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Here's a few from "The Texas Cannonball" to start the week off with a bang. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aimj-mTeFKA...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGLmZCZ1sXY...feature=related

Wasn't there a photo here at one time of the TWI Research Library? I can't seem to find it now.

In TWI, everything always had to have some sort of spiritual meaning. According toTWI, bad things supposedly happened in your area or your life because you were moving "The Word" and the adversary was trying to stop it. But then again, maybe bad things supposedly happened in your area or your life because you were NOT moving "The Word", thus giving the adversary an open trapdoor by which to attack you. Geeze Louise---Maybe bad stuff just happens---period, ya know? In the grand scheme of the history of mankind, VPW was nobody. He was a huckster, a flim-flam man who set up a clever MLM and used "The Word" to lend credibility to it all. It was never about "us" or God, it was always about VP. He got what he wanted. He had prime real estate, servants to wait on him, expensive guns and dogs and fishing gear to satisfy his outdoor interests. He had a whole fleet of classic cars and a fleet of expensive motorcycles tucked away, out of sight from Joe B. Leever. He had his own private jet and a motor coach. He even had his own private harem of concubines. And the list goes on. Who paid for all that stuff? Is it any wonder he pushed so hard for "Word Over The World"? Money from classes, money from ABS, all at the expense of someone other than VPW. We're like the little old man on the 11 o'clock news who relates how he was swindled out of his life savings. It's embarrassing as heck to admit it but, at the same time, it's a relief to get it out in the open.

BINGO!!

A mighty fine example of "trophy mentality".

I'd Rather Go Blind

Sunday Will Never Be The Same

I always thought it was quite clever that Pee Wee Herman named his dog Speck. (He was just a tiny little thing, much too small to be thought of as a Spot.)

Ethical debauchery!!! :lol:

Etta James------At Last

Lots of fond memories of clam bakes in my younger days Never was a big fan of clams and chowder but the bon-fires and chill in the evening air always seemed to set the mood for good times.

Hap I remember that being in my notes (same year) also but can't locate them at the moment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: suicide AC syllabus B. DISCERNING OF SPIRITS . . . page 21 Spirits affecting the mind . . . (17) Suicidal spirit--Romans 1:16ff (18) Spirit of death---persons death is imminent. (this one is hand written, not part of the printed text.)

Hiya, Chas I get what you are saying. To someone who was not around during VPW's tenure, the importance is probably not so obvious. Those of us who were around during the VP days held the man in very high regard. To me, at least, it's really more about credibility and integrity than it is about how he lost his eye. I never had the slightest idea he died of cancer until I read it here. I remember inquiring at the time only to be given a cold shoulder. The cause of death was very obviously obscured and hidden. That's a real, real big deal (and dilemma) for those of us who sat through his teachings ramblings on devil spirits and cancer in the Advanced Class. He taught that cancer is a devil spirit in the 1973 AC. In that same class he also taught that devil spirits were responsible for certain behavioral traits, such as addiction, alcoholism, sexual predation, delusions of grandieur and other traits that he himself possessed. Then, hearing him portray himself as some sort of martyr by saying " I gave my eye for The Word! What have you given?" induces a whole new level of disgust for the deceptions and betrayals. That's probably not a very good explanation but at least it explains why, for me, it's a big deal.

Some "musical" humor.

Absolutely!!

Our House

What goes up----- must come down.

Is there anybody going to listen to my story? All about the girl who came to stay. She's the kind of girl you want so much It makes you sorry Still you don't regret a single day.

Big Bad John---Jimmy Dean

Arsenic poisoning is, indeed, an interesting parallel. If I remember correctly, the currently acceptable level for arsenic content in drinking water is 10 parts per BILLION. ( I think that figure may have been revised recently to an even lower level.) The important thing to remember regarding arsenic is that it has a residual effect. Once you ingest it, it stays in your body and accumulates unless specific medical measures are taken to remove it. That's the concept the two little old ladies used to poison their victims in Arsenic And Old Lace. On an interesting side note, prior to the introduction of penicillin after WWII, arsenic was thought to be a viable treatment for syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease which, if left unchecked, can express itself in latter stages as dementia, delusions of grandieur, irrational behavior and tumors throughout the body.

Happy Birthday, dande, railroader, etc.

For what it's worth, Mr. P., I dig where you're comin' from on this. Sometimes saying nothing at all seems better than saying it to the wrong person. Hey! Wanna run down to the truck stop with me? I hear they're having a big sale on Moon Pies!

No one said this is a "closed thread". I simply stated that, as I see it, the purpose of this thread is to allow people to express how they feel about having been exploited. There is nothing in what I said that implies you can't voice an opposing opinion. What I object to is the derailment of the topic at hand. It's simply inappropriate to "discuss the discussion" or "promote an agenda" that conflicts with the purpose of this thread. You are perfectly welcome (IMO) to state an opposing view as long as you don't do so in a manner that is disruptive of the stated intent of the thread. So, on that note, I suggest you start a thread that presents an opposing view and moderate it yourself. Or, like the old saying goes: "Poop or get off the potty chair."

It's my impression that this thread was started as an opportunity for people to discuss how it feels to realize they were exploited. If you don't feel you were exploited, then so be it. Go ahead and say so. It's not my intention to change your perception. Then----- politely step aside and let others have a voice without having to be challenged and doubted at every turn.