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I wonder if they still send out the teachings on audio and VHS cassettes.

The only things I have left are a couple bibles and the plate we got at PFAL '77 to celebrate the alleged 35th anniversary of the founding of twi. Now, 35 years after that, I have it under a large potted plant. :P

The first time I heard A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, I thought, "Hey, this is the theme from Davey & Goliath!"

http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh110.sht

Interesting because I just watched "Your Cheatin' Heart" on TCM, the story of Hank Williams (with some liberties).

I do remember one night circa 1994 where we all tore up the old blue songbooks per some directive with no reason why. Can you say red flag?

I don't know how many posts I have but I know I'm in the minor leagues. But it's been fun!

I was in the store the other day with my daughter who is now 21, and we happened to see wooden spoons among other cooking utensils. She remarked that one day she realized that wooden spoons were for cooking!

I guess you had to be there.

My sister is Outandabout. I played off it, since we're related.

I have had to figure out why I got involved in twi in the first place and why I stayed for so long, even when the abuse became increasingly sadistic.

So, do you have something to share about why you got in, why you stayed and was it better once you moved on from twi?

Why I got in: I was young and gullible.

Why I stayed: I believed twi had the 'rightly divided word' that nobody else had. All others were counterfeit and were deceived by Satan.

Was it better once I moved on? Without a doubt, yes!!

"recalculating..."

We used to sing "Farther along we'll know all about it..."

Well that turned out to be right, didn't it?

Indeed. If something went wrong in your life, instead of helping you, they would "reprove" you for letting it happen.

It took me a while to realize that in life, bad stuff happens. You deal with it and move on that much wiser.

Even more uncharted right now.. Up by 2 (3-1) in the final game of the series.. Can they do it?!

They advanced to the ALCS! Up against the Yankees again.

Good to see them bounce back yesterday after that 8th inning disaster in game one.

Go Rangers!! We are in uncharted waters here.

I found this:

http://www.oltiv.org/2010/08/fascinating-rome-city-site-going-on.html

I hope that works. I've never posted a link in here before.

I found it by putting the Rome City address in Google.

Anyway, how much of this stuff is lefover twi stuff?

In retrospect, I owe the Way International back invoices, not tithing.

If anything, I feel they owe me for the spiritual & mental torture they put me through.

Vyctorya

When the "Word in Business" conference came to the Anatole Hotel in Dallas every Thanksgiving weekend, we locals had the "privilege" of doing all the gruntwork - unloading the trucks, setting up the rooms, etc. At the end we loaded everything back up. All on our own time, of course. I think I even took an unpaid day off from work since we were highly "encouraged" to help.

We were required to wear steel toed boots at our cost. And woe be unto you if you screwed up somewhere while you were slaving away.

I forgot about that! What a racket.

From the orginal godbreathed piffle...

The word "all" can either mean "all without distiction" or "all without exception."

Huh?

When passing items at the dinner table they always had to go to your right. So if you wanted something that was in front of the person to your right, it had to be passed all the way around the table until it got back around to you. Got to keep things decent and in order, donchaknow...

Maybe that was the "present truth" at the time.

I don't miss the running around from class to meeting to "special event" etc. and then getting yelled at for not having my family and house in order.

Maybe we could make a movie based on VPW's dying words.

We could call it,"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cult". We could get a bunch of splinter leaders to play all the characters, in search of a hidden fortune.

Great idea! :biglaugh: I love that movie (the Mad World one).

How about "retemory?" That's not even a real word.

Funny you should mention weird dreams. I've been out ten+ years and I still get the occasional dream where I'm back in somehow.

Then I wake up. Whew!

I get them less and less often.

Life is good!