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Nothing personal, but I have given my last dime to anything or anyone associated with the way. I prefer to give money to the Salvation Army, Red Cross or the poor blind guy selling pencils on the street. I will pray for her and her family, because I know they have been hurt by this insidious organization too.

I remember going to a twig leaders meeting in Rome City Indiana at a cottage at Sylvan Lake owned by a believer. Anyway, we loaded about 40 people into this tiny cottage and of course sang way songs very loudly early Sunday Morning waking up the neighbors next door. They knocked on the door to ask if we could be a little quieter and our wonderful branch leader proceeded to get into a shoving match with the next door neighbor telling him to mind his own business. The guy calls the police who come out and write the way leader a disturbing the peace summons. Of course he rants about how the devil is just trying to stop us from having this meeting. I and my wife had never been in a police confrontation like this before, but really agreed with this nice folks next door who were trying to sleep in on a Sunday morning. They were only coming over to ask us if we could "hold it down" and this "a$$" turns it into some kind of persecution and gets into a fight with what appeared to be a rather normal guy. After that, I never had any respect for the guy and really lost my desire to be a twig leader and go to these manditory meetings. I wanted to be like the unbeliever guy next door sleeping in on Sunday morning and enjoying life on the weekends.

Ever hear the saying? "Perception is reality" ... Yes, even to the dillusional it is their reality. Doesn't mean it is reality though. It just theirs.

As someone on the site says "Delusion is better than Reality" or something like that. So delude on if it makes you happy!

To Mike:

Subject: Marketing 101

Targeting your customer

Advice: Read the posts on VP's sins...there doesn't appear to be many potential consumers of vic's bs on this site...look elsewhere.

Subject: Business 101

Efficient use of time

Advice: If you look at the very small target audience for vic's bs...small audience with little return considering the hours of research and posting on your part...look elsewhere.

You really can't sell ice cubes to Eskimos.

It seems to me that if God really told VPW that he would teach him the word like it has not been known since the first century if he would teach it to others, he would keep that to himself and just teach the word like it has not been known since the first century. In other words let your work speak for itself. It just appeared to be marketing hype to me. Is God really into 20th century marketing? I always am skeptical when people make these "big fat claims" about products. Primarily VPW was an assimilator and marketer of all these people's research without giving them proper credit.

It reminds me of when I was a boy, my father told me we were going to eat at this special place where the fried chicken was so good it would melt in your mouth. Being a good son who idolized his father, I thought he wouldn't lie to me. When I ate that chicken, to this day I swear it melted in my mouth. The persuasive suggestion from someone we consider to be so credible is really powerful.

I wish you the best in your new venture! Coincidently, my wife and I have started a new business at the start of this month as well and like you we have sunk all we have in our new venture. This time of year would not have been our choice to start our business, it just worked out that way. I guess you have to start sometime and now seems to be the time for us. I have prayed so much for our startup business, it will be refreshing to pray for someone who is in the same boat as us.

All the best and great success!