TWI sued me, I sued back

[Tom Strange]

Well gee whiz... I had that idea back on page 10! Maybe I was ahead of the curve for once in my life....

quote:

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Originally posted by Tom Strange:

Well Grizz... I think that if I were "mad" at some 'entity'... I'd register a name like

http://www.ihatethewayinternational.com

or

http://www.thewayinternationalsucks.com

or

http://www.thewayblows.com

or

http://www.thewayareliars.com

(hmmm... maybe I'll check on their availability)

that way it would still show up in the search engines and I'm not them...

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[Raf]

Tom, I apologize: you were the first to mention

I think it's only fair to give credit where credit is due. So let's make sure everyone knows Goey is not trying to steal credit for your idea for

I certainly wouldn't try to take credit or lead anyone to believe that was my idea.

[GarthP2000]

:D-->

[LG]

I think Goey gets full credit for the image. I doubt if any of us was the first to express the thought, or even the exact words.

[Goey]

Longone,

I may have been the one to first post the "image" of:

But Tom clearly wrote the actual domain name of

before I did.

But it seems that the early bird gets the worm on these things, so the first one to actually register:

will have the exclusive right to use

A quick search of register.com shows the following domain names to be available.

First come first served. Get 'em while they're hot!

[Tom Strange]

all right... are you guys:

1. making fun of me?

2. playing around with this whole law suit thing?

3. just like typing thewayinternationalsucks.com ?

I'm old and confused...

[Raf]

I think it would be juvenile to go through all the trouble of posting

just because we like the way it looks.

[LG]

It's nice to see such likemindedness, isn't it?

[Goey]

Raf,

Yes, I agree that would be quite juvenile. And can't imagine that anyone could possibly that it was

actually fun to type out something like

or even something like

[Grizzy]

for safety purposes I am going to use

thewayinternationalreallysucks.com

don't want some strange® dragging my ( * ) into court :D-->

[Goey]

Another interesting opinion from the 7th Circuit Court Of Appeals.

TE-TA-MA TRUTH FOUNDATION VS. WORLD CHURCH OF THE CREATOR

From the opinion:

"A generic term is one that refers to the genus of which the particular product is a species."

The genus would be "Christianity" which commonly understands "The Way" to mean Jesus Christ or from Acts - the early Church. A random survey of Christian Ministers and congregants when asked the question: "What does "The Way" mean?", would most likely support this point.

I would also argue then that TWI's services are a "species" within the "genus" of Christianity.

Folks within Christianity do not and never have asscociated "The Way" specifically with TWI's products and services.