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Originally Posted by aron
At that time I was a rank newbie, and I remember thinking how the "saints" let down the "ministry" by not getting out there to sell, sell, sell! Gradually, I realized how dispiriting it was to have these amateurish, marketing "moves from the Lord" continually sweeping through town, each at the latest whim/inspiration of the 'oracle'.
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It is truly amazing how we were all trained to believe that every failure in the Recovery was our fault. Since WL was the "acting God" here on earth, there is absolutely no way in which he could have erred, or even miscalculated the need for "rainbow booklets." Lee was a master at holding all of us in the shackles of fear and failure. Every one of his blunders were held over our heads. Think about how that Daystar debacle ended -- not with repentance or personal bankruptcy, but with those saints believing they had "
lost their virginity."
Personally I can somewhat understand my own naivety. Having gone through 12 years of parochial education, with stints as an altar boy, choir boy, and years of Latin class, not to mention my namesake who was a Catholic priest O.F.M., I suppose those years of indoctrinations concerning the "
infallibility" doctrine had warped what little discernment I had. But what about all those brothers from a fundamental background? At least the Cat'lics limited the papal infallibility matters to "
faith and doctrine." Lee's infallibility also included business transactions.
Btw, those rainbow booklets were just a money making enterprise for LSM. They were just repackaged Life-Studies, which all the saints already owned.