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In my experience, The Way and its followers did not focus on why Muslims, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, or why they think most other religions were wrong. They were mentioned sometimes. They may have mentioned Jews and New Age ideas on occasion. Most of the time was spent verbally bashing Roman Catholism, Anglicans, Methodists, Baptists, Mormons, JWs, Orthodox, . . . anything holding The Bible or mentioning Jesus. They were clearly threatened by these groups. I think the links tried to show the term cult as a matter of perspective. Cults are cults depending on where you stand and how you view the world. The Way International poses as perfect Christianity. They are more threatened by people actually understanding Christainity. Because then it becomes apparent they are just making $#!+ up.

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It's been discussed here many times.

For those who wonder what the point is, I'll make some of it obvious. So, we all know, beyond any REASONABLE doubt, that the "1942 promise" was neither from 1942 nor any kind of "promise." We know it was a fraud through and through, and it was used to prop up a man who was a fraud through and through, who used it to trick God's people out of their time and money, and focus them on himself rather than where they were supposed to focus. We all know the plagiarizing rapist made up the claim- and it wasn't even a very convincing lie- and was probably amazed at how far it went. So, when the man whose sole authority stemmed either from his fake "promise" or his degree mill "doctorate" wants us to buy into his stuff- since we NOW know better- we don't fall for it. What about the few people who STILL fall for it? Some of them fall for it a little, and mainly talk about God Almighty, with this delusion as a minor thing in their lives. For that tiny handful who actually double down on delusion, who voluntarily buy into the fake "promise" even after it's been discredited (both thoroughly and throughly), well, those people are dedicating their lives to something PROVEN to be a lie, a fake, a sham, a con. For those who know better, it's sad to watch people like that. They try to convince other people that they're not completely disproven, and have to creatively reinterpret anything better than complete failure as a rousing success (like even 1 person thinking a degree mill wasn't a degree mill), and insist to themselves that everyone else out there- those with more inside information than them, those smarter than them, those who know all the in-house secrets- all of those people are actually the ones who are wrong and don't know what's going on. Rather than growing as they get older, they have to cling dogmatically to the "nice feelings" of the twi hippie years, courtesy of well-meaning, loving Christians who were fooled by vpw and who were everything good about twi- and never actually giving them the credit, instead giving it to vpw who tried to make them slave labor because they were too young and naive. Ultimately, this problem is self-correcting. The numbers of people who know better still increase. The numbers of people who buy into this does NOT significantly increase, and eventually, this problem will "age out." twi's retirement program of "our people will work until they die" also works for people who dedicate their lives to a fake "promise" that's a proven LIE. They will spend their remaining years trying to get others to buy into their hogwash, then they will drop dead. Just as twi and vpw, on a historical scale, don't even register a blip, they will be an anecdote, told amusingly decades later, among people who wondered what could drive someone so far into delusion.

Told i was only welcome under certain conditions and requirements that i will not attempt to specifically recollect here. No doubt this specific type of situation has been recounted liberally across this site. Though painful and confusing and heart rending at the time, i now see it for the blessing in disguise it was. I truly loved so much about my time with twi, so many of the people, so much of the teaching. How the hell did it turn out to be so rotten inside?!! Love and compassion for people took second, third, or fourth place too often i see now. I hope things have changed, but i don't feel the need or desire to go find out.

Yes they tried to gaslight us into having marriage problems like they have done with so many couples. Gaslight, attack, drop from Corps and make them go back thru. You see absolute cult control is a stronger bond than marriage. It backfired on them. We went to a very qualified marriage counselor who basically told us the only problem with our marriage was these gaslighting arseholes. Amazingly once we dumped those from our lives and no longer listened to the gaslighters our lives improved amazingly for the better. Dropping the cult Bible interpretations we much more easily developed friendships in our community and with many local Christians. All of the other areas in our lives also improved. I guess from my life lessons if you want an abundant life or power stay as far away from the PFLAP cult that you can. And don’t believe one Word that the Pharisees tell you about your life.