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Originally Posted by Trapped
When you start manhandling such delicate and weighty topics as mental health and marriage, the responsibility for your errors skyrockets because the direct effects are so devastating and long-lasting. It's a sick place.
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It really is sick - the victim-blaming, the gas-lighting, etc. The longer I was in the LC, the more people I saw getting hurt by it. How hard would it be for them to simply distance themselves from some of the things that WL taught? How hard would to be for them to take some of that stuff out of print? Most people in the LC know exactly what WL said. It's insulting to everyone's intelligence for them to write articles about how they've never discouraged people from getting treatment for mental health.
The LC has been around long enough that there has been plenty of opportunity to observe the outcome of these different teachings. Lots of people have had the exact same objections to certain teachings. Likewise there are lots of similar patterns in the ways that people have been hurt by the LC or some of these teachings. The evidence is all there right in front of everyone's eyes.
Whenever anyone calls out LC leadership on these readily-apparent issues, it seems they double down. The LC will accuse people of having certain motives, or claim that they are misinterpreting what WL said (even though he's been dead over 20 years). They're not really fooling anyone besides those who choose to be ignorant.