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ZNPaaneah · 03-31-2012, 09:13 AM

Don't think that they "maintain constant and continual efforts to inoculate their members from this truth" to protect the reputation of WL. He is dead. They are protecting their own reputation. That is proof positive they know what they have done.

I went to school with KR, there is no way he didn't know that what he was writing was a whitewash. I know him well enough to know the issue is not sloppy scholarship, on the contrary, his issue is the willingness to do a hatchet job that he knew was a hatchet job.

I served under RG for years. He was meticulous about maintaining the testimony concerning brothers and sisters. Everything that was run in both Houston and Irving he was very careful to make sure there was no appearance of evil and he preached on this. He knew what PL's sins were, he knew the danger to the ministry, and had it been anyone else he would have been at the forefront of any discipline being handed out. What RG and BP did was clearly to use this as an opportunity to seize control of the LSM. The hypocrisy of this action is so bizarre as to only be described as a knife in the back of JI, etal.

Why would brothers (RG and BP) who had always been so careful for the testimony all of a sudden push a lecher like PL as someone for the elders to submit to? This goes beyond RG's obsession with all things WL. The simplest answer is that with them in charge of the LSM this would broaden their power base. They used extortion to sell books, and they let PL be the "bad man".

To my impression the whole "using footnotes for testimonies" started with EM. In the very small fishbowl that I grew up in (Houston and Irving) he was the one that excelled the most at it. I believe this is how he got RG's attention, this is why he was made an elder of Anaheim, and this was a critical part of RG's strategy to make LSM vital. I think you can sum up RG's entire strategy in his pet phrase for the RcV of the NT, he called them "gold bars". Create an LRC in which every member has to have this version, the only way to do that is to emphasize the footnotes until they are an essential part of the meetings, then sell tens of thousands of these gold bars at $45 to $90 each. Make them with and without footnotes, NT and whole Bible.

03-31-2012, 09:13 AM	#9
ZNPaaneah Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 7,105	Re: Evil Speaking of a "Deputy Authority" Don't think that they "maintain constant and continual efforts to inoculate their members from this truth" to protect the reputation of WL. He is dead. They are protecting their own reputation. That is proof positive they know what they have done. I went to school with KR, there is no way he didn't know that what he was writing was a whitewash. I know him well enough to know the issue is not sloppy scholarship, on the contrary, his issue is the willingness to do a hatchet job that he knew was a hatchet job. I served under RG for years. He was meticulous about maintaining the testimony concerning brothers and sisters. Everything that was run in both Houston and Irving he was very careful to make sure there was no appearance of evil and he preached on this. He knew what PL's sins were, he knew the danger to the ministry, and had it been anyone else he would have been at the forefront of any discipline being handed out. What RG and BP did was clearly to use this as an opportunity to seize control of the LSM. The hypocrisy of this action is so bizarre as to only be described as a knife in the back of JI, etal. Why would brothers (RG and BP) who had always been so careful for the testimony all of a sudden push a lecher like PL as someone for the elders to submit to? This goes beyond RG's obsession with all things WL. The simplest answer is that with them in charge of the LSM this would broaden their power base. They used extortion to sell books, and they let PL be the "bad man". To my impression the whole "using footnotes for testimonies" started with EM. In the very small fishbowl that I grew up in (Houston and Irving) he was the one that excelled the most at it. I believe this is how he got RG's attention, this is why he was made an elder of Anaheim, and this was a critical part of RG's strategy to make LSM vital. I think you can sum up RG's entire strategy in his pet phrase for the RcV of the NT, he called them "gold bars". Create an LRC in which every member has to have this version, the only way to do that is to emphasize the footnotes until they are an essential part of the meetings, then sell tens of thousands of these gold bars at $45 to $90 each. Make them with and without footnotes, NT and whole Bible.