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Wow, they are just so clever. This is really going to stop their demise. Once some one accidentally comes across TWI's exceptional website they will immediately become convinced of the greatness of TWI. They will then fall under their spell and become one of their minions who do their will and give them money. They are just so clever.

The broken dish post on another thread reminded me of a TWI flashback....When I was doing dishes in the kitchen at Emporia, after finishing, I hosed down the sink and started walking out. Behind me I heard the bellowing voice of a senior sickth corps member, yelling and screaming at me because A FEW PARTICLES OF FOOD had remained in the sink!!!!! For years after that, whenever I hosed down my own sink at home, I remembered being yelled at because of the Emporia incident. Another flashback. I had a WOW sister who INSISTED that all the dishes in the drainer MUST be dried and PUT AWAY. Once I was out of TWI, whenever I did the dishes, I LEFT THEM IN THE DRAINER to air dry, always thinking of my former WOW sister and that I was now FREE to leave the dishes there and put them away WHENEVER I WANTED TO later.

Hmmmmm Vee Pee used to say he didn't dream, like he was superior, like if you dreamed you weren't spiritual enough. Like if your mind was really RENEWED enough you wouldn't have to dream. Now I believe dreaming (REM sleeep) is quite normal, in fact necessary for mental health. A lack of REM sleep can actually cause psychosis in some cases. Back to TWI dreams, one I remember is being back at the ROA and a former branch leader was coaxing me into singing with the choir: "Oh come on now, join us, you have such a pretty voice, come on now......" I did not respond to his coaxing. My interpretation: in a wee part of my brain, I still want to be in TWI, maybe it's those few good memories, but my major feelings are NO WAY am I going back!

ok, I watched "Valient for the Truth" to see if the people were smiling or not at the end. It went by so fast I couldn't tell and it was kind of dark. But, what I noticed about that song was the total self-righteousness and feeling of superiority over the "unbelievers" that it expressed. "We are not of the number that refuse to know God." WE are so much better than THEM. And then later "WE are of the number that REJOICE to know God." We are just so spiritual and special and separate from those ignorant inferior other people, thus implying "You'd better not leave or you'll end up being one of THEM. (that number that refuse to know God) How dare they presume to be able to judge who "refuses to know God?" I could not believe it when I actually listened to the whole thing all the way through. People actually sat there and listened to that?

I just looked at it again. "We're not of number that don't choose to know God." Good for them. Must be great to feel so special.

If you schedule everything in advance, wouldn't that make it easier for the Devil to get you? He would know in advance what you'd be doing. I would think the way to avoid the Devil would be to make a schedule and make sure NOT to follow it.

I couldn't even watch any of the video selections all the way through. I couldn't stand it. All I saw were a row of female singers in beige outfits singing in unison and they were singing boring songs. That's just how I saw it.

oops sorry, got it a little off topic. back to cliches. what were they? ummmmm How about the fate of the USA depends on us and our STAND.

OH NO! an unscheduled run to the GROCERY STORE!!!!!!! Oh God help us!!!! How could you ever DARE to go to the GROCERY STORE without scheduling it or getting approval from your spiritual superiors. LOOK at all those people in the GROCERY STORE....when you are there without prior clearance from those above you, how can all those other people be there? Oh, they are just rank UNBELIEVERS that can go there whenever they feel the need or desire to go. But YOU, being one of God's special members of the PREVAILING HOUSEHOLD, no YOU cannot simply RUN to the GROCERY STORE. HOW DARE YOU!!!!!! How you dare you think that YOU can RUN TO THE GROCERY STORE. How depraved can you be???? You deserve to be kicked out of God's HOUSEHOLD of HIS PREVAILING WORD.

I don't remember Sydney from Lima. I must be getting old. I went to ROA (and some of them included Corps Weeks), from 1973 to 1987. I can't tell Sydney from Lima anymore, I only remember HQ.

Bad things happened to you because you "broke principle." Bad things happened to you because you were "out of fellowship." oh yeah, well s#1t happens.

ooh wow, almost 5,000 people. Used to be the Rock was 1/4 that many people. Once again, they're painting the roses red, touting their horn, and arranging their chairs on the deck of the Titanic.

