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It was a 2 year commitment. I ended up being there for 3... Long story. The stated goals were the same as Way Corps. The mission objective was to live as they did in Acts (cough) and return to our home areas as better prepared leaders. (Never happened)

waysider.... hats off to you for such dedicated commitment. In the corps, we had 1/2 day work assignments.... some worked the mornings, the others worked the afternoon shift. Generally, three days a week we had to be at *top floor wierwille library* seated by 5:20am. When I roomed at Owens Hall (18 men per room).... alarm clocks started going off at 4am, 4:15am, 4:30am and 4:45am. It was annoyingly crazy. Some of us would go to the track at 4am and run a mile or two. We had meetings to schedule the next meeting.... with some 325 people in the 9th corps, plus another 150 or so 7th corps, we had branch meetings, twig meetings, household responsibility meetings, corps night meetings confrontational meetings and after-glow meetings (late meetings after corps night). I swear every leader had a few verses of scripture that they were hot on that day. At one stretch.... we were going through Romans on Corps Nights, John Lynn was teaching Thessalonians during study hall afternoons, and we were required to study Ephesians for our twig assignment. Plus, there were all the other side teachings on Christian Etiquette, Song Leading, Jet-Style Packing, Knowles Breathing, Food Nutrition, Menstrual Cycles, Ovulation Method of Birth Control, Budgeting, etc. Without working in the community... we were subjected to more isolation, more immersion, more indoctrination. They could call a campus "Red Alert" and we all had to be at top floor wierwille library in 10 minutes, You never know when there might be a Red Dawn Overthrow attack on God's crack troops. We were subjected to confrontations daily.... even if only ONE PERSON screwed up. It was supposedly our lot in life to learn from his/her mistakes. Fear and intimidation were the name of this game. Wierwille started this pattern and every corps coordinator seemed to replicate this tactic. No matter that the scriptures instruct us to go to that person one-on-one and confront the issue. If not resolved, then take two or three witnesses to strength the message... and THEN, if not received to take it to the body of believers at large. So much of our training was not the teachings themselves, but the methods that made twi a cult. With such dismal corps sign-ups, you'd think that those guys would look in the mirror and ask hard questions, right? Nope.

No worries. I know there are a couple of verses in Proverbs that talk about the dilemma of whether or not to answer a fool after his folly. So this fool is good either way.