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Hey I just looked really quick at that TWI phrases and was the term : FRUIT in there ? Fruit as in new people ? Hi this is Tom and Nancy and they are my new friut in twig !!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hated that ! My FRUIT !!!!!!!!!!!!! --> Some people even got into fits because they were worried you might spoil their fruit and then they wouldn't look as good in front of the BC

Hey I just looked really quick at that TWI phrases and was the term : FRUIT in there ? Fruit as in new people ? Hi this is Tom and Nancy and they are my new friut in twig !!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hated that ! My FRUIT !!!!!!!!!!!!! --> Some people even got into fits because they were worried you might spoil their fruit and then they wouldn't look as good in front of the BC

(((((((coupcake)))))))) Think we have maybe received a bit of that back on this site and outside of this site too ? Working on it here and yeah I have and much more liberating this time around ! :)-->

yeah me toooooooooooooooo ! of course I do miss the people, the music and yeah all that cash !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --> :D-->

I remember one article about Twi that mocked VPW's account from the Way Living In Love about the snow storm. I think TWI was pretty good at keeping their deep dirty secrets from the media. At that time I remember you had "The Children Of God" "The Moonies" and they seemed to really get the bad press. Having been raised Catholic the term cult never really meant anything and amazing how that so called very large cult kept dirty secrets hidden pretty well too !As bad as TWI was there were worse groups out there but that to me, that does not excuse their behavoir and some left with less scars than others and me I still have some anger I am working through ! Maybe I should call a reporter and see if another media story should be written or even if it's worth repoting ? A an updated story and maybe call it "The Way and What The HELL Happened ? No pasing pasties either ! Probally not worth the ink ! TWI sucks ! Excuse me .

Yeah Oak I started to see the bad press too about TWI around that time peroid. I have to say the media did like a lot things never seem to get the story quite right and TWI was no exception. I remeber the full media blitz being in full force when Takit performed I think around 81 with that "Take A Stand Caravan" or whatever it was called. Dam it was all over the papers and hostlie crowds greeted us lovely TWI folks as we entered the theatre in Minneapolis.I felt sorry for the Way peole living here then as I drove back home ! Even my boss had heard of Takit as I asked for time off ! sheeeesh He got it from the paper ! lol I for one was never too impressed with the media on the coverage and dam Int'l would have made a great 60 minute spot ! Probally just too many cults and a lawsuit about LCM doesn't make much of a ripple outside of The New Knoxville area. What was interesting to me was as soon as Takit left town all was forgotton in our news. They also did an article on TWI in my hometown which was half accurate. Dam lousy reporting I thought !I had conditioned myself too against any bad press but most of what I read was pretty crappy reporting. Hey I found my WOW name tage from 75. Is WOW still a radio station in Omaha ? Dam they thought we were radio WOW'S ! Excuse the side bar talk Oak ! Maybe some have some articles they can post on here ?

Man of a thousand please private post me or IM me. (See my profile) I think I can accomodate ok ? Later :)--> My DSL or your wonderful internet provider keeps returning my dam e-mails to you !!!!! --> --> We will get through this !!!!! :D-->

[ :D--> :D--> :D--> :D--> :D--> :D--> :D-->QUOTE]Originally posted by A la prochaine: purpose? to irritate the crap outta' people who find us irritating. :D--> You are way too funny you !!!!!! :D--> TRIPLE TIMES TRIPLE LAUGHTER !!!! STOP THAT !!!!!!!!LMAO x 10 :D-->

Now that that this thread is on t-shirts, flying on the planet lie some pigs do , orbiting like a spacecowboy off the planet and everyhere else I wonder ? can I get a gs t-shirt with a bear logo, favorite baseball team, a pic of Frank Zappa and a spacecowboy put on my special order gs t-shirt ? I wonder ? I WHA WHA WHA WHA WONDER ? Where she will go ?(freakin thread !) My run run run run RUNNAWAY ! Dam I cannot reach those high notes anymore ! Yeah I was punked !!!!!!!!! :D--> I'll get over it and with a few laughs too ! Thank you very much my fellow postersfor the space and Those were the days my friends!!!!! I 'm glad the cult days did end ! --> P.S. Is GS looking for salepeople to sell the t-shirts ?("retire" = I love that word !!!)Will :)-->not however sell door to door !!!!!!!!!!!!! Too much coffee today !!!! -->

Catcup I do understand your intention in what you were saying in what you did. I sometimes think people come on this site just to see how we will repsond. I found the nature of the question not to be of someone who would be scared off so easily and as of yet I have not recieved anything from my sincere offer to discuss (his or her) issues out of the room. Yes maybe I was a bit sarcastic but not mean spirited so I really do wonder if this post was just a put on for someone who gets some demented thrill on reading our responses? WHAT DOES EVERYONE THINK ? A GREASESPOT PUNKED ? !!!!! WHAT WE BEEN PUNKED ? :D-->

Congrats you ! Proud of ya you home state transplant !

