“Summer is a great time for adventure—and if you’re looking for a way to work hard, grow, and still have time to enjoy all that summer has to offer, we’ve got something for you.”
The subtle art of manipulative propaganda: equating a summertime adventure with mowing grass and stringing chairs. The ol’ bait and switch.
This works especially well if one has been conditioned to accept logical fallacies as mathematically exact and scientifically precise. A pillar of the foundational bullshonta is established (twice?) in session one. John 10:10, THEREFORE, there must be keys.
Ummm… nope. That’s not how logic works. This fallacy is known as a non sequitur.
And if you said “mmmph” to this bullshonta, then you could be easily seduced by such promises of adventure.
Ah, they're still appealig to the Way's founder, VPW, using him as their symbol.
If you're new to TWI and want infomation on VPW, get a behind-the-scenes peek at him by reading his letters to the Way Corps during the 1970s and 1980s. They might make you run away from anything having to do with TWI today.
Here's my theory. The person doing the postcard mailing probably got handed a list of old first through fourth Way Corps (among many more later Corps) who were around when VPW trained them himself, and therefore might be inclined to respond to the VP quote on the card (and the photo of Howard Allen), and maybe get their heartstrings pulled back to HQ, letting bygones be bygones. TWI is changed and improved, doncha know.
That person mailing the cards probably found an address on the internet for me and didn't know to connect the dots to who I am today, the author of Undertow! I know there are people at HQ who have read it, so they're not ignorant, just not the ones doing the postcard mailing. LOL.
The clue is they used my former last name, Bishop, from my Way days when I was married to Tim Bishop.
This invite is providing endless laughs for my friends and family...
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Nathan_Jr
All this talk of tailoring reminds me…
“Summer is a great time for adventure—and if you’re looking for a way to work hard, grow, and still have time to enjoy all that summer has to offer, we’ve got something for you.”
The subtle art of manipulative propaganda: equating a summertime adventure with mowing grass and stringing chairs. The ol’ bait and switch.
This works especially well if one has been conditioned to accept logical fallacies as mathematically exact and scientifically precise. A pillar of the foundational bullshonta is established (twice?) in session one. John 10:10, THEREFORE, there must be keys.
Ummm… nope. That’s not how logic works. This fallacy is known as a non sequitur.
And if you said “mmmph” to this bullshonta, then you could be easily seduced by such promises of adventure.
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oldiesman
Today's message from U.S. post in Poughkeepsie re: ROA 25
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Ah, they're still appealig to the Way's founder, VPW, using him as their symbol.
If you're new to TWI and want infomation on VPW, get a behind-the-scenes peek at him by reading his letters to the Way Corps during the 1970s and 1980s. They might make you run away from anything having to do with TWI today.
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penworks
Well, well, look what arrived in today's mail. Mmm... some strange mailing list they have these days.
I appreciate being thought of so highly as to warrant an invite like this, but something tells me they wouldn't be happy if I actually showed up.
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Rocky
YIKES! You're still on their mailing list?!
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oldiesman
Just got mine... I have to ask my sister if she got hers yet... but she's been moving around so I don't know... LOL
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Here's my theory. The person doing the postcard mailing probably got handed a list of old first through fourth Way Corps (among many more later Corps) who were around when VPW trained them himself, and therefore might be inclined to respond to the VP quote on the card (and the photo of Howard Allen), and maybe get their heartstrings pulled back to HQ, letting bygones be bygones. TWI is changed and improved, doncha know.
That person mailing the cards probably found an address on the internet for me and didn't know to connect the dots to who I am today, the author of Undertow! I know there are people at HQ who have read it, so they're not ignorant, just not the ones doing the postcard mailing. LOL.
The clue is they used my former last name, Bishop, from my Way days when I was married to Tim Bishop.
This invite is providing endless laughs for my friends and family...
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Charlene, maybe you should go - with a stack of Undertow books.
Your appearance has changed since you left. Wear a big hat and sunglasses. You could get away with it for a few hours. How funny would that be!!!!!
Oh and some earplugs too. You don't want to listen to the BS and the repetitive songs.
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