tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post4369182057674581425..comments2016-12-17T08:14:53.598+13:00Gavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060097218905523899noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-53798329881838633992008-03-22T05:15:00.000+13:002008-03-22T05:15:00.000+13:00This comment has been removed by the author.Lussenheidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07497063495672247362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-40879602983941746692008-03-09T18:28:00.000+13:002008-03-09T18:28:00.000+13:00No no no no. Not Photoshop. Spanky is <EM>definitely</EM> standing on something.Weinland Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08029452242127198705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-65769372202042291002008-03-09T09:05:00.000+13:002008-03-09T09:05:00.000+13:00take a closer look at the pix, if you can... looks to me to be a cut & paste job in photoshop.... placement, pixel displacement...<BR/><BR/>huh??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-14289377256863116822008-03-09T03:53:00.000+13:002008-03-09T03:53:00.000+13:00I still say Spanky is standing on something. I wanna know what it is!Weinland Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08029452242127198705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-23515213213451920602008-03-08T04:13:00.000+13:002008-03-08T04:13:00.000+13:00Tom Mahon, I have a question:<BR/><BR/>When you (In your LCG days) wrote to Meredith voicing your displeasure about who he was installing in his ministerial stable, did you get any backlash? Were you still allowed to host videos, or did you step down soon after you wrote to Meredith?<BR/><BR/>Just interested,<BR/><BR/>PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-76167028672137042032008-03-08T02:01:00.000+13:002008-03-08T02:01:00.000+13:00DennisDiehl said... <BR/>"Yeah I did Steve. I have input disease. When was the last time you ever contributed anything of worth here? What insights can you share that your have picked up with your life experiences. Do share them and Ill just listen"<BR/><BR/>MY COMMENT: What does THIS have to do with my comment? You said you were going to "be still"(for a while I assumed), then I made the comment in jest that I didn't believe it, and that seemed to ruffle your feathers, and you go off on this tirade about how you "contribute" soooo much.<BR/><BR/><BR/> DennisDiehl said... <BR/>"In fact, don't even worry having to come up with anything publically here on AW. Just give me a call and tell me exactly what it is you don't care for in my comments or perspectives. I promise to never repeat anything you say to me on the phone."<BR/><BR/>MY COMMENT: WHY?? I have nothing to hide. What I say to you here is the same thing I would say to you over the phone, or in a private e-mail. I'm the ONLY one who calls you on something(while others flatter the "minister"), and you don't like it. You think if I call you, then you can straighten me out.<BR/><BR/><BR/>DennisDiehl said... <BR/>"I don't ask for anyone to comment on anything I say and most actually don't."<BR/><BR/>MY COMMENT: So...why do you want me to call you then? <BR/><BR/>"You're a sniper or at least have singled me out in your mind as talking too much."<BR/><BR/>MY COMMENT: I just made an observation, and commented in jest. Now, you're calling me names.<BR/><BR/>"Feel free to jump into the conversation and not the pot shots and we'll all enjoy what you have to say or at least get to know you better than just a hit man."<BR/><BR/>MY COMMENT: More name-calling.<BR/><BR/><BR/> DennisDiehl said... <BR/>"came me after 7 pm this evening EST and we can chat about whatever you want. You'd probably enjoy the common ground we could chat about. I'd even shut up and let you talk. <BR/>864 905 5804 <BR/>I'm not kidding, are you?"<BR/><BR/>MY COMMENT: Well, I WAS kidding, but you turned it into something serious.<BR/><BR/>"Dear Lord, please, in your abundant mercy, make this my last comment. And please inspire my friend Steve to call sooz we can have a few laughs."<BR/><BR/>MY COMMENT: What??? What god are you talking to? Your sun god, moon god, or star god? I thought you didn't believe in that mumbo-jumbo, hocus-pocus religiosity, or, are YOU jesting now?Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227542200969485271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-29860449686661979642008-03-07T21:42:00.000+13:002008-03-07T21:42:00.000+13:00Paul said:<BR/><BR/>Steve>>"They'll start posting and tell you how wonderful you are, and how baaaad I am."<<<<BR/><BR/>Paul>>>How dare you attack Mr. Diehl! And just who are you? Is "Steve" your real name? What congregation do you attend? What are you here for? Why are you trying to stir up trouble? Who is your minister?<BR/><BR/>Oh Lord, please punish the Ineterloper Steve in his attacks on your Work and the Work you are performing through Mr. Diehl.