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Shhhhhhhh! (I don't think they know I'm gone yet.)

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Or how about this bit of craziness: Ever try to use "believing" to wake up at a specific time without the aid of an alarm clock? I tried this one at the recommendation of a certain leader who convinced me it would strengthen my reliance on God. It cost me what could have turned into a pretty sweet job opportunity. :o

"I have a gas can but I'm not lending it to YOU!" (Probably wasn't "parallel" parked.)

I remember a local believer setting out on a journey with a nearly empty tank of gas. He said he was "believing" for God to add gas to the tank like the record of the loaves and fishes. I never heard any more about how he made out, but I suspect his next act of "believing" probably involved hitch-hiking with a gas can.

Here are some excerpts from Christian Etiquette----edited and compiled by Dorothy Owens Page 5 "The essence of good manners is consideration. There are specific points of how and what, but when you are considerate of the feelings of others, their sensibilities, their opinions and their welfare, you are manifesting innate courtesy on which all good manners are based." Page 41 "GOOD MANNERS SHOULD NEVER MAKE YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE." (It's all caps in the book--- :) )

"I think that the Kool Aid concept from some other authors is mean spirited." Oh, I don't know----change the LSD references to SIT references and the parallels become more apparent. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Acid Tests

You may be a TWI tool if---- You still refer to a certain someone as "Doctor".

Precisely! The purpose of etiquette is to make an event a pleasant and stress free experience for the participants. What we did in TWI, with all our precise table manners, etc., was not etiquette, it was ritualized behavior.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants a better understanding of the complexities of abuse. edit: You can order it through Amazon by going to the home page here.

I think I'm an alright guy

Hey there, taxicab Welcome to GSC. Here's a little musical salute to hacks everywhere.

Roy I love ya, Bro But maybe the practice of "cross-board posting" is something to be avoided. Know what I mean?

It's my observation, from my time in The Way, that if you didn't "get with the program" pretty quick, your "stay" was destined for brevity.

Well, they have to fulfill that old "prophesy" (cough), that the "word" will live as long as there are members of the Wierwille family "standing". (whatever that means.)

Maybe "old hat" would be a better way to describe the organization.

"Stand clear of the wheat berries and no one gets hurt!"

I wonder if they like millet.

What happened to all my prayers? Ya know, before I ever heard of The Way, I had no idea my prayers were second rate. Then I got witnessed to and found out I had it all wrong. See, you can't actually talk to God like you talk to everyone else. You have to have this special language, that they speak in the land of Lo Shanta, or God won't have a clue what you're talking about.And, God can't talk back to you either unless you talk to yourself in this new language lots and lots every day. And you have to make a real effort to expand your vocabulary, too, or God will just keep telling you the same stuff over and over again. Heck, I've even heard people say they prayed to God for answers (without the Lo Shanta stuff) and, presto, someone from TWI appeared to invite them to Twig and sign them up for PLAF. But, how can that be if God can't understand your prayers in the first place? So then my question is this: What happened to all those prayers I said before I heard of TWI?

This new SOWERS program is proof that the beast's heart is still beating. It's like a stinking time machine, designed to go back and start The Corps and Fellow Laborers all over again. They seem to have completely disregarded any valuable lessons that might have been gleaned from TWI history. Sure, it looks harmless enough today, but what assurances are there it will turn out any different when, in fact, the very principles it has been fashioned after have been proven to be defective and dangerous? In fact, how do we really know it isn't a phantom effort of the monster that spawned it? TWI is still current news, IMO.

Funny how he could use his "believing" to get lots of these: and lots of this: But he couldn't use it to avoid one of these:

I see your point but I don't think it was because of "believing". I think it was a simple matter of VP not giving a rat's azz! As long as he got whatever he wanted, he didn't care what happened to the WOW's or Corpse or staff, etc. edit: "Believing" (or lack thereof) was a handy excuse that Wierwille used to shift the blame of his heinous acts from himself to his victims. Personally, I think he knew full well that the believing stuff was a load of cr@p.

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And that, I surmise, is the latent danger of this seemingly harmless yet insidious and destructive "law".