I think they're deluding themselves if they think anyone has been "stolen." Nobody left who didn't already want to. Other people paving the way before me helped me to leave but nobody "stole" me. I was ready to leave, more than ready. I just needed the signs to point the way out.

re: tearing down the House of His Healing Presence - I guess once you're all prevaling you don't NEED prayer anymore. Can't admit you have any needs, that only shows WEAKNESS. That place was so great. I loved going there. I could feel God's presence. Kind of figures that something so truely godly had to be eliminated. That really shows me how bad it got.

Where do I sign up??

Looks like they don't have any electricity or modern conveniences. It also has kind of a faked happiness about it. "We're so happy happy happy here at TWI" and so bored bored bored.

50% would be 2 and 1/2 people. Maybe they can give double assignments. hmmmmmm. 20% is one whole person....hmmm if you send two people somewhere, then that's 40%. What a stupid scammy way to put it. It really does show they must be embarrassed and need to cover up.

Yeah, Christians SHOULD be Prosperous. Unfortunately, while we were in that joint, most of us WEREN'T but teh few at the top were. That book should have been titled, The People at the Top Get to Be Prosperous.

Oh yuck, another anniversary. Those stupid anniversaries never meant a thing to me anyway. What did it have to actually do with our lives anyway? Like I cared. OOOOOh, the Wierwilles, oooooh, what happened years ago.....like how does that relate to God's Word, which was supposed to be the real focal point of it all, not stupid TWI and how long it had been around. So have your stupid anniversary, TWI. Like it means anything. These days it means even less. Who's left in that pathetic organization can sit around with glazed eyes and listen to some prattle about the great history of TWI.

owww my butt hurts....here I go my eyes can't stay open....oooh here comes a joke, gotta laugh...when's the break so I can get 10 minutes of freedom... my that plant in the corner has a yellow leaf that needs to be plucked out...there go my eylids again............................................................

or as Howard Allen reportedly said, "You work until you die."

Once I somehow recollected them all and it came up to 25 times. That doesn't include sessions I sat through separately. One time we were running a class in a townhouse I was living in and our next door neighbor came over to complain about the noise he was hearing from our house which was "the same voice going on and on." Yup, that says it.

I know that my brother sold his house in the midst of the no debt thing. His children suffered from being uprooted from their home.

My 3 Cents, Sounds like the federal govt (who I work for).

quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My gosh, how many ways are there to die daily? BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! “The alarm clock? Already? Well, at least I’m awake, as opposed to many other people who died (or were murdered) in their sleep last night. All right, another day on earth. I feel pretty good, but of course that doesn’t necessarily mean that I don’t have one of the hundreds of fatal diseases going around. Well, I guess I’ll hop in the shower [Note: It is much safer to just stand there]—watch that BAR OF SOAP ON THE FLOOR! Better blow dry my hair, and hope I DON’T GET ELECTROCUTED! So far, so good—downstairs for breakfast, but not HEAD OVER HEELS AFTER TRIPPING ON A TOY. Yum-m, that’s good, honey. By the way, do you know how to do THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER? I’M CHOKING!! Driving to work—WHOA, THAT WAS CLOSE! I’m glad I don’t have a dangerous job like many people do, and I like my new office on the 58th floor, UNLESS THE BUILDING CATCHES FIRE! Lunchtime—think I’ll pop over to the burger joint and HOPE TO HIT THE FLOOR IN TIME IF SOMEONE OPENS UP WITH AN AK-47. Hey, it’s 5 p.m.—time to go home. Thank God there was no EARTHQUAKE this afternoon. If I don’t get MUGGED IN THE PARKING LOT, I’m taking my wife out for dinner, and HOPEFULLY NOT FATAL FOOD POISONING. Then we’ll settle in for some TV, and maybe that THE BIG OAK TREE BY THE HOUSE WON’T BE HIT BY LIGHTNING AND CRUSH US! OK, you get the point—we need help!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actually, I read that a few days ago and laughed. I thought it was pretty funny.