Mister P-Mosh

I'm just here to hang out, and to see the occasional bits new information as we wait for TWI to close shop. I have family still in TWI, and some friends that I wish would come here but prefer to just keep TWI out of mind. I'm here in case they happen to stumble across this site and I can talk to them without any preconcieved notions about the real life me, because I was fairly good at pretending to be a strong TWI follower at the end up until I just dissapeared from them one day. I also come here because I think there are a lot of good people, and believe it or not I do find this site to be somewhat therapeutic. I hate to psychoanalyze myself and open myself up to criticism, but some of the arguments and frustrations I have here stem from similar frustrations I have with my parents, who are still in TWI. We all seem to have some traits of TWI still in our logic, and I wish everyone could just drop them. I even recognize it in my own life, and I don't like it, but I haven't completely figured out how to ditch 100% of my waybrain yet. I'm working on it though.

That makes sense then, and an even bigger compliment to her since she was single at the time but still said no. The way you worded it was ambiguous and that is how it sounded. Just from knowing your words here, you didn't seem like the type that would have let anyone get away with something like that, so it seemed odd. In any case, as you said, she stood her ground and he left her alone.

TWI's biblical research was a sham anyway though, so his "spiritual maturity" was probably the same level as VPWs. The only difference is that VPW was already a con man, and LCM may have started out as a good kid who joined up with TWI and could not handle the real world as a result and thus went bat$#!+ crazy. You must have been a different person back then...I would have trouble believing that you wouldn't beat the crap out of him for doing that. After you left things got a lot worse than you remember, at least I think so. Some of the things TWI taught were very mentally damaging to people. During the start of his "great homo hunt" I remember how he made me feel guilty, even though I found the idea of two men together disgusting. He turned the Rock of Ages, which had been a fairly decent experience previously, into a huge guilt trip where McCarthy would have felt right at home. Everyone was suspicious, everyone was feeling beat down, and you didn't feel safe anymore. Things only went downhill from there, and it was the first time I really understood that LCM was a nut. Yes, I bought into his B.S. for a while, but fortunately I woke up out of TWI's grasp and figured out how to live life on my own terms without feeling guilty or fearful. You've made it sound like he's a lot like Darth Vader (sorry, Star Wars is on my mind) or MacBeth. However, I doubt that he really feels remorse for what he did. He's had chances to come clean and show that he truly regrets what he did. From what I can tell, he really only regrets that he got caught, and TWI still covers up what he did.

Good luck with it. There are some people around here that know web development and other stuff that may be able to give you some advice if you ever need any. The two things I'd suggest right off the bat is 1) do not list your real email address there like you have on the "Contact" page, because you'll get a lot of spam. Even the phone and address information could be a problem for you in some circumstances. Also, if possible you might want to remove the "Admin" link or at least hide it. You are the only administrator of your site, so me as a general user could only end up being confused by seeing it, or clicking it and being taken away from your website completely. Other than that, I think it looks great and I wish you luck.

We don't know that to be true. Just because someone has a job doesn't mean that they actually do the work.

As far as Hollywood types go, I met Rick Flair once, and I hit the lead singer of the band Staind (not extremely hard as I was in a mosh pit and just trying to get people away) one time. As far as politics go, I met the governor of a state in a funny situation once, but I won't go too much into that story because it is too easily traceable to me. Oh, and as far as Mexican famous people go, I've got a few stories but I doubt anyone here other than possibly Raf would know who they are, and even then it's not too likely. The funniest was when I was in a hotel and saw a famous Mexican pop star (I want to say Paulina Rubio, but it wasn't her, but someone similar) who I said looked like a prostitute. I also got movie tickets in a VIP theater down there (VIP theaters are basically in big recliners in stadium seating where you can order food and drinks, plus they have a special waiting room prior to the movies where you can order drinks and such) where my wife and I were the only other people in the theater besides Jorge Vergara, a famous businessman, and his two kids. I don't know if it would be a really apt comparison, but he's become sort of like a Donald Trump of Mexico. Other than that, I might get to go meet the members of the Gypsy Kings soon, but we'll see if I have time to go or not.

