round and round the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasel

-all-seeing Eye by Ch. Sindelar

1)   from the section “Infractions and Due Process” in Building a New Culture which Mother advocated:   "Notice of an alleged infraction; An opportunity to be heard; A distinction between major and minor infractions; Counseling and support (for all parties); A fact-finding process whereby relevant information related to all sides of the issue will be gathered and evaluated; Confidentiality; A prompt and impartial review by a panel of appointed Church representatives unconnected to the people or issues involved."   ~1998.       

   The RTR administration got rid of due process of the law for this activity in 2004.  -r

 

2)  Our Spiritual Community has suffered because too few have stood up to challenge abuses of power, while scenario after scenario of abuses have played out. 

  Our Spiritual Community has suffered because there appears little will or desire within the closed circle of Church leadership to do anything other than offer polished legal self-justifications --in the place of open, genuine, and honest communication that comes from the heart. 

  Our Spiritual Community has suffered because there are circles of idolaters within the community who go to great lengths to manage and justify HQ's reaction to every situation that comes up. They argue peace when there is no peace. They fear that a divisive Truth will splinter or divide the Community. 

  Our Spiritual Community has suffered because there is cowardice within this community. Individuals sidestep the initiations right [in] front of them, in silence.       -Raymond Ziemkowski, Los Angeles, December 19, 2003 email 

 

3)  Recent events involving the removal of five Moscow study group trustees are symptomatic of a deeper problem in the activity.  One of the biggest problems I see is that people have forgotten to follow their hearts.  I'm really not sure that the leadership knew the long-term effect of what they did.  They were thinking like a bunch of Americans.   -Dannion Brinkley:  Jan. 2004 email

 

4)   Then there is the stance that the Church should well protect itself IN ALL CASES, PERIOD.  This is not the purple-&-gold flame of justice, in action & thought.  This is total buffer-zoning a church & its supposed "sacred" staff, which attitude certainly has many many limits & problems in caring (sic.--should read "carrying") that attitude forth, as we are seeing today.
  Now I do not say the Church staff is secular & tainted, I merely say plainly that one can not axiomatically make Church staff "ever hallowed", for that is idolatry & foolishness- -in the scales of justice we all are weighed in a very equal & profound way, of course.   -r, 2-5-04 email

 

5)   Dissecting the mistakes and shortcomings of one's spouse, in public, ongoingly, on the door of the Wittenberg cathedral (Luther), on the internet, on whatever public forum, does not result in happy matrimony.  Mother has said that headquarters and the field are in an Alpha/Omega relationship.  -Alethea, 2-10-04 email to r.    

 --Now I think that a happy matrimony is not as important as a real/honest one.  -r, 5-1-07 

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-weasel