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Re Lepidoptera#Morphology & Physiology

Hi A.L.I.,

The whole section is disbalanced, I am currently working mostly on Lepidoptera morphology. I thought that once both these articles come upto some standard and then we could summarise them in the Lepidoptera morph & physio. Whats your opinion? AshLin (talk) 15:35, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi A.L.I., Thanks for the thumbs up. I'm really looking for feedback and help with Lep Morph. I'm basically a combat engineer not a biologist so while I understand the stuff I have no domain knowkedge, So its a mish-mash of cut & paste in truth. Any kind of help will be great. In truth the higher Lep articles will/should be deveoped as a cluster. Each article done in depth giving to Lepidoptera its precis as a section or subsection. AshLin (talk) 16:05, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

WP:NODRAMA/2

Just a quick reminder that the Second Great Wikipedia Dramaout has begun. Please log any work you do at Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/2nd/Log. Good luck! --Jayron32 02:01, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Rocky Point

hi, i appreciate your attempt to make things right, but redirecting my page on Rocky Point was inaccurate, as i was attempting to create a page on Rocky Point on the coast, as part of the Palos Verdes peninsula, not the inland city.

The secret page (class 4)

Congratulations in being clever enoug to find it, just if you don´t know:

First

There are clues for them at my secret page

Second

None of them violate or break the wikipedia's guidelines (maybe bending them a little)

Third

There's a reward for that, and here it is:User:Damërung/Rewards/The Ultra Hidden Barnstar

Fourth

Sorry for the delay again

- ☩Damërung ☩. -- 01:58, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion converted to PROD: Faceabotage

Hello A little insignificant. I am just letting you know that I have converted the speedy deletion tag that you placed on Faceabotage to a proposed deletion tag, because I do not believe CSD applies to the page in question. Thank you. Olaf Davis (talk) 18:35, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi again. I've replied at my talk. Cheers, Olaf Davis (talk) 18:06, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

190.241.40.138 (talk · contribs) - use of uw-4im

Hi. I don't think your uw4-im warning to this user was justified - at the time. I admit they did carry on vandalising and had to be blocked, but at the time you gave it, they had only two edits since November, and those were silly vandalism rather than malicious. uw4-im is "appropriate for severe vandalism and defamation only" - I would have given uw-v2 here, working up the scale if they carried on. Keep up the good work, though! Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:18, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

I use 4im in cases where the vandalism is unambiguous, therefore, I tend to use it often. I make almost no exceptions as to the severity. In a situation where I can AGF and reasonably speculate it was a test edit, I leave uw-test1. But uw-4im has always worked for me in that it shuts up most vandals quickly, without having to sit and watch them and work may way up the list of warnings. In that respect I do not follow policy, I follow common sense.

(By the way, this is what I mean when I say 4im is successful: See my warning here and their edits here. ALI ^{nom nom} 23:18, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

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hello. thanjs for moving my disscusion to the correct article. i would like if you could please support me in my campaighn for adminship. Bminer1397 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bminer1397 (talk • contribs) 15:35, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

i am using the recemended link to better myself. i have not found an adopter yet but i only recently posted. Thanks. Sorry about placing my comments in the wrong section but i could not find a space anywhere else.

                            Bminer1397  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bminer1397 (talk • contribs) 17:50, 2 March 2010 (UTC) 

Wikicookie!

I hereby award you a Wikicookie for receiving and giving so many barnstars! Yay!

70.171.224.249 (talk) 22:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Ommed and nommed! T'was delicious. Yay, thank you! ALI ^{nom nom} 22:55, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Only warning

Isn't this overkill? It was a single edit and was just a silly tribute to a girl. Though not what we're here for, I think just a CSD tagging notice would have sufficed, or a most a level 1 warning. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 01:47, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

No Prob. Dlohcierekim 02:04, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

John Patrick Bedell Pentagon Shooting

Hello "A little insignificant" or (ALI?)
Thanks for warning that vandal.(71.56.134.189)
Now another, 97.119.97.118 is adding stuff from blogs. I have removed once, they have now restored it.DIFF
Not sure about it, but if you could have a look? Thanks!
Had a quick peek back. Someone may have beat you to it! : ) --220.101.28.25 (talk) 19:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Michael Peter Woroniecki

I'm concerned about Joshua Woroniecki's edits to his father's biographical page. In the process of many justifiable edits he has removed clearly and reliably sourced "contentious" material. O'Malley's conclusion of her chapter 8 on Woroniecki and his influence was removed. It highlighted Woroniecki's belief that he and his family are very narrow in their thinking about how many peope will be saved from hell. This had a detrimental effect on Yates, she concluded, and possibly led her to ruin, she said. he also removed the sourced fact that he believes he and his family are likely the only 8 people saved that he knows about. This is brought out on O'Malley p.109 as well. A college article substantiated what O"malley reliably stated in her book. That source was removed too.

