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Don't worry, as long as they focus on mastering the written collaterals they should be just fine. /s

Epistles, the bible, the collaterals...I don't recall the exact wording. The essence is the same. But, suppose for a minute that he said to read the epistles for 3 months. Why, then, is there now such a push to get back to the collaterals? Bingo! We have a winner.

And so, the long journey out of darkness begins.

It's not the inverse. It's two separate statements with different, unrelated meanings.

The thing about the corps is that Wierwille most likely got he original concept after observing E.S. Jones's Ashrams. Remember Eli Stanley Jones? The "Billy Graham of India"? He's the guy who has been quoted as stating, "Fear is sand in the machinery of life." and "Abundant living means abundant giving.". Jones brought the Hindu Ashram concept to America after WWII and gave it a Christian twist.. Like everything Wierwille did, he had to give it his own personalized spin. . Summer school became zero corps, zero corps dissolved and made way for the 1st corps and on and on and on. It went through extreme evolutionary changes until the original concept was little more than a faded memory. Studying at the master's feet eventually became an exercise in disciplined communal living, with Wierwille as the self-declared master and purveyor of "wisdom".

Boy, howdy. Ain't that the truth?

What do you think it means?

Who was that 8th man? In Genesis he was.... But, seriously (not). It kinda reminds me of a documentary I watched recently called Yeti: The Missing Teenage Years.

Ah, yes. Keys to walking by the spirit. Another bunch of useless mumbo jumbo. But, hey, look them over and cherry pick the ones that you seem to think make sense. You're free to choose. La Maka See Yay.

I tried reaching out to an old friend on facebook. He said if I had anything negative to say a "Dr." Wierwille he wants nothing to do with me.

She should have used birth control in this instance.

I wasn't really referencing polyandry. I was talking about households that are held together by the matriarchal figure. Many times it's a matter of necessity in order to maintain family cohesiveness. It's fairly common in the lower socioeconomic strata of our society.

Sounds like a real stretch of logic. The periods are just a convention of abbreviation, nothing more, nothing less. If it's the business organization you want to reference, why not simply say so?

Lots of them right here in the good old U.S.A.

Responding to oldiesman's questions: You can get benefit from almost any program if you have the will to do it. I mean, there are people in prison who get college degrees, but that's certainly not the best way to go about it. As to what it was about, it was like a microcosm of the corpse at the state level. One large difference was that we were not allowed to have outside sponsorship. We had to self-sponsor by working at full time, secular jobs. The balance of our day was spent living communally and providing support for the limb machinations. edit: That may sound something like a Way Home but it was entirely different.

Correlation does not necessarily equal causation.

Yeah, I should have waited a couple years before going into FellowLaborers. (The program was canceled 2 years after I graduated...Hahahahahahaha!)

Maybe his google button is broken.

That's a "one and done" sale and the number of potential buyers is limited. The profit is finite. Even a good car salesman doesn't just screw you over for all he can get and then forget about you. He gives you a deal you'll feel comfortable with and continues to court you with follow-up service promotions, new car news and the like, in hope of making more sales in the future. TWI is not a benevolent organization, they're a profit making business. The model they run on is is driven by repeat business. Again, that's why there was always such an emphasis on undershepherding and tithing. Tithing is their real source of predictable income. It's the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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Someday, you'll be a real boy.

This is just my opinion, but I think the real cornerstone of Wierwille's plan was to establish a base of followers who would consistently tithe, providing him with an endless stream of income. No work required beyond cashing the checks. Funds resulting from sale of the classes and books were icing on the cake. That's why "Christians Should Be Prosperous" became the focal point of those early sessions. There was no internet, no instant access to information. Who was ever going to find out the true nature of a scheme cooked up by a guy in the middle of rural Ohio? Or so he might have thought. I don't think he ever envisioned how big the ministry would become, but, when it did, he was perceptive enough to recognize the opportunities, some quite sinister, unfolding in front of him. It snowballed out of control and overwhelmed him. It grew like a cancer. And here we are today.

'So, if all your friends jumped off the bridge..."

"The interpretation should be about the same length as the tongue." Uh oh!

Yeah, it's easy to miss the mark when you're shooting at a target that doesn't exist. Kinda like how you missed the mark when Wierwille said the law of believing works for believers and unbelievers alike.