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Take away all the TWI inspired materials and what is there really left to teach?....Sing "Yes, Jesus Loves Me", eat some stale cookies and say "Bless You" as you shake hands on the way out the door.

I've encountered similar scenarios in the corporate world. To be fair, though, I can't recall any of them professing to represent God Almighty....more like the almighty dollar.

Oh Lordy! If the devil finds out we know the greatest secret in the world today and suspects we might tell someone else....Well, there's no telling what he might do.

Can it have rubber walls? Can it? Can it? Please, Please?? Pretty please?

R.I.P. Chris Ethridge

Oh, don't worry. Your twig leader/branch leader/limb leader/take-me-to-your leader will have no problem helping you solve that mystery.

What's worse....The devil coming to get you because you're out of fellowship or the devil coming to get you because you're standing on the word? <_< "My little children. Stand strong and know that the devil's coming to get you." There...now wasn't that edifying?

Wierwille in PFAL: "Hey, look at me. I'm speaking in tongues."....Lo shanta lo maka see tay..... Wierwille in The Intermediate Class: "Hey, look at me. I'm speaking in tongues."....Lo shanta lo maka see tay..... Wierwille at the Advanced Class: Hey, look at me. I'm speaking in tongues."....Lo shanta lo maka see tay..... :blink:

Wierwille said that, in order to become a success in any field, you would have to "sell out" to either God or the devil. And, all those "seed boys" he held up as examples.

Then, of course, there was the time he publicly stated that he thought Hitler should have won the war. (or something to that effect.) Or the time he was conned by fellow con-man Arthur Ford, the spiritualist. Ford's Hidden Archives After Arthur Ford's death, Ford's close friend and supporter William V. Rauscher [4] and author Allen Spraggrett discovered Ford's collection of obituaries, newspaper clippings, Who's Who articles, etc. that Ford had hidden away. They were disguised as bound poetry books. Ford read his poetry before giving a reading. There was enough information to indicate that much of the famous Pike messages and others were fraudulent.[6] There were many other things that Ford ordered his secretary to burn before his death that are lost. Ford and his secretary parted company due to a falling out. Ford's secretary claimed Ford had no psychic abilities. The book Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked with the Dead by Allen Spraggett with William V. Rauscher, New American Library, Inc.,1973 gives the whole story and is the primary source used in Alcock's book. (Remember Fletcher from the Advanced Class?) Source

"The greatest secret is like wondering what's in a woman's purse." Yeah, Wierwille probably wondered whether or not some of the women he molested were packing a small caliber firearm in their purses, ready to send him on a trip to the falsetto hall of fame if he didn't play his cards right.

Let's not forget the secret of exploding snow. OOPS!...Did I spill the beans again?

Remember when Jimmy Swaggart bawled his eyes out and wailed, ?I would love to see that scene played out with Wierwille in the place of Swaggert, tearfully wailing, "I have wrecked the Twig Hopper!" Bwahaha!

By "worse than", do you mean "more comical"? Watch out, all you greasespotters. The bogie man gonna gitcha cuz you left the protection of the greatest movement of Gawd's word since whenever it was that another greatest movement of Gawd's word took place, Hey, what's that behind you? BOO!!!

Maybe it's just me but this thread reminded me of this song.

I'm not so quick to use the term "slave". We weren't shackled and chained....at least not physically. "Duped and exploited"...I have no problem with phrasing it that way. I think back on all we did, as FellowLaborers of Ohio, to maintain the Limb HQ and keep the wheels of the statewide machinery well greased and running. For what? Yeah, I see people on facebook, talking about how we sacrificed and spoke the word and ran the race and fought for a noble cause and blah, blah, blah. I think all that kind of talk is delusional. If it makes you feel better to think you were part of some gallant effort, who am I to take that away from you? For myself, though, it has become amazingly clear that we were mere pawns in Wierwille's personal, perverted game....puppets in a fantasy play about super feats and imaginary relevance. Hell's bells!.... The very class we toiled and hustled and grunted to foist into the public spotlight (remember PFAL?) has been relegated to a home in the mothball drawer. So, tell me,now....How important was all we endured and sacrificed to promote it?...Duped and exploited...In some ways, worse than physical chains and shackles.

