Thread: What A Mess This Has Turned Into

I was a transfer from GW into PIPS. I attended the first convention in Malaysia. The reason I went was because of Bryan Marsden and what he wanted the members to achieve through PIPS. He wanted us all to experience a better life and help those we love to have a better life also. I still believe Bryan wanted to help as many people as he could.

I also attended the convention in Hawaii. I made that trip of course to see a beautiful part of my country, but also to show my continued support for PIPS and Bryans vision. Even though the WD situation continued to plague the company and its membership, I still believed that Bryan and the PIPS staff would get things headed into the right direction. I still believed that Bryan's vision of helping those less fortunate was strong and this awesome opportunity would emerge from the storm of WD problems.

I also traveled to Vegas and St Louis to show my support and to keep up as close as possible on the news about PIPS. Of course at those 2 meetings during Bryan's world tour...everything was still steaming right along. My PIPS world was perfect.

I would be the first to admit that Bryan has never been the greatest at public relations. His release of updates with real usable information has always been few and far between. Trying to put a timeframe to his use of the word soon has always been difficult at best and impossible at worse. However, up until early 2005, everything the man ever said that would happen had always seemed to come to be.

While I am still not entirely clear on what happened between PIPS and HSBC, any further explaination of what has transpired since and the reasons for delayed payments and such have been as far as I am concerned......very sketchy at best. I have, as time has passed, come to believe that Bryan has avoided telling the very membership that willingly continued to send his company money and support his so called vision, any acceptible level of truth.

I do think that had he been up front with the problems that plagued PIPS ability to fill WD request, he could have possibly avoided to a great extent the situation that we are all in now and that he and Sharon are having to live with.

My hope that somehow PIPS can be revived in some type of restructured program fades with each passing day and week. I still try to continue and hold on to a little ray of hope that things can be turned around. I don't see where arguing between members no matter if you still believe or not helps anyones situation.

I will say this in closing....there was a time when Bryan and PIPS allowed me to enjoy life to its very fullest. I met new friends that nobody can take away from me. I saw places in this world and experienced culture like I had only dreamed about. My eyes wittnessed smiles from a people I will most likely never see again and I truely believe I saw a small piece of heaven in my own country called Hawaii because of PIPS.

If we have seen PIPS better days and stand before the final curtain that will fall on this program....then so be it. I still thank God for allowing me to have Bryan in my life, if only for a while. I still believe his intentions were always for the good and that somehow, for some reason beyond his control even, that events happened that changed the course that he had hoped this company and its members would take.

Hold on to the friends you have made through PIPS. Never let the light burn out on hope completely. Yet in so doing, we all have to keep our feet planted in reality and except whatever the future brings us as far as PIPS is concerned.

Jeff

A Reflection....

The Power of Love Among People - "Twenty Special Secrets"
(From "Mystic Path to Cosmic Power" by Vernon Howard)

1. When two people meet, the prize always goes to the one with the most self-insight. He will be calmer, more confident, more at ease with the other.

2. Never permit the behavior of other people to tell you how to feel.

3. Pay little attention to what people say or do. Instead, try to see their innermost motive for speaking and acting. (Now, apply this very same rule to yourself and you become an enlightened person!)

4. Any friendship requiring the submission of your original nature and dignity to another person is all wrong.

5. Mystically speaking, there is no difference between you and another person. This is why we cannot hurt another without hurting ourselves, nor help another without helping ourselves.

6. When we are free of all unnecessary desires toward other people, we can never be deceived or hurt.

7. You take a giant step toward psychological maturity when you refuse to angrily defend yourself against unjust slander. For one thing, resistance disturbs your own peace of mind.

8. You understand others to the exact degree that you really understand yourself. Work for more self-knowledge.

9. Do not be afraid to fully experience everything that happens to you in your human relations, especially the pains and disappointments. Do this, and everything becomes clear at last.

10. The individual who really knows what it means to love has no anxiety when his love is unseen and rejected.

11. If you painfully lose a valuable friend, do not rush out at once for a replacement. Such action prevents you from examining your heartache and breaking free of it.

