Aude_Sapere,
My mom started auxillary pioneering 2 weeks after my cancer diagnosis. ... She was always too busy to even call to see how I was doing. Had to help her study take care of husband with cancer. ... Made me quite angry. Angry with the elders in her cong too for holding her up as an example of righteous integrity and charactor.
That's horrific! Yuck, talk about WT corban! (Mark 7.9-13) I think this story deserves a thread on its own. It happened about seven years ago, I hope now you've at least partially recovered from your grave illness.
ozziepost,
Come to think of it, for the past several years that's all the elders have been using it for - the 80 questions.
Bingo! Nobody reads the OM book after all.
met,
They CAN ERODE established doctrine .. but not establish new major "truths" in their place.
An outstanding summary of what constitutes New Light TM nowadays. Nobody has the political weight to come up with something really new like in the past. They have been making changes almost exclusively from definite positions to less specific ones, like the identification of the King of the North or UN's role in attacking "God's people." Truly an erosion! It is a picture much farther from a "light that is getting lighter and lighter," which, if applied to religious knowledge, implies moving to a more precise doctrinal position.
In fact, what happened in the early eighties keeps them stuck from making obvious and necessary changes, because of their Jaraczian motto:
'We don't want another Ray, do we?'
Neo