Sisters of the Rebellion

Ohio · 12-19-2011, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Terry

I am still trying to grasp this concept. How is it Jane is being held accountable? I've never met in Houston nor have I met any of the individuals involved. More I think about this episode and the more I think of BP's unwillingness to meet with the John and Jane (Russia is just an excuse), the more I think pride as an obstacle. I've heard different LC elders talk about being one. Cannot happen while pride is present. Hypothetically one could say, "you need to be one with the brothers". Hypothetically I'll say, "the brothers need to be one with you". To be one doesn't flow in just one direction. It is a two way stream. It flows upstream as it flows downstream.

It seems this whole sad episode started as just a case of BP trying to be "one" with WL, but in actuality BP merely became a second hand copycat via distorted information obtained from PL. As Sandee Rapoport has recorded, BP did not even get his facts straight on pending action in Anaheim because it passed thru the dirty hands of PL.

How Thankful Jane gets blamed for Steve Smith's tearful breakdown is also fallout from this pitiful act of "copycat oneness." WL was about to "deal" with a supposed sisters' rebellion in Anaheim, which in reality was concocted in order to retaliate for Max rebuking PL for his immorality at the LSM offices. PL then relayed to BP that his daddy was about to render justice upon those three "holy sisters," one of whom was Sandee R.

BP guessed there was some connection, and since he was only acting like his mentor, any discipline BP meted out in TX must also be, by definition, the right course of action. Since a "proper" Recovery leader like Steve Smith would never "breakdown" in tears in front of sisters, what happened to him must then be the result of this suspected "rebellion." That was all the "proof" that BP needed.

In 2005, when Jane's book was published, that was just "further confirmation" that BP's actions in 1977 were "correct," as he himself has said.

Maybe I'm wrong. I'll let the Andersons weigh in on this.