Like I said, it's a neocon dreamworld where torture is fine and dandy, where the terrorists are advanced, and the U.S. Constitution is just red tape that gets in the way of good guys. However, if you take it as a completely fictional piece of work, it's interesting to watch. I don't know why since the acting is horrible, but I think it's how fast paced it is. I'm a huge fan of the Grand Theft Auto series of video games, but I don't condone committing those crimes in real life either. It's the same thing.

How do they do this? As far as I can tell, all that the gay rights movement is trying to do is to be on equal footing with heterosexuals. If anyone is putting their sexuality in anyone's faces, it's heterosexuals. When I go to the Border's or Barnes and Nobles bookstores on the weekends, the seating areas are always makeout places for teenagers (note to ex10, don't let your daughter go do "homework" at those places on the weekend if you don't know that is what happens there) and legit customers who simply want to sit and read have nowhere to go. This is a direct result of heterosexuals infringing on my time and space, and forcing their sexuality on my surroundings in public. This does not mean that I oppose heterosexuality, since I am straight myself, but I don't like people doing stuff like that which affects the public negatively. On the other hand, if I were to see two men walking down the street holding hands or cuddling, I would not be harmed by it. Sure, they are acting gay in public (sort of like George W. Bush does with the Saudis) but it doesn't affect me. On the other hand, if people are gay they are harassed and told that they are not normal and deviant, so they grow up with mental problems as well. If someone is gay and their parents hate them and kick them out of their house as a child, they will grow up with problems. Since being homosexual is considered to be horribly wrong in our culture, this happens a lot, and thus the numbers of homosexuals with mental illnesses is higher than the number of heterosexuals with mental illnesses. There's no proof that the actual homosexuality is the cause of them, but rather how others behave with them and treat them. There are straight "NAMBLA-styled" groups as well. Would you feel any better if 50 year old men were wanting to go after your teenage girls? The thing that is so offensive is that they target children who are not responsible enough to make their own decisions in life and have an instinctive trust of adults that gets breached.