He removed the reliably sourced characterizations O'Malley made concerning her research into W's education and career failures. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.251.183.240 (talk) 02:07, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

He removed "cultlike and dangerous" from the lead text which was languaged used in the articles cited, and only mentioned that he removed an unsourced paragraph which clearly was sourced. This is a clever stealth edit.

He removed a quote from a newspaper that documented the exact hopelessness and despair that characterizes their teaching and was pointed out by O'malley as having a severe effect on Yates (p.109).

The sources from the Grand Rapids Newspaper that supported Woroniecki's history and expulsion from Grand Rapids, his return to preach there in violation of his agreement to leave the city was also compromised, despite the many good sources provided. Any citations to Grand Rapids papers must be reinstalled and if the text is appropriate to the article, restored or revised, not deleted.

The video that was archived by the Texas Courts was referenced in a picture that he also deleted saying it was "irrelevant". They are likely trying to remove evidence that the video even existed. Out of sight out of mind.

Do not allow JW to classify his father as a non-public person. This man is an open air preacher that has been in and out of the news whether in print, radio or television since 1980. His publicity (not his "Non-publicity") more recently has been about his negative ministerial influence on Yates. That is the exact characterization the media has made, yet JW deleted that adjective from the article too. He is using the classification of non-public person to qualify him under certain wikipedia rules that work to his agenda's advantage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.251.183.240 (talk) 01:43, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

The family has gone too far. To allow these vandalistic edits to go unnoticed is a crime to the better part of this article. You shouldn't allow it. You might as well let Scientology back on Wikipedia if you allow this family to vandalize the most reliable documents and statements of this story.

Also, JW's reaching accusation that only one person has been editing this article over 6 years under various IPs and sockpuppets should be stricken on the basis it is pure speculation.

I would prefer that the changes be revoked and someone like you rather than someone like Woroniecki's son access the article and revise it. There is clearly too much accurate information and reliable sourcing being lost because of a reckless Woroniecki family agenda which is bent on undermining the press against them.71.251.183.240 (talk) 23:54, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

The Woroniecki's like Scientology cannot be trusted to revise pages about them. A third party must be employed. The page must be revised until neutrality is resolved and the page closely watched for future edits. The Woronieckis recently were found in violation of self promotion and conflict of interest in the creation of a page about their family on Spanish Wikipedia under the article Woroniecki They deleted the promotion template and were severely warned against vandalism. Usaurio: ReporteraRed (A Woroniecki sockpuppet). Their page was deleted after attempting to solicit private recourse through email instead of appropriately on the discussion page or talk page. This was documented on the talk page of usuario: Sarah W. Sarah W. Discussion page 71.251.183.240 (talk) 00:20, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

In response to your comment on the talk page of this IP-- I surrendered the article to third parties yesterday. I will no longer be making edits. My hope was that any errors made by 3rd parties would be inadvertent, not based on an agenda, but private conversations user: Kevin is having with JW destroyed any confidence I had that the edits wouldn't become biased through silent manipulation. Then JW came on and ripped the article to shreds without engaging first in neutrality discussion because he wasn't satisfied they were happening fast enough, citing rules he only sees from his point of view and subverts with a falacious wiki characterization of his father--non-public person.

I prefer that you revoke his edits on HIS admission that he was biased (as revealed by Kevin who said he was in email discourse with JW) and step back earlier to the time even before Kevin, who inadvertently deleted many legitimate citations as well because they were adjacent to links of now dead personal pages (documentation sources not opinions), then carefully remove personal page links without removing corresponding legitimate citations those links were intended to verify. Then carefully scrutinize text for non-encyclopedic language and revise, not delete, relevant material that is reliably sourced, more notably O'Malley's and Spencer's research, ABC, Grand Rapids Press and many university papers that reported on his events. Woroniecki's message and it's characterization by O'Malley and Spencer is VERY relevant to how that affected Yates. O'Malley's book "Are You There Alone" is accessible through Google Books. Most pages can be reviewed there, Same with Spencer's Breaking Point. Many of the college papers are still available online. If the verification link is broken, use archive.org to examine an archived copy of the link if needed. Terms like "cult" and "dangerous" and "negative" can be found in the articles sourced. Eaglizard was the one who made the lead paragraph sentence, not me. Yes it's true, there is more than one person editing this article, contrary to the wild speculations of the Woroniecki son.

