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Technical Problems

Monday, June 28th, 2010

I’ve managed to recover the database but not including the latest posts. So Ronnie’s death curse has yet to take effect :-D I’ll re-entered manually the missing post including the comments. My hosting company has made some changes which hopefully will end the intermittent slow downs — seems to be working well so far.

Here is a copy of the interim post from earlier today and the comments on it.

Due to massive technical problems with the database, I’m doing a bit of a reset.  The Spokesman Witness gets a break while I recover, no doubt he will attribute this to his death curse :-D

5 Responses to Technical Problems

1. Baywolfe says: June 28, 2010 at 10:58 am

See, this is where MySQL really, really, drops the ball. You don’t see this behavior with the commercial databases.

2. jack635 says: June 28, 2010 at 11:59 am

no doubt he will attribute this to his death curse

Doesn’t matter what he says. You’re still alive and he’s an impotent curser.

Ha! Ron couldn’t curse his way out of a wet paper bag.

3. mike_ddtfa says: June 28, 2010 at 12:45 pm

Is is my mySQL or is it my hosting company? I complain to godaddy, and they just point fingers. Their last claim was that I had database problems. Well, this is a fresh database and it’s not working very well.

What’s a better alternative?

4. Aggie says: June 28, 2010 at 12:49 pm

Your dedication is a thing to fear and behold, Mike. ;-)

The WW blog stayed pretty well intact, except for the audio files, and when Hotlinkfiles went down (and took all the audio clips with it), I just couldn’t have been bothered to find another source to upload them to, that would have been compatible with the free WordPress, and then go through and manually fix all the links (because, again, free WordPress).

Which is my long and rambling way of saying, I wish I had your kind of motivation to stick with it, even after the first timeline failed. I think you’re pretty much the only one left seriously debunking the Two Witlesses, because Jack is the much-needed and well-appreciated comic relief. :-)

5. mike_ddtfa says: June 28, 2010 at 3:08 pm

Don’t forget about Dill Weed.

But even though Rotten Ronnie has failed, and refailed, and had actually proven himself a false prophet before the first timeline even started, people continue to follow him. And even more start following him. Hard to believe, I know. But that’s why I continue.

Weinland’s Toxicodendron

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

False Prophet Ronald Weinland was in Detroit today instead of Windsor CT.  His Witness Powers to shut up the heavens hasn’t kicked in yet so he had to work with the double whammy of two blizzards.  And his Witness Power apparently don’t cover poison ivy or poison oak as he was suffering from either or both of them.  It seems that perfumes and colognes may be a problem as well since he yet again cautioned those coming to Cincinnati in two weeks to avoid using strong-smelling substances.

Ron did let on that he was oppressed by his supervising pastor when he was starting out in the ministry, and he fasted seeking relief.  I wonder if he was talking about Keith Walden when he was assigned to a circuit from Lubbock TX in 1982 or a couple of years later when he was assigned to Cincinnati under Bob League.

Ron prophesied with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other, spending several minutes interpreting an article about the PIIGS of the European Union and the economic crisis with the Euro. Apparently this will result in the EU being trimmed to 10 nations to fit biblical prophesies. It’ll have to happen soon as Ron has set August of next year as a deadline for the 5th trumpet, when the European beast power occupies the United States.

Ron’s sermon was even more boring than last weeks. During the fall Ron raised expectations for last week’s sermon on the day of the annual excuse fast and end of the first half-a-revised-Time, and he’s broken yet another promise, made on November 28:

That’s why God has given so boldly that within the Church and we’re picking up and we’re going to come to some sermons close to the time of the fast that are going to have a big timeshift for us or a big change for some of the things taking place in the Church.

But I guess the ordination of women to elders could be regarded as a big change.  Nevertheless we’ll eventually have yet another timeshift.

Weinland Vs the Snowpocalypse

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

False Prophet Ronald Weinland had planned to be in Hartford CT this coming weekend.  But the east coast has experienced an unusual blizzard and is expecting a repeat this week before the residue of the last one has cleared, so Ron canceled his Hartford trip as the necessary number of people to fill the small meeting room would not be able to travel the long distances to get there.

But he shouldn’t have had to do that.  According to Rev 11:6, which speaks of Ron and the Missus:

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

These most formidable prophets could have used their witness powers to just stop the blizzard — instead they’ll have to sleep in the $381,000 home on the golf course an extra couple of nights.

CoGgers and Facebook

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Since last weekend’s diatribe against Facebook by False Prophet Ronald Weinland, about half of the PKG members with Facebook accounts have deleted them.  I’m not surprised that so many have done this.  Rather, I’m surprised at how few have done so.  Hopefully a few of the holdouts will decide to delete their PKG accounts instead.

As redfox pointed out, False Prophet Rod Meredith’s LCG is taking the opposite approach to Facebook.  From their article:

By posting to your Facebook page a link to an article, telecast, booklet or other item from the Church websites, or by linking to Church material from your blog, your social network comes into greater contact with the Church. Please read the May-June LCN article entitled, Christian Communication in the Information Age, for helpful pointers on the effective use of this media.

In contrast, back on March 15 of last year Ronnie threatened to disfellowship anyone who represented on a social networking site their membership on PKG.  After that sermon, PKGers disappeared from the Internet in droves.

Somehow I prefer False Prophet Ronnie’s approach to Facebook.

How Screwed Up Are You?

Friday, August 14th, 2009

How Screwed Up Are You? is the title of  a guest post on the Ambassador Watch blog.  This post was written by Dennis Diehl.  Dennis was formerly a WCG minister but since has “thought differently” about that.  The difference is that Dennis has actually repented, not merely regretted the way Ron does.  I believe that Dennis became a WCG minister about a decade before Ron did but hasn’t made anywhere near as much money from his ministerial career.

Dennis’ post relates to the effects of prophecy on people, whether promoted by “The Spokesman Witness” or one of the other false prophets who resulted from Herbert Armstrong’s own promotions. I recommend clicking on over and reading what Dennis has to say.  And perhaps leave a comment there, although it will be a short while before it shows up as webmaster Gavin has had set up comment moderation to deal with a few whackos who’ve posted there.