“The supplementary strategy used to revitalize the group’s millennial hopes was the projection of unfulfilled portions of prior prophecies into the future through the issuance of redated predictions…”
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“You would think the problems would make us hesitate to drag others into our doctrinal chaos and uncertainty. On the contrary, if we can convert more people to the same belief, we prove we were right all along… ignoring the fact that much of what the WCG says is crap.”
The Worldwide church of God attempted to annihilate peoples personality, individuality, will, and character. The stranded souls that hitched their wagon to this organization unknowingly supported a power-hungry pharisaic and fastuous authoritative cult leader and his son, Garner Ted Armstrong. For all the alarums and excursions, the fact remains that without knowing it, we nurtured these two ungrateful incubi's. For that I can only ask for forgiveness.
After my WCG experience, I went to college to educate myself so I would have a greater understanding of the world about me and to understand why I ever fell for HWA's scam religion. This lead me to the conclusion that the appropriate action to take, in my judgment, is to provide people with opportunities to learn, develop, and exercise their potential as human beings, by freeing them from men who exploit and abuse them. This website and others are my vehicle to do just that.
I suppose it’s obvious to everyone from the context that in the first line of page 46 “fourteenth chapter” should be “fourteen century”.
Displayed it the way I got it.
Aren’t computers wonderful? This manuscript was from the ’70s. You can bet that it was hand typed probably by Orlin himself, or perhaps by his wife!
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In this case, you’re saying WYSIWIG is What you see is what I got.
Do you know who made the notes, underlines and highlights on the pages?
Those notes may have been from Linda Stuhlman from the Exit Support Network. The copies you are reading were made for Jim Baldwin.
The highlighted parts were most likely done by Jim.