I've stepped out of this editing process. I hope JW and his family will see the sensibility of doing the same.71.251.183.240 (talk) 03:22, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Don't concern yourself with the raise the mother from the dead thing. That wasn't sourced. It was on a primary source, but that was never cited. My primary concern is with the material he is deleting about his father's beliefs and characterizations of his teachings and influence on Yates made by prominent researchers of this story.71.251.183.240 (talk) 05:10, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

The following citations supported the use of words describing Woroniecki's "obnoxious, beligerent evangelical style", yet Joshua removed those adjectives and substituted "controversial" in its place in blatant disregard of the sources.

^ Suzanne O'Malley, Are You There Alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates, Simon and Schuster, c. 2004, p. 106; Tanda Gmiter, Ken Kolker, Did Preacher Sway Texas Mom? Grand Rapids Press, Januart 23, 2002 Article; Steve Grinczel, Woman Prefers to See Street Preacher Tried, Grand Rapids Press, October 12, 1981

This article linked below supports the article cited in the opening sentence that contained the language "obnoxious"/"belligerent evangelical style". That was removed by Joshua on the basis it's hard to check old newspapers from 1981. You can see the 2002 article that repeats the language from the 1981 paper that was removed and the word "controversial" was left in place.

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/news2/an020124-08.html

The article reads: "While his belligerent evangelical style had some supporters, others complained it was ear-splitting and obnoxious."

The article is from the Grand Rapids Press, and it is verified at the link above. It was originally cited as the support text.

The other Grand Rapids Press article is about a woman who was harrassed by Woroniecki in 1980. The original citation has that two officers witnessed him in pursuit following the woman for almost two city blocks, "accosting" her verbally as she tried to walk away, breaking into tears, so they arrested him. This incident was reported in the article with the same citation and I believe it is removed now as well. This was the trial coming up on Monday Oct 5, 1981, that Woroniecki finally agreed on Friday Oct 3, 1981 to leave town if the city dropped all charges against him. The citation in the article had more information about this that I alluded to. The date given as Oct 5, 1981 is actually the court date, not the arrest date:

The last arrest came in October 1981, when Woroniecki was accused of accosting a woman who had gone to the Grand Center to buy tickets for the Shrine Circus. He allegedly told the woman she was a sinner who was going to hell, berating her until she was in tears.

Faced with jail time if convicted, Woroniecki agreed to an offer by the city attorney's office: stop preaching and leave town in exchange for the charges being dropped. The deal ousting Woroniecki from Grand Rapids made national news.

P. 106 by O'Malley was used because the word "arrogance" was used by one of his teachers from Catholic High School to describe his former student's behavior on the streets.

These characterizations are relevant because it highlights his insensitivity in his interactions with Yates, particularly the time in Florida when he confronted her and told her she was "going to hell". She was showing outward signs at the time of becoming run down. In fact, MW turned to her husband at that time and berated him saying,

There was an everyday confrontation and sharing. Just telling him, Rusty, look, you know? Quit being a hypocrite. You know, look at your wife, OK? She needs your love. Where's your love?" --NBC Dateline Interview with Michael Woroniecki

What is even more interesting is Charles Gibson on GMA (Mar 27, 2002) pointing out Mike's insensitivity to Yates regarding her mental condition when he rebuked her. He and his wife then lie and tell everyone that there were no clues to her appearance that suggested she was becoming ill. But Suzy Spencer highlights in her researched book Breaking Point that at this time, everyone concerned in the trailer park they lived at was noticing signs of her becoming "exhausted" (Spencer, 144). When compared to what Woroniecki said above "look at your wife, where is your love?" it makes sense that he was refering to her run down appearance and that Rusty wasn't loving his wife enough.

I am not making these things up to maliciously defame Woroniecki. These are the accurate media portrayals of the preacher. This is the genuine fact of Michael Woroniecki's behavior as reported in quality media sources. They stand regardless of any ad hominem attack (i.e. "Cyber Bully") the Woroniecki family musters.72.64.46.234 (talk) 14:54, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

You said: Check out the talk page of the article. Urgh... I need to turn this over to someone else, have them review JW's actions and act appropriately. (Virgina, right? :D) ALI ^{nom nom} 15:08, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

The proxy server of my internet provider which rotates IPs is located in VA for the entire US customer base.

