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My impression of the way he's drawing distinctions is that he's referencing the same thing, presented in different contexts. (T-speech is not different from free speech, it's the same thing in a different setting.)

When it happened to me, about 9 years before I was exposed to TWI, I lost all sense of identity. I was in such shock that I wasn't able to eat or sleep for the first week. For the following two years, I was on a slippery slope to losing control of everything. I thought of it as "going crazy" at the time. And there were people around me, in the same situation I was in who WERE literally going crazy! There were three times during those two years when I stood on the edge of losing it. The first two times, I was able to change some aspect of my life to distract myself. The third time, at the end of the two years, I was by myself in the Engine Room Lower Level of the USS Pogy. I was sobbing uncontrollably. I started to hyperventilate. There was nothing about the sea I could change. There was nothing about the ship I could change. There was nothing about the people around me I could change. There was nothing about my schedule or way of living I could change... And I knew this was it... I was going to go crazy if something didn't change. If I had lost control of my breathing, what ELSE was I going to lose control of???????????????????????????????? I literally cried out, "God help me..." I wasn't particularly religious growing up. I wasn't expecting any result. I had just exhausted every other conceivable option. As I cried out, I remembered there was a verse where Jesus had said he would do whatever we asked, if we asked in his name. "...in the name of Jesus Christ..." I finished. Immediately my breathing returned to normal and I began to calm down. The Lord started teaching me how to change the things that were in my heart. I didn't go crazy. That was thirty-nine years ago. It was another seven years before I even heard of TWI. The Lord is STILL teaching me how to change the things that are in my heart, so that God's love, which is shed abroad in my heart by the holy Spirit He has given me can better overflow out of my mouth, out where it can be heard in my words, and seen in my actions. I've gone through other paradigm shifts since then. One of the biggest was finding out first about LCM's sexual predations, and then about Wierwille's. Another was realizing that I couldn't look to the leaders of ANY of the splinter groups for things I should be looking to the Lord for. All for now... Love, Steve

actually that's hilarious now 1) How many corps are in attendance? just me 2) And, only corps are present? just me 3) And, you're NOT recording is that correct? hang on, let me ask me