I may have missed it but I haven't seen WAY HOME yet. This was communal living of five or six same gender believers in a similar fashion as WOW but in your own hometown.--------Also: MINUTEMAN------A wow type proram for high school students in their home state.-------Yet another: FELLOWLABORERS-------A limb level 2 year training program that was a small enclave of believers living a communal lifestyle whose only connection to the outside world was at required secular jobs. Somewhat on the lines of a WC without outside sponsorship. Oops,almost forgot this one: EMPTIES FLOATIN' BY.------- People who seemed to express no desire to be "filled" with holy spirit.
"Natural Man" meant a person not (yet?) born again.
"Babe" meant a new believer.
"Yo, BRO!" : "Hello, my brother."
"Dr." always meant "Dr. Wierwille."
"Tick" was Dr. Wierwille's first (? that I knew of) German Shorthair Retriever. This Tick was old and fat and sweet. He'd mooch hamburgers shamelessly after Sunday Night Services.
"Tick Jr."was Dr.s' last German Shorthair, a skinny, hyper, trained attack dog. Was trained, among other things, to sit on the Twig Hopper and guard it. In New Bremen, Ohio. Where nobody even locked their front doors. Where people sometimes left their cars running (and unlocked) outside the stores in the wintertime.
"Twig Hopper" was a candy-apple-red Harley, all tricked out with custom stuff, sidecar, etc., that would make your head spin. Gift from "the household" to Dr.
"The Household" meant all active believers, of all levels.
"Mantle" meant the shawl around Dr's shoulders that he passed to Craig, when Craig became the leader.
"Townie" was any local who lived in a town where a root location was, well, located.
"Root Location" meant HQ, Gunnison, Indiana, or Emporia.
"BRC" meant the original building at HQ. Stood for "Biblical Research Center." Before the OSC (Office Services Center, I think . . .) was built, the Corps and Staff at HQ met in the basement of the BRC for all three daily meals. It was a multi-purpose place; we had church upstairs on Sunday mornings, Corps nights on Wednesday nights, and snowball fights (but Ralph sure got in trouble for that one!) on the side lawn in the winter. Ermal and Dorothy Owens' house (actually a remodeled mobile home) was just across the driveway from the BRC.
"Tertiary Pond" was where we fished in the summer, and had ice dances in the winter.
Way Productions-a term coined by TWI's HQ's to be the official ministers of music for the ministry.
Anyone else outside of HQ's who had anything to do with music was unoticed and unwanted, and would never be allowed to promote their music to anyone in the ministry.
"empties": twi-speak. A person not born again, who does not have
Holy Spirit, thus, empty inside. Usually in the context of them being
scum, not even worth saying "hello" to.
Whoa, how arrogant! Imagine gladly being part of an organization that taught you to view others that way. Devoid of any resemblance to the Christlike personality.
Those who have left that organization, and left that high-minded way of thinking behind, must feel so much better now.
HaHaHaHa--Yeah, now I remember the "empties" thing. It was a shortened form of "empties floatin' by".(like an old tin can in a river) I guess it never occurred to us that maybe WE were the ones who were at the mercy of the current.
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I may have missed it but I haven't seen WAY HOME yet. This was communal living of five or six same gender believers in a similar fashion as WOW but in your own hometown.--------Also: MINUTEMAN------A wow type proram for high school students in their home state.-------Yet another: FELLOWLABORERS-------A limb level 2 year training program that was a small enclave of believers living a communal lifestyle whose only connection to the outside world was at required secular jobs. Somewhat on the lines of a WC without outside sponsorship. Oops,almost forgot this one: EMPTIES FLOATIN' BY.------- People who seemed to express no desire to be "filled" with holy spirit.
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"Natural Man" meant a person not (yet?) born again.
"Babe" meant a new believer.
"Yo, BRO!" : "Hello, my brother."
"Dr." always meant "Dr. Wierwille."
"Tick" was Dr. Wierwille's first (? that I knew of) German Shorthair Retriever. This Tick was old and fat and sweet. He'd mooch hamburgers shamelessly after Sunday Night Services.
"Tick Jr."was Dr.s' last German Shorthair, a skinny, hyper, trained attack dog. Was trained, among other things, to sit on the Twig Hopper and guard it. In New Bremen, Ohio. Where nobody even locked their front doors. Where people sometimes left their cars running (and unlocked) outside the stores in the wintertime.
"Twig Hopper" was a candy-apple-red Harley, all tricked out with custom stuff, sidecar, etc., that would make your head spin. Gift from "the household" to Dr.
"The Household" meant all active believers, of all levels.
"Mantle" meant the shawl around Dr's shoulders that he passed to Craig, when Craig became the leader.
"Townie" was any local who lived in a town where a root location was, well, located.
"Root Location" meant HQ, Gunnison, Indiana, or Emporia.
"BRC" meant the original building at HQ. Stood for "Biblical Research Center." Before the OSC (Office Services Center, I think . . .) was built, the Corps and Staff at HQ met in the basement of the BRC for all three daily meals. It was a multi-purpose place; we had church upstairs on Sunday mornings, Corps nights on Wednesday nights, and snowball fights (but Ralph sure got in trouble for that one!) on the side lawn in the winter. Ermal and Dorothy Owens' house (actually a remodeled mobile home) was just across the driveway from the BRC.
"Tertiary Pond" was where we fished in the summer, and had ice dances in the winter.
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"Ho-Ho", A politically correct way to say, and celebrate Christmas in the ministry. Atleast that's what I knew it as when I was younger.
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Way Productions-a term coined by TWI's HQ's to be the official ministers of music for the ministry.
Anyone else outside of HQ's who had anything to do with music was unoticed and unwanted, and would never be allowed to promote their music to anyone in the ministry.
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Whoa, how arrogant! Imagine gladly being part of an organization that taught you to view others that way. Devoid of any resemblance to the Christlike personality.
Those who have left that organization, and left that high-minded way of thinking behind, must feel so much better now.
Good for those who have done just that! :)
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HaHaHaHa--Yeah, now I remember the "empties" thing. It was a shortened form of "empties floatin' by".(like an old tin can in a river) I guess it never occurred to us that maybe WE were the ones who were at the mercy of the current.
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"WiB": short for "Word in Business" conferences.
"ACS": "Advanced class Specials:
the current form to take an advanced class, offered a few times a year for a long
weekend at one location or another. Usually offered at a hotel during Thanksgiving
weekend- which deprives you of a family holiday but allows twi to lock in a low
convention rate- since NOBODY wants to meet then.
There seem to be plans now to offer them at another location-
possibly Camp Gunnison or something. Time will tell if anything comes of that.
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