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Originally Posted by Nell
There have been 7,956 views on this thread! That means 15,912 ears. No ears shut here!
It looks like the ears have it!
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Not a very relevant comparison. You first have to consider that everyone that posted here has probably viewed more times than they posted. And those that are viewing are often the same ones coming back day after day to see where it is going. The thread has been active for about 16 days. I know I came back in to see it multiple times on some days. While not necessarily a good assumption, if everyone viewed it once each day, then there are only 497 separate people. Now there are 23 that I quickly counted as contributing to this thread. Many of these viewed 2 or more times on many days. The number of separate persons shrinks.
I’m not discounting that people see the words. I’m not even discounting the significance of the actual number of people who have observed, whether it was in the earliest days when we were discussing the bad fruit, or subsequently when we began trying to prove through faulty logic that Don was full of wind and beer, or after that was shown to be a fallacy, when the idolatry thing came up.
But what gets through the gatekeeper of the mind is not identified by “hits” on a thread. The hits have been on this thread because for a few days it virtually took over the activity of the part of the 23 that were actually posting. The rest of the forum went silent. So if you were someone who occasionally came to this forum to see what was going on, the only significant activity is here, so you looked. What did you see? A few people broad-brushing the entirety of the LC as idolatrous and saying that was the reason that any of the second generation of the LC was less than perfect. Even if there was some basis for a charge of idolatry in some circumstances, by getting out a large crew with spray paint guns to cover the whole of LC existence even the legitimate cases get ignored as they laugh their way back to “afaithfulword.org.”
The point is not how many see the words. It is the number that will have ears to hear. And if what we are saying is too obtuse, they won't even consider them as worthy of "hearing." This particular rabbit trail has wasted the energies of several very good resources in the efforts to make meaningful dialog concerning the LC that might have a hope of making a difference. You are among that group. Very good discussions could be engaged concerning the various writings of Nigel or others that keep putting weight of evidence after weight of evidence that there is something systemically wrong with the LC. Or engage in one of the Apologetics discussions where Lee’s teachings are stacked up against scripture.