Ok...since I seem to be ahead with work today and having a slow day, I'll do it, but trying to make it brief. BOOKS - Read all of the LOTR series, the Hobbit, the Simarillion, and a few other Tolkien books, multiple times. - Voluntarily read books on accounting. - Read too many computer related books to count, probably in the hundreds. - Also a fan of Tad Williams, Dan Brown, Piers Anthony, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Michael Chrichton, and quite a few other scifi and fantasy authors. Even a fan of classic books by authors like George Orwell, Pearl S. Buck, etc. - Reads a lot of books about politics and the world we live in, hoping to get a better understanding of things that I can't easily get first hand. The latest read was "Fast Food Nation" which after reading "The Jungle" years ago, has got me on a bit of an organic food kick. - Read a lot of non-fiction by authors like Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Paul Krugman, and Michael Moore (the last one was included as a joke to rile people up. I've never actually read an entire book by him.) MOVIES - If it's scifi, fantasy, or even most cult films, I've seen it. Including Plan 9 from Outer Space and most if not all of the Godzilla movies. Things like the LOTR, HHGTG, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. go without needing to be said. I've seen them all. - The original Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw, even though I was a newborn and didn't really "see" it, but I was told that it was the first movie I ever saw. - I'm also a huge fan of scifi TV, even though other than this past winter I haven't watched a lot other than on DVD. Some of my favorite series are Taken, the new Battlestar Galactica (the old one is neat, in a cheesy way), all of the Stargate series, 24 (even though it's a neocon dreamworld), and a few other series that I've probably forgotten. I even watch Adult Swim on cartoon network and own between 20 and 50 anime DVDs (none of which involve schoolgirls and tentacles.) 'PUTERS - I've been interested with computers since I was a teenager playing Nintendo. Once I saw the movie "Hackers" it was all over for any other career. I had to work with computers. - A good number of you have probably used my software, although indirectly. If you've ever had to call for technical support for a number of telecoms (land lines, cellular phones, internet access, etc.) then you may have been entered into a system I developed. - I know many programming languages, including COBOL. - I worked with many different types of computers, from mainframes (I won't identify exactly which ones so a google search won't turn up my real name) to PDAs. - I've done some bad things in the past and hung out with bad people. - I know people that worked on such things as the movie Ice Age, the game Grand Theft Auto (the Xbox versions of III and Vice City), some bad Sony software that comes preinstalled on every Viao, a lot of software used by various parts of the U.S. government, and someone that works for Google. - I'll stop here because this could get a little too easily identifiable. I'll just say that I get paid a lot to travel and work with computers, and am somewhat of an expert in my field. MUSIC - I download most of my music from the internet, but actually do turn around and buy the CD if I like it. - I listen to everything from Los Lonely Boys to Nine Inch Nails to The Pogues to Plastilina Mosh, although there isn't really any continuity there. I listen to just about everything except for pop, country, and most rap. I do like Busta Rhymes and Eminem though. PETS - Ugh. My next dog will be a Sony Aibo. WORK - I combined this with the computer section because they're together for me. MODE OF TRANSPORTATION - My legs and a Corolla (which my wife usually drives.) Transportation is not as important because I try to live closer to where I work. I hate spending hours a day in traffic. If I spent two hours a day that would add up to 10 hours a week, which at an $85 per hour billing rate would add up to $850 plus gas lost for simply being annoyed. TRAVEL - Seen most of the U.S., lived in about 1/3 of the country. - Traveled to the U.K., Ireland, Canada, and Mexico. Need to travel more but I'm waiting until I have made enough money to feel more comfortable with not working so I can spend a month at a time traveling. S/O - My wife graduated at the top of her class, a year early, in CIS (computer science.) SCIENCE - I love learning about various things. A few of the things I was obssessed with at various points as a child were animals in the ocean, dinosaurs, geology, astrophysics, etc. - I think that most people argue evolution (on both sides) using B.S. that doesn't make any sense, but I have no doubt that evolution has occurred. - I don't believe that the Earth is flat, nor that it is in the shape of a ball, but rather more egg-like. - I can predict weather better than the weatherman on TV based on the NOAA data in cases of severe weather. - I can identify quite a few different types of wildlife including plants in North America (thanks Boy Scouts!) - I owned a laser before they became common tools of harassment. - As a kid, I built my own radio from one of those kits from Radio Shack, a doorbell for my bedroom, as well as some interesting chemicals that could eat through asphalt. - I can tell you what part of the brain serves what purpose, and I used to be able to remember each section of the spine, but I've forgotten what each section's nerves are responsible for now. Anyway, I could go on and on, but I have to stop for now. I tried to keep this as short as I could, especially since I don't want to "win" this contest. :D-->

I don't know that I should post my list here because it would end up being a few paragraphs for most of the items.

I once instinctively tried to throw a punch at my stepdad once, and those who know him know that he is not the best person to try something like that against. It slowed down before going as far as you and your son went, but the feelings were the same. I also had issues with my parents after I turned 18, because I felt like I should be treated as an adult and they treated me like a child still. In any case, after I did move out of my parents' house, it was the best thing for me. I learned to appreciate what my parents did and even though they didn't always do the right thing, they proved that they cared. It would probably be good for your son to have some space and move out on his own or spend some time elsewhere. He's just frustrated and not sure what to do. It's difficult being that age, but what is even worse is that he doesn't fully understand the role that his parents have played. I don't really know much about you but I do detect through what you write that you care about your family. Your son doesn't recognize that all the way now, but one day he will. Don't worry about whether or not you did a good job raising him. You did what you could do, and now he's old enough to start making some decisions on his own. You just have to be there to help him when he realizes that he needs it.

The problem there is that if God made them, then he designed them specifically to be gay. If he exists, then he has complete control unless men are more powerful than he is. So either you have a weak deity that is not actually all-powerful, or he is evil and wanted to make people bad intentionally.

What year did you leave TWI? The reason I ask is because it got much worse up until a few years after LCM left. Sure, raping kids wasn't rampant and they tried to keep the social aspects of the cult "normal", but they were very controlling. I remember submitting my personal budget to TWI leaders, filling out paperwork to get permission to go on a weekend trip, etc. That's pretty controlling to me.

Wow, I imagine this conversation has gone on between my parents many times, but they've continued to stay in TWI. It's sad, but I bet many people still in or who have stayed in a long time have thought this way.

I'd say that in some cases, people don't leave for the simple fact that they don't know what else to do. TWI occupies so much of your time and energy that you forget what life is like outside of it. You can't even think outside of their twisted framework of logic.

