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Originally Posted by Freedom
The thing that is interesting about the DCP is just how much material they create with an LC member audience in mind. Presumably, an organization that is supposed to be defending the teachings of WL wouldn't need that much interaction with members who are supposed to already be sold on the teachings they follow. So once you delve into things a little bit deeper it becomes apparent that so much material is nothing more than propaganda. All the talk of 'inoculation' or addressing "competing ministries" have nothing to do with defending WL's teachings. An objective person doesn't need to be 'inoculated' from anything. As has been mentioned, that kind of talk is coded language.
What it really seems is at the heart of the issue is member retention. When you look how easily LC members can develop concerns or 'disappear', it makes sense why they want to reverse that. But as we know, they are unable to address the underlying factors related to that. Thus, their only strategy has been to limit the information available and hope that it works. The strategy does work on some people, I think that it worked on me for a while, at least in the sense that I had no desire to consider anything 'negative' that had been written about the LC. Eventually what changed my mind was not being conceived of anything, it was having certain experiences that were too troubling to ignore. People’s own experiences are what really serves as a direct contradiction to all the propaganda that comes out of the DCP. That’s why I don't worry too much about what the DCP is up to. They aren't fooling anyone but themselves.
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For years I shook my head in awe that consecrated members of the LC's could so easily be "poisoned." Is their faith that vulnerable? Was their character that unstable? What could possibly cause these ones to flip-flop almost overnight?
Eventually I learned for myself why and how so many saints got "poisoned" so quickly. It was simple. As long as Lee and LSM kept Pandora's Box under lock and key, all was well. That's because Lee and LSM have a public and private persona. The private side has all sorts of rotten things hidden away, that they want no one to see, least of which are their loyal members. As long as the box stayed locked, even if the stench within leaked out, they could always blame it on "persecution" by those evil "denominations." For years this was pretty effective.
But once the box was cracked open, and the light could shine within, the door was open to all the lies and corruptions within. Before Al Gore invented the internet, this job was a whole lot easier for them, but now the job of keeping the door shut is well nigh impossible. Even a seasoned legal defense team can't keep the door shut.