<<<<BR/><BR/>For an atheist you are very funny! And what a GREAT work he is doing?Tom Mahonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087223683733643082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-69040149873885130042008-03-07T19:57:00.000+13:002008-03-07T19:57:00.000+13:00I am a reader dating from Gavin's previous hosting. I have come to appreciate the prospective each of you bring to this forum weather I agree or disagree, not important. I know some of you directly or indirectly from previous associations, most only from your post or other writings. I have been enriched from all your various perspectives. Thanks to all of you for your thoughtful input, and some not as thoughtful but very reviling. (easy to be smug from the sideline) ( :<) If correct spelling, exact word placement and grammar are the only criteria for value or intellect let me help you now, skip my byline. I am a genuine dyslectic. I survived for nearly forty years in the business world with very good proofreaders and rewrites. Spell Checker does not pick up miss used words, nor does all too often, my mind's eye. (:D)<BR/><BR/><BR/>Bill: I liked your question::: Does Ambassador Watch today fulfill the same role as the park??? <BR/><BR/>After 25 yrs. in WCG and buying into the whole program hook line and sinker. Hearing no evil seeing no evil, speaking no evil and smelling no evil as far as WCG was concerned. Paying the price in lost relationships, finances, career opportunities. To state it without the sad details. Believing God cared and as in the case with Job, give full restoration. Believing I was in the only organization God sanctioned all I had to was pay & pray till Christ returned and then all would be made whole again. Then the church turned left I kept going "right" then Out !!!!!! That's it in a nutshell. Same story different day.<BR/><BR/>Who could trust anyone so DUMB ????<BR/>I sure could not.<BR/><BR/>My sad dilemma is as with many here I am angry with no one else to blame but me.<BR/>Some of this stuff can not be fixed !!!<BR/><BR/>I confess it is nice to come to the Park and stroll and kind of hang out with you folks listen to you talk. Sometimes I do not know what the hell some of you are talking about and sometimes I wish I didn't know. It is still good to have you out there filling a need.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again Gavin and all you posters<BR/><BR/>You will not hear from me often, this post took over 4 hrs. to compose. Thankfully I read a little faster than I write. (:>)<BR/><BR/>WessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-55997123593644938862008-03-07T16:33:00.000+13:002008-03-07T16:33:00.000+13:00Dennis wrote: "PS and then I'll be still."<BR/><BR/>Well, that's a blast from the past!<BR/>I remember as a kid riding in my parents' car to and from services, and my dad adopted a habit of, when he didn't like us kids talking or our restlessness in the back seat, and he's wave his hand and command, "BE STILL!", like it was a godly command or something.<BR/>I remember thinking how that nutty church was wigging dad out.<BR/>I think there was an active meme loose in that church that tended to make one rather full of one's self.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and I'll try and borrow the Under the Banner of Heaven book through inter-library loan, as I haven't read it.<BR/>I have found that reading about others' experiences in various cults helps explain my own experiences, as well as descriptions of other cults helping to describe the WCG. <BR/>I've found that under the thin veneers of their sometimes very different and varied teachings, destructive cults are really so much alike underneath it all.<BR/><BR/>That cult stuff makes a fascinating study, and the Mormons are sure an interesting one. When dad was shopping the religious marketplace, I remember we visited a Mormon church along the way. Later, of course he found the PLAIN TRUTH some herb guy taught, and he settled on that religion, at least till many years later when he figured out that something was quite amiss with herb's deal and he left the church.<BR/><BR/>Funny how those memes work. <BR/>Like a fish-hook barb: easy in, hard to pull out.<BR/>Like many others dad has still believed in what herb taught but has never even found a group that he is comfortable with even after so many years.<BR/><BR/>My sisters and I have watched all of this go down.<BR/><BR/>And now he has Alzheimer's so it's all like locked in place.melnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-74784108323150344862008-03-07T15:43:00.000+13:002008-03-07T15:43:00.000+13:00It has been pointed out that Rod is overweight. More shocking than that is today's associated press story in many U.S. newspapers that one can google is that today's German soldiers are overweight and out of shape as well!. Those German soldiers have only about a month to get in shape to round up all us Americans if you are a student of Weinland or US and UK in prophecy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-8497052399263525622008-03-07T15:35:00.000+13:002008-03-07T15:35:00.000+13:00"They'll start posting and tell you how wonderful you are, and how baaaad I am."<BR/><BR/>How dare you attack Mr. Diehl! And just who are you? Is "Steve" your real name? What congregation do you attend? What are you here for? Why are you trying to stir up trouble? Who is your minister?<BR/><BR/>Oh Lord, please punish the Ineterloper Steve in his attacks on your Work and the Work you are performing through Mr. Diehl. Ahem, with love in Christ, of course.<BR/><BR/>PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-12499663735441842152008-03-07T15:29:00.000+13:002008-03-07T15:29:00.000+13:00Some places of higher education are prestigious, but isn't the value of education what an individual gleans from it all, takes with him/herself, eternalizes, and can use on a day to day basis?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-70872553799901225862008-03-07T13:50:00.000+13:002008-03-07T13:50:00.000+13:00You know, the Union Institute isn't exactly a very well-respected (or even well-known place). Check out their website. It looks more like a diploma mill than anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-1014507924089999222008-03-07T12:08:00.000+13:002008-03-07T12:08:00.000+13:00I am having a bad spell today.<BR/><BR/> <BR/>Hey,that's a great shot of two luminaries,Rod and Bob.<BR/><BR/>The two witnesses?? I ask you.<BR/><BR/>Imagine them in sackcloth.They had better scuttle off to Jerusalem pretty quick in order to beat Ron to the draw.They have only about a month in which to act.<BR/><BR/>Gavin mightn't have to wear his itchy-scratchy outfit after all.<BR/>(Of course,a tube of anti-histamine cream comes with his designer gear.)<BR/><BR/>Bob reminds me a little of Peter Nathan, a former " regional" director of Worldwide in NZ.<BR/><BR/>As for Bob's misadventures with the English language,I went to school with any number of future PhDs and MDs, some of them not very adept with the orthographical nuances of our tongue.Today,these are men at the top of their disciplines in science or medicine,and still are probably<BR/>bad spellers.<BR/><BR/>So, I think Bob can be forgiven a little. (Maybe he needs a different brand of spell-checker.)<BR/> <BR/>And I believe his degrees could be genuine, and not from third degree tertiary institutions,such as exist in the States.Don't worry,we have "experts" here in NZ with worthless doctorates from US universities who parade as omniscients within their field,and are believed by the suckers who pay good money for worthless advice.<BR/><BR/>I have to agree with Tom Mahon that a PhD degree doesn't make the holder an expert necessarily.<BR/><BR/>Seamus<BR/><BR/>Fri Mar 07, 11:38:00 AM NZDTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-63797505280423321362008-03-07T11:54:00.000+13:002008-03-07T11:54:00.000+13:00The Revised And Corrected Version<BR/><BR/>Another thing about spelling.<BR/><BR/>Punctilious lecturers at Ambassador College used to mark down Kiwi students for "mis-spelling".<BR/><BR/>eg "labour" instead of "labor".<BR/><BR/>This was just nitpicking.<BR/><BR/>Spelling is important,but the differences between the Ephraimitic and Manassetic versions should have been taken into account.<BR/><BR/>Oops, I committed a cardinal error there. For Ephraimitic and Manassetic,please read "British and "American" respectively.A blast from the dissolute COG<BR/>past.<BR/><BR/>I implore forgiveness.<BR/><BR/>Seamus<BR/><BR/>Fri Mar 07, 11:48:00 AM NZDTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-35047704810021587342008-03-07T11:48:00.000+13:002008-03-07T11:48:00.000+13:00Another thing about spelling.<BR/><BR/>Punctilious lecturers at Ambassador College used to mark down Kiwi students for "mis-spelling".<BR/><BR/>eg "labour" instead of "labor".<BR/><BR/>This was just nitpicking.<BR/><BR/>Spelling is important,but the differences between the Ephraimitic and Manassetic versions should have been taken into account.<BR/><BR/>Oops, I committed a cardinal error there. For Ephraimitic and Manassetic,please "British" and "American" respectively.A blast from the dissolute COG<BR/><BR/>I implore forgiveness.<BR/><BR/>SeamusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-78596762964196761262008-03-07T11:38:00.000+13:002008-03-07T11:38:00.000+13:00Hey,that's a great shot of two luminaries,Rod and Bob.<BR/><BR/>The two witnesses?? I ask you.<BR/><BR/>Imagine them in sackcloth.They had better scuttle off to Jerusalem pretty quick in order to beat Ron to the draw.They have only about a month in which to act.<BR/><BR/>Gavin mighn't have to wear his itchy-scratchy outfit after all.<BR/>(Of course,a tube of anti-histamine cream comes with his designer gear.)<BR/><BR/>Bob reminds me a little of Peter Nathan, a former " regional" director of Worldwide in NZ.<BR/><BR/>As for Bob's misadventures with the English language,I went to school with any number of future PhDs and MDs, some of them not very adept with the orthographical nuances of our tongue.Today,these are men at the top of their disciplines in science or medicine,and still probably bad spellers.