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Ren and Stimpy got nuthin' on me. hahahahahahahaha!

The crucial concept to bear in mind here is that "seed" (the TWI defined variety) is synonymous with permanence. So, according to Way theology, someone who has the wrong "seed" (seed of the devil) is eternally doomed, with no hope of salvation. Just imagine what might happen if you told a suicidal schizophrenic that he was eternally doomed, with no hope of salvation.

And don't forget...You gotta give me .

Now, THIS is my kind of room.

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)