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The first post to that nearly 10-year old thread: EXCELLENT insight. It's bad enough that Dictor (as DWBH calls him, but I sometimes call him DickedHer) was showing that stuff to highly impressionable barely legal young women... but also to UNDERAGE female teens in the FC. That's seriously messed up. How can anyone NOT see his predatory nature now?

To give someone the complete picture of TWI, it's sort of like the telling of a twisted Tale of Two Cities. It's the story of the long and arduous journey of PFAL grads being demoralized by the aristocracy of TWI. The "benefits" of this "dual citizenship" is enough to break the spirit of anyone if they stayed around long enough. On the surface resides the pristine community of Overt TWI – all prim and proper like – they've got a convincing dialect down pat – a mix of jargon and Bible verses; this is the place they want to present to tourists – and to maintain the drip-feed of delusion for the faithful – a special Kool-Aid that makes them think they really are living the dream – the more abundant life. Hang in there with me folks – I'll get to Covert TWI in a little bit – first there are some tracks to cover up – uhm…er…ahem…I mean - - first there's some ground to cover. I think many grads were like me - an honest, perhaps somewhat simple minded type, wanting to make a positive difference in the world – thinking you truly served God and really helped people; when disaster hits this beautiful little world – the tendency for most grads is to look to outside causes rather than within this little world. So the repair and recovery personnel work to shore up the damage to prevent catastrophic failure. There was a grand assumption in place that the repair personnel need not analyze the city's original blueprint nor question the thought process of the founding father (chief architect, city planner, code enforcement department, and general contractor all rolled into one all-knowing…all-seeing....... eyeball....shall we do the VP salute together now /> ). But you know…once you start questioning this "city hall" it often doesn't take much to figure out there's something wrong in the basement…which reminds me of something Morpheus said in The Matrix : Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? Now I grant you - to go from questioning this "dream" I think I'm living out - to actually waking myself up seems like it would take a herculean effort… and it does…so if you have the intestinal fortitude to peek at the underbelly of the beast ( I speak to Grease Spot newcomers and TWI lurkers, of course) then grab a torch and you may now proceed - WITH CAUTION - down the Basement Stairs in a self-guided tour of Covert TWI..... .....(T-Bone stops at the first landing only a few steps down from the Basement Door- his hand in a long smooth motion gliding over the various forums ) there's oodles of threads on Grease Spot that will thrill and chill you; you will be "thrilled" to realize that some of the those weird "little" incidents you've heard about, or maybe even experienced yourself (I am so sorry to hear that) were just a few pixels in the bigger ugly picture; and it will chill you to the bone how pervasive this wormlike beast was to have carved out such a massive under-structure…there are HUGE caverns – replete with "life" sustaining supply lines from above ground - - - – (suddenly T-Bone thrusts a finger out as if wielding a knife to rightly divide a loaf of German Dark Wheat Bread) and look there….there…. and way over there – uh huh – those cave-ins show you the starting point where the offshoots and side tunnels strayed off from Overt/Covert TWI – they've built their own above ground facade to take in precious nutrients for the denizens of the deep; you can't get to them from here ....they've taken on a life of their own now...anyway it has the makings of a cool movie franchise like Tremors. During the months following the passing of the patriarch – I became more and more curious about this Covert TWI. Fortunately the upper leadership in my state had some brains and moral fiber. They were in the process of leaving or had already left TWI. I would hear in greater detail about VP the sexual predator. At one point I even called Don't Worry – I had to hear it from someone I knew and trusted to clinch it for me. It's been a long journey for me – especially getting to the point I could truly see what was really going on in my corps training. See an old post of mine – link below – warning it is NOT for the faint of heart or for those who still think VP was the man of god for this day and time and hour…well at least back in the day. TWI's Sedative to the Conscience Before ending my post – I would like to close by saying there were so many good people in TWI as I just mentioned above – and for that I will forever be thankful for their courage, strength and honesty. There's a lot of corps bashing that goes on here – I do it too – but my gripe is about the program itself and any of the self-assuming bozos who want to drive the bus to crazy town (that's Overt and Covert TWI…and so ends my tale of the two cities).

I think the primary ways my own conscience was affected is the twi belief system. Things like: Be especially good to the household (only those in twi) Who is your neighbor (twi) Emotions come and go, the Word abides forever (twi version) That caused me to make decisions that were hurtful to others, ignore my feelings, and think I’d done right. The mog concept replaced Jesus Christ; vp was my pipeline to God. Not to mention, the Word replaced the “absent” Christ. Then something I learned recently. Taking the Lord’s name in vain isn’t limited to using the GD word. It is behaving in a manner disrespectful to God. It can be things like putting God’s name on something you decided or did and put God’s name on it, when He had nothing to do with it. For ex: “God told me, I was led, I believed for a parking space”, when He didn’t have anything to do with it. It is anything we do that we connect God to that doesn’t express absolute respect. It is using God’s name frivolously. Treating God like a genie in a lamp springs to mind…how about “clear and concerned” where we direct God as to how to answer prayer? Then I got my first teaching on what worship really is in church this last Sunday. It is first recognition that God is ALMIGHTY. 2nd, an attitude of humility because of point 1. 3rd, it is not doing things in order to receive from God. 4th, it is understanding that God is the audience, not the congregation. We were taught to worship God via S.I.T., a mindless thing that doesn’t address attitude. It is just as instructive to look at what was not taught, as what was… In summary, twi taught me to disrespect God, ignore Jesus Christ, and mistreat most people. This is the real reason I believe twi was/is a cult. In all ways important in my life, twi was a barrier (like a giant, poisonous mattress), and the whole time I was convinced I was right because my conscience took a back seat to my brain which was not functioning on all cylinders because it was permeated with doctrine that rotated around and reflected a disrepect for God. And in my opinion, vp’s worst sin wasn’t sexual. His worst sin is he made a living taking the Lord’s name in vain as a lifestyle and taught us to do the same. The sexual sin was just one manifestation of it. Every time he twisted the Word to justify his sin (like OT is for our learning, mentions in NT about adultery refer to spiritual adultery) p...ed all over God and then he taught it to us. Every time he took license with the Bible and justified it because he was the mog, he p...ed on God. Every time he declared God told him this or that, lied about the snow, etc. he was taking God’s name in vain as a manner of life. And he sold it to us in a class. It wasn’t ineptness. He taught us to use our minds in a way that produced evil, across the board, and ultimately to ourselves. Just calling a spade a spade. I understand now Dr. Juedes’ statement on GS Radio about wayfers coming to him after being out 20 yrs and more, still wounded. He said it was a wound to the heart. I get that. The deeper I look at it, the more appalled I am.