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I swear to God reading through that letter again I totally see why Jesus called the ruling Pharisees "whited sepulchres". I mean look at all the whitewashing effort. And I will offer a bit of other advice there with respect to the passive aggressive comment. Rozilla, if you are missing some "vigor and diligence" in your life, I suggest following your heart and sneaking off with BellaDonna for a secret vacation rather than having all that rage pile up and taking it out on the flock. Passive-aggressive rage is unbecoming on an elderly woman. Kisses.

Twinky, your post got me thinking a little more on dystopian societies… and by the way The Handmaid's Tale sounds so interesting – I keep telling myself I’ll have a lot more time to catch up on shows when I retire…who knows – maybe “confession of belief” can alter time…just kidding… Anyway …I wanted to point out something I read on Wikipedia about the show and book - said by the executive producer – because I think it relates to my previous post ( as well as to what many Grease Spotters have said on many other threads reflecting back on their own TWI experience). In the section heading of Religion, Wikipedia notes: “Bruce Miller, the executive producer of The Handmaid's Tale television serial, declared with regard to Atwood's book, as well as his series, that Gilead is "a society that’s based kind of in a perverse misreading of Old Testament laws and codes". This really struck me. As I mentioned in my previous post, one of The Way International's buzzwords - "The Word" actually refers to wierwille's skewed interpretation of The Bible. “The Word” sounds authoritative and technical and even appears in the Bible in places like Jeremiah 1:4 “the word of the Lord came to me…” and Ezekiel 18:1 “the word of the Lord came to me…” where it apparently means a revelation, as something to lend support or credentials to what the prophet is saying. Elsewhere you have “the unfolding of your words gives light” Psalm 119:130 NASB. In the New Testament, we read “…the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” John 1: 14 NASB – referring to Jesus Christ…keeping credentials like that in mind, it should come as no surprise to realize Jesus Christ put himself on par with the authority of Scripture when he said things like: 27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart". Matthew 5: 27, 28 NASB Now getting back to TWI’s buzzword “The Word” - something that I still find fascinating is to deconstruct wierwille's twisted and perverse interpretation of the Bible that he simply referred to as “The Word.” Still to this day, there's some wierwille apologists who will stand by PFAL doctrine - but instead of saying wierwille interpreted the passage this way - they just say resolutely "that's what the word says." From my personal experience – it all goes back to the lack of transparency in wierwille’s PFAL class. He was not open and honest about the source of his material, not transparent in representing his expertise (or rather the lack thereof) and definitely not transparent in relating his experiences of applying the things he taught - - simply an out and out fabrication of many stories or twisting of facts. His class is only the beginning of a journey down the slippery slope to the subjugation *of one’s belief system…It is almost a thing of treacherous-bizarro-beauty to recall how a “pilgrim’s” journey simply begins with something so sweet and innocent sounding like "a class on the Bible" and somehow ( over a span of time and a certain level of involvement , which varies person to person ) ends with a follower now devoted to the idea that wierwille had more of the rightly-divided word than anyone else…that God taught him “the word” like it hasn’t been known for centuries… My 2-bit logic says with the grand assumption that God taught wierwille “the word” then there really is no need for transparency…It can be trusted…totally…then we’re back to something like the Jeremiah 1:4 days of old “the word of the Lord came to me, wierwille.” Might as well take it to the next level – let’s put what wierwille says on equal standing with Scripture – “the Bible says do not commit adultery – but I, wierwille say unto you anything done in the love of God is okay.” While I’m at it – a related tangent to transparency (or rather the lack thereof) are some of the ploys used by certain posters as almost diversionary tactics...whether by spouting pious platitudes, pontificating, appealing to ignorance (“show me from the Bible where I’m not right”), appealing to heavily biased articles of dubious sources, making assertions without documentation to back them up – all in an effort to obscure* a weirwille-laden mindset. One can also claim they're evolving in their beliefs to buy more audience time...evolving or changing could mean getting better - or getting worse as in mutating...I dunno...we'll see how this all plays out...as my old limb coordinator used to say when I was a WOW "it all comes out in the wash" - not sure what that means but it sure sounds cool. The Way International is an itty bitty dystopian society based on wierwille’s misreadings and perverse interpretations of the Bible that were enthroned at PFAL and reigned for the long and drawn-out period of your time in servitude to the cult. (uhm…I’m assuming you left…if not, please see the postscript in my previous post…what thou doest do quickly ) == == == == *note on “subjugation”: there’s probably the makings for several papers of thesis quality that could expose wierwille’s methods of subjugating one’s belief system; all it would take is two or three folks developing some of the critical points made by sharp Grease Spotters on just one thread alone: is it okay to recommend wierwille's books to others? …it could also be titled “Is it okay to assume wierwille’s books are “The Word”? ...and folks there's hundreds....thousands....millions? of threads with great critical analysis of wierwille's deceptive means....think of it - - a seemingly endless supply of insight to cult tactics. *note on “obscure”: you may be able to hide wierwille’s influence to some but the real danger is in hiding it from yourself … it’s like you’re playing hide the salami all by yourself – you end up fvcking with your own belief system… It goes along the lines of that old saying - none are so blind as those who will not see. To paraphrase what Jesus Christ said in Matthew 6:23, if your eye of understanding is defective, you will be full of darkness…and if you actually think that is light – how great is that darkness!

