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The question: The answer: Mike! The hidden question: The answer: DWBH and Skyrider! (with assistance from Cafe friends)

And so, yet again, another thread has turned its focus onto Mike.

You see, Mike, for most of the people who post here, any "good" that came out of PFAL is greatly overshadowed by the VERY GREAT HARM that was done by PFAL. Both in its words and in its practice.

Mike, there were many who took PFAL and walked away during it- that shows what they thought of PFAL's "great good." Some others stuck around for a few months, and then were distracted by other events - that shows what they thought of PFAL's "great good." Some others stuck around for a couple of years, maybe going to twigs, and a few festivals like RoA and then stopped fellowshipping. Perhaps they moved away, or their twi leader moved away - that such people never continued shows what they thought of PFAL's "great good." And then, notching it up a bit... Some went in rez or on staff. Some left during their rez time or staff time. They usually left in bad circumstances, and they were badmouthed after their departure. That shows what the leavers thought of PFAL. Yet more were graduated corps or long-term staffers. And they too are no longer fellowshipping with TWI. TThat shows what they thought of PFAL's "great good." And there remain a few, a very few, who continue to fellowship with TWI. Compared with the numbers that have taken PFAL over the decades, that shows exactly how many people "admit to the GREAT good that came out of PFAL." As a percentage of all PFAL grads, it wouldn't be high. Where and who are these grads you are talking about? How many, within a few dozen, are you talking about? If PFAL did "great good" for them, why are they no longer fellowshipping with TWI? Why aren't you?

At this time of year, comfort food means MINCE PIES!

What the heck are they doing anyway, giving out Christmas presents (and not just tacky diaries) and using the abundant sharing for such expenditure?

Very funny, modcat. Craig was always going on about the "faithful remnant." The remaining or best part of the cloth. I posted something here once, something that came to me when I was cleaning the sink. My cleaning cloth was somewhat worn, a bit threadbare in the middle. It struck me then, as I scrunched up my cloth seeking a usable bit of cleaning fabric, that the "remnant" was the bit left over, the bit that hadn't (as it were) pulled its weight and given its all. And that rather fits with what WW has posted, about redundancy.

Hahahahahaha! Keys to keeping our minds DULL and pulling a VEIL OVER OUR EYES so that we can be fooled by his attacks, more like. Pity the in rez corps and staff that this class was practiced on, and who were then compelled to write these glowing reviews. Those days will start when you walk away from TWI and start to claim your rights in Christ to be free of oppression, when you stop being a captive of TWI. Innies - do it now!

Twinkies? In the plural? There's only one of me!!

Kathy, you gotta watch that T-Bone. He'll have you sputtering with laughter over your coffee in no time. By the way, T-Bone. We left the "desert menu" behind (thank God), and snack out on "desserts" now. I'll have apple pie and ice cream, please.

Kathy, we would all agree with you in that sentiment. In fact, almost any life is better than the drudgery and crushing guilt of TWI.

Okay, now I have to sign off. Am being harassed and yelled at by Crypto, who wants her treats (handfed on Dreamies, fragments of ham, or the like). She still doesn't let me pick her up but at least she beats me up now. And then to bed. Night night.

The b&w one is called Tuxedo (for obvious reasons), and her all-black litter mate is Crypto (loves to hide, was three months before I even saw her). Two very troubled girlies. Here's their story. It got to be quite a long thread. http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/16471-cat-whispering/ Yes, we discussed Going Clear, too. There's a search function at the top of each page, top right corner. That might help you locate similar topics if you choose appropriate key words. You can search the thread you're on; the wider forum, like About The Way, or Open; and all content.

Here.have a look at this. It's currently 4 pages long (we have a lot to say about that, here )

Oh, and lest I forget my manners, Kathy - welcome. Draw up a chair, have a coffee and have a good read and a natter.

Have you seen the Leah Rimini/Scientology thread in this forum? Pointing out the similarities between TWI and Scientology as total-control cults? (There are other threads, too.) I get you are talking about the individuals VPW and LRH, but the cult and the man are pretty much inseparable, since the man controls the cult and uses it to his own advantage.

T-Bone, you crack me up! That's hilarious! (I love yoghurt, have never tried that brand, and don't think I ever could now - I'd snort it out laughing too much)

A poisoned well? Or a cracked and broken cistern? I'm inclined to think the former. A well that keeps on supplying, but ruins all it comes into contact with. Doesn't seem like a cistern that is going to run out of water (poisoned or otherwise) any time soon, unfortunately. Contents still trickling out, but enough remaining that people still try to drink.

Search (or re-search) into people's pockets, what say? Also search (and re-search) into people's daily habits, including time spent with spouses. How prurient! Some of the best research we (as ex-Wayfers) can do is - read other versions of the Bible. Especially more recent ones, in more comprehensible language. Can really bring those dry old passages into sparkling life.

Grace, if you do a bit more reading around, you'll find she was an early supporter of VPW. He valued her opinion, so he wouldn't have shown his noxious side when she was around. And don't forget, so much of what we know now was very well hidden at the time. She wasn't on campus and she didn't see what actually went on, most likely.

2002 - things must have changed. I don't remember lists of vulgarities when I took A New Life. Or maybe I just blanked any vulgarities out. I only remember the crudeness with CFS.

Now as well as CFS, there was also a class called "A New Life" taught by Dr Carolyn Rawlins. This was actually a very good class. I remember material from that. I even kept the class notes/handbook from this class - I burned all my other Way class material. It was a video class, or mostly so (it was such a long time ago) and I've a distant memory that Dr Rawlins taught some parts in person. At least, she was present during and could be asked questions, which were appropriately answered. I don't know if A New Life was offered to everyone (ie on the field), or just to in rez Corps.

@DWBH: sorry if I offended you when I said what I did about that letter. I didn't mean to be offensive to you. Yes, of course you were all Waybrained at the time so of course all that Wayspeak made it onto the page (and yes, I was like that too, for a long time after I was banished). Reading the letter now, decades after all that strange manner of speech has been eroded, is like looking at a foreign language document. Or maybe some work by Chaucer ("Wow, did people really speak like that?") I had had the impression that it was just a letter sent to the "trustees" [not that they were trustworthy at all] and only to them. I honestly can't imagine them reading it with seriousness, except to find out who'd written it, so that they could be banned. I am very glad a wider circulation provoked a mass exodus. Think how many lives were rescued - both immediately, and also those who never got sucked in because the potential suckers-in had unsucked themselves. Just a bit of an off-topic: I have no difficulty believing and understanding that at times it was very difficult in TWI under VPW. I frequently think that some of the older pre-LCM-prez posters here haven't a clue about the horrendous goings-on under LCM's "posidency." Lunchtime meetings, for example, could be a screamfest from LCM for over an hour. Corps Nights were sometimes a 3 hour screamfest. The atmosphere of suppressed violence, suspicion and spying on others was everywhere. I don't want to derail this thread, but a little understanding goes both ways.

I never heard of that class. When did it run? When might it have been discontinued?

Just so, Bolshevik.