(Maybe Bob needs a different brand of spell-checker.)So, I think Bob can be forgiven a little.And I believe his degrees could be genuine, and not from third degree tertiary institutions,such as exist in the States.Don't worry,we have "experts" here in NZ with worthless doctorates from US universities.<BR/><BR/>I have to agree with Tom Mahon that a PhD degree doesn't make the holder an expert necessarily.<BR/><BR/>SeamusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-31650714702021390852008-03-07T11:09:00.000+13:002008-03-07T11:09:00.000+13:00came me after 7 pm this evening EST and we can chat about whatever you want. You'd probably enjoy the common ground we could chat about. I'd even shut up and let you talk. <BR/>864 905 5804 <BR/>I'm not kidding, are you?<BR/><BR/>Dear Lord, please, in your abundant mercy, make this my last comment. And please inspire my friend Steve to call sooz we can have a few laughs.DennisDiehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069884969156562133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-90447743490571465632008-03-07T11:02:00.000+13:002008-03-07T11:02:00.000+13:00I don't ask for anyone to comment on anything I say and most actually don't. I write for me and that occasional person that might resonate with a topic that I find interesting. <BR/><BR/>You're a sniper or at least have singled me out in your mind as talking too much. Feel free to jump into the conversation and not the pot shots and we'll all enjoy what you have to say or at least get to know you better than just a hit man.DennisDiehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069884969156562133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-32976008533844207952008-03-07T10:57:00.001+13:002008-03-07T10:57:00.001+13:00DennisDiehl said... <BR/>"Yeah I did Steve. I have input disease. When was the last time you ever contributed anything of worth here? What insights can you share that your have picked up with your life experiences. Do share them and Ill just listen"<BR/><BR/>MY COMMENT: I think I've contributed about as much worthwhile here as you have. And that ain't much! I don't believe you listen, because you like to talk too much, but hey, that's just me. You have enough flattering people on your side. No? Just wait. They'll start posting and tell you how wonderful you are, and how baaaad I am.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227542200969485271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-51737762092202909522008-03-07T10:57:00.000+13:002008-03-07T10:57:00.000+13:00In fact, don't even worry having to come up with anything publically here on AW. Just give me a call and tell me exactly what it is you don't care for in my comments or perspectives. I promise to never repeat anything you say to me on the phone.<BR/><BR/>That's fair enough it seems to me<BR/><BR/>864 905 5804<BR/>DenDennisDiehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069884969156562133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-85164028984774577592008-03-07T10:51:00.000+13:002008-03-07T10:51:00.000+13:00Yeah I did Steve. I have input disease. When was the last time you ever contributed anything of worth here? What insights can you share that your have picked up with your life experiences. Do share them and Ill just listenDennisDiehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069884969156562133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-69276885583393136522008-03-07T10:44:00.000+13:002008-03-07T10:44:00.000+13:00DennisDiehl said... <BR/>"PS and then I'll be still."<BR/><BR/>MY COMMENT: Uh, huh...when the earth stops rotating. Didn't you say that four posts ago? ;-)Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227542200969485271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-20594245370653171682008-03-07T07:40:00.000+13:002008-03-07T07:40:00.000+13:00WWatch<BR/><BR/>You'd really like the book I recommended on the rise of Mormonism and it's parallels to all we have and do see today in the COG's <BR/><BR/>Nothing new under the "God talks to me" sun.DennisDiehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069884969156562133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-10634656291866177702008-03-07T07:36:00.000+13:002008-03-07T07:36:00.000+13:00WWWatch<BR/><BR/>I agree for the most part on all your comments. I speak only from my limited contact, perceptions and inside track through the years. I didn't have one..ha Didn't want one!<BR/><BR/>When I say Bible readers I usually mean to put "mere" in front of the phrase. By this I mean that they read it and then exlain it as you said. Like an RCM "Bible Study in the Gospels" He merely reads the text, then "explains it" sermonizes and relates it to today insome way. It would never cross his mind to compare it the other gospels and see what's left out, how it was changed, redacted or came to be in the first place. Very shallow <BR/><BR/>I asked RCM ONE question in freshman Bible and he made fun of me for the most part.....boy could I ask some questions now!DennisDiehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069884969156562133noreply@blogger.com