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Originally Posted by Lisbon
Praise The Lord Bro Steven!
I came out of the LC just over two years ago after a very long stay.
My trek started with Day Star. I gave them 1000 dollars and quite promptly lost it. As I look back, the worst thing about that fiasco was being told by some young ones,"we are going to fleece Egypt." That didn't sound right to me but...
Of course we didn't. We were the ones who got fleeced.
Bro Lee felt so bad about the Day Star losses that they tried to sell tennis rackets. I only lost 250 there.
But then they found the goose that laid the golden egg, charge the saints to hear you speak. One to two million a year without a down year. I never heard whose idea that was but he certainly should have been made CEO.
Then came the Jane Anderson fiasco which was kept very quiet in DFW. One thing the leadership did well was cover up.
In the mid 80s Bro Lee began speaking on the Psalms. He read the first Psalm and curled up his mouth at the end asking "Does that sound like God's economy?
Where we were in our rational I don't know but we just roared with laughter.
A little later came the Ben M affair. JA knows well about this and when I called I was told it was handled in fellowship. Really? I heard what happened from DR and surely it's not printable here but it just adds to all the cover up of the LC.
The fiasco at the church in Anaheim in late 80s was a crowning blow to me. After immoral conduct in the leadership of LSM and bullying by the leadership the hierarchy covered it all up in such a way which could only be categorized as lying. I heard a PBS commentator speak of Bill Clinton's immoral problems while president "He'll come out smelling like a rose." So sad the two cases would be so similar.
The Rosemead affair was more blatant bullying and then covered up to declare to all the world, "We are really one." The world of course doesn't know that we are one or conveniently disposed of.
Admittedly I did not hear most of the above at the time of the happening but...
When jim Moran died the red flags really went off. I didn't know Moran at all but was told that he had published hurtful words about the LC. His death was told with glee. The Church in Fullerton knowing somehow that he died intestate rushed in, bought his web site and closed it down. How happy we were. That was the beginning of my end. It was quite a while ago but in my 80s I move a little slowly.
The quarantines of the GLA area was so distasteful. No hierarchy? You must be joking
Lisbon
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Yes, the cover ups and commercial dealings were pretty shady. I heard the recording of the phone conversation on Overseas Stewards something or rather.