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As the years click by, it becomes more apparent to me that a solid foundation in life (so often neglected, or derailed by swindlers and carnival barkers selling their wares that deceivingly exploit the young and vulnerable) yields exponential benefits. And, when I say "solid foundation" that includes: 1) Faith, hope and charitable love, 2) Embracing family, friends and loved ones, 3) Educational and career paths of opportunity, 4) Church, community, club and/or neighbor associations, 5) Financial plan to strengthen equity/investments/pension/ira, 6) Live love, laugh often and 7) Stay true to yourself and purpose in life. In re-reading the thread by Collateral Damage 30 years is MORE than enough ........ exposes the long-term plan of twi FOR THOSE ON THE FIELD. Quote: ".........I realized how crumby the long-term TWI plan is for those out in the field. Find a menial job, work hard and don't rock the boat. Try to witness but we only need seats for the class- if it's just a connection, move it along. SELL SELL!!!! Find an apartment, move every few years, drive a 5 year+ model car (and keep that cardboard so you don't mess up the driveway). Long-term planning? You don't need that. God's got you. I woke up one day to realize my parents have no retirement and no equity of ANY kind." Parents had NO retirement and NO equity of ANY kind.......[no pension or ira plan, no stock market investments, no home equity]. And, to think that some 22 years ago.....I, too, was heading DOWN THAT SAME PATH. The twi corporation in Ohio is a self-absorbed, idolatrous-infested nest of carnival barkers. They live to serve themselves. The regurgitated swill that is sloshed forth each sunday is the vomit from a viper's vortex. Throughout the week, the "teaching" is scrutinized by the wierwille-legacy machine and then, said-"teacher" practices the delivery in the bowels of an empty auditorium. Singing ladies of the sway come out and perform their little diddlies as rosie-the-riveter points and directs. You see......the sunday teaching service is, now, the ONLY REAL CONNECTION with the field, the followers. Itineraries by "the president" have been discarded on the ash heap for over 30 years. Limb cities have been hollowed out as some 500 clergy and 3,000 corps grads have exited twi and re-built their lives from the ground up. Heck.......if one delves into any research of the man victor wierwille, you will find: 1) He stayed on church payroll until August 1957 even though he claimed to have started "twi" in 1942, 2) wierwille's teachings, writings, books, and pamphlets were plagiarized from men like Stiles, Bullinger, Leonard, Clark, etc. 3) the pfal foundational class was wholesale ripped off from B.G. Leonard in Calgary, Alberta in 1953, 4) the advanced class had vast swaths of tangents ranging from the Marxists minstrels, the Thirteenth Tribe, None Dare Call it Conspiracy, The Hoax of the Six Million, the 16 Keys to walking by the spirit and much more, 5) the corps program was little more than wierwille-indoctrination-camp with snippets of cherry-picked scriptures, and 6) the sexual predation of wierwille/martindale [and others] and mystique persona of twi's founder has been totally debunked. Just remember this: Twi is sitting on a nest egg of $64 MILLION that was amassed thru decades of exploitation --- so they, unlike what they preach, are VERY INTERESTED in watching their investments/monies accrue each and every year. They certainly don't mind that their followers drive oil-leaking beaters to menial jobs. Nor do they help to fund any type of witnessing or class events in your area. That dime is on YOU. They know how to shame and guilt the innies out of every last lingering penny. And so it goes........... No retirement, No equity.......No problem. At least, NOT for twi. .