Rocky

Face it Mike, you just do NOT make sense. You're wasting your time.

Yet, Mike apparently hopes that seekers who come to GSC for inspiration on why they should return to twi and pflap will diligently sort through the noise and find his remarkable "wisdom" (albeit, his deficient ability to clearly communicate) because God will guide them. Mike flunked.

There have been legions of human explorers, blazing their own paths where no one had gone before them. Decades ago, I found the late Gail Sheehy's book, Pathfinders particularly intriguing. Pathfinders tells stories of lots of people who determined not to be limited by absence of a guru/teacher. It was first published 40 years ago today. Nov 1, 1982. No book in the last decade has changed more lives than Gail Sheehy's groundbreaking Passages. Now, going beyond Passages in purpose and scope, Gail Sheehy's landmark best-seller explains why some of us overcome life's crises while others do not. Through interviews with hundreds of people of all ages and backgrounds, she has found the true pathfinders�men and women who have discovered uncommon solutions to the predictable crises and unexpected accidents of adult life. In vivid, unforgettable portraits, Gail Sheehy tells their life stories and analyzes the process by which they accumulated confidence, control and courage in their lives. Pathfinders is that rare book which sets you on your own unique path to well-being. Pretty sure I read it in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

GSC is Mike's addiction, isn't it? He thinks it gives him meaning, doesn't he?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning

As if you're inside anyone's head (beside your own)? Right on target? Give me a break. Nobody's really doing anything but toying with you.

My intent only was to inject a moment of perspective into the mix.

Would I be rude to point out that Mike has hijacked this thread and it has turned into just another thread with Mike's vain babblings having overtaken the original intent?

Mike, have you ever gotten the impression people here were toying with you? If not, at least THEY know they're simply trying to make you go faster on the hamster wheel.

Btw, the comment to which you responded is not about whether or not you respect anyone's opinion. It's about understanding how language works. For you to say you disagree with someone's own story is very much to call the person a liar. You've been posting here for eons. Yet, you apparently don't understand basic language construction.

Write a book. See if people will buy it.

LOL... I never posted to this thread. 1974 to 1986.

I'm confident many former wayfers will recognize nearly identical patterns in the story about Masterson (not known to be related to former way corps members or others in twi). The terms Scientology uses differ, but the coercion is identical.

The following excerpt from Insider dot com demonstrates the pernicious nature of cultic religious organizations. Scientology, of course, is MUCH bigger than twi. Loy should be thankful this wasn't about him. The "meager" $65 million TWI had to play with at the time of the Martindale scandals kept them from daring to go to trial. If they were as rich as Scientology, they might have considered going to trial. As his trial on criminal rape charges kicked off in Los Angeles last week, "That 70's Show" actor Danny Masterson's lawyers presumed that the Church of Scientology would be the elephant in the room throughout proceedings. Masterson is a second-generation Scientologist, and the three rape accusers are all former members of the church. By the tenth day of the trial, witnesses discussed the church every single day. The church's presence was not just a metaphorical elephant in the room — it has eclipsed elements of the trial and reverberated beyond the courtroom. Though the Church of Scientology is not on trial with Masterson, facets of its operation are woven throughout testimony, inextricable from the allegations of rape witnesses have detailed. The trial is demystifying the religious organization, particularly its celebrity allure and hierarchy, in a way many observers have never seen before. "This trial is one of the biggest moments in Scientology history," Tony Ortega, a journalist who has followed Scientology since the 1990s and broke the Masterson story in 2016 for his outlet The Underground Bunker, told Insider. (much MORE at the link provided above)

Mike, you have NO right to "object" to someone else's story. It's not a concordance, or an exegesis or anything with which you would have a right to make an argument against. It's her STORY. It's HER life and experience that's in the book. Nothing more, nothing less. IF you find something in it to take issue with, you STILL have to keep in mind that it is someone else's story, not yours. As such, you just don't get to have ANY say about what's she says was her experience.

I'm confident anyone who wanted to do so, has. OTOH, who would want to? YIKES!

No matter whose responsibility it might be, the READER does interpret what s/he reads. Wierwille just wanted to gaslight, or had no idea who was responsible, PFLAP zombies into delegating the responsibility to him. What happens when the "zombies" so delegate? Confusion and every evil work, perhaps? Not my fault, I was only doing (and believing what I was told... and one can't go any farther than they're taught, right?).

I'm confident it doesn't matter.

You dirty rat!

AKA, a significant emotional event. That would be wonderful.

Sadly, until our good friend Bolshevik experiences a significant emotional event to shake his irrationality loose, he's almost certainly not going to change that particular point of view.

Is it now? How quaint. Btw, I'm not inviting response... bcuz you're starting to sound like you have co-opted Mike's irrational "reasoning" methodology. It clearly appears (so far) you are not engaged in fruitful discourse, and not willing to be engaged in any fruitful discourse. And that's incredibly sad.

Probably that he made mistakes. Everybody does.

Page 234-235, quoting wierwille. When I think of Townsend, I always remember hearing him talk about "your basic simple man." FACTS regarding what we know now, 50 years later (TW:LIL was first published in 1972) about wierwille's claim demonstrates beyond ALL doubt at the time twi could not deal with life's ambiguities and paradoxes.