Mister P-Mosh

If someone (trustworthy) had walked up to me and said, "Could you spare $5 to help Mrs. Weirwille pay for her medical expenses" then I might consider it. I wouldn't give money to TWI to look over her, and I don't feel an obligation to help her. As others have mentioned, I will have my own relatives to look after, and since my parents have given so much money to TWI rather than saving it for the future, I'll likely have to care for them when they get old too. I definitely feel bad for the state she is in, and for the family trying to care for her. However, I don't think I could help much or that I really should help much.

Outin88, This isn't the advanced class (which you have to pay for as well) but the Advanced Class Special. This is the replacement for Word In Business which are now only for advanced class grads, and don't discuss anything pertaining to life now. Just think of it as a mini-ROA, but in a hotel with food poisoned food, and no kids are allowed.

$1500 worth of what?

If you are eligable to go, and don't, they will start with a guilt trip and then potentially proceed to yelling and insulting. Both were used against me for not attending the last one when I was in TWI. I don't know why I was still in for the 8 months or so after that though. I should have left then.

Interesting article, and it makes a little more sense now. One thing to point out though, is that it's really just a hypothesis at this point, not even a real theory and they've not been able to find evidence to support their hypothesis. According to the article: Either way, the universe is a huge place that is full of amazing things.

I've not heard this, and my understanding is that things are moving apart in a pretty uniform pattern right now.

Do you mean Entenmann's? Actually, I don't know how to spell it either. If so, I would say that it doesn't work because they are very popular in my family, who are still in TWI.

Given VPWs sexual indiscretions, I wouldn't be suprised if blood actually did come out of there for him.

That explains the way Y2K was prepared for. I remember the HFC telling us that he would be sitting on his porch, with the lights off in his house, with a gun in case someone was going to start looting (nevermind that he was not in downtown or close enough to stores that he would be a target.)

VPW was dead when I was still a kid, so I don't remember much. However, there was plenty of other junk science spewed forth by LCM and others. One thing, that was never really proven, was that the continents split faster due to some crystalized gas under the floor of the ocean. I can see how this gas could exist, but I don't see how it could speed up the process of plate tectonics, and why there wouldn't be a record of this in the strata. Plus, if the gas already blew up, why is it still there?

By the looks of this thread, God wanted a good fight.

My fingers hurt this morning. I bought an Ibanez acoustic guitar yesterday afternoon and spent most of the rest of the day playing. Although I had forgotten much, I was able to play a few songs from memory. Plus, I found a tab site and played an impromptu "name that song" with my wife, who lost miserably I think.

The Omniscience of God and the Free-Will of Man The comments are the more interesting part. It is what I had mentioned before.

I use Mozilla Firebird for my browser, and it blocks all bad popups, plus you can set up filters to remove most advertisements from websites. I don't see many banner ads, and I especially am happy to avoid those stupid flash animations that block the entire site sometimes.

There's an article pending on another site that I read that I may be able to link to once it becomes public. Anyway, they brought up some good points about the omniscense of God, or lack thereof. Here is one verse quoted that according to the article shows that God does not have foreknowledge. Even in Genesis, God admits that he made a mistake by creating mankind. The conclusion of the article, which I disagree with, is that if there is a God he either was never omniscent, or he has used his infinite power to limit himself now. This, of course, requires the existance of god(s) so I can't define the nature of them until I have proof that they exist. Either way, it sounds to me like there is a problem with what is in the bible. Either the verses that say God is omniscent are true, or the verses that say his is not are true. Or, the third possibility is that there is no God at all.

We may want to start a new thread about this because it was a lot of tapdancing around in Genesis and definitions of words. I don't even really remember but I have my books still.

I'm planning to pick up playing the guitar again. In fact, I plan to go to The Great Evil™ within the next few days to look around and find myself a decent (yet cheap) classical guitar.

Fine, I updated mine.

