The Victor Paul Wierwille Memorial Museum

[skyrider]

The Way International is in the final stages of transitioning to "The Victor Paul Wierwille Memorial Museum." With each passing year, the mission statement of twi comes more clearly into focus: to preserve and promote the life, the quest and the legacy of Dr. Wierwille for all generations. Those who visit will find an exciting adventure in learning as they take the shuttle west on Wierwille Road as the old Wierwille Homestead comes into view.

Many of us, especially corps, are already familiar with this tour. We've heard about the wierwille barn and the "upper room" loft where summer students slept. On Tuesday night, many of us attended "Aunt Sevilla's Twig" in New Knoxville and listened to her childhood memories and helping young victor. And, many have heard about the strip-bark used to erect the "House of His Healing Presence" and the serene and holy peace in the Way Woods. You see......this tour, and legacy of wierwille, has been in the making for decades.

As more way corps realize the cloak of idolatry wrapped around twi's shoulders.....the quicker this memorial museum will become evident. After all, aren't the sunday service teachings merely a formality rather than genuine inspiration of heralded scripture? Visitors come to walk in the Victor Paul Wierwille Prevailing Word Auditorium and embrace the legacy once more. The ushers smile, the bookstore sales personnel are ready to assist, the Wierwille statute is on prominent display.....and wierwille is immortalized.

Mrs. Wierwille's book, Born Again to Serve, was designed as a coffee-table book. Yes, have this large book displayed in the open for all who visit your home. Twi wants you to help sell the legacy. Surely, you have it on your coffee table, don't you?

You see, tithes and offerings sent to twi's hq are NOT going to further the outreach of God's Word, nor help the community, nor feed the poor, nor bring others to Christ. Nope. Twi is solely designed to showcase the life and legacy of its founder.

Long gone are the days when twi spouted, "The life of the ministry is in the twig." Those snappy little one-liners and outreach programs have long faded into the sunset of the preservation society. The last man standing, the only man standing in twi......is the man who so deeply loved "his kids." While hundreds and hundreds of corps and clergy deserted him....in the end, Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille ran his course in life, faithful to the end.

And, now folks...on this tour, you are entering the Founders' Room of the auditorium where, we have displayed, notable men who were instrumental in (blah, blah, blah)......

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Edited February 3, 2012 by skyrider

[Ham]

They should consider installing a curio shop in the museum (ahem, auditorium..).

There is a whole host of trinkets they could market, among which:

small replicas of the idol (ahem, statue) of the vicster, complete with key-ring.

For the medium-sized gift, snow-globes, encasing a prominent miniature antique gas pump..

The possibilities would be almost endless..

[skyrider]

The possibilities would be almost endless..

In OSC lecture room.....replay old wierwille teachings continuously on weekends.

And, puppy kennels.....$1,000 - German short-hair retriever puppies

[Ham]

For the more expensive gift, a replica of the Podium *he* stood behind, complete with presidents seal, bowl of half-broken pieces of mint, crystal glass with ice cubes, and half-consumed bottle of drambuie.

Some assembly required.

[skyrider]

$50/hr per person.....to hang out in wierwille's club house

$200 per picture -- a life-size wierwille cutout with his arm around you

[waysider]

Will the P.A. be playing looped renditions of "24 Hours From Tulsa"?

[skyrider]

Twi's "Fine Arts and Historical Center" in Sidney, OH was our first glimpse of this.....but perhaps,

it was ahead of its time and too obvious.

But today, twi can full-throttle ahead as their assets and investments have increased considerably.

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Plenty of websites from which to glean and plagairize ideas, too.

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Edited February 3, 2012 by skyrider

[OldSkool]

Last one out turn off the lights.

[skyrider]

Does anyone remember the fanfare and build-up to the 1979 Advanced Class in Athens, Ohio?

Prior to this live advanced class, twi organized a "Carry the Torch" run event from Rome City, Indiana campus to Athens, Ohio.....

symbolically representing "carrying the light of God's Word from Rome to Athens" to start the competition. Volunteer runners,

many corps of course, ran a section of the course as prescribed by twi. The route went thru wierwille's two towns where he

was the pastorate.....Paine, OH and Van Wert, OH.

I remember some of this, because I ran through the streets of Van Wert along with about 40 other runners. Wierwille wanted to

make a statement of his followers' support and the ministry he had built.

Now looking back.....was the 1979 Advanced Class about students' learning OR was it ABOUT WIERWILLE?

Everywhere you look......twi centered on WIERWILLE.

[skyrider]

Last one out turn off the lights.

Those of us out of the loop didn't get the memo.

The VPW Memorial Museum is OPEN for business. :B)

[Ham]

Still selling over-priced trinkets, are they?

[Ham]

The local Museum here. It doesn't look like one.. but it has a gift shop. About three (maybe it was four?) years ago, I bought a radiometer. Every once in a while, when exposed to enough radiant energy, it still does SOMETHING..

really cool though. It was enough for me to look up the explanation how it works..

radiation pressure on a white object does not explain it.. it's exactly the opposite..

[Ham]

If you don't know what a radiometer is..

we have a partial vacuum. Four vanes.. the black and white surfaces are transposed on the vanes..

the *real* explanation of what causes the gyration of the assembly is..

light hits the black side of the vanes.

the few molecules of gas that are there get very excited, and rush toward the white side. In doing so, a small amount of thrust is applied to the black side of the vanes as they depart..

everything happens at the edges of the vanes.

I wish the vpw memorial museum had something as interesting to offer..

[Ham]

The only *interesting* thing my way involvement produced.. was..

two offspring, and three (and who knows how many more) grandchildren..

