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    Anybody know Judith Lunn? She was a very close friend when we lived on Maui. We left the island about 6 years ago and haven't seen her since. We've been out for 3 years, but I'm pretty sure she is still in twi.

    AUZDA

    "I fall down on my knees and pray, I don't get fooled again".

    The Who

    Why Plagiarism is a Big Deal

    in About The Way

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    Why didn't Stiles, E.W. Bullinger, E.W. Kenyon, B.G. Leonard and others make a fuss when VP stole their work? VP is the small-timer here. By the time VPW got more than a couple thousand followers (the size of literally thousands of individual churches across the country) it was already the mid-1970s. By that time, Stiles, Kenyon, Cliffe, Starr, and Bullinger, had long lost track of VP and were probably all dead. When Leonard finally found out about VP's plagiarism, he started adding explicit and blunt copyright notes in his books warning people not to plagiarize.

    Even at TWI's peak, VP was basically an unknown outside of towns which hosted his "root locations." VP's books were never available in bookstores or offered for sale via radio ads (although this may have been attempted once without success) -- only by taking the class and getting on TWI's mailing list. By controlling sale of the books closely, VP limited his exposure.

    The above quote from Hope's post caused a little light bulb to go off in my head-aha! Now I finally understand why back in the late 80's and on into the 90's we were encouraged to check for copies of ministry books at yard sales and in used bookstores etc. We were told to buy anything we found to get it out of circulation among "unbelievers".

    This never made sense to me. Shouldn't we WANT unbelievers to have access to all this great information? We were always told that without "THE CLASS", people would not be able to understand it, and it could do more harm than good. Now I realize that the perceived harm would have been to twi if vpw's plagiarism was out in the public eye where questions about it could not be controlled and spin doctored as well as it was within our fellowships.

    This also explains the reasoning of not letting anyone outside of twi borrow any books or materials. Keep the information exclusive to the organization, and avoid any potential exposure to anyone who was not already under the twi thumb.

    AUZDA

    "I fall down on my knees and pray, I don't get fooled again".

    The Who

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