh, good, George beat me to it. You're up!

Labyrinth. Get it? Twists? I'm lost? Maze? The babe is Jennifer Connelly (who, incidentally, was NOT Friday, but played the similar role in Spidey's suit in Far From Home). She's married to Paul Bettany (Vision, hence all the visual clues and the worthy quip). And she is smoking hot. As she was in Career Opportunities and Hulk (Betty Ross) and roughly 70 percent of my fantasies that don't involve Salma Hayek (and 40% of those that do).

Her husband doesn't deserve her. Though I suppose his worthiness is debatable. [This isn't helping because even if you know the babe, you obviously don't know the movie. WW, am I right? I did confuse two frequently confused movies, but ... oh, all right, the answer is...]

The capitalization of "THAT" was meaningless.