12. Do not be afraid to be a nobody in the social world. This is a deeper and richer truth than appears on the surface.

13. Every unpleasant experience with another person is an opportunity to see people as they are, not as we mistakenly idealize them. The more unpleasant the other person is, the more he can teach you.

14. You can be so wonderfully free from a sense of injury and injustice that you are surprised when you hear others complain of them.

15. We cannot recognize a virtue in another person that we do not possess in ourselves. It takes a truly loving and patient person to recognize those virtues in another.

16. Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

17. There are parts of you that want the loving life and parts that do not. Place yourself on the side of your positive forces; do all you can to aid and encourage them.

18. You must stop living so timidly, from fixed fears of what others will think of you and of what you will think of yourself.

19. Do not contrive to be a loving person; work to be a real person. Being real is being loving.

20. The greatest love you could ever offer to another is to so transform your inner life that others are attracted to your genuine example of goodness.

Peace to all,

Larry

Originally Posted by PIPSBeliever

I was a transfer from GW into PIPS. I attended the first convention in Malaysia. The reason I went was because of Bryan Marsden and what he wanted the members to achieve through PIPS. He wanted us all to experience a better life and help those we love to have a better life also. I still believe Bryan wanted to help as many people as he could.

I also attended the convention in Hawaii. I made that trip of course to see a beautiful part of my country, but also to show my continued support for PIPS and Bryans vision. Even though the WD situation continued to plague the company and its membership, I still believed that Bryan and the PIPS staff would get things headed into the right direction. I still believed that Bryan's vision of helping those less fortunate was strong and this awesome opportunity would emerge from the storm of WD problems.

I also traveled to Vegas and St Louis to show my support and to keep up as close as possible on the news about PIPS. Of course at those 2 meetings during Bryan's world tour...everything was still steaming right along. My PIPS world was perfect.

I would be the first to admit that Bryan has never been the greatest at public relations. His release of updates with real usable information has always been few and far between. Trying to put a timeframe to his use of the word soon has always been difficult at best and impossible at worse. However, up until early 2005, everything the man ever said that would happen had always seemed to come to be.

While I am still not entirely clear on what happened between PIPS and HSBC, any further explaination of what has transpired since and the reasons for delayed payments and such have been as far as I am concerned......very sketchy at best. I have, as time has passed, come to believe that Bryan has avoided telling the very membership that willingly continued to send his company money and support his so called vision, any acceptible level of truth.

I do think that had he been up front with the problems that plagued PIPS ability to fill WD request, he could have possibly avoided to a great extent the situation that we are all in now and that he and Sharon are having to live with.

My hope that somehow PIPS can be revived in some type of restructured program fades with each passing day and week. I still try to continue and hold on to a little ray of hope that things can be turned around. I don't see where arguing between members no matter if you still believe or not helps anyones situation.

I will say this in closing....there was a time when Bryan and PIPS allowed me to enjoy life to its very fullest. I met new friends that nobody can take away from me. I saw places in this world and experienced culture like I had only dreamed about. My eyes wittnessed smiles from a people I will most likely never see again and I truely believe I saw a small piece of heaven in my own country called Hawaii because of PIPS.

If we have seen PIPS better days and stand before the final curtain that will fall on this program....then so be it. I still thank God for allowing me to have Bryan in my life, if only for a while. I still believe his intentions were always for the good and that somehow, for some reason beyond his control even, that events happened that changed the course that he had hoped this company and its members would take.

Hold on to the friends you have made through PIPS. Never let the light burn out on hope completely. Yet in so doing, we all have to keep our feet planted in reality and except whatever the future brings us as far as PIPS is concerned.

Jeff

Your heart is in the right place my friend!...but you are definately having a small fight with your brain!...

It never stops amazing me that PIPS is still such a wishful thinking (almost like a drug) phenomenon that keep drawing the cheerleaders and dreamers to the well!...sorry guys and girls but the well is completely emty and dry!

hine

Originally Posted by hine

Your heart is in the right place my friend!...but you are definately having a small fight with your brain!...

It never stops amazing me that PIPS is still such a wishful thinking (almost like a drug) phenomenon that keep drawing the cheerleaders and dreamers to the well!...sorry guys and girls but the well is completely emty and dry!

hine

Hine, why don't you go swim with sharks you might get lucky.

