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Usually a bold-faced lie goes longer before it is challenged. Manifesting the "more abundant life" in TWI has to be viewed as a dubious proposal at best. If it is happening, it is for a very elite few within TWI. Rosalie and Donna are sitting on millions in property, savings, cash. Top level bootie kissers on the President's Cabinet have management level salaries. The rest of the staff and followers of TWI? Not so much. Staff work at a wage barely above minimum wage. Personal lives are spied upon and reported to leaders. A heavy-handed micromanagement system is in place all the way to the top. Followers of TWI? They cannot have any debt - so this would include not being able to do student loans for higher education - a key element in employment in this decade. They can't have a mortgage payment to build up equity over time. Of their free time, most of this is taken up - meeting after meeting, class crews, setup and cleanup for local events, phone hookups to listen to teachings from HQ - as listening to this on tape or CD must be done in addition to this. Friends - TWI supplants normal acquaintance / friend types of activities - pressure to sell TWI's classes and fellowships. Witnessing - most field level fellowships have pressure to put together classes - this is a mandated sales quota spelled out by vision and direction documents - this means followers when not busy with other meetings have to do forced witnessing outings - much like the Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormon missionaries. Money - at least 10% of net income goes to TWI. Little to zero comes back in any form of benefit - of all local money in TWI - 75% goes to TWI - that's the budget. The remaining 25% is usually 1-3 people's salaries - the region coord, and maybe state coords although there are less and less of them paid - they have to work a seperate job. Oh, and the leadership of TWI - the Corps - they move around a lot. Get used to building up savings, only to have it completely depleted moving to a new city - of which TWI covers little actual expense. More recently to answer apparant contradictions in "abundance" now TWI re-defines abundance as not involving material abundance, but in overall "quality of life" - like peace, etc. Of course with boring minimum wage paying jobs you could misconstrue extreme boredom for peace. It's harder to get past micro-management, as that restricts free thought. It's a highly controlled existence. Some people like this. They are overtly challenged living their own lives, making their own decisions. It's easier to let someone else tell you what to do - look at how you can avoid responsibility and all that pressure. But to the hard-working, the core fabric of America - it's entrepreneurs and those with a brain and a vision - TWI is no place for you. With "over a hundred years of collective spiritual wisdom" on the BOD, they are not going to listen to you, no matter how great your ideas. They have all the answers. TWI - the more abundant life? In reality it's more like barely existing just above minimum wage - with your life controlled. Lie away TWI - it will not last.