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Putting the Pieces Together


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Reading through the strange and wonderful "Mrs. Wierwille's Poodle" topic made me realize something...

WHY greasespot cafe is important .

Why do we ex-twiers need to be here, dredging up and discussing every little bit of twi-stuff in our memories? Why must we discuss what others might think are silly bits of fluff from way too long ago to care about? Why can't we just stick to really important subjects or better still, just let it all go?

BECAUSE... all each of us has is a piece or two of the puzzle.

You can't see the real picture if you only have a couple of pieces: A reproof session you sat through at HQ. A strange altercation between two leaders. A mandate that came through your area... by themselves they have SOME meaning, but it also leaves a whole lot of questions!

So, you post your questions here, and you start getting related stories, from folks who lived at a root locale or across the country from you, or in a foreign nation, and the gaps in the whole picture start to get filled in... OHHHH, that reproof session at HQ happened because of a certain incident at a certain limb, and because of that reproof session at HQ, a letter went out to all the believers on the field, and all the leadership was told to crack down... Now the whole process becomes clear. You can clearly see the begining, middle, and end of a situation and it paints a pretty clear picture of how twi functioned, and how the leadership behaved. Voila!!! Understanding!! Resolution!!

And EVERY piece of the puzzle, no matter how insignificant it may seem as an individual piece, is important in light of the big picture.

Greasespot is just a big, flat dining room table where each of us brings our few pieces of the puzzle. Together we sit and lay our pieces out, and match the colors and patterns and edges, and before you know it, the big picture takes shape before our very eyes. And understanding takes place, and healing happens.

Welcome to the table, everyone!!!

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I live next to a chemical plant here..

back in the old days, they could pretty much dump whatever they wanted. Downstream of the river is contaminated with PCB's about a hundred times the accepted amount allowed.

They are now in a rather costly process of pulling up muck, dirt, you name it.. and somehow removing the contaminants.

I am SURE they would be happy if people "just got over it" and the nightmare could just miraculously go away..

It may have been silly, but I really had a few legitimate thoughts behind this:

http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=13891

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That is absolutely why it is so important to ask what may seem like "odd" questions from the outside. The puzzle analogy is how I have always viewed this. We were kept in the dark for so long, and the design was to keep us from comparing notes. That is why when somebody was able to put several pieces together at once and come up with a picture that was contrary to the "party line," they were quickly escorted off grounds, drop-kicked, and/or otherwise defamed and slandered in order to discourage other people with matching pieces from comparing notes together.

Still looking for that patch of sky........

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Greasespot is just a big, flat dining room table where each of us brings our few pieces of the puzzle. Together we sit and lay our pieces out, and match the colors and patterns and edges, and before you know it, the big picture takes shape before our very eyes. And understanding takes place, and healing happens.

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And just what do we have at GSC anyway, a masterpiece? Hmmm... I was right. I thought it was a Picasso. Picasso's work covered many different periods too, the blue, the rose, etc. so ... what period of TWI were you from - from the anayltic or the synthetic cubism?

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And the exciting thing about this puzzle is that we ALL have a piece to contibute from the "nuke the whole farm in Ohio" across the spectrum to the "VPW should be canonized and the farm added to the national Historic Register" .

Each piece and each opinion adds to the the ever changing kalidescope [sic] that was TWI.

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It was is the river that never freezes.

Yep we need each other,we were kept in the dark and

fed shi@ for so long.we have to be fed a little at a time

of what is really going gone on.

They said at Dachau and the other death camps,people could not

eat regular food for awhile because of what starvation does to you.

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