I sat through both, multiple times. Horrible. However, I noticed that for PFAL, people wanted to sit through it again and the places where that class was held would be packed. With WAP, they would basically yell at us for not taking it often enough and trying to make us sound like we were letting God down by not wasting another month of weekends to take it. I think that they wanted us to take it for 1) keeping us busy with TWI's business so we wouldn't see how bad things were, and 2) to make it appear to everyone that classes were full, even though the only new students are kids of people in TWI.

I'm glad you appreciated it. I didn't intend to turn the "politically correct lawsuits" topic into a debate on food, but here it is. Well, I guess I deserve it to some degree. I used to pick on people who ate organic food and were against fast food, and I dismissed what they said as a bunch of "hippie B.S." until I learned more about it myself. The reality of the food industry seems a lot like The Matrix. You can't believe that it's real until you learn about it for yourself. Combine the poor quality of food along with the research I've been doing into marketing (in an attempt to start my own business) and it's quite a bad world we live in today. I forget where, but I seem to recall somewhere in the old testament of the bible saying that knowledge increases sorrow, and it's true in this regard. I grew up on a farm for part of my life, I helped my grandparents take care of cattle, so I assumed that it all worked like that. I didn't know that there are people so heartless that they tamper with our food to make themselves richer. It's very sad. I read that the same factory that makes Estee Lauder and some other perfumes is the one that makes the perfumes that McDonalds, KFC, and other fast food restaurants use to make the tastes of their foods. Their "grilling hamburgers" smell is so chemically perfected that humans are unable to tell the difference between that and actual grilled burgers. Oh, and the portions are the other thing. If I go to the Cheesecake Factory, they serve as much food as my mother would serve to myself and my multiple siblings to share. It's amazing how huge portions have gotten. My wife and I split food on the days we go out to eat, and even then usually end up taking stuff home. There's also the fact that the original adult sized portions at McDonalds are the "happy meal" sizes of today. Supposedly you can still order the "All American Meal" and get the original sized portions, but I doubt most people would want to.

I saw an episode where he returned to France to see his brother who had a winery, where he considered quitting as captain or something.

It's not just gay people. People from all walks of life reject Christianity because it doesn't seem logical within the experiences we've had in life. Of course, it's easy to oppose groups like Fred Phelps and other psychos, but still respect Christians who do good.

At 6'4" it is a bit difficult for me. :D-->

Oh, he has done something, and well... On behalf of the Saudi royal family and the Bin Ladens, George W. Bush would like to thank you for your continued financial support.

I've been on Navy vessels of various types before, and it is horrible at my height without being fat. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to get around if I were 300 pounds.

