Corps Choke Collar and Leash

[skyrider]

A long, long time ago.....the corps program was a four-year program. The first year

was a semi-structured apprentice year which had broad parameters. The second and fourth

year were in-residence training, while the third year was an interim year entailing an

on-the-field year or staff location. Yeah, there were exceptions to this.....but, for

the most part, this has been the staple "training" for decades.

Then.....corps graduation, and on in life you went.

Around 1990, after the so-called "fog years"......lcm needed to rally the corps grads

back to the twi-mindset so he set in motion CORPS NIGHT PHONE DIAL-INS. Initially, some

resisted this intrusion and exited from the corps ranks, but the weekly corps night hook-up

became standard practice.

To NOT attend these weekly corps phone-ins was NOT PERMITTED.

To refuse attending, no matter the reason, was to succumb to their

'Corps Alumni' designation or DFAC-status (dropped from active corps).

Is it still this way in September 2014?

The corps night dial-ins became the Corps Choke Collar and Leash

from which twi can restrain at will.

So much for that "freely avail" stuff. :biglaugh:/>/>

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Edited September 2, 2014 by skyrider

[skyrider]

With ONGOING corps meetings....year after year.....its like the corps NEVER graduate

from the program. Twi can, at any time, publically rebuke and slander any individual that

"steps out of line."

Think about it.....corps grad status can be revoked!?!?

You're a corps grad. No, actually......you aren't.

It's totally asinine and bizarre. You may have a corps grad certificate hanging on your wall,

but it has NO VALUE whatsoever. You can get knocked down a notch by one slip-shod mistake.

Are corps grads in their 70s STILL REQUIRED TO ATTEND WEEKLY PHONE-INS?

Who sets the rules? Who grants the special favors? Who gets punished?

Has twi updated their corps brochures to these mandated meetings

for decades AFTER you "graduate?"

[excathedra]

oh they have brochures ?

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well as far as this call-in corps night BS at least now there are smart phones

maybe you can be at your favorite movie or lover's house whatever and still hook in

[Broken Arrow]

You may have a corps grad certificate hanging on your wall,

but it has NO VALUE whatsoever.

:anim-smile:/>

Um...no Corps grad certificate on the wall, and it never had any value in the first place.

In the words of Lil' Abner, "I has spoken!"

[T-Bone]

From what I remember of corps nights there was usually an underlying theme that reinforced the effectiveness of the leash; upper corps leadership was highly competitive with any "ties" to the outside world, for those "ties" are considered the devil's means of "restraint" that will keep you from giving your all for TWI.

I've heard umpteen rants by LCM on why you shouldn't own a home. I know of one corps couple who left because they wanted to buy a home; I'm sure there were other reasons brewing in their heads – but the fact that they left and bought a home shows it can be done; you can cut the leash!

[WordWolf]

From what I remember of corps nights there was usually an underlying theme that reinforced the effectiveness of the leash; upper corps leadership was highly competitive with any "ties" to the outside world, for those "ties" are considered the devil's means of "restraint" that will keep you from giving your all for TWI.

I've heard umpteen rants by LCM on why you shouldn't own a home. I know of one corps couple who left because they wanted to buy a home; I'm sure there were other reasons brewing in their heads – but the fact that they left and bought a home shows it can be done; you can cut the leash!

Housing advice from lcm....

Housing advice from a man who never paid rent?

lcm went from his parents' home to university, where he was an athlete.

Athletes are considered prime candidates for some fraternities with a house.

Athletes are definitely put on the priority list for dorms from the school.

So, lcm almost certainly lived in the dorms, unless he lived in a frat house.

I can easily see him hanging out with athletes in a drinking frat.

After university, he went straight into twi, where housing was provided-

although he "could stay as long as his money holds". So, lcm lived in his

parent's home, then college, then twi provided a place of one form or another,

including stealing the Corps Chalet from the group, renaming it the President's

Home, and letting him live there rent-free. lcm was pushed out of twi and

relocated to a house- again, owned by twi where he probably lives rent-free

(he's not telling.)

So, this is the man who was giving advice about how owning a house is bad.

Yeah, Rosa-lie sure has been suffering with her house, hasn't she?

Especially with twi people performing maintenance on it for free and everything...

[Watered Garden]

What totally annoyed me about the no-home-ownership situation was that in the city where we lived at the time, the snooty young MOGLET kicked out a couple who wished to keep their home, even though the payment was more than reasonable compared to the relatively high rental rates. Then, one of guitar-playing buddies, a fellow WC grad, who owned a home, came to him with a plan to pay off his house in two years. HE was allowed to stay faithfully by the MOGLET'S side, a happy homeowner even though others had been told sell or get out.

What a hypocrite! I would be there were many others in the same situation.

And my thought exactly when I heard the pronouncement: "You never owned a home in your life, you SOB! You always have your living arrangements paid for by someone else!"

[frank123lol]

The way always played favorite.

[excathedra]

corps night out on the field

time to find out who f'd up the most and is OUT

such fond memories

[outandabout]

After awhile it must have taken the whole hook-up time just to announce who's out.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

After awhile it must have taken the whole hook-up time just to announce who's out.

Man, here's another reason I'm glad I never went Corps. :)

Sunday Night Service call-ins were bad enough. I can imagine what they would have been like if they included announcements of all the believers who were tossed out that week. :o

George

[skyrider]

After awhile it must have taken the whole hook-up time just to announce who's out.

No....it took, almost, the whole time to DENOUNCE and SLANDER who screwed up

and then, PONTIFICATE the twi-doctrines of following leadership first, foremost

and always.

You see.....without them, you corps can do nothing right. You NEED them.

You NEED their counsel. You NEED to report back, often and always.

You NEED to have the micro-managers hovering over your shoulders.

See......ALL THAT TRAINING prepared you for this ineptness.

Now, as a corps grad.......the leash should seem part

of your daily walk around the block.

[outandabout]

Remember those yearly Corps Evaluations? I dreaded March. Getting to be judged by my superior. Now March can come and go, just like August.