Vickles you Birthday lady you ! Happy HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! :)-->

yeah ! Hope that cake was good and your BIRTHDAY WAS fun fun !

my timing was off ! hope ya had a good Birthday ! :)-->

Enjoy your Birthday you ! Have fun May 27th and whatever year you arrived may another birthday this time around be special,fun,laughter filled and all that good stuff and may a sea monkey even show up to sing to you ! :)-->

If you want to really know the answer to your question if an answer is what you want or a reason to why you wonder ? Well then I welcome you to a private post with me and I will give you my honest answers as to why I come here and will also challenge your perception too. All I ask is that you LISTEN yes LISTEN to one voice and I wil LISTEN to yours ok ? That is of course if you really want somewhat of an answer and some perception to your wonderment. In the meantime maybe :Stop and Think / Take a better Look More than than constant talk about bad experiences and yeah it is History all right. History is worthy sometimes to remember and to talk/learn from past mistakes . I wonder how deep your wonder really is ?

You might be in a cult when the people you were in a year long cult program with can't wait till they get their brand new shiny cult reward pins so they can be done with each other for good and know you are in a cult when you & your wonderful cult sisters pretend in this cult family of 3 (one broke from the cult earlier ! smart guy he was ! how cultless he became !)during this wonderful cult ceremony in August. What a glorius cult year of spreading the cult like lifestyle ways ! My 2nd year cult family I love you and one of you owes me 500.oo for a long distance cult telephone bill but I have gotten over it ! And hope too we had at least some laughs during our most dysfunctional cult year where we even had the joy and privilege of having the wonderful BiG CULT CHEESE Mr. Rev. P. spend a glorius week with us showing us how the cult dance should go ! Oh the memories and thankful I can at least still laugh at least a little! Cult never shut that off !

YOU KNOW YOU MIGHT BE IN A CULT WHEN YOUR FORCED TO GO DOOR TO DOOR WITNESSING ON YOUR OWN STREET BECAUSE YOUR FELLOWSHIP MEETS AT THE END OF THE STREET AND YOU WERE FORCED TO BE TRANSFERED OUT OF ANOTHER CULT FELLOWSHIP BECAUSE THE CULT LEADERS THOUGHT THAT CULT LEADER MIGHT BE A BAD INFLUENCE AND YOU WERE HAVING WAY TOO MUCH FUN IN THAT CULT FELLOWSHIP SO YOU END UP IN A CULT FELLOWSHIP ON THE END OF YOUR STREET WHERE YOU LIVE? OH SO BLESED AM I MOTHER MARY !AHHHHHHHHH SAY IT AINT SO ? IT WAS MADE SO! YOU THEN THINK YOU ARE IN A CULT WHEN YOU ACTUALLY DO END UP GOING DOOR TO DOOR SPREADING THE GOOD CULT NEWS AND YOU PRAY YOUR NEIGHBORS (THE ONES YOU KNOW !!!) DON'T ASK QUESTIONS OF THE CULT FELLOWSHIP AS THEY HEAD TOWARD YOUR END OF THE BLOCK !!!!! YOU THEN KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE REALLY IN A CULT WHEN YOU PRAY REALLY REALLY HARD NO ONE ANSWERS THE DOOR AND BETTER YET NO ONE IS HOME !!!!!!!OR BETTER YET THEY INVITE YOU IN FOR MILK AND COOKIES AND PRETEND THEY ARE INTERESTED BUT ARE REALLY JUST CURIOUS WHAT CULT PEOPLE ARE REALLY LIKE ? MMMMMMMMMM THEY SEEM MOST ILLOGICAL THESE CULT BEINGS CAPTAIN ! YOU THEN START CONSIDERING MAYBE GETTING OUT OF THIS CULT WHEN THE PERSON WHO ANSWERS THE DOOR AT THE THIRD HOUSE IS DRUNK AS A SKUNK AND STARTS LAUGHING AT YOU AND YOUR FELLOW ASIGNED DOOR TO DOOR CULT PARTNER AND YOU ARE BLESSSED CULTY LIKE BEYOND CULT LIKE BECAUSE INTERMISSION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE TAKES UP AN HOUR OF TIME AND YOU FEEL YOU ARE REALLY HELPING SAVE A LOST DRUNK SOUL ! TRUE STORY AND THE NAMES WERE CHANGED (OH NAMES WERE NOT MENTIONED) EXCEPT FOR SPOCK AND CAPTAIN KURT WHO WERE JUST THROWN IN TO TEST YOUR CULT POWERS ! :D--> tHANKS for all the other post too on this thread cause ya made my day and needed to laugh youse ex cult members youse ! :D-->