You are lost soul anyway.

Originally Posted by PIPSBeliever

I was a transfer from GW into PIPS. I attended the first convention in Malaysia. The reason I went was because of Bryan Marsden and what he wanted the members to achieve through PIPS. He wanted us all to experience a better life and help those we love to have a better life also. I still believe Bryan wanted to help as many people as he could.

I also attended the convention in Hawaii. I made that trip of course to see a beautiful part of my country, but also to show my continued support for PIPS and Bryans vision. Even though the WD situation continued to plague the company and its membership, I still believed that Bryan and the PIPS staff would get things headed into the right direction. I still believed that Bryan's vision of helping those less fortunate was strong and this awesome opportunity would emerge from the storm of WD problems.

I also traveled to Vegas and St Louis to show my support and to keep up as close as possible on the news about PIPS. Of course at those 2 meetings during Bryan's world tour...everything was still steaming right along. My PIPS world was perfect.

I would be the first to admit that Bryan has never been the greatest at public relations. His release of updates with real usable information has always been few and far between. Trying to put a timeframe to his use of the word soon has always been difficult at best and impossible at worse. However, up until early 2005, everything the man ever said that would happen had always seemed to come to be.

While I am still not entirely clear on what happened between PIPS and HSBC, any further explaination of what has transpired since and the reasons for delayed payments and such have been as far as I am concerned......very sketchy at best. I have, as time has passed, come to believe that Bryan has avoided telling the very membership that willingly continued to send his company money and support his so called vision, any acceptible level of truth.

I do think that had he been up front with the problems that plagued PIPS ability to fill WD request, he could have possibly avoided to a great extent the situation that we are all in now and that he and Sharon are having to live with.

My hope that somehow PIPS can be revived in some type of restructured program fades with each passing day and week. I still try to continue and hold on to a little ray of hope that things can be turned around. I don't see where arguing between members no matter if you still believe or not helps anyones situation.

I will say this in closing....there was a time when Bryan and PIPS allowed me to enjoy life to its very fullest. I met new friends that nobody can take away from me. I saw places in this world and experienced culture like I had only dreamed about. My eyes wittnessed smiles from a people I will most likely never see again and I truely believe I saw a small piece of heaven in my own country called Hawaii because of PIPS.

If we have seen PIPS better days and stand before the final curtain that will fall on this program....then so be it. I still thank God for allowing me to have Bryan in my life, if only for a while. I still believe his intentions were always for the good and that somehow, for some reason beyond his control even, that events happened that changed the course that he had hoped this company and its members would take.

Hold on to the friends you have made through PIPS. Never let the light burn out on hope completely. Yet in so doing, we all have to keep our feet planted in reality and except whatever the future brings us as far as PIPS is concerned.

Jeff

Thank you for sharing Jeff. That was wonderfull

Originally Posted by hine

Your heart is in the right place my friend!...but you are definately having a small fight with your brain!...

It never stops amazing me that PIPS is still such a wishful thinking (almost like a drug) phenomenon that keep drawing the cheerleaders and dreamers to the well!...sorry guys and girls but the well is completely emty and dry!

hine

hine,
it seems to me that you missed his point entirely....

BigDog, I for one am impressed by your genuine example of goodness.

Thank you for the post.

Debbie

Originally Posted by newlife

Hine, why don't you go swim with sharks you might get lucky.

You are lost soul anyway.

OH MY GOD

Great post Jeff, and I agree, I made many new friends which I will treasure forever, and memories that will last forever, and as for the money, who cares, win some lose some, but like you said, friends and memories are forever. (g)

Good luck to all, Mike

What is life without some degree of hope? Regardless if others consider it foolish or sincere, what we believe is ours to own, and doesn't need to be proven by anyone.

Thanks for your post Jeff.

wishing us all success,

harrisomi

Originally Posted by harrisomi

What is life without some degree of hope? Regardless if others consider it foolish or sincere, what we believe is ours to own, and doesn't need to be proven by anyone.

Thanks for your post Jeff.

wishing us all success,

harrisomi

Ditto. Things are going to get better (and more civil) soon.