Extortion

[waysider]

Oh gosh sorry that went on a bit didn't it.

HeeHee!

Not really.

I think you could probably trace this stuff way back to the early days.

Wierwille didn't just wake up one day and suddenly decide to become a sexual predator.It's a chronic condition.

Looking back on my time in FLO, in the mid '70s, I realize now that it had to have already been going on then at the HQ. level. It makes me feel like I got played for a chump. Not because I didn't participate in the shenanigans but because he used our lifestyle to camouflage his own. I mean, here we were, a group of young, virile adults, signed to a 2 year commitment to live a life of alcohol and drug free celibacy. (celibacy for the singles) Meanwhile, we saw signs that indicated less than honorable things, such as Wierwille's then-rumored alcohol abuse, might be going on but were reproved for even THINKING such things. Can't be thinking evil of "the household" now, can we? We must be spiritually weak and lacking sufficient renewed mind to entertain doubts.(cough) The WOWs were publicly, advised at WOW training, to "keep it in their pants" during their WOW year. In CF&S, Wierwille advised the women to learn how to satisfy their own needs rather than succumb to temptation. (He said men didn't need to "learn" this.) In retrospect, I think all this stuff was a smokescreen he used because he knew our lives were much more transparent to the public than his was at HQ. So, if his life came under scrutiny, he could point at these things as a ready made rebuttal.

Just my opinion.

Edited February 17, 2009 by waysider

[Oakspear]

. . . even some Pagans :)

[rascal]

I didn`t ever think about the fact that there were guys n girls mixed on the wow field, I assumed that it was a mark of the confidence they had in us, of our spiritual maturity....we were on a mission for God....lol silly me.

That was the first year ... the second time, 5 years later most were screwing like bunnies or wishing that they could....I thought THAT was a sign of spiritual maturity also :(

It is an example of how our moral compass became corrupted.

I didn`t ever think about the fact that there were guys n girls mixed on the wow field, I assumed that it was a mark of the confidence they had in us, of our spiritual maturity....we were on a mission for God....lol silly me.

That was the first year ... the second time, 5 years later most were screwing like bunnies or wishing that they could....I thought THAT was a sign of spiritual maturity also :(

It is an example of how our moral compass became corrupted.