imbus got around here late but thank you for that insight and dam I took my q's from some of these so called wonderful leaders too and not all but seems I too with some leaders that put their egos on a much higher platter at other's expense of not really offering up nurture and I guess to the ones on here that make idiotic jokes or comments haven't a clue so I just color them thick as a brick and yeah maybe some day they will get it !

Sunesis, you're full of crap. Oldiesman ??????????????

[i expected a longer,fuller life from somebody who seemed to be so much more connected to God than I was...I was saddened---and disappointed.... Yeah Simon death is a b---- and there is a line from John Lennon in working class hero that I love "As soon as your born they make you feel small by giving you no time instead of it all" I struggle with death issues but I am learning to try to make my time count and even little time I have seen in some lives by example go a long way and I have been listening to an artist named Eva Cassidy who only lived to 33 ! Her short life span made a huge impact on me and I never heard of her until my sis sent me her music. This thread too has stirred up some emotion but stll not about VPW'S life. Another line from an Emmy Lou Harris song she sings on SPY BOY cd "It don't matter where you bury me I'll be home and I'll be free "To those that VPW'S life did impact in a positive way I understand too because issues in your heart are exempt from debate and group think and even gs group think. Some of that here I have noticed but no big whoopie. My apologies too for my long *** post and I am trying to learn to get to the point.The fact that if one wanted to go to Int'l to visit VPW'S Grave I am sure he would not have been too thrilled with that some of his followers whether they are in the Way or not are denied even that simple dignified courtesy of human decency if they were to choose to visit and pay respects without a major hassle if they are not in the new kinder so called gentler TWI .Maybe I am wrong about that ? That change now ? Sorry Simon my emotions have taken over but I think VPW did have a very huge impact on his short life span.I can't say VPW impacted me in a positive manner but it wouldn't be the first or last time someone has let me down either. I did however have 2 comical way moments with VPW at a wow meeting and a street encounter at a WONY pep rally or whatever they were called. Ok another time ! lol excuse the looooooooong post!

I remember I was at work the day my wife called me to give me the news of VPW's passing and I was surprised it affected me little. I was so upset when LCM was installed to carry on for VPW and that whole Athletes Production never sat well for me and was a time too I started drinking a lot to kind of blur it all out and I am trying to be respectful and I will say I did learn via VPW how to make sense of the bible and there has been worse abuse in ministries by leaders in other groups but I never went into the Corp and I never really knew the man except at WOW meetings , ROA etc, etc.I had many close friends in the CORP and some of them when they came into my town shared about the man through their perspective. I still have a hard time with some of the sexual abuses, teachings on cancer being a devil spirt, etc,etc All behind the scenes VPW that came out later or surppressed when it did happen I was for one in major denial for years and dismissed these people as dis-gruntled wayfers who were lying. His passing doesn't change that for the ones that got hurt emotionaly and maybe you think I am being harsh ? Well my opinion and I don't consider myself a VPW basher but I wish VPW would have apologized and maybe he did to some.It matters little now. Having said all that it had to be tough on him watching his ministry turn into a joke and his so called brothers in Christ who he toiled with all those years just turn their backs on him ! I feel more for the Wierwille family and to them I would say I am sorry for your Dad's passing and may you, his family have peace when you remember him. God will sort it all out I trust.I mean no dis-respect to you the Wierwille family and of course there were things I learned and maybe if there had been a better check and balance sytem like you find in a church this Way Ministry would be thriving today? maybe or maybe not !I wonder sometimes. Like it or not VPW is still part of the Body of Christ. I still believe that and this is the first time I ever posted about VPW and never thought I would because I am not good at throwing stones( not that I haven't before) but have no problem telling you what I think privately. Thanks for starting the post and at least I was able to get a trickle out on this. A date that a man of God passed and not THE MAN OF GOD !Just my opinion and thoughts.