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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Rod Meredith and the Manpower Papers



Here is something that was conveniently left out of Rod Meredith's recent film about himself.   Why didn't Rod Meredith discuss his participation in the Manpower group at Ambassador College where he maligned, disparaged and ridiculed students every week.  From sex to racist and homophobic comments, accusation of masturbation, students genetic make-up, sex, dating, sex, attitudes, sex, physique, and more sex. Why did the Living Church of God gloss over these qualities of Rod Meredith? Richard Ames knows better!



In 1961 at the behest of the Armstrongs a "manpower committee" comprising 15 of the leading men of Ambassador College (AC) was formed. The noble purpose of this committee was to evaluate AC students-especially male students-and determine whether or not to employ them at AC or in the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) upon graduation. The Manpower Committee, however, quickly degenerated into a high-level gossip session in which a group of corporate misfits combined to destroy the reputation of numerous students whose only offense may have been intellectual resistance to the doctrinal intimidation and personal prejudices of AC/WCG officials while attending to their formal education.

Before any discussion of a student began, his picture was projected onto a screen. Then, as the members of this "spiritual jury" stared at the student's image, each one of them divulged information - often given to them confidentially in private counseling sessions - gathered on the student. This information often included a student's background, racial and genetic heritage, sex and dating problems, attitudes, and physique, in addition to biased personal assessments of a student's potential worth to the organization.

Below Ambassador Report is reprinting a number of statements made in these manpower meetings that aptly illustrate the mentality of the Ambassador College administration in the 1960s. Little if any concrete evidence for the allegations, innuendos, or rumors in the following quotations was ever formally submitted, probably because it never existed. All students were tried in absentia and never given a chance to reply to the biased information disseminated in these meetings that sullied their reputations. Yet the essence of what was said in these meetings was carefully typed and distributed to several leading men at AC in Pasadena, the vice-chancellor of AC's Texas campus, and AC's Personnel Office. (In order to protect the identity and reputation of the students mentioned in the following statements, we will refer to all male students as "X" and to all females students as "Y." We have gone to great lengths to delete anything that we felt could lead to the identification of a student.)

Read the comments Rod Meredith and others made here: Manpower Papers

6 comments:

  1. Another thing that is missing from Meredith's biopic is how he drove one of his church members over the edge causing him to murder several LCG members.Yes, everything is gloriously perfect in Meredithism!

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  2. "Fink" ah ha ha...haven't heard that word since the 60's!

    However, I have examined the picture you posted for this posting and are you trying to be funny Mr. NO2?

    I find myself on that picture from the old Envoy! I see I was rejected by the manpower committee..I wish!!!!

    We'll speak soon of this desecration! :)

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  3. If ever there were an advertisement for "The Lucifer Effect -- Understanding How Good People Turn Evil" by Philip Zimbardo, the analysis of the 1971 Princeton Prison Experiment at Palo Alto, replete with prisoners and guards, the Manpower Papers represents the Ambassador College / WCG Prison Experiment very well.

    Last week I told an ACoG minister about the book and added, "Pasadena deacons". He laughed nervously and edged off.

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  4. Definition of the COG History:

    "One damn thing after another."

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  5. It was either sex problems or demon problems. Could it be that these fuckin' asshole "ministers" actually had these two problems themselves? I'd say a resounding YES!

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