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Originally Posted by aron
In some ways I've used this forum for similar purposes as WL did with the LR. I use it as a sounding board for my ideas. However, I'm not the MOTA, and my ideas get pruned by others, or ignored, or even - gasp - rejected.
But every now and then I may say something useful, or helpful to others, and that is worth it.
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Yes, that's the way it's supposed to work. The beauty of it is that if we all are faithful to follow the Lord, then he will tell each of us when someone is speaking the truth. Yet we are all free. No one is controlling.
God never says, "This person is my mouthpiece. Never contradict anything he speaks and always do what he says and I will reward you greatly!" That's the stupidest thing ever, a guaranteed disaster sooner or later.
But that's how the LR thinks. The insidiousness of it is that once you let that hook get planted in your mind, its hard to free yourself from it, because it is self-reinforcing. It's like one of those traps in which the more you struggle the tighter it gets. The more you question it the more it condemns you. It defies all reason to the contrary. People succumb to it out of exhaustion and fear.
If you just think about that one idea, grasp it, you have the LR dilemma in a nutshell.