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So, I’ve lurked here for a long time, and now with my heart pounding, have created an account and am saying hello. I’ve been out of TWI for over 10 years; it took me almost 10 before that to work my way out. I grew up in twi, birth to twenties. Now I’m working my way through diagnoses of PTSD, anxiety, and depression, all after I thought I’d dealt with the big stuff. I hope you all are faring better, but I’m guessing maybe not if you’re here. A book that is really helping me understand all this is “Combatting Cult Mind Control” by Steven Hassan. If you’re looking for a sometimes distressing but very revealing read, it’s excellent and totally relevant. Happy to be here and hope to “meet” some of you soon. :-)

Contrary to what was OCCASIONALLY said here and there, twi was pretty anti-family and anti-community. twi'ers who started a family or had ties to their community had less time to devote to twi, and twi considered/considers itself to OWN ITS MEMBERSHIP. ("We don't have 'members', we have 'followers'" really meant they didn't have members but rather SERVANTS, but that's a much harder thing to get people to agree to if you're being candid with them.) So, corps were surprised to find out, after graduating, that twi expected them to get up and move to another city or state whenever they directed. They thought "a lifetime of service" meant a lifetime of serving God Almighty at their discretion but obviously in some twi context, as a twig coordinator, branch coordinator, runner of classes, etc. twi actually meant "you serve US the rest of your life, entirely at our discretion and entirely at your expense." Of course, that was never written up anywhere. lcm himself considered "following him BLINDLY" to be the NORMAL STATE OF THINGS once he was the head honcho of twi, and said so when asked. But, yes, twi was made uncomfortable by children. Children are incapable of the lockstep obedience twi expects. Children can't stay silent and still for an hour or more at a time when twi wants them to. So they're considered a liability for meetings of any size, and when twi opened their "Family Corps", they were ill-equipped to do so and we ended up with horror stories of children not permitted to see their parents on-grounds, and children who could be beaten freely at any time by any adult on-grounds. (Except for children of the top cadre-those children got away with all kinds of things and probably came out worse off than the brutalized ones.) twi has always had this nebulous vision of ideas that can be announced and will somehow come to fruition, with the necessary tools, supplies and skills just materializing when needed. We can all testify to how well that worked....

That's because they didn't care about babies. They were a hindrance to "Moving the Word."

Why do I say "thirty years of seduction?" Well, let me name the ways..... 1) Wierwille taught pfal-prosperity to the masses, but poverty/servitude to the corps. 2) Follow-the-chain-of-command wherein vpee was "the general in charge." 3) The corps indoctrination was a discipline-extraordinaire program. 4) Where was the walk in love, walk in light, walk circumspectly Ephesians doctrine? 5) Where were the gift ministries coming out of the corps training? Yeah, right :/ 6) Even corps were reproved for "independent research" projects. 7) Why did wierwille demand the spotlight even unto death?? 8) Those in research dept could NOT stray from pfal doctrine. 9) Isolation in the corps program facilitated the mog sexual predation. 10) There was no "true shepherds" leading twi......but hirelings. 11) Wierwille and his buddies lorded over us with heavy hand. 12) The Scriptures detail Simon-the-sorcerer "mog doctrine." 13) Why did vpee demand the mogship like Simon? 14) What vpee taught in pfal, he VIOLATED in his corps training. 15) In my 24-year involvement, I never saw wierwille do ONE THING via revelation. So, wierwille stole BG Leonard's class......and ??????? He was hitchhiking thru life on another's ride.

You...you mean the snow on the gas pumps story wasn't real???? Well, shut the front door. Next thing you'll be saying is that his doctorate was phony. Ladies and gentlemen, it's been a DISGRACE to have been in this fellowship this evening!! :lol: