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Here ya go, Twinky!

Highly plausible.

What's with the gal on right in the second row?

Wren, not Wrenn.

Oh...

Who is Jack Handey?

How do we know they haven't visited GSC?

Despite the fact that the podcasters get some details mixed up (or possibly wrong), they seem to have gotten the essence pretty well.

Kudos for the reflections both by Taxidev and Wordwolf.

After creating a live radio show in 1942 to broadcast his sermons, an out-of-work preacher from Ohio was quickly throw into the spotlight of an international spiritual movement. Through his hypnotic Power for Abundant Living (PFAL) course, Wierwille bought the Way International to a large farm in Ohio during a time of revolution in the 1960s. “The Teacher” appeared to be devoted to God, but actually wanted sex, money, and control. (Ep 62) A disgruntled pastor of the Evangelical and Reformed Church creates his own religious group in 1942 after claiming he received Biblical secrets dating back from the First Century AD. By 1980, The Way International was one of the largest and wealthiest cults on Earth. Despite it’s tremendous growth, Victor Paul Wierwille’s paranoia and institutionalized methods of control ultimately led to the cult’s demise. Find these a Parcast.com

And that their "leaders" don't know how to make a living otherwise.

Missed you! Wazzup with you?

Over the last couple of years (it seems like it's been at least that long since he posted anything here), I've wondered the same thing. I always hope he's doing well. A month or two ago, I saw his name at the bottom of the cover page here at the Greasespot Cafe. I guess it was by chance that I happened to glance at it when he was signed in and at least here for a moment. I know his real name so I have tried to look him up on Facebook or Google... but his name is far too common to narrow it down that way.

Paula was never married to Gerald. You're thinking of the wrong Wren(n).

The one spelling her last name Wren looks like it could be her. I don't remember what her husband looked like. But a couple of pics of both are public so you can check.

Well... you did INVITE response. Random thoughts? You mean like... Ephesians 4:14? Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves,and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Oh, nevermind.

I suspect that many/most GSCers feel likewise. Of course, I wish him no harm but am unconcerned about whether he's happy or not.

Does anyone care?

Kinda like another religion motivates its people with the promise of 70 virgins... or something like that.

About 150 moons later...

For the sake of discussion, let me ask, "still time for what?" What warning has been sounded? Is the madness continuing in TWI? Who are you to be throwing stones? Have you pondered why and at whom you are very angry and sad? Are the complexities of life ever resolved by invoking platitudes? Peace dude!

And here I thought the age for legally consuming alcoholic beverages was determined by each state. But in 1984 (under Reagan), federal legislation was enacted that apparently allowed the federal government to withhold funding that would otherwise go to states if the particular state allowed drinking by persons under 21. State legislatures moan and complain when the federal government does things like that, but they usually comply, as it has been with this issue. I was 18 when I took technical training at Keesler AFB, MS in 1973-74. I clearly remember drinking Miller Beer (not Miller Lite) during that time. Of course, off base strip clubs in Biloxi were strictly and officially off limits to impressionable youngsters like me at that time.

As well as deficiency in emotional maturity.

Actually no, one of our fellow GSC members had one of Stowe's paintings that he wanted to figure out what the possible sale value might be so he could sell the one he had. That's the only reference on this site to any interest in Mr. Stowe.

Which suggests that WW was reasonable to surmise that susieV's post was simply an advertisement.