outandabout

You're funny, ex. Wasn't sure what "Imao" meant, then I realized it was LMAO.. ha ha ha me too

Yeah, Alfa, I do know you. I was ateth corpse. We hung out once at some limb thing in San Francisco years ago in the mid 80's. The gent is a WOW in my WOW branch from 78-79 in the Riverside/Redlands/San Bernardino area And A la Prochaine, you're right, they just ignored me. I was never able to chastise people, that's why I'm making fun of myself! . Abigail: POW!!! I never saw that!!! That's hilarious! LOL LOL How apt!!!! Sign up here to be a POW!

hoo boy, I don't even want to think about first thought... was that my first thought? Like somebody said, WHERE IS the first thought? First thought starting when? I was so glad to get out and just start trying to use my brain to figure things out best I could and not worry about "revelation". I told God, Hey you wanna tell me something, you're gonna have to scream it at me because I'm just sick of trying to figure out if you're telling me anything. So maybe He does, maybe He doesn't, he11 if I know.

AMEN BROTHA!!!!

Oh and by the way ex-cathedra figuured out that COULD BE HER SWEATER!!!! An abusive Nazi sweater??!!! :D-->

ok gotta do this here, even though it may be redundant. This is me as an abusive Corps Nazi: Observe the upheld wagging finger. I must be OBEYED!!!!!! Posted it elsewhere but just had to do that. sorry

That's right. I rejected them too. About a year later I got a letter from LCM rejecting me! (ie dropping me out of the Corps along with a lot of other people evidently) Guess TWI had to have the last word. "I don't care if you left. I'm kicking you out!"

Yeah, how convenient. Doing evil and silencing those who might expose it as "speaking evil." Man, I knew TWI was not where I wanted to be for a long time but I sure didn't see how perverse it really was until getting out and "connecting the dots," as it has been previously said here.

Oh yeah, I remember a WOW vet I was with after I graduated from the Corps saying that it really was "OK" for single people to meet each others' needs....I was thinking "Where did she get THAT?" A lot of little things come back to me, not like I was one of "initiated." I was oblvious, like I said, but looking back on it there were the ripples on the surface that I just didn't get. Didn't see it because I didn't think it was there.

Thank you for the compliment and your welcome for the pictures. It was very therapeutic to post those and see so much humor in it all! That Way brain thing could be a whole other topic. ("What is Way Brain?") Back to our regularly scheduled topic.....

I thought of another incident, not exactly in the same vein as the rest but.... I was in a southern state as a Corps Grad and there were also interim corps WOWS there that year. Well, two of the WOWs got emotionally and sexually involved and she got pregnant. They wanted to get married. At a corps meeting, the Limb leaders's wife, also Corps (ordained 4th Corps), was going on about what a TERRIBLE thing, and awful horrible mistake it would be for these two to GET MARRIED. After all, she had the Corps go back to! Deep inside, I was thinking, this doesn't seem right, if they love each other enough to want to get married and have their child, why is that bad? (But I was so Way-brained that these thoughts weren't acknowledged by my real brain, so to speak. Or whatever that process was that we went through where our real thoughts were silenced by the WAY BRAIN...thus like having two brains... anyway...) How totally screwed up it was. People screwing people they had no right to, but two people who want to make it right are held up as totally wrong. That is so sad, a baby that was never born and two people who wanted to be together split apart. What cold callous bastards, people with the audacity to think they had the right to run other people's lives and determine their future. ....es me off to this day if I think about it.

Oh, I forgot. My wallet was stolen at ROA. Really. Was working in a drink stand and it was left out in view. It was the Rock after all..... Oh yeah, a waitress I worked with in a restaurant stole $10 out of my wallet. I couldn't prove it was her though but I'm quite sure it was. When I was in Fellow Laborers, a guy I was hanging out with stole our family fund out of the hall closet. Couldn't prove that either but I'm sure it was him. Lots of thieves out there.