Looking back, I can see the whole thing was one big sales campaign....and we were the unwitting sales force.

It's always your own fault when something doesn't work.....That must be the greatest secret in the world Way today.

I don't think I would use the word "prove" in relation to this study. It doesn't "prove" anything. What it does is "demonstrate". It "demonstrates" that electrical activity is significantly reduced, particularly in the frontal lobe, which is associated with self control and the ability to reason (think critically). At the same time, there is an increase in activity in the parietal area, which uses sensory input to create a sense of self, in relation to the outside world. This is the opposite of what happens in meditation. If this is, indeed, the workings of The Holy Spirit, how does one explain that non-Christians are capable of replicating this practice?

Children of the Corn(field)

Where did ANY of them share?....(not counting the "sharing" they did at at night-owls)

The key word here is "compulsory". Giving/sharing of one's own volition is a good thing. We learned that all the way back in kindergarten. But, in PFAL, we were taught that it's a "mandatory requirement" for anyone desiring abundance in their life. And, we were taught that this "requirement" is set forth in the Bible. Yes, the Bible does talk about giving. It talks about the tithe. It provides examples of people who tithed and gave out of thankfulness. What it doesn't do, though, is tell us that it's a "compulsory requirement." Wierwille (and lots of other religious sorts) have twisted this thing to make it say something contrary to what it really says. The important thing to remember, in my opinion, is that Wierwille had a plan. His plan was to use the PFAL series to recruit as many people as he could, locked into a system whereby they consistently and routinely gave part of their income to The Way. And, it worked. I still remember, after leaving The Way, wondering where I was going to send my tithe. "I have to send it somewhere or I'll be outside God's hedge of protection.".... That's how much this idea of compulsory giving had become part of my thinking.

Etymology "Glossolalia" is constructed from the Greek word γλωσσολαλία, itself a compound of the words γλῶσσα (glossa), meaning "tongue" or "language"[2] and λαλέω (laleō), "To speak, talk, chat, prattle, or to make a sound".[3] The Greek expression (in various forms) appears in the New Testament in the books of Acts and 1 Corinthians. SOURCE So, you see, some might argue that the term "glossolalia" is actually more "Biblical" than the phrase "speaking in tongues". (Both are English translations of the same Greek word so neither is truly Biblical.)

I apologize for running it off the track. The intent of my last post was to illustrate that I too tried to use it like an all-in-one tool. Why? Because that's how it was promoted in The Way. Did I say promoted? I meant to say lauded......Get a clear picture, S.I.T. and "believe" and anything can come to pass.....Well, life doesn't work that way.....Too many of us discovered that little truth too late....It reminds me of how, when I was a little whippersnapper, I wanted to stay up late to steal a glimpse of Santa Claus. My parents told me he wouldn't come to our house unless I was asleep.....Same thing, ya know?.....S.I.T. won't work unless you get a clear picture, make sure your request is available, get your needs and wants parallel, walk in love, get your administrations correct, properly translate the word "IF",....and the list goes on ad infinitum. I still do it when I need to clear my head or take the focus off some ache or pain....like a kind of meditation... The difference, now, is that I don't see it as having any spiritual significance and I don't expect any benefit beyond what I just stated..

Speaking in tongues, in and of itself, can't hurt you. In fact, according to scientific studies, it causes no adverse effects for the practitioner. Where the problems arise is in the application and expectations associated with it. I can personally think of many, many instances when I put my occupational safety and personal health in jeopardy, thinking that S.I.T. and the so-called "law" of believing (It was called the "magic" of believing in the original collaterals.) would cover me. It was foolish behavior. I still regret (in a very physical sense) some of the misfortunes I encountered as a result. Did I do it out of love? Yeah, I would say I did. I was trying to put food on the table for my family and trying to keep a roof over our heads. If that doesn't fit the bill, what does? I guess I should consider myself lucky in comparison to some others who were permanently, severely scarred or lost their lives trying to prove it all worked. THIS thread, I believe, is relevant to any discussion regarding speaking in tongues, believing, or the revelation manifestations in general..