I'm really tired of this. I'd like to see the article retain its media accuracy. Granted there several non-encyclopedic or properly sourced entries, but so much legitimate sourcing and text has been flushed out with those in clever stealth edits. I honestly think this is going to turn into a Scientology full scale edit war or discussion war, if you will, and I have better things to do with my life. I have already relinquished edits to third parties. Now the discussion with its "cyber bully" defamations from JW and snubs from Kevin, who is admittedly in private discourse with JW and was originally solicited by them to edit the page, is really starting to become a drag. It is unfortunate that people will be picking this article to death without a comprehensive understanding of the story. So much will be lost for that one fact alone because the media's reporting was very negative toward Woroniecki, and at first glance, that presentation doesn't seem encyclopedic. If push comes to shove on the old Grand Rapids Press articles, consider that they are available from Grand Rapids Central Library, and that they are verifiable despite JW's assertion that they probably aren't--wishful thinking. There are also some copies online at apologeticsindex dot org under Michael Peter Woroniecki, and I believe there are a couple at RickRoss dot com. All of the GRP articles were formerly on line at an ex-follower archive, but the AOL hometown community was shut down in 2008 when AOL discontinued hosting websites. Woroniecki's blog, the only external link at the bottom of the page now, highlights Woroniecki accusing this cyber bully of having lost his AOL account due to his reckless defamations, and that wasn't the case. What a twisted irrational world it is ALI. I envy the dead.72.64.46.234 (talk) 15:48, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Two 1981 Grand Rapids Articles in Woroniecki Dispute

This is an article cited in the lead paragraph that highlights his "belligerent" (Exact word used in a 2002 article mentioned in section above) preaching style and reveals he followed and harrassed a woman to tears according to two police officers who witnessed this event and arrested him. Woroniecki feared he would go to jail so he offered a deal which the city accepted. The last sentence is key to understanding why the dispute is even taking place now. Please delete this if copyright is a concern, but save a copy for yourself for reference.

Woman Prefers to See Street Preacher Tried Steve Grinczel The Grand Rapids Press October 12, 1981

Boisterous street evangelist Michael Woroniecki hasn’t even left town yet, and a Kentwood woman misses him already.

The informal deal Woroniecki claims he made with the city attorney’s office—to leave Grand Rapids in exchange for dismissal of pending court charges—angered Janice VandenHoek, 31 of 4885 Marshall Ave SE.

VandenHoek isn’t interested in defending the controversial evangelist, who has admonished people for their sinful ways at nearly every notable event in Grand Rapids in the last 1-1/2-years.

Rather, VandenHoek, who alleges she was harassed by Woroniecki in January, wanted to put the preacher on the defensive in the Grand Rapids District courtroom.

“I wasn’t in on the deal,” said Vandenhoek. “I guess they’re really not my charges but the city’s charges.

“I didn’t get my fair day in court.”

Woroniecki, 27, has six charges—primarily disorderly conduct—pending against him. In previous cases, he has been convicted twice and acquitted once; another trial ended with a hung jury.

Fearing he would end up in jail, Woroniecki decided he would be better off moving to Atlanta in a couple of weeks. In return, the City Attorney’s office is “considering” dropping the remaining charges.

Downtown merchants and pedestrians have complained about Woroniecki’s loud, brash and frequently insulting sermons.

VandenHoek, who said she is a “Bible-believing Christian,” was planning to appear in court Oct. 5 when her case against Woroniecki was to begin.

“They (court personnel) called on Friday just before and they said the city attorney made a deal with Michael and there would be no charges,” she said. “I said, that’s fine for Mike, but he violated my civil rights.”

VandenHoek said she was accosted by Woroniecki while waiting for her husband to pick her up after buying tickets for the Shrine Circus at Grand Center.

“Michael was telling everyone to sell their televisions, and that everyone going to the circus was a sinner,” VandenHoek said. For some reason, Woroniecki singled VandenHoek out.

“He told me I’m going to Hell and to lay down my monetary possessions,” she said. “Finally I got to the point where I was in tears.

He said he was going to vomit me out of his mouth, or something like that, and that I was a wishy, washy Christian and he wanted me to pick up the cross.

“I said, ‘Hey, don’t bother me.’ I walked in the opposite direction and he followed me.”