Well, regarding this topic, I was one of the totally oblivious ones. I honestly believed that we all were endeavoring to live according to God's Word, and to me that meant extramarital and premarital sex were out of the question. And I also assumed that those at the top were so spiritual that obviously they were living that way too. Thus, I was totally unaware of any goings-on and would probably not have believed any of it. But, come to think of it, when I was living in a trailor at HQ, my very attractive bunk mate would be gone all night...but I couldn't believe she'd actually be.... nah And then there was the time my Twig Coordinator came on to me and he was very attractive and wow what a kiss that was, but he was married, so I said No Thank You. Hmmm and then there was the time a Corps brother I had gone out with a few times was going on at Corps Week about hey, why not, you know it's okay. I thought he was joking and I just laughed it off. It was a JOKE, right??? And then there was some incident when some hot shot at Emporia who was visiting said something to me that totally shocked me and it was obvious to him I was shocked so he gave me a weird look and walked off. Can't remember to this day what the heck he said but I know it happened. And then there was a time my married branch leader told his wife that one time he had had a "chance" with me but nothing happened. I'm like "Huh?" Maybe it was the time we were sitting on a sofa and he held me for a long time, but I figured it was to comfort me since I'd been through a lot on my previous assignment. His wife told me that after we were all out. She knew of his affairs and was not happy about them at ALL. They are now divorced. Oh, and my Way Home twig coordinator would be out all night with said branch leader, but I really didn't think much of THAT. Hmmmm so you see I just didn't GET IT. But after leaving and hearing Ex-Wayfers and their stories, and then all the recountings here it's pretty hard not to get it. But, geeze, the TWI I THOUGHT I was in was for sure NOT what it really was. And if that isn't total justification to LEAVE, well what is? I think it was so selfish and hypocritical for "leadership" people to sexually use people and then hold themselves up as superior, having the gall to go around reproving people for petty stuff while they were breaking God's Word in the worst way! I still am shocked, no matter how many more sharings I hear about what people went through, A part of me is still shocked, because of all those years that I was so oblivious.

She was caught away in the spirit working in the dining hall, while the rest of us were getting our picture taken!

yeah, that was her name.

The Fabulous Baker Boys Michelle Phiffer (sp?) The Deep End of the Ocean

Our crime rate has gone down in CA thanks to the 3-Strikes law. It's funny but when you lock up bad guys they don't victimize people. Last election some a-holes put a proposition on the ballot that would greatly weaken 3-Strikes. Public sentiment turned against that and it was voted down. As for being affected, our truck was stolen from the trolley station where I park it. It was found three weeks later by a police officer who found it parked in on the street in another part of town. That was a surprise! It was in ok condition too, except that the thief took off the tail gate which had a big dent in it. He did me a favor, I was trying to get it off myself. We were burglarized in 1989 by some guy who climbed through the kitchen window while we were gone. I prayed for justice, not our stuff. Lo and behold a print that he had left behind identified him, and as well the guy was busted doing another job. He went to prison. But he's out by now no doubt. In 1982 when I was on "assignment" in the south, I was held up by a guy with a gun in the parking lot of the apt. where I lived. He took my purse. (Glasses were on my face, keys in my hand and new license in the mail. I lost my make-up bag and $7.00) Later that year somebody tried to strangle me while I was laying on a blanket reading a book. I rolled around and rebuked him in the name of Jesus Christ and he ran away. In all of these, I was a victim but God still blessed me. But needless to say, I do not think "It can't happen to me" when it comes to crime.

HEY, our neighborhood HAS a roundabout. It's starting!!!!

My WOW sister from 78-79. She was from Mass.

I have it too. I'll never forget it. All it did was drive us into the dirt, lay a tremendous guilt trip on us. But of course at the time I bought it. I really don't want to ever listen to it again, thank you. To sum it up, CGeer told the Corps "You're all f'd up except for me and I'm telling you how to get un f'd up." I think CGeer's greatest moment of glory came when he held us spellbound that Corps Wk '86 when he read Passing of the Patriarch. As we were wallking out of the tent he yelled, "Your lives are in danger!" Wordwolf, if I may, the tape was sent all the Way Corps from Chris Geer after Corps Wk and ROA '86. That was the Corps Wk when we were all shocked and numbed by POP and the realization that all was definitely not well with TWI.

hee hee hee 8th and 6th above

I'm not 10th but everybody else in this picture is:

11 times, not counting within the same city, all the times they moved us around at Emporia etc. After marriage, hubby and I stayed in same apt complex 16 years!..I had had it. First two of that we were still in TWI but I was learning how to drag my heels.

Yes, Andrea that's how it was for me too after getting out of TWI, after always thinking it was ME......nope, IT was screwed up, more so than I even knew.

Sorry, didn't mean to kill the thread.