Imagine you bought a ticket for Kansas City and boarded the train. You fall asleep and later wake up somewhere in New Jersey. But, everyone around you assures you that you are in Kansas City. That's kind of how I felt in the late 1970's/early 1980's. Why didn't I realize my ticket had taken me to a place I never signed on for? I don't know. It just seems too surreal to be true.
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waysider
The whole thing is like a bad movie I wish I had never watched....but I did.
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skyrider
FROM WIERWILLE'S OWN MOUTH.....
The message to the corps could NOT have been any clearer.
The last corps week that vpw would HOLD the spiritual mantle....and he said THIS?
Not just a flippant statement, but one that he pondered, and delivered with emphasis.
And.....the backdrop of the corps week was THE WIERWILLE FAMILY AND LEGACY.
And.....the build-up to rock of ages and 40th anniversary....and martindale mantle.
To the body of corps......almost like "the last will and testament of wierwille."
And......FOUR YEARS LATER, geer states the same.
Forsaking dr. wierwille was the sin of the corps.
The trustees abandoned him.....and so did the corps.
Doesn't this smell of man-worship and the sin of idolatry?
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Imagine you bought a ticket for Kansas City and boarded the train. You fall asleep and later wake up somewhere in New Jersey. But, everyone around you assures you that you are in Kansas City. That's kind of how I felt in the late 1970's/early 1980's. Why didn't I realize my ticket had taken me to a place I never signed on for? I don't know. It just seems too surreal to be true.
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Jim
Skyrider, if you ever decide to write a book, I'll be first in line to buy it.
BTW, I think the Mormons use the term "earthly family" as well. Doesn't make it any less creepy though.
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Thanks Jim.....I appreciate your kind words.
Yeah.....I gotta say, that "earthly family" term ALWAYS irritated me. Most especially when its juxtaposed
with A Day with the Wierwilles. Really? It was all surreal.....showboating the wierwille clan, the
pictures, the stories, parading them across the stage......and THEN THE PROPHECIES.
By 1982, it would be fair to say that a majority of corps took *vacation time* to attend corps wk and roa.
At the time, I was on staff at hq......and went SEVEN YEARS without seeing my parents or siblings....so
imagine how some of us felt when wierwille seemed to have little empathy for OUR family situations. All
of the parading, and promoting, and prophesying did NOT fill the void in my heart for longing to be with
my own family.
That whole corps week was just creepy.
And.....by this time, 1982, many of the corps were starting families. Pregnant women, nursing babies,
strollers, crying......the back end of the main tent was lined with a new crop of parents each year.
IMO.....the sociopath wierwille didn't display on ounce of empathy for these growing families, with a world
of bonding, and memories, and cuddling, and cherished family traditions ahead of them.
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chockfull
Wierwille's legacy? He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind.
Coincidentally, that's the same legacy earned by his successors.
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outandabout
I guess it's not The Word, The Word, The Word, it's about the Wierwille's.
I still remember those white ropes at the front of the big tent blocking off the family from the rest of us.
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