I'm not the one that brought up the molestation comparison in the first place. YOU did, and I tried to show how my opinion is different than the strawman opinion you attributed to me in order to explain my point of view which it is clear you still do not understand. This is part of the problem, and the speed that they operate is due to their management demanding more cattle slaughtered each day, which result in a dangerous work environment for people that work at the meat processing plants as well as a less clean environment. I forget where I read this, but certain categories of workers in modern meat processing jobs (mainly those that do the cutting and cleaning) have a greater chance of death at work than police do. Losing limbs, decapitation, and other very dramatic things are unnecessarily common, while other related injuries like carpal tunnel and other things are epidemic. Since a really huge amount of the people working in these meat processing plants are illegal immigrants and other extremely poor people, they are not aware of their rights as employees and are usually discouraged from reporting any failure by their employers to comply to OSHA standards. If you've ever seen the inside of a meat processing plant, it's like a nightmarish scene from a video game. You have to wear waterproof boots and wade through up to about a foot deep pool of blood and feces on the floor where the cattle are slaughtered and if a hunk of meat falls off of the hooks down into the blood and fecal mixture, they pick it up and put it back on the hook and keep going. If someone's hand gets cut off while they're cutting the meat, their coworkers usually keep going. Nevermind cleaning up any possible blood from that person that would have sprayed all over the meat. You also left off the drugs being given to cattle, because that's another important thing, and perhaps rather than saying drugs I should just say chemicals. Cows are often given hormones to make them grow larger. When people eat this, the hormones are passed on, providing problems. Cattle are also given steroids for muscle growth, which also cause many problems in people. Both of these are especially problematic in milk, because they're passed directly into the milk with little digestion occurring. That's why kids are going throubh puberty at 5 years old now rather than 14. Then there's the problem with what the cattle are fed in general. Also don't forget the man-made problem of mad cow (BSE), which is the result of feeding parts of dead cattle to other cows in an attempt to provide more protein to them. This is not a naturally occuring problem. Even with that, eating raw meat would not be as problematic naturally as it is for us. You have e. coli inside of you right now, but it's a "good" kind. If the cattle were slaughtered in a more old fashioned environment like farmers who slaughter their own cattle tend to do, you don't get the "bad" e. coli on the meat because they take care not to have feces all over the meat. Sure, it can still happen, but it's a lot cleaner on average. Smaller farms also tend to range feed their cattle, too, so the quality of the beef is vastly improved over those that just keep them boxed up until slaughter time. You're right. It's not a McDonalds only thing, but they are a very easy and visible target. Excel and many of the other factories that provide McDonalds beef provide it to other restaurants as well as to grocery stores. The beef you buy at Walmart comes from the same place McDonalds gets it from. Of course, McDonalds and other restaurants do share blame for other things that they do. They put chemicals in their french fries that could be addictive (plus make them "taste" better by putting cologne in the oil that tricks people into thinking that it was cooked in oil from beef rather than vegetables), make their salads less healthy than a Big Mac, and engage in deceptive advertising to make their salads appear to be healthy, and quite a few other things. As far as the conspiracy to make kids obese goes, almost every food company is out to do that. What honestly healthy snacks do you see advertised to children? Every time they watch TV, they are bombarded with ads for sugary cerials, happy meals (complete with a toy that they NEED), candies, snacks, and all sorts of other crap that they shouldn't need. It gets especially worse in little kids because they are not old enough to know that adults are out to get them. Why would McDonalds have a play place, Ronald McDonald characters, toys in happy meals, and all this other kid-related advertising? Imagine if they were just average looking buildings with nothing for kids there, and imagine if they had no special kids meals, and imagine if they did not advertise on TV. Do you think kids would still want to go there for the food? Branding is most effective when started on consumers as children. All of the companies that advertise to us want to be able to hook us before we are old enough to know better (toddler age), and keep us hooked until we die. They don't care about us as individuals or even really as people. The quality of their product is not as important as the quality of their advertising. McDonalds ad campaign that they've been running with successfully requires their marketers to present a point of view to adults where you feel like McDonalds is a "trusted friend" (I believe those are the exact words, if not, something close) and present a slice of life that you would share with a friend in an attempt to inject false feelings of good memories and comfort with McDonalds. They also have been very successful with that very short jingle at the beginning of their commercials, to a point where it's ingrained in the psyche of the average American now just like a honking horn or police siren is. You would also be suprised by just how much consolidation has gone on in these companies and how much working together the ones that are supposed to be competing do. The food industry is an extremely incestuous business. In general, the U.S. meat is some of the worst because we have factoritized (I probably made this word up, sorry) the process to a point where it actually has a larger margin of error than doing business the old fashioned way. I'm sure you still don't believe me, and I really encourage you to read a book called Fast Food Nation if you'd like to get a different view of what I am saying as well as a history of all sorts of aspects of the food business. At the very least, you could go rent the movie "Supersize Me" which is a light-hearted documentary that touches on a few of the things I've brought up, at least some of the marketing and quality of food issues, just not to the depths of what I've read about since I saw it. There's also the classic book "The Jungle" that brought about many reforms, many of which have been abandoned since then.

We also have an oil leak. For some reason, all of the oil located here ends up in China, Japan, and other countries over in Asia. We even try bringing oil in from nations like Mexico and Argentina, but for some reason it ends up the same place ours does.

Ummm, so you've never heard of Ronald McDonald, or watched cartoons or kids TV shows that have commercials of him? You haven't seen the food advertisements in schools for junk foods? Have you ever heard the phrase, "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids?" Maybe I know all about these advertisements because I'm younger than you and remember growing up being constantly bombarded by these things. They're very real, and have resulted in a nation where more kids know the right words to say after "bad duh dah dah daaaah" than they do the first line of the national anthem.