Twinky

I have an idea that she started a cake making business somewhere. I found this post from 15 years ago. No doubt things have moved on for Claudettee since 2008.

I thought she'd left TWI and was running a bakery somewhere, making cakes or some such. I found this entry from 14 years ago.

Oh, don't waste your time by taking an interest now. This actress doesn't have a long career as a star. Just as a needle.

That Markle woman is a conwoman through and through. Apart from any natural ability, she's had years of learning to pretend to be someone else. And despite not being a very good actress, she's well and truly conned her prince, her main audience. I don't believe most of what she says: some things might have a fragment of truth, but she has embellished it so much that any original cause for concern is obliterated. She has no dignity or gravitas, and is an embarrassment all round. Focus is absolutely all on her, her and her, with glimpses of other people but only so as to reflect everything back at her. I doubt this marriage will have the longevity of other royal marriages. Is she a malignant narcissist? Certainly she has her own cult following. And I believe she will cause damage to them. I could mention another malignant narcissist with his own cult following but I won 't because that would get my post banned from here. VPW's delusions of grandeur were just that. Delusions. Quite a small-time conman, really, but he did a lot of damage. I'm glad I never met the man in person.

I can't see the tweet, but I can see the comments beneath. That's not him. And he hates the name Loy - only ever called himself Craig, and only ever gave his name as L.Craig Martindale. Somebody posted under a similar name many years ago. On Facebook, was it? Or somewhere else? That was fake, too. Don't know if this would be some "follower" trying to put things right by apologising in LCM's stead, or a "hater" trying to rile people up, or whatever. I am damn sure LCM knows about the Cafe and knows he could apologise here. If he were prepared to take the flak and hurt and general jumping on that that would entail. Yeah, right.

He's interesting, but remember it's not necessarily right. I've seen some things he's done and he appears to have it completely wrong, when further facts become known.

Hey guys, any smartphone techies here? Got a Huawei P10 Lite and it's refusing to charge. I have tried with different charging leads, and I've tried from a plug and from my laptop. It's been getting harder to charge for a few days and now, not at all. I might add that it's taken a couple of very quick swims (no more than a second at a time) but seems to have dried out well after each dunk, and the second swim was some weeks ago. Any suggestions to rescue this, or is it that I need to get a new phone? If so, recommendations please. It doesn't need to be anything fancy and I'm certainly not looking at the latest and greatest. A decent reconditioned phone a few years old would be suitable.

That's definitely his specialty. Especially the boundaries between himself and other men's wives.

Not so sure about that. I think someone may be uploading some of his old teachings from quite a long time ago. Other sources suggest one of his 1995 teachings was only uploaded in 2018. Some look like series but there are only a few in the series. Google search shows this: "23 Jun 2018 — The Way International 1995 Rock of Ages teaching from the Word of God, on how to Live Sanctified, by L. Craig Martindale." What's a bit concerning is that, while most recordings are in mid double figures, some have had more than 150, nearly 200 audits. Wonder if that's people who are interested in what he says, or nosey parkers (like patrons at the cafe) just trying to find out what he's up to? But I'll leave that task to others at the cafe. I heard quite enough of him when I was in rez.

Now that's an insult to potatoes! ("Slug" is what I've always thought.) I endured two years of in-rez "training" under his leadership. Sure, it was just after the "fog years" and he was working out his angst after the damage done by Chris Geer (a particularly nasty piece of work), but it was all yell, yell, yell. At Corps Nights, at lunchtimes, not quite so noisily at Sunday Night Services, but defo at prep for SNS; very little quiet time with him. On one occasion we were given permission to watch ??the superbowl? - not a thing I know anything about, not interested in (not an American), it was offered as an option not an order, so I did something else. Next day, everyone got a yellfest. If he suggested something, we ought to know to do it. We would learn something from it, and we would learn something about ... him. Cuz he was such a great player, or some such. This business about gays: he ranted on about that lifestyle so very much. Several men were kicked out on this pretext while I was in rez. (One, I know, certainly didn't have any homo instincts (blushes)). You don't say what year the incident you reference took place. I'd assumed that his rants were linked in some way with his wife's affair with Rosie, but maybe his hatred of homosexuals predated that - maybe that's what drove his wife into Rosie's arms? I neither know nor care. I emerged from my battering with TWI with a lot of emotional damage, years of hurt, and a loathing of homosexuals and their devilishness. I visited a city I didn't know and got badly lost. An obvious, camp, homosexual saw that I was struggling, offered help and walked me a couple of streets to an area where I could get to where I needed to go. Such kindness! I felt I'd never had such wanton kindness by TWI leadership. It was the start of dismantling that manufactured prejudice; pre-TWI homosexuality was not a thing I'd known anything about before. Glad to say that I go to a loving church now where everyone from anywhere is honestly welcome. Bizarre, isn't it. We "learned" about "devil spirits" from leaders packing the biggest DS (or is that, BS?) that you could imagine. Big ones turning on little ones. LCM and his nutsy ideas of "tough love" and protecting other people, pah! The crazy fool wouldn't know the love of God if it were the only thing left on the planet.

You need more sleep, T-Bone. And to stop eating those "special" brownies.

