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New posters at GS continue to give us an updated look at twi......IT'S WORSE THAN I IMAGINED. Everything seems mandated to preserve twi's image and carnival barkers.

Like selling cotton candy at the county fair or circus.....no real substance.

Cotton candy (U.S.) or candyfloss (UK, New Zealand and South Africa) or fairy floss (Australia) is a form of spun sugar. Since it is mostly air, servings are large. Cotton candy is often served at fairgrounds or circuses. Food coloring is used to change the natural white color.

What's the "spun sugar" in this year's theme? What is the color of the 'present truth' coming from the directors? What will attract the people this year? How many greeters need to be near the entrances?...how many vendors need to sell cotton candy?....who gets to hold the microphone tonight at the main attraction?

And.....these twi people actually speak disparagingly of church leaders?

Martindale has been gone for TEN YEARS.....and what's changed?

Rosie sits in the 'big chair' and micro-manages at higher levels.

New staff policies......46 hr work weeks with state wage regulations.

Discarded lcm's class with a similar WAP class....minus the 'lesbian original sin' research.

Staff with physical or health challenges are pressured to resign....nice household, eh?

Need new staff to fill housekeeping, grounds jobs......why the reluctance?

Seven graduate from the vaunted corps program.......how low will it go?

Etc. and etc. and etc.

While twi continues selling cotton candy.......the lives of good-hearted people are subjected to barking charlatans. Those who faithfully give to twi's carnival are being fleeced of their har-earned money. Attending meetings, classes, events, functions....the innies are manipulated and exploited in the name of God.

My apologies to local fairgrounds and carnivals who offer food and attractions in a free market society....without the subtleties of cult pressure.

:evilshades:

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Rivenbark, Martindale, or V.P. Wierwille...do you think that TWI's decline was inevitable anyway no matter who held the reins? The participants were getting older and therefore priorities were changing within the lives of the general populace. It was quickly becoming inpractical for the followers to continue participating in the manner to which TWI had become accustomed. I'm speaking of one's ability to invest the time needed to run a class, or the many trips to many meeting most of which were unnecessary. The inability to drop everything to a meeting of a top name leader just because they passed through one's area, etc. etc. How long coud TWI have survived?

Is it possible that the purge's, splits, and firings actually helped TWI because it gave their followers something to focus on rather than the group's ineffectiveness? When I say "helped", I mean prolonged TWI's decline.

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Rivenbark, Martindale, or V.P. Wierwille...do you think that TWI's decline was inevitable anyway no matter who held the reins? The participants were getting older and therefore priorities were changing within the lives of the general populace. It was quickly becoming inpractical for the followers to continue participating in the manner to which TWI had become accustomed. I'm speaking of one's ability to invest the time needed to run a class, or the many trips to many meeting most of which were unnecessary. The inability to drop everything to a meeting of a top name leader just because they passed through one's area, etc. etc. How long coud TWI have survived?

Is it possible that the purge's, splits, and firings actually helped TWI because it gave their followers something to focus on rather than the group's ineffectiveness? When I say "helped", I mean prolonged TWI's decline.

Yes.....I think that TWI's decline was inevitable. Though there was a pivot point, around 1979 or 1980, when twi could have re-structured and reinvented itself, but wierwille and co. didn't see it nor did he want to.

Around 1979, there was that huge push for "Word in Culture." Twi was brimming with talented people.....musicians, orchestra, arts & crafts, writers, cartoonists, stone masonry, builders, medical personnel, psychiatrists, professional ceo's, athletes, etc. Word in Business Conferences were hitting their stride and, for a few years, participation was such that twi had one WIB in the east, one in the west each year. At the Rock of Ages, twi set up an Arts and Crafts Tent for believers from around the country to sell their wares and feature their business talents.

There was so much musical talent around 1981/1982 that twi had a competition to select the best group. New Horizons was the first all black group in twi. In the eight or ten Regions, twi was swelling with excitement, talent, growth, new ideas, etc. Imo....the whole thing was busting at the seams. Twi was on the verge of exponential growth.

Ambassador One flights were bringing field people to hq.....and taking staff people to the field for an extended weekend. Way Productions had its own motorcoach for traveling around and blessing the folks at events. Five campuses of corps training.....HQ, Rome City, Emporia, Camp Gunnison, and LEAD in Tinnie, NM. And, for a time....there was talk of Regional "rock of ages" events.

Wierwille ran the thing to the point of everyone gasping for air. The corps program was an indoctrination to shut your mouth and succomb to groupthink. Wierwille/Martindale seemed to spiritualize everything and ONLY CORPS could "carry the water" for the mog's wishes. All music talent had to be corps. The staff department coordinators needed corps training. The good-hearted staff of the early 70's made their silent exits one-by-one as the years passed.

IMO....the window of opportunity passed without wierwille or martindale seeing it. The fields were ripe to harvest, and yet, the "reapers" were asleep in the shade. Talent, love, and excitement was everywhere......and yet, the spotlight had to be ON THEM and every word that proceeded forth from their pieholes.

What would have happened...

...if twi had de-centralized around 1980?

...if business & professional talent had been spotlighted?

...if parenting and family issues had been emphasized?

...if the yearly pilgrimage to Ohio had stopped?

...if regional programs allowed for flexibility and time constraints?

...if Christ as the Head would have been the focal point?

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What would have happened...

...if twi had de-centralized around 1980?

...if business & professional talent had been spotlighted?

...if parenting and family issues had been emphasized?

...if the yearly pilgrimage to Ohio had stopped?

...if regional programs allowed for flexibility and time constraints?

...if Christ as the Head would have been the focal point?

What would have happened?

It would have broken wierwille's heart.

No longer would he have been the focal point of everything.

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