I didn't want to take PFAL, but I was pressured into doing it by pretty much everyone when I was 12 or whatever the age was then. Fortunately, I sat towards the back and the people running it were not that strict, so I slept some, doodled some, and was just bored other times. I did get very good at drawing Garfield characters though. Later, I took the other classes because I felt pressure still and didn't want to dissapoint the other people who were counting on me for whatever. I took the PFAL advanced class which was taught by LCM, not the one taught by VPW. I was brainwashed or something, because I was wanting to go Corps and all that other stuff for a short time after that, and then LCM canceled the ROA and things started changing. At some point, I took the new WAP classes and was becoming less interested in them again and ultimately I moved away and ended up quitting TWI later without sitting through another class of theirs. There are big differences in the two series. I would say that PFAL was more subtle in getting people to go to weird beliefs, but WAP started off in the beginning. I remember LCM bragging about how proud he was for insulting Catholics in the first segment. The WAP was more for people in TWI than for new people, which is partially why they are decreasing rather than increasing their numbers. Random people from off the street would simply find WAP too bizzare.

In their favor, they make some decent food, although I think that I prefer Persian food more than Lebanese.

That is correct, if you wish to have a telescope on Earth. As you had mentioned the 100 light-years distance, if we (eventually) manage to find a way to propel things relatively close to light speed, we would be able to send probes out that could also function as a telescope to make up for the fact that it wouldn't be able to travel very fast. We don't have any technology to do what I proposed at this time, and I am aware of the limits of normal optics, but there are other things that can be done to make up the distance, even though it would still not be that great. Imagine if we built fully self-contained probes that would take 100 years to get to the star system, and then swing around and take 100 years to get back. Even though nations would fall, people would die, and life would change dramatically, the information could still be used by future generations anyway. The most I can hope for in my life would be a person walking on Mars, and even that is probably stretching it. However, I'm confident that people will find ways to get around limitations, usually by going with an alternative.

While this is still just guessing, it is interesting to think of the possibilities. I can't really envision mankind ever interacting with an extra-terrestrial form of life (unless there are some shrimp on Europa), but to find it would be the most important discovery in the history of mankind. I have a prediction though. If we manage to someday build a telescope powerful enough to pick up actual images of other planets rather than just seeing the wobble of the stars, we will find something that makes us believe there is life, and then later on we will find out it was a previously undiscovered natural phenomenon. Pulsars are one example, or maybe even like the "canals" on Mars.

I am not an expert on tornadoes, but I spent enough time living with them to have seen devestation that they have caused. Anyway, it's not that tornadoes just hit trailer parks, it's that the trailers are poorly built so when they get hit, stuff flies everywhere and it looks like a huge disaster area. Most tornadoes will break limbs off of trees and damage a roof, but not knock down an entire house. However, just about anything stronger than a mouse fart can blow down a trailer (exaggeration by the way.) So the reason this matters is because the news media want to portray the tornado as a huge disaster that wrecked everything. This gets them higher ratings, more awards, etc. So, they go straight to the places that get the worst looking damage. I have a few interesting tornado stories but I am not going to derail this thread much by talking about them right now...I'll just say that this year I saw a lawnmower shop completely demolished, while the house next-door just had a few shingles missing. Further down the street, a church's roof was caved in, while near it the worst was a few trees knocked down and such. This was about a block away from where I used to live, which made it very strange to see first-hand.

Unfortunately all the TV I watch is limited to when I go to restaurants that have them, or when I use the 2.5" LCD that I have...so no Sopranos. It's not easy to do but you definitely have a point. Plus, people get all the spam and popups without even looking for information on sex. I was out of town for a week, and came back to find that I had 94 emails, of which 3 were valid. What makes it worse is that one of the email addresses has never been published, so I believe that Earthlink must sell their lists to spammers or make them available to the public some other way. It wasn't a dictionary word either so I don't see how it could have been guessed. Anyway, I should be an expert on via.grra 20945 now. That must count for something.

I believe that thanks to the internet, people are a lot more educated about various things pertaining to it than they were years ago. Even if it's just something odd that you look up to find the definition of, such as "bukkake" (which may be spelled wrong) people can easily quench their curiousity.