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It’s sad that something as wonderful and basic as the kindness of God can stand in such stark contrast to TWI’s mode of operation that those of us who are intimately knowledgeable of TWI are shocked they are teaching it. In no way do I believe this apparent change of heart and direction is a reflection of a genuine change of heart of the leadership of TWI. For decades they took great delight in being the opposite of kind. For a decade the current leadership stayed the course of LCM although they were more subtle in their approach. It’s been documented here that Rosalie hated being forced by the lawyers to be kind. She’d rather force employees and Corps to work mandatory long work weeks. Force them to not moonlight. Force them to attend the STS and meals. Actively benevolent? Now they subscribe to promoting the kindness of God? Why the change? Pretty simple really. They continue to lose members. People continued to say “thanks but no thanks” to their arrogance and bullying. The old-timers grew lethargic and started wandering away and new ones wouldn’t stick around. The first verse they quote in the article that has “kindness” in it is Jeremiah 9:24 which says in part: "…that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord." That same verse could have been (and probably was) used previously to promote exercising judgment on people and claim that exercising judgment was lovingkindness. When I got out (under the current leadership) they were still proudly claiming that the best way to witness is to confront the world’s illogic. Very kind I'm sure. They must have finally realized you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Key word here is catch. Then they can rip their wings off.

Yeah.....I agree. That's what pathetic cults do.

So very right, Excie. Well... not new unless you're in TWI.