Doug Krieger testimony

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Originally Posted by awareness

Ever since Doug claimed he started the c. in Santa Cruz, I've kept up with him. I didn't know him in the LC, I just heard he was running in the upper circle in L.A.

What I've found from dogging him is that he's got a salesman personality, with a pitch. Y'all know how embellished pitches by marketeers can be.

He thinks a lot of himself. BTW, he has books on Amazon, about Bible prophecy. If you ask me, as far as I see, he's got a bad case of The Jerusalem Syndrome.

It's on the web that he's branded as a terrorist for funding an attempt to blow up the Temple Mount.

Actually, the salesman part would seem to have merit. The brother who emailed me talked about some diamond mine thing Doug got them into. He said, "Needless to say, it didn't work out" since the emailing bro is not exactly rich now.

He did seem to like Doug, however (of course, a good salesman is likable). He has a story about them riding around after Doug got his "discharge papers" and I've asked if I could reprint it here - quite the hoot!

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

Actually, the salesman part would seem to have merit. The brother who emailed me talked about some diamond mine thing Doug got them into. He said, "Needless to say, it didn't work out" since the emailing bro is not exactly rich now.

He did seem to like Doug, however (of course, a good salesman is likable). He has a story about them riding around after Doug got his "discharge papers" and I've asked if I could reprint it here - quite the hoot!

His attempt to blow up the temple mount was because he had more money than brains.

And he obviously believes in the Cargo Cult method of bringing the Lord back ; in that, he believes if he can set things up just right, God will send the cargo ... and the Lord will come back.

Personally I don't think it works that way. He prolly got it from Witness Lee, who also believed in the Cargo Cult method, in the form of The Recovery, that was going to set things up just right for the Lord -- the cargo -- to be sent by God.

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So I got permission to post his email, from the local bro who replied to me about Doug - here 'tis.

Doug K, was such a favorite of W.L.. in the up to the mid-70's. The Golden boy even. He was in and among so many groups that eventually found their way into the LC, especially the "Seal Beach" group that eventually went to San Jose.

We had him in our home in LA, with a large group of new folks that he had brought in. He had no cares about the house - things were a mess when he left.

He and another brother, I had mentioned before, had gotten into an Investment Diamond Firm '77 '78. So they contacted Gene Ford and invited him, and thru Gene invited me, to come to LA to learn the business. (Big story, have to tell you some time.) BTW, if you hadn't noticed by now: IT DIDN'T WORK OUT!

What Fun! You should have seen this large group of brothers, at midnight, after having a very nice meal at a very nice place, (having been expelled from LC), Pipe smoking, shouting, crossing Wilshire Blvd (LA), at midnight. Shouting: "B.S." "B.S" over and over again. Not something we would have stood and shouted at the testimony time in the L.C. RECKON?

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And here's what the same local brother said after reading the Doug K piece (I sent him) that started off this thread:

Wow,wow, wow wow wow wow!

Man, I was a naivete. What a mess! I knew something was "out of wack" in the early 70's while in San Jose. Everybody else was going along with what was going on, and were as "happy and elated as an idiot at a street carnival."

The winter conference of 1974, W.L. said: "As long as you have the grace to stand, you stand". As long as you have the grace to walk, you walk. But when the grace to stand leaves, you leave, when the grace to walk goes, you go!"

I said "Thank you bro Lee, I am outa here" and by Feb and March of 75 I was. In January of 75 I tried to gain permission to move to Moses Lake, where Gene Ford ended up. I was "throttled" - NO! Then I sought permission to go to Albuquerque, and was again denied. But I KEPT UP the effort and finally John Ingalls relented and said ok. I thought things would be as I had remembered them in 1973 in Abq, but Abq was "soiled" by that time too, however I didn't know it. So they let me move, but kept a strong eye on me. Eventually, by October of 1975, I was clear. I left, and did not ever return.

I was saved from the "sewer" of all that so many others got dragged thru. Praise God for our human spirit.

Thanks for the [Doug K] article.

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

And here's what the same local brother said after reading the Doug K piece (I sent him) that started off this thread:

I'm curious, what happened in Abq? My family was there summer 73-to end of 75. I was only 6-8 years old at the time.

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Originally Posted by Terry

I'm curious, what happened in Abq? My family was there summer 73-to end of 75. I was only 6-8 years old at the time.

I don't know. I'll ask my buddy regarding details.

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Here what my local person had to say about Albuquerque:

I don't know anything about what happened in Abq in '75. We got back there in late Feb. early March. I know the Texas "bros", had been there, which I saw had established Abq in Living Stream establishment. Fully "ensconced" there in.

I am having such a hard time to see such awful depraved doings by WL and company. All the back stabbing, etc. [My wife] and I were talking about it, we were both so Naive, had no idea of the "depths of Satan". I just knew the "hero" worship of WL was not of God, so how could I be a part of it?! No telling what I would have done, had I known the "depths of Satan" going on. Texas guys were saying: "We will follow WL off a cliff," and I said "Not me"!

Aren't you glad we are so gone gone gone?

[JJ]

Doug Krieger spoke and sold books at a conference in Sacramento early this year involving Henry Hon and several other Christian speakers. Here is a link to his authors page at Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B00...KindleDbs=true

He also spoke at a conference in Denver and was videod https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cc-pULVULhs
This is just as an update on his current status, not a recommendation to read or not (I haven’t bought or read his books nor heard enough of his speaking to form a recommendation.