You are quite right, Stayed Too Long. All those manmade rules are wicked. I am sure God weeps at the cruelty inflicted on people. Jesus Christ came to give us FREEDOM from manmade laws. You know God looks on the heart and not on the physicals of stuff like eating meat, etc. As to the baptism thing - hahaha, did you ever hear anything so ridiculous? Not sure in any event what benefit baptism is, as surely the essence of Christianity is the individual accepting Christ as lord and saviour. Where, Biblically, does it say that baptism on someone else's behalf avails anything?

PFAL should only be a step in the journey of knowing God and knowing the Lord Jesus Christ, more fully. Not one of us can attain complete knowledge, so why should a mere stepping stone (just one) be the only thing? Stepping stones are meant to lead somewhere. There is sooooo much more to learn - from gospels to epistles and beyond - and from commentaries and research from appropriately qualified experts (of which wierwille was not one). If someone dithers on a single stepping stone, eventually others who want to go further will either push the ditherer in, or he'll have to go back. This? Or this? I like the way people are helping others along in this picture. But there does seem to be a ditherer at the back.

That's it. Sorry if my copy and paste link didn't work. Yours is a better link, gives an intro to the participants and their cultie background (apart from the dork in the first few seconds). Some of them were in for a long time (like some of us), which wasn't clear from the bit that I'd seen and posted, which starts about 2m in. You can see that they also had a variety of experiences.

This popped up in my NewsFeed today, why I don't know, but I have seen this series of vids before. I thought this one was kind of interesting and I wondered how some of us here would answer the questions posed. Maybe you've seen it: TV series called Spectrum. Watch | Facebook

Therefore, the answer to life is not 42 but 153 (John 21:10).

This is getting reely silly. Trying to cod us all like that! This is not the plaice for it! But I suppose someone will be carping on soon about spiritu-reel competition.

Never mind doesn't even know how to drive - this one doesn't even seem to know what a car, used or otherwise, is!

Your post is extremely rude, Mike. Maybe if you were more coachable (if you know what that means) you might actually learn something. Thanks, T-Bone, for your comprehensive response to Mike. Mike can learn much from your extensive reading and study "outside the box" of PFAL.

Do you have any source outside of Wierwille's claims, Mike? There are plenty of Jewish Bible/Torah/practice sites where you could check information. chabad.org is one such site. Google also Jewish theology, or Jewish practice and belief, or some other reasonable combination to take you to a wide choice of sites. You said it - you support your assertion.

T-Bone, I would far rather read what you write than delve into a PFAL book or the collaterals again. PFAL and RHST are inconsistent and I found it hard to get my head round the inconsistencies; and the collaterals are overly simplistic, from what I recall. You can re-read all you like; I won't ever bother with them again, LOL.

It is now over two months since the original visit to the vet. The vet had been willing, if not to say keen, to euthanise Tuxedo. Well now. I am pleased to say that Tuxy is doing well, and it must be going on for ten weeks since her diagnosis. Internet research suggests that cats with the problem she has, if the aggressive version, last on average 40-60 days. She has well exceeded that. With the less aggressive version, prognosis is 6-9 months. I fed her on "soup" to start with, then liquidised sachets of catfood in jelly, and have now weaned her onto pate-style tinned food. She is partial to Purina Gourmet pate and "melting heart," both expensive though not as expensive as vet offerings (which the cat refuses to eat anyway). Her backbone no longer feels as if when stroked her spine will break through her skin. Her hips feel comfortably though not excessively padded, and not sharply boned. She is developing quite a fat belly (unless she has a tumour that is growing). She sleeps a lot (but nothing new there), her coat is glossy and thick again, and she is bright-eyed. She jumps about onto furniture and can run very fast when she wants to. She pees and poos normally. She no longer throws up all the time, unless she has got fed up of waiting for me to feed her the tasty wet food, and has stuck her nose into the dish with kibble. And then, she always throws up. So I am very thankful to have this time with her. She is going to be around for some time now, I think. I am not saying the vet is wrong. The cat does have serious health problems. Perhaps the problems were caught in the nick of time. Perhaps she will get worse in a few months. Perhaps, however, she is healed through the power of prayer. The other cat, Crypto, gets a little annoyed at me. She likes the tasty wet food, too. I often catch her in the act of trying to sneak some from Tuxy's bowl. Kibble is no longer her choice of food. She declines my offerings by hand of fragments of ham, chicken or fish, which she always liked before. Hard to explain to a cat that her littermate is on a special diet and she herself is not. Sometimes, I give her a little treat of a sachet of wet food. She gets playtime if she emerges from her lair. She's a strange creature.

T-Bone, what you write is always interesting, but so lengthy that at times I too think, I'll put this aside for another time. Not to say you shouldn't post long things, and we need the challenge to get us thinking, rather than "quick quips" and two-sentence posts that don't take a thread forward. You do post with lots of white space, paragraphs, headings, etc, that make reading easy when there is time. And yes, I do get to reading all of your posts.

It's telling that as Wayfers we "learned" a new language. Unfortunately that wasn't a language that broadened our minds, but one that restricted them. We've had a few threads here about "Way jargon and phraseology ("Would you be blessed to..." springs to mind - instead of, "would you be able to...," "please could you..." and so on). Not to mention some of the unusual uses of some words - the jargon. Sometimes I wonder if those who drop by here and other ex-Way sites have forgotten their "native language" and instead taken on board "Wayspeak" so thoroughly that they can no longer think outside those confines. Not only do they not have the skills, they don't have the vocabulary. It's probably time I re-read 1984,