waysider

"It served a lot of different interests to mysticize this stuff and give it a lot of Ooooh factor." The A.C. needed lots of Oooh! factor to cover up the yaaaawn factor.

I wouldn't attend for all the Figpep in Figgyville.

Somethin' to ponder. All that talk about how more S.I.T.= more revelation....hmmmm Typical day at A.C......lots of S.I.T./not much revelation. Leads me to believe we were taught something wrong about at least one of the two....Or even the whole concept.

I've tried to use google to search this out. What I've found is that all roads lead back to PFAL or Bullinger. You can tell they are ex-Way people by the phrases they use and the (misrepresented) scriptures they use to make their case. In addition, one must subscribe to the PFAL variety of dispensationalism/*spirit in* vs. *spirit on* concept to make any sense of it.

Roll away, Roll away, Roll awaaaaaaay 'cmon everybody, sing with me!

As with anything else, when you start to paint it with too wide a paintbrush, the picture becomes distorted.

Well, at least you're being honest about it.

When the service is over, do they sing "roll........? well, you know...

You know he wasn't really my Grandpa, don't you?

(Don't) Gimme that ol' time religion.

Indoctrination is the reason PFAL was structured the way it was.....overload of information, crammed into a short period of time, dealt out in incremental portions, with no room or time to consider alternatives. It's the reason you could not walk into your local bookstore or public library and pick up a copy of PFAL or RTHST. I actually asked, one time, why, if we were so consumed with spreading our message, did we not make the materials more readily available to anyone who wanted them. I was told (by leadership) that the systematic build up of the class was just as important as the material, itself, and the casual reader would be missing that. In plain English....it's an indoctrination process.

Critical thinking is a two-edged sword. It can keep you out of trouble or put you on the hot-seat. I still prefer it to blind acceptance.

"just attempting to show how the perceptions and messaging changed in 10-15 years." And change they did.....in leaps and bounds. It was still a scam, though, even though we knew some pretty cool people and had a swell time singing Kumbayah around the campfire.

I still remember the old "farm" days, having lunch in the BRC basement, singing "Rollaway" and thinking I was part of some elite organization. But, like a magic trick whose mechanisms are revealed to you, it no longer holds any mystique.

A mellow take on an old classic:

Wierwille wasn't talking about etiquette.

"She stated early in her reign that the TWI was like a big ship and it took a long time to change directions." It took the Titanic less than 3 hours to....*change directions*.

HAND PICKED

Daaat's riiiiight!!

You should have known something was amiss... Harvest Gold was all the rage that year.

I think song was written as a tribute to him.

Thousands of people sat through the AC. How many picked up a "cookie" or two about Wierwille's true character and lifestyle? (It doesn't lend much credibility to his ramblings on the "revelation" manifestations.)

Yeah. Didn't we all think we were gonna come away from there, knowing how to operate revelation?