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Originally Posted by aron

Well I'm telling the story because they immediately said that I was dark, and my heart was hard, and that I had come into the LC with ambition but had been thwarted, and now I was trying to tear down the church and so forth. And you know what? Maybe there's some truth there. Maybe I'm just a bitter ex-member who was looking for something other than Christ, i.e. 'my heart was not pure', and now I'm out in the dark making unpleasant noise. Maybe when I ask, "What happened?" that's the real answer.

There was definitely a point of "critical mass" where I transitioned from "something is wrong with me," to "something is seriously wrong with this program." The "treatment" of John Ingalls was critical here. It thoroughly dismantled the fortifications and strongholds surrounding WL. It was no more "he said, he said." There was corruption covered up, and the messenger of righteousness was murdered. But before he died, he wrote down the facts of the story.