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While I accept that you sincerely believe this to be the case, it simply does not reflect reality. Wierwille made a VERY BIG deal out of promoting the idea that God was giving him, by way of personal revelation, information that had been hidden for 2,000 years. He went into detail about how God had spoken to him in an audible voice, how he had taken all his Biblical materials to the dump and relied solely on the Bible and divine inspiration to arrive at the conclusions he presented in PFAL. .This is, for the most part, what he actually said, not my personal interpretation.He made this point quite clear in the opening sessions of PFAL. Anyone who still has access to the materials can verify this for themselves quite easily. It's unfortunate you refuse to accept this but the choice, of course, is yours.

Rolling Stone had THIS article. I found it interesting.

Yeah the sarcastically redefined title of “doctor “ according to his plagiaristic abuse - is “doctor-it-up” wierwille .... Dat’s riiiiight....just look it up in “The Lexicon for Folks Who are Really Really Really Disgusted with wierwille’s Bull$hit” doctor-it-up: To alter, and perhaps falsify, something in an attempt to improve his credibility.

Pity them both in the article. What a lot of baggage to have to carry.

Well, it’s been some 41 years since we got married by Way ordained clergy (and renewed our vows another time – at some couples advance, I think) – I remember we incorporated the covenant of salt and wrote our own vows… ...don’t know what to tell you in comparison to other non-way weddings since all I knew growing up were Roman Catholic weddings – which faded memories seem almost like some pomp and pageantry event now…but the reception was always fun…food, fun - causing havoc with my cousins, maybe a chance to see some legs when the groom took off the bride’s garter.

Who would knowingly want to associate with this guy? You got the initials correct for $$.

As long as I had cell service, I could post. I also had a backup battery and could charge my phone in my car. Once I lost cell service, I got reeeeal quiet. And once everything came back on, GSC was not a priority. So I'm fine. My mango tree isn't. My kids' trampoline isn't. But I'm fine.

I'm glad for your safety and relatively inconsequential effects of the storm. That being said....I cannot imagine how hard it must be for those waiting it out in various shelters...and for those folks down the line....how long will it take to regain a sense of normalcy. I don't know if I could handle things as well as those I've seen interviewed in the media. I wonder how many will have to leave the area to obtain jobs, housing and schooling for their children. This is going to be one of those catastrophes that make decades to recover from.

A topic I find most fascinating and have for years. Earlier Wednesday evening, I read an article about The 14 Fake Olive Oil Companies. The lede: "It was found that even 7 of the biggest olive oil makers in the USA, mix their items with cheap oils to get more profits. Namely, one of the products we regard as healthiest and a remedy for longevity has been corrupted." The good news -- at the bottom of the page, a source for the data and the claims was cited. The bad news -- at the linked page, there was NO source cited for the data or the claims. No scientific or academic analysis or study was given to provide credibility for the claims. About 15 years ago, I took a newswriting class. The veteran journalist who instructed the class drove home to me that I must never (when writing a news story) use the passive voice. So, I now always ask, when I read "It was found that..." BY WHOM? And how did they find it? The source website, Natural Cures House, apparently makes all sorts of health and diet related claims but I didn't find ANY source citations for any of them that I read. (Note that I did not claim they never include citations. I didn't read all of the articles they have, so I don't know if they ever cite their sources) Harry Frankfurt, a retired Princeton professor, a few years ago wrote an essay "On Bull*hit" Natural Cures House struck me as a classic example of the kind of thing Prof Frankfurt wrote. NCH doesn't seem to care at all whether what they publish is true or false. Then, as I browsed on Amazon, a link came up to a book by Maria Konnikova titled Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. I read some of the sample content. Konnikova begins with the story of a man convicted of mutilating livestock in England in 1903 and how later (after the man was out of prison) author Arthur Conan Doyle figured out that the guy could not have committed the crime. Then Konnikova writes, "What Sherlock Holmes offers is not just a way of solving a crime. It is an entire way of thinking, a mindset that can be applied to countless enterprises far removed from the foggy streets of the London underworld. ... Holmes recommends that we start with the basics. As he says in our first meeting with him, "Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the enquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems." The scientific method begins with the most mundane seeming of things: observation..." It's been roughly 40 years since I took Wierwille's Advance Class on PFLAP. And I long ago got rid of the syllabus. So, details are not razor sharp in my mind. But I seem to recall Wierwille, in that class labeling Conan Doyle as a spiritualist. Would it be any wonder that a cult programmer like Wierwille would have an interest in discouraging his students from developing critical thinking skill by reading and emulating Sherlock Holmes? It's also not surprising at all (to me) that we have a political figure in a position of power today who is discouraging people from exercising critical thinking, which is what happens when he laments "fake news" that seeks to hold him to account for his words and actions.

Rocky you got me thinking how much a student’s natural questioning process was thwarted when taking PFAL and other classes. Most of it was stall tactics by those running the classes – write your questions down and ask them at the end of the class…oh, still have some questions – why not take the class again…then after that…oh still not satisfied, enroll in the Intermediate class…after that …gee, you still wonder about a lot of things – you need the Advanced class. Stall tactics to questions so as to string folks along...keeping them on the long and arduous journey through classes that supposedly promised to answer everything you wanted to know about God and how to tap into the more abundant life made a great con – the shell game – hang in there you might find what you’re looking for.