OldSkool

Never caught that...please explain? Interesting.

I dunno bout that guy....thinking hes trouble...

Fair enough, sounds like a plan. Peace!

Oh heck yeah! Now that you mention it, he used that BS line in light of not being unequally yoked with unbelievers, but his application of that was out in left field and was definately used to promote isolationism with only TWI folks period. Only the ones who were proselytised and graduated from from various classes were accepted.

Oh yeah. Martindale targeted many many people for all sorts of BS reasons. He taught the corps the same practices and for a while you had little martindale clones like All@n L!ch7 or T0m L@lly. Those werent the only ones from the hitler fan club there were plenty others. It was fashionable to kick people out for a while. Smoking out homos was a big thing, for example -- there were many other reasons just as bogus.. Anyone even suspected of being gay was given the bums rush...well except Rosalie and her group. Anywho.

What kind of real strength is defeated by weakness? We that are stron ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. So, scripture doesn't support that statement. I wonder if he was keying from the section of scripture where it talks about "Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners" from 1 Corinthians 15:33. When you decipher King James English it's basically saying that evil associations corrupt good character, or ethics. But weakness always brings down strength sounds like some ole BS that craiggers misapplied and used as a club to scare people into compliance.

Yeah, that's it. That was a Martindale thing. He used to say that stuff often and about most anything.

And ditto. I fought the directors at the way international for 2 years...I understand corporate bullying...oh boy do I ever...thanks for the thoughtful response.

It was a very simple analogy with a very limited scope of comparison...not calling anyone a bully either.

One things for certain and two things for sure: Any internet troll loves starting conflict between other participants.

YW, and great post and link! Thanks!

No doubt!! I had so many retemories memorized. At one point I literally had memorized all of the ones from the fnc, int, and adv classes, DTA, and my way corps retemories. None of that did a dang thing to actually address my various and sundry issues. Example: With my alcoholism, it will never work very long for an alcoholic to just not drink and not address the underlying issues that caused the drinking in the first place. Yet, thats exactly what TWI taught me to do. Oh,,,you have a drinking problem? Just stop drinking and take some classes. See...your delivered because alcoholism is a spirit....yah...that garbage led me right back into some rather fine distilled spirits. The way internatinal also openly condemned alcoholics anonymous. While, I dont goto AA meetings I do draw heavily on their methodology and I have an uncle who is helping me who has 35 years in AA, actively sponsering people. So I have a really good support system in place to keep me honest and on track. Im actively making amends to my family and others I hurt and wronged when I was drunk. Im also dealing with the underlying emotional issues that led me to the bottle in the first place. The way international taught me none of these things and simply put an alcoholic who was already in denial into a closed societ that fostered a deeper level of denial and then blames the victim when they eventually short circuit.

Im down with what you are saying, but is it different when you engage him vs say T-Bone? I respect where you are coming from and agree that there are many non-sensical posts responding to mike and I sure have my share of non-sensical BS retorts as well...but your responding to mike multiple times and discouraging others from responding to his BS? How does that work? Personally, I will respond to mike as I see fit. I dont think its exactly equitable to have a guy who obviously trolls the forums and likes starting a big mess amongst participants here and then tell the ones who feel the need to respond to his BS that they are wrong for responding. Kinda like tellng a kid to ignore the playground bully...personally, I fought back. So, Im not gonna not respond to his garbage, although I can respond in a more professional and terse manner and work to get the topic(s) back on track. I can meet ya half way in that manner.

Yeah, and not to be cantankerous, but I didn't say that stupid $h!7 that mike posted earlier on scatology or whatever it was exasctly...so it's a bit different than misplaced punctuation. By as I noted by acknoldging that I understand how easy it is to have the wrong person quoted as something mike says and followed with an ...lol...because I refuse to take a message board too seriously. Peace!

glad Im not the only one who manages to quote the wrong person with this site software....lol

What happened? U get banned for trolling?

And you still havent handled the topic or provided much of substance...but hey neither have in the past few minutes....

It was in the classes. I don't know what prehistoric class you hold in such high regard to ignore reality.

So now you are denying that the way international teaches the absent Christ...which is it? You contradict yourself constantly.

There is no seperations of TWI, just a progression from one drunken rapist, to a successor serial adulterer to a granny R who spent lots of money covering them both up.

Which is a tried and true trolling tactic to involve a moderator and try to use their weight to endorse your point. Epic fail.

No it wasn't. I learned about the absent Christ from classes and Craig Martindale who learned it from victor pig wierwille. It definitely wasn't from the way corps...

OMSW has the same scriptural authority as The Far Side by Gary Lawson. Although, I did agree with a statement wierwille made and even acknowledged that he wasn't full of solid excrement all the time.

Mike, are you spiritually angry?

Same song my friend, same song.