Every Mandate Empowered Twi

[skyrider]

Every mandate empowered twi......ie every program, every representative (corps) was deemed a commissary with duties to enforce twi-doctrine and policy. And, with each passing year, the 'empowerment' of individuals decreased.

Say, for example.....you took pfal in 1972 and it changed your life. Further, you believed to be empowered by holy spirit within. You claimed the scriptures as your sole foundation and walked accordingly. Yep, Christ-in-you....and YOU can do ALL THINGS THRU CHRIST, etc. etc. To many, it was bigger than the message of being born-again; it was a pathway of empowerment!

BUT......with each passing year, this message is silenced and replaced with "Obedience to spiritual leadership is the highest form of twi-allegiance." Of course, its backed up by cherry-picked scriptures like .....safety in a multitude of counselors [Proverbs]. Slowly, the erosion is taking place. Wind erosion [boastful hot air]. Water erosion [watering down the scriptures]. And, without even realizing it.....the top soil is gone and the ground is barren.

Within a number of years, the *favored policy* is to have every branch coordinator be a corps grad.

Further, the expressed goal is to have every department head at hq a corps grad.

And, to work on staff, one needs to at very least be an advanced class grad.

Ultimately, every twig coordinator *should* be a corps grad.

Fast-forward ten years [1982]......and what do you see? Obedience up and down the line. Twig teachings are refried beans from the way magazine....oftentimes, read at twig with examples of how it blessed one's life. Nearly all questions, at least publically, have ceased. Besides, to even consider questions was to *give place to the devil*....and we all know how THAT was taught in pfal. The free-thinkers, the independent-types, and the rebel-rowsers had ALREADY headed out the exit doors years before. If you didn't see it....you just weren't paying attention.

Perhaps, wierwille had not noticed how all this was playing out? Perhaps, his plagiarizing and slothfulness had dulled him to the reality of *spiritual boots on the ground* or any number of analogies one could make. There are likely a number of reasons.....but I contest, that wierwille KNEW the resistance that was building but refused to acknowledge it. He as much admitted this *lack of obedience from corps* on a couple of corps meetings, but he simply refused to delve into the root cause. Maybe, he realized that INDIVIDUAL EMPOWERMENT was what they were demanding all along.....you know, the things promised in pfal before the bait-and-switch.

Here's the ticket: call them "believers".....messaging is everything.

[waysider]

One moment, you're a freewheelin' hippie, playing guitar in the park and singing songs about Jesus, jabbering away in the tongues of some ancient civilization from a spiritual world beyond. Next thing you know, you're a briefcase toting, deadline conscious, party line quoting corporate crusader for God, obsessing over sales quotas and taking scant time to look after your own well-being.

You look in the mirror one day with a sense of bewilderment and think to yourself, 'What the hell happened here and how and when did it happen?"

Well, maybe some version of the same thing happens to plumbers and doctors and taxi drivers and cowboy trick riders in the rodeo. I don't know. I just know it happened to me.

[skyrider]

One moment, you're a freewheelin' hippie, playing guitar in the park and singing songs about Jesus...

Yeah, and then......the next generation, little-kid moneyhands SEES the backrooms of meetings, briefcases and all and STILL goes in eyes wide open. Desiring to be fast-tracked to leadership.

What could possibly go wrong? :unsure:/>/>

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Edited February 1, 2014 by skyrider

[skyrider]

Fast-forward ten years [1982]......and what do you see? Obedience up and down the line. Twig teachings are refried beans from the way magazine....oftentimes, read at twig with examples of how it blessed one's life. Nearly all questions, at least publically, have ceased.

Add to this......friends, spouses, fiancés, relationships.

Sure, maybe you are ready to speak out and confront a situation, but you stand a good chance of being black-listed. Do you have proof? Are there any witnesses? Will they, in turn, speak as well....or will they cower under pressure? And, what about your spouse? How will affect her?

In this *totalitarian* rule there was no middle ground. Few dissenters ever were heard in the open. Words were measured even among "friends" and certainly to leadership. Some times, even casual conversation was challenged as "off the Word." The pecking order sure had lots of peckers to keep the *little people* in line.* Thus, one's dissent was to be hidden. That's why "good people" who seemed blessed and all.....overnight, poof, were gone.

But....who was watching the Watchmen?

[waysider]

Something the average, local believer may not have known is that Wierwille had "enforcers" (for lack of a better word) on staff who would pay personal visits to dissidents who became too vocal. Their mission was to remind said persons that bad things sometimes happen to those who oppose the one true household.

Am I being euphemistic enough?

[excathedra]

very sad and selfish of wierwille. i don't think he ever really cared about anyone but himself

[Thomas Loy Bumgarner]

VPW was paranoid of teachers, followers, family, police, lawyers, etc.