VandenHoek said Woroniecki followed her all the way to Monroe Avenue and Lyon Street where two police officers saw him and arrested him on the spot.

The confrontation with Woroniecki brought back bitter memories of VandenHoek’s former husband who had similar, staunch fundamentalist beliefs.

“My daughter’s biological father literally tried to beat the devil out of her 4½-years ago, “ she said. “It was a reminder and the fear rushed in; this could happen to me.

“My daughter (who is now 9,) was not with me, fortunately, but she does have occasion, such as the Santa Claus parade, to run into Mike Woroniecki and his followers. It has a real emotional effect on her.”

VandenHoek said she could pursue Woroniecki in a civil suit but isn’t sure she would even be able to collect damages because Woroniecki is impoverished.

“I think the Christians of this town are going to be glad he is going,” she said. “I wish he could have stayed so I could have said what I wanted to say.

“I wanted to say that he was doing more to hurt the cause (for Jesus Christ) than to help. He doesn’t tell you how (to be a good Christian), he just tells you how to go to Hell.

“It seems like Mike can say whatever he wants, but nobody else can say what they want to say about this guy.”

Here is another article that supports some deleted content in the article:

Lifelong Friend Looks at How Street Preacher Changed Steve Grinczel The Grand Rapids Press June 6, 1981

Editor’s Note: Mike Woroniecki has been canvassing Grand Rapids’ streets for the past year spreading the word of God, but in a manner which many passersby find repulsive. Press reporter Steve Grinczel, who grew up with him, interviewed Woroniecki, reflecting on their childhood and giving an insight into the street preacher’s beliefs.

One un-amplified but nonetheless powerful voice will compete for attention with buffalo meat sandwiches and stage players at Festival ’81 this weekend.

Mike Woroniecki’s act hasn’t been booked to appear on center stage by the Festival Committee. In fact, he won’t even be acting. The ragtag evangelist sincerely believes in what he says, and he undoubtedly will make many of the half million people expected to show up at Calder Plaza uncomfortable with his preachings.

Some will comment with disgust from the sides of their mouths about Woroniecki’s loud pontifications. Others will ridicule him for being a biblical eccentric. Only a few will listen to his message with respect.

The police have been instructed to arrest this extreme fundamentalist preacher (deleted adjective from article) only after he has been given a warning for being too disturbing and only after two people say they are willing to appear in court to testify, after placing their hand on the Bible Woroniecki can quote in a second’s notice, that he’s a public nuisance.

Those of us who have known Woroniecki will probably feel embarrassment. He’s not the same person we remember at West Catholic High School or St. Adalbert’s Elementary School.

His first salutation to someone he hasn’t seen for a while won’t be “Hi, how are you? It will be something like “Barb, you can’t go on living the way you do. You have to give up your life for Jesus.”

I’ll admit, the new Woroniecki took me off guard the first time I saw and heard him in action on Monroe Mall last winter. It seemed as though he was basically the same egomaniac trying to be the center of attention. Only now, instead of being destructive, he was using the guise of a holy man. (Steve was onto something here)

His voice, which always sounded like two steel plates rubbing together, slashed the still December night.

In a way, it hurt to listen to bystanders remark on what a nut my friend was. On the other hand, I really didn’t condone what he was doing. Like the time as 11 year olds, when I couldn’t jump after him from the roof of his parent’s garage on Lake Michigan Drive, I wasn’t ready to follow him downtown either.

I’m afraid our spiritual philosophies still differed the sunny afternoon we talked on the corner of Monroe and Michigan, the heavy timber cross he drags through downtown hovering above my head, and more recently when we talked over the telephone.

But conversing with him one to one, no shouting and no condemnations, I became reacquainted with someone I had known since we were first graders. It wasn’t a bad experience.

He wasn’t the same intimidating figure that gave the nuns such a hard time in grade school. He wasn’t the same arrogant, muscle bound hulk whose slow, deliberate walk down the school hallways seemed to say “Look at me, I’m cool.”

He surely wasn’t the same Central Michigan University sophomore who tried to expand his dorm room by knocking a hole through the cinderblock wall. (biographical fact from his college days explaining his "Crazy War" nickname deleted from article) Or the same one who would “borrow” a pizza delivery man’s car and eat all the night’s orders before abandoning the vehicle behind a tavern. (believed to be deleted from article)(Steve surmised above, only his outward approach to feeding his ego changed)

Woroniecki, 27, his blond hair thinning and his face gaunt, is, as he says, a dead man – devoid of all earthly aspirations other than to serve Jesus.