Exactly......... ....... "Happy Anniversary! Let’s keep speaking God’s Word to overcome the darkness with His glorious light." TRANSLATION: You keep knocking on doors and selling our classes and we will gladly sit on our a$$ and pontificate and count the money. What a gig! Who knew that fleecing people could be THIS easy......well, except slick-man wierwille and other ilk of his kind.

Or haiku version LOL.... Living in a stick Stupid hick Jedi mind trick Replay Wierwille remix

The rampant nepotism amongst the board of dummies never ceases to amaze me. Always has been a good ole boys club....well now its a good ole girls club....anywho.

Marcia Faulk, 5th corpse, is from Greenville, NC. Her father was known down there as "The Colonel". His grandpa was a Colonel in the Confederate Army of NC. He had served in the US military, but, AFAIK, he never attained the rank of Colonel. That moniker dealt with his CSA heritage. A heritage which he was quite loyal to as a KKK supporter. I met him twice. Reminded me of Col. Sanders. LOL! Marcia was one of the original "proto-type" WOWS with Donnie Fugit in the early 70s. She went back to Greenville to finish college at ECU after that WOW deal to MS. She ran the ECU Women's Way Home for a couple of years. She was also very close, platonically, with Steve Aldridge, also from Greenville. He also went into the 5th corpse, but, unfortunately for him, he was gay, so he never made it. BellaDonna spent her interim year in Greenville, NC, as Limb Secy. She became extremely close with 2 women on her interim year. Rosalie Rivenbark and Marcia Faulk. Marcia graduated from the 5th corpse, and basically never left HQ again. She was still BFFs with Marcia that entire time. She married Bill Greene in the early 80s and still never left HQ. She's still there. And, Bill Greene worked for me in the Trunk Office as the PR guy for the 10 WOW Outreach Cities we had that year in the US. I have stories for days about little Billy-da-weasel, but they're not relevant here. No surprise to me that Marcia is still there with BellaDonna. Billy has always been a useful appendage to his wife. SHE'S the reason he's on that Board of Dickheads. SMH.

Yeah wierwille’s interpretation of Luke 6 = as you give I shall receive

T-Bone, do start a thread: "The Word of God is the Will of God??" You could kickstart it with an extract from your above post. The very expression gives me the creeps these days.

After escorting Mrs. W in November 1997.............I was looking for the exit doors !! ..........my last NINE MONTHS in twi damn near killed me........... Insanity on Steroids