Where were you 41 years ago?

[Rocky]

Where were you when Jonestown went down, 41 years ago? I was in Emporia, Kansas at what was then the Way College of Emporia.
 

I was obviously vulnerable to cultic and fundamentalist influences as a young adult.

[Watered Garden]

Newly married in a college town in Ohio.

[waysider]

FellowLaborers of Ohio 

 

edit: Did some quick math and realized I had already graduated by that time... Living in Columbus, Ohio

Edited November 17, 2019 by waysider

[outandabout]

In Redlands CA on my interim year as WOW branch leader.

[penguin2]

In elementary school and pre-way....

[WordWolf]

That was 1978?   Yeah, still in primary school.

[waysider]

Off topic:

61 years ago, today, JFK was assassinated. (11/22/1963)... Seems like just yesterday.   

Edited November 22, 2019 by waysider
I shouldn't have skipped math class that day. It was 56 years ago.

[Thomas Loy Bumgarner]

In 1978 I was attending Appalachian State University in Boone, NC before dropping out to do my "sabbatical"(figuring what I should do and living in Hickory with "other believers")

[Rocky]

2 hours ago, Thomas Loy Bumgarner said:

In 1978 I was attending Appalachian State University in Boone, NC before dropping out to do my "sabbatical"(figuring what I should do and living in Hickory with "other believers")

Cool.

Not that it matters to anything, but a friend of mine (who has never heard of twi) just won a seat on the Boone Town Council and works as an adjunct professor at App State. 

[Rocky]

7 hours ago, waysider said:

Off topic:

61 years ago, today, JFK was assassinated. (11/22/1963)... Seems like just yesterday.   

Me thinks your math is off by a few years. By my calculations, it was 56 years ago. And I remember where I was then too.

Edited November 22, 2019 by Rocky

[waysider]

2 hours ago, Rocky said:

Me thinks you math is off by a few years. By my calculations, it was 56 years ago. And I remember where I was then too.

Thanks, I went back and edited but the font is pretty small.

[T-Bone]

Running a Twig and believing the bull$hit that TWI fed us – something to the effect that the Jonestown tragedy was actually a government conspiracy operation to induce fear of cults.

[Rocky]

6 hours ago, T-Bone said:

Running a Twig and believing the bull$hit that TWI fed us – something to the effect that the Jonestown tragedy was actually a government conspiracy operation to induce fear of cults.

Thank goodness that's not what we're doing now, eh? 

[T-Bone]

9 hours ago, Rocky said:

Thank goodness that's not what we're doing now, eh? 

you've got that right !!!! 

[GeorgeStGeorge]

I was in graduate school.  I had taken PFAL that summer and was getting pretty involved in TWI.

My younger brother (also at U of Illinois, as an undergraduate) promised my parents he'd keep me away from Kool-Aid. 

George

[Oakspear]

Just got involved in The Way Corporation in March 1978

[frank123lol]

Wow Jackson,Miss

[Lifted Up]

40 years and three months ago was my sexual assault at HQ.

[outandabout]

A root is supposed to nourish the leaves but the leaves were working for the root.

Ooops  wrong thread I think.

 

 

Edited March 13, 2020 by outandabout

[Rocky]

5 hours ago, outandabout said:

A root is supposed to nourish the leaves but the leaves were working for the root.

Ooops  wrong thread I think.

 

 

That's true regardless.

[Grace Valerie Claire]

On 11/16/2019 at 4:48 PM, Rocky said:

Where were you when Jonestown went down, 41 years ago? I was in Emporia, Kansas at what was then the Way College of Emporia.
 

I was obviously vulnerable to cultic and fundamentalist influences as a young adult.

 

On 11/16/2019 at 4:48 PM, Rocky said:

Where were you when Jonestown went down, 41 years ago? I was in Emporia, Kansas at what was then the Way College of Emporia.
 

I was obviously vulnerable to cultic and fundamentalist influences as a young adult.

Rocky, I was a WOW in Joliet, Illinois. 

[Cynthia]

Does anyone remember The Psychological Hoax at Emporia?

[Rocky]

2 hours ago, Cynthia said:

Does anyone remember The Psychological Hoax at Emporia?

I was of the impression that it was ALL a psychological hoax.

[Twinky]

It's  but what was the psychological hoax?

[waysider]

5 hours ago, Twinky said:

It's  but what was the psychological hoax?

Something we didn't need to worry about in TWI, because, ya know, we weren't a cult.