While standing on the corner, a young passenger in a passing car yells, “Hey, I’d be happy to nail you to that cross.”

Such vented anger is common to Woroniecki, who says he’s been spit at, punched and mocked since returning to what he calls “the city of churches” to preach about a year ago. Since then he has been arrested and thrown in jail, publicized and criticized for pushing the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech to its limits.

Given the chance to speak rationally, Woroniecki is a fascinating person.

“I see the hatred,” He says. “People get down on me. They say it’s my techniques or methods. But it’s what I’m saying that bothers them. I just love him. I want to preach him.”

Sometimes it’s a bummer. I get depressed a lot. The world basically hates (Jesus) and they’ll hate you (for preaching Him) like they hate Him. But it’s a blessing.”

“Do you ever talk about anything other than Jesus?” I ask.

After a short pause and thoughtful glance, the answer is “No.”

“He’s the only one I talk about because that’s all there is. All I can do is live for Him. Of course, I have to talk about practical things, just like anyone else.”

Woroniecki began his journey to become an evangelist while still in college. He was influenced by the Charismatic movement and even taped a cross on his football helmet. Nagging injuries kept him from ever developing into a prominent football player and he interpreted that as a message from God.

After graduating from college, he tried to become a Franciscan and a Dominican – the order of preachers – priest. Both orders rejected him for being overly zealous. (deleted from article, also supported by O'Malley on p.104)

I wanted to preach Jesus, not their sacraments and rituals,” Woroniecki says. “At that time, I didn’t really understand the full revelation of the Bible. I understand now. It was God protecting and leading me.

Woroniecki went to school in California to further his Charismatic education, which he says is not as significant as the development of his personal relationship with God. He returned to Grand Rapids to preach “The Word.”

Woroniecki’s views of topical things is quite interesting.

His father – Woroniecki says his father, who is a devout Catholic, will certainly go to hell if he does not renounce his religion[9] and become born again. “It grieves me,” he says. “I witness to him all the time. He thinks his religion is going to save him. Jesus clearly says you must be born again. It’s not a matter of sacraments and rituals and being a good guy.” His mother, a born again Christian, died and went to Heaven, Woroniecki joyfully hails. (He renounced this belief in 1996 to a man who married his niece Kathy--O'Malley mentions his mother as a "maybe" not a certainty in her book on p.109)

Television evangelists – “It’s the American sensationalist gospel that has no price tag to it. They change the word ‘materialism’ by calling it ‘prosperity.’ They say, ‘Well, God wants to give you everything you want.’ That’s an abomination. You have to give up everything. God’s not some granddaddy in the sky giving into lustful desires.”

Careers – To truly be born again, people must give up all their worldly possessions, and all sinful desires, he says. “Jesus calls on you to lose you life. You can’t serve two masters.” (Can't have a career and be a Christian, cited in the article, might be deleted on basis it came from a college paper but is supported as well on p.105 of O'Malley)

Athletics – Woroniecki, a former All-City football player, no longer has anything to do with sports. He was at the Old Kent River Bank run telling competitors they were running for vanity’s sake. Yet he says, “I loved football. It was my idol. I learned a driving discipline.” He now focuses that discipline he developed to serve Jesus.

False prophets – The Bible says beware of them. Woroniecki says he’s not one of them. “You have to examine what I am saying and what is in the Bible and if (what I am saying) is consistent or inconsistent.

Woroniecki has no church, but he belongs to what he calls a fellowship of about 10 devotees (“Please don’t call them followers,” he says). Two, Greg Kowalczyk and Leonard Karpowicz, are old school chums. (Rejected by churches and priesthoods, O'Malley agrees on p.105, he started his own church. This supports the description of "unordained" in any church, which was deleted from the article by JW)

Woroniecki, husband and father, has fasted and prayed for God’s judgment on Festival, another thing he calls “an abomination.”

“You see the exact same kind of things happen in the time of Noah,” Woroniecki says. “Jesus says they wouldn’t listen because they were eating and drinking and partying. They were so caught up in secular activities, they couldn’t hear the judgment of God.”

Whenever I part company with Woroniecki, after bumping into him in the street at the Hall of Justice or talking to him on the phone, he says he’ll pray for me.

I hope he feels the same way after he sees me biting into a Buffalo Joe sandwich at the festival.