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Originally Posted by Trapped
You are skilled at avoiding truths you don't like. But unfortunately you are the one who is bearing the negative impact of that avoidance.
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Stg says that we're categorizing him, and perhaps so, but the impression is of promoting vague "riches" and then declining to discuss. And perhaps we paint broad-brush but the similarities with the LC are there. Whenever one notes the unpleasant realities of what life on the ground, the answer is, "I just want to be positive" or "I don't have a heart" "I'm just here for God's economy" etc. (Think of RK's quote, when the Santa Ana newspaper reporter asked about Philip Lee)
This selective participation is instructive for showing avoidance patterns we remember well. And
Stg's nicer about evading discussion than others have been. One one website, I was told that my heart was dark, that I'd had ambitions thwarted and was now throwing sour grapes. And when I showed LC teaching having contradictions on this forum, one poster replied that I was just confused, without actually addressing my points or the scriptures.
But did the writer quoted in #368 have ambition thwarted, or were they merely done with the manipulation and abuse? It seems the latter. And she didn't get poisoned by this forum because she left at 18 and is now 43. No, she made her remarks after two decades of close personal observation of LC "experience" and "enjoyment''.
Trapped is likewise connecting disjointed teaching with what's happened as a result. And I repeat that one can't tout the "rich Christ" of Bill Freeman without including Patsy Freeman's machinations. One can't retreat to some supposedly safe and clean abstraction, far away (one hopes) from the miseries on the ground that followed as it got practiced, promoted, and even enforced via shaming.