I'm trying to figure out how how to motivate one set of parents to recite to their offspring the periodic table of elements..

but really.. now is the time. This kid could end up remembering every element on the table, along with atomic weights and numbers..

Max, what's Tellurium?

[skyrider]

Long gone are the days when twi spouted, "The life of the ministry is in the twig." Those snappy little one-liners and outreach programs have long faded into the sunset of the preservation society. The last man standing, the only man standing in twi......is the man who so deeply loved "his kids." While hundreds and hundreds of corps and clergy deserted him....in the end, Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille ran his course in life, faithful to the end.

Ever notice the transition stages in twi?....

1970's......The life of the ministry is in the twig.

1980's......The life of the ministry is in the branch.

1990's......The life of the ministry is at the limb.

2000's......The life of the ministry is at hq.

At the request of hq, busloads of visitors were traveling to the sunday teachings to fill more rows

in the auditorium. "Come and see" had replaced the 1970's outreach of "Go and Tell."

Twi is guarding the victor paul wierwille copyrights via a small oligarchy of central power.

And, even though two of the wierwille offspring are mounting a charge that CFF is the true, rightful gatekeeper

of "The Word".......TWI has a vicegrip on the property, the wierwille farmhouse and now the VPW Auditorium.

In terms of wierwille preservation, does it really matter who's teaching scripture anymore?

[Thomas Loy Bumgarner]

and now as we leave Fantasyland, we hear the echoes of Roy Rogers singing"Happy Trails to You Until We Meet Again", or have we entered into Once Upon a Time with Roselie portraying Regina the evil Queen/Mayoress, and who is TWI's version of Emma Swann to save everyone from this nightmare, created by Rumpelstilkin/VPW(or is that LCM, CG, or Mr. Linder perhaps?). My name is Rod Serling and you have just entered the Twilight Zone(cue music). Or maybe I am Dan Curtis and this is Dark Shadows, with Wierwille portraying Barnabas Collins and Martindale is Quentin.

[dabobbada]

Will the P.A. be playing looped renditions of "24 Hours From Tulsa"?

Of course not silly, it'll be 24 hour renditions of "Beautiful Ohio!"

[skyrider]

My name is Rod Serling and you have just entered the Twilight Zone (cue music). Or maybe...

Hotel California........you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.

[dabobbada]

and now as we leave Fantasyland, we hear the echoes of Roy Rogers singing"Happy Trails to You Until We Meet Again", or have we entered into Once Upon a Time with Roselie portraying Regina the evil Queen/Mayoress, and who is TWI's version of Emma Swann to save everyone from this nightmare, created by Rumpelstilkin/VPW(or is that LCM, CG, or Mr. Linder perhaps?). My name is Rod Serling and you have just entered the Twilight Zone(cue music). Or maybe I am Dan Curtis and this is Dark Shadows, with Wierwille portraying Barnabas Collins and Martindale is Quentin.

:eusa_clap:

Well done.

But I fear RosyLie is a far better seductive necromancing warlock than Regina could ever hope to be.

[skyrider]

The last man standing, the only man standing in twi......is the man who so deeply loved "his kids." While hundreds and hundreds of corps and clergy deserted him....in the end, Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille ran his course in life, faithful to the end.

Some 22,000 advanced class graduates deserted him.........yet, wierwille stood faithful to the end.

Some 3,000 way corps grads walked away from the mog.......yet, wierwille stood faithful to the end.

Some 525 clergy no longer stood with this apostle.........yet, wierwille stood faithful to the end.

Those closest to him know that Dr. Wierwille died from a "broken heart." <_<

[skyrider]

The pride of man desires to project his "greatness" to the world, to name buildings and streets after him.

At the Emporia campus......Wierwille Library, Uncle Harry Hall, Ermal Owens Hall, Allen Gymnasium, etc.

At hq, many of the access roads near the units are named after wierwille's siblings, trustee members, etc...

and then, there's the George Jess mural near the entrance of the OSC Building.

The doors are now open for the VPW Memorial Museum.....the sunday service is just part of the tour.

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Edited February 4, 2012 by skyrider

[dabobbada]

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The doors are now open for the VPW Memorial Museum.....the sunday service is just part of the tour.....

The Way Choir starts to sing......

[dabobbada]

:dance:

:wacko: :blink:

I'm Sorry!

I'm Soorrrryyy!!!

It was just a case of temporary sanity.

:P

Edited February 4, 2012 by dabobbada

[OldSkool]

George Jess mural near the entrance of the OSC Building.

Rosalie had that painted. The official story was it was too expensive to have it redone. I think the unofficial story is they probably ran off the talent to do it for free or cheap on the clock.

Edited February 4, 2012 by OldSkool

[skyrider]

Rosalie had that painted. The official story was it was too expensive to have it redone. I think the unofficial story is they

probably ran off the talent to do it for free or cheap on the clock.

Twi ran off the talent in dozens of skilled labor professions.

Twi ran off good staffers in the '70s as corps upped the ranks.

Twi ran off corps grads by treating them like property slaves.

Twi is shredding any decency it has left....which ain't much.

But hey.....all sorts of places are memorialized.

amityvillehorror.com - click here

....."The timeliness of the theme was one of the only things that allowed Amityville Horror to become so successful in that most astonishing year for horror (from late 1978 to late 1979) — the year that included the releases of Halloween, Alien, Dawn of the Dead and Phantasm — rather than going the way of its other contemporaries, Nightwing and Prophecy."

.....The timeliness of pfal was one of the only things that spurred wierwille's twi to any small recognition

of notoriety at all. Other than that, twi would have been just another cornfield cult of personality.

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Edited February 4, 2012 by skyrider