Isn't it about time for another exodus?

[skyrider]

Of course, no one can predict (or expect) when the next mini-exodus will erupt in twi.....but it seems telling that they occur about every 12-15 years, or thereabouts. When I look back around the 1974-75 time period.....and men like Peter J. W@de and others headed for the exits. Then, most all are familiar with the 1987 exodus after cgeer's paper and power-grab wherein some 85% left twi and, many, were swallowed up into offshoots. And then, the 1998 mini-exodus after martindale's sexcapade at the advanced class. Yep, about every 12-15 years an exodus ensues.

I know several region coordinators headed for the exits and into the secular world between 2000 and 2004 and others walking out. If I recall correctly, pan@rello (trunk guy) left in 2004 and started his offshoot, wrote a book, yada yada...

Everything I hear now is that rivenbark and twi is BORING.

Besides, she's got to be pushing 74 --- Click Here -- Rosalie F. Shumate

How can the youngsters stomach this mundane dribble? Most likely, 75% of twi's "faithful" are hitting their 60's and like the comfort zone of petrified "research" and talking about the old days. You know, that attachment to "standing with the man of god" (cough, cough) gives them special perks and bragging rights. What else would they have done of importance? Worked in the secular world and with the devil to chase the almighty dollar? Yuck, yuck. Why.....working at the way international is the spiritual epicenter of the world, donchaknow.

Deceptive vanity.....and the cult mentality is rooted deep into one's soul.

Especially those on the field.......Time for another exodus.

[outandabout]

HQ must be hard to exit for the people who have lived there for years and years working for slave wages. Without means to travel and get settled somewhere it would be difficult to leave.

I can see people "on the field" leaving. Why they would even still be involved is a mystery to me. I feel sorry for them, the drudgery of getting your house presentable for fellowship or having to drag yourself to meetings and have little time for the things of life, i.e. laundry, grocery shopping, driving kids around, etc.

I was talking on the phone to a former WOW sister that I hadn't seen for 30 years or so and she said she went to a Way fellowship and it was "dead".

[skyrider]

HQ must be hard to exit for the people who have lived there for years and years working for slave wages. Without means to travel and get settled somewhere it would be difficult to leave.

Yes.....very difficult for the staffers on slave wages.

Like P@ul All3n wrote......Click Here -- Try Exiting HQ

[Broken Arrow]

There aren't very many people left to even have a mass exodus.

[skyrider]

There aren't very many people left to even have a mass exodus.

For sure. It would be a mini-exodus from the corn clones.

Besides.....the long-timers are starting to live on social security.

What a reality check to all that "abundant" spiel.

But hey....if a man wants to stay stuuupid, let him stay stuuupid [pfal].

[GarthP2000]

Yay, another mass exodus! ... All 2 of them.

"They're dead, Jim."

[Bolshevik]

[WordWolf]

There aren't very many people left to even have a mass exodus.

At this point,

almost everyone who "CAN" leave has already left.

There are people who think it is "impossible" to leave,

if only because they can't hold down a real job and their

"contribution" to Social Security was miniscule.

The membership ranks are puny. They are bringing in almost

nobody new- they're raising a few kids in the group, and some

of those are leaving and some are staying. Evey year, there's

still members leaving through death if by no other reason

(the membership is aging every day, and younger members are not

replacing them.) So, the membership numbers dwindle.

And the kids, no matter what they think, can't rescue twi and

"show the old folks what they should have done" because twi

is irrelevant and outdated, and they don't have what they THINK

they have. So, they have nothing to make outsiders go "wow" like

the kids THINK would happen. And even if they DID somehow,

rfr would shut them down because ANY kid who could do that would

be a SERIOUS threat to rfr, and could take over the whole

enchilada overnight, de facto even if rfr had the titles.

So, the members leaving now tend to TRICKLE because the numbers

who COULD get shocked already left, and there has been no influx

of new, clueless members who had no idea felonies were committed.

For that, thank everyone who's blown the whistle on them, through

those who sued, through Waydale, and through the GSC (and others

everywhere they did it.)

[Broken Arrow]

Do non-profits even deduct for Social Security? If so, do they have to pay in 7.5% like private companies do?

[johniam]

In order to have an exodus, don't you have to have enough people to constitute an exodus?

[outandabout]

What's going to happen with RFR croaks? I wonder if they even have any plans for that.

[Twinky]

She'll have a deputy appointed. All of the BoT / BoD whatever they call themselves now, all of them have a deputy. Donna. maybe? J0hn Rupp?

[newlife]

Deputy? How come? And what is the function of such a person??

[skyrider]

What's going to happen with RFR croaks?

Rosalie is not going to croak.....her believing is bigger than death.

And besides, if it ever DID happen....her inner circle will deny it.

Like that movie Psycho - Click Here - Rosalie will "live on"

and her shrill voice will hold dominion over the dependent shlubs at Bates Motel.

[waysider]

She'll have a deputy appointed. All of the BoT / BoD whatever they call themselves now, all of them have a deputy. Donna. maybe? J0hn Rupp?

Maybe Way Productions will perform

at the Sunday Night Service.

[Twinky]

Waysider, great clip. I like the Singing Ladies, nice outfits too. Can you see them in the auditorium? Heh heh heh

[outandabout]

Maybe Way Productions will perform

at the Sunday Night Service.

way productions - what it is not. Too bad for them.

[MRAP]

My goodness waysider, you get the word "deputy" in your head (reference RFR) and you come up with Bob Marley, couldn't you at least have found something on Eric Clapton - sheesh. Well at least Bob Marley looks alot like Brian Bliss - don't ya think?

Back on thread: Wife and I did an exodus of 2 in 77.

[skyrider]

Back on thread: Wife and I did an exodus of 2 in 77.

I remember sitting in the BRC for those "pillar meetings" [Ermal and Dorothy, Harry and Naomi,

George and Bernita, Mal and Jan, etc.].....and when these folks talked about the 1960s,

quite often they made reference to those who *went back to their churches.*

See.....before twi had any clout to throw around, the early grads of wierwille's classes

just quit coming around. No big deal. No labels. No exodus.

I remember in the mid-70s when we referred to twi as "a revolving door."

Lots of folks came thru....and OUT....within the week.

We witnessed. A few came and gave a look around and LEFT.

It has ALWAYS been this way.

Those rural German farmers and neighbors in Ohio were not easily fooled.

No wonder mr. wierwille spoke of them with disdain.

[waysider]

"....an exodus of 2"

Sounds more like an escape.