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Some of you know that in 1987, I escaped the fundamentalism and cult control of The Way International when I drove away from TWI headquarters in New Knoxville, Ohio, and never went back. I don't intend to return there in person. However, by checking in here at GSC every once in a while, I end up revisiting, by way of people's memories and documented facts, some of the terrible problems that issued from cultic beliefs and behaviors of Way leaders and some followers. I also rejoice in much healing. Your stories are important and I thank you for them. Today, I watched the televised coverage of Cassidy Hutchinson give her testimony of what happened behind-the-scenes in the White House leading up to, during, and shortly after the insurrection at the nation's Captial on Jan. 6, 2021. What struck me was how powerful a calm, fact-based, and as-best-as-I-remember personal testimony can be. Likewise, personal testimony here at GSC by former followers who tell the truth about what happened to them while associated with The Way can and HAS helped people understand the dangers of cultic manipulation. And I KNOW it has helped steer some people away from The Way. Some of them write to me. Some of them, particularly some from my daughter's generation whose parents are still in denial about the abuses of VPW, etc., reach out to me after reading Undertow. Thank you, Greasespotters, for your support of Undertow over the years. I urge all of us to continue telling our stories in a manner that invites thoughtful consideration. It's up to us to inform and to heal former Way followers when we can. Let's lay off any distracting nonsense (that shows up in some threads here) and remember: every word matters.

Thanks Mark, Please accept my loving correction. The goal of gaslighting is to make the gaslighted question everything they themselves discern and KNOW to be real and true, creating a codependent relationship with the gaslighter. This is abuse. This is brainwashing. This is evil. I suspect most here were too hooked and confused to confront or correct any leader. This was by victor's design. And once they woke up to Truth, they dropped it all and split. Though there are a few here who did confront leadership while still in. They've told their stories here. Sadness for not trying to correct those taught up by VPW? Probably not. More likely anger at the deceiver and his deceiving minions for the destruction of lives. Angry at the deceiver, VPW, for deceiving those seeking God; and angry at themselves for believing God is to be found through any mortal man with an engraved bracelet. Writing against victor wierwille, bless his tiny hard heart, is to write for the Truth.

I got you on this list fam 1. Ted Haggard 2. Jim Bakker 3. Robert Tilton 4. Bill Gothard 5. Shoko Asahara 6. Tony Alamo 7. Victor Paul Wierwille The first 6 all were found out by their church families and exposed. The 7th trained an apprentice who did the exact same thing. And now rather than being exposed he is enshrined with whitewash.

7 of 9? Where did you get THAT? 9 is 3 to the 2nd power. And we don't do 3 around here. No trinity. No 3 crucified. No sir! Five crucified. That's riiight. Now the New Testament has 27 books. That's 3 to the 3rd power. That's impossible. That's just devilish. Anyway, it's not in the original. Now, take your eyeballs...er... I mean BIBLES out and turn to any of the Gospels. Pick one. Any one. Now, rip it out. Those records are to (T-O) the Jews. You're not a Jew are you? No? Good. Just tear it out. And you end up with what? 26. That's right. 26 books in the New Testament That's what Gawd intended. See, man made it 27, but Gawd made it 26. See how simple that was? Didn't even need a match.

I heard about a séance back in February where a medium who also runs a Twig in New Knoxville had contacted a certain dearly departed cult-leader. During the séance the TWItch of New Knox – who, incidentally, was marked and avoided by the tabloids, said she heard a disembodied voice say “Lo Shonta my Shonta. If only seven Ukrainians would have taken the class, God would have changed all the international laws recognized by other countries , in a quid pro quo and a do-si-do with the devil in the motorcoach.” Here's a fun fact from Wikipedia - a séance or seance (/ˈseɪ.ɑːns/; French: [seɑ̃s]) is an attempt to communicate with spirits. The word séance comes from the French word for "session", from the Old French seoir, "to sit". ...In session 12 of PFAL students are told to stand and SIT....Coincidence? I don’t think so. News update: in a related story - the TWItch of New Knox drafted a Twig-resolution to make the King James Version of the Bible as interpreted by The Word-Daddy the only rule for faith and practice. Several protestors stood outside TWItch’s home with signs that read “My Bible My choice”

I read somewhere VPW could stop the Russians.