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Once again Bill has discerned God's best for my life. Rejoice!!! Rejoice!!! All these years I have been a carnal Christian drinking Pepsi; now I can be a righteous Christian drinking Coca-Cola.
yeah...and aside from the caffiene content, i'm pretty sure the sugar level is well above the ati-legal limit. don't you know that your body is the temple of the holy spirit and don't you know what sugar does to rot your insides out?!?!?!?!? why would you treat the temple of God this way?!?!?!!?
All we need now is a Brittany Spears look-a-like to prance around on a commercial. Shouldn't be too hard...just look for one of those "young ladies" that Mr. G likes to travel around with...
Just dress the Britney Spears lookalike in a ridiculously long navy skirt and a long-sleeved turtleneck (modesty, of course; can't defraud young men, because apparently the sight of a woman's collarbone or knees makes them lose control of their urges), and have her sing the "Alive-alert-awake-enthusiastic" song, only insead of finishing it with "about Christ", finish it with, "About Coke"
There you go! The perfect ATI CocaCola commercial!
The last post was great! :)
Hey, have you guys ever looked up "Bill Gothard" in Wikipedia? Check it out... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gothard
There's more information on there than most IBLP-staffers every learned about him while working at HQ... and I worked there for years. Seems well-written and objective, though!
He's in Wikipedia??
yeah that was interesting - wikipedia! ... it is interesting to contemplate - the "cover up" they were talking about - The only other option (not sure if it would be desirable) would've been for him to come forward and say, "We apologize." However, why should _he_ apologize?! He didn't do it! The only retort I can think of, to that, is that it's his fault to begin with, because he (by his restrictions and legalism) has driven people (such as Mr. Voeller) to do these things. But I can't expect _him_ to recognize that yet. He has a totally different viewpoint. And of course, it was mainly the fault of Voeller / others who made the final choice to actually commit sin (or mistake, if you prefer that word). However, one could make the case to at least partially blame Gothard for it, because of the environment; but I cannot expect Gothard to recognize any such thing any time soon.
or - OK -- You might say, instead of apologizing [or suppressing], that Mr. Gothard should have come forward & said "We deplore this, we condemn, we do not condone." ("we do not condone what Voeller did" for example...) However, as he does enough condemning as it is, I rather think that he did just as well keeping his mouth shut as not.
Now that I think about it...it might've condemned Gothard either way, y'know? Whether he spoke out about it, or "covered it up", or apologized, or whatever...it's still a bad thing, and it's still going to tick people off. I'm no supporter...I'm just saying maybe there wasn't really anything he could've done that would lessen the reactions; that whole thing was just messed up, no matter what.
Back on the Pepsi and Coke post... Am I the only one who never started liking soda after having left the program?
We're allowed to drink soda? But it doesn't have any fiber in it. (Well, the original Dr. Pepper did, but that was a long time ago...)
Yes, you can drink Coke as long as you make it yourself. Just like white bread, store bought Coca-Cola has no fiber and all the nutrients have been removed. Therefore, when you make your Coca-Cola be sure to include high quality whole wheat flour.
Mix in some "Emer-gen-C" and some kind of "Green Kamut" or "Blue-Green" powder, that'll sanctify it.
Isn't all pop (aka soda, Coke) acidic? Therefore it would have to be counteracted with that much more salad. Five and a half years after the HQ salad binge, I'm still dietarily scarred ;-)
On a side note-- in my TC experience (OKTC, Indy, Northwoods, HQ) Dr Pepper had the most religious following, with Mt. Dew probably in second.
Way back when, they sold cokes at the Indy TC as well as candy bars. That way we could stock up for Sunday. When did they say we had to mix barley green with our soda to sanctify it?
anyone remember Gothard saying "the whiter the bread: the quicker you're dead" ?!?
once @ INDY we added a little *spirits* to our coke bottles. it was a matter of survival actually. anybody else do that?
Coke, Pepsi, or Dr. Pepper, none of these were my concern. I was worried about vats of grape cool-aid being wheeled out for the mass suicide.
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