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With all the new crazy self-appointed Chief Overseers, Apostles, Prophets, Pharisees, legalists, and outright liars leading various Churches of God today, it is important to hold these agents of deception accountable.
Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web of Corrupt Leaders
Many years ago when I read some of the articles on the COGWriter site, I was impressed, and Bob had my respect. But then came all his claims and child like reasoning about being a prophet. My opinion of him went down the toilet bowl. It makes you wonder how many people are there with legitimate doctorates, yet are in fact knuckle heads.
I have a theory. And I first witnessed it in a secular environment.
There can be an individual who is successful in corporate Americana partially because of his own talents, and partially because of the training and restraints which the corporation to whom he or she is responsible places upon members of their work force. Then, for one reason or another, that individual either resigns or is let go, and starts his own operation. Gradually, once free of the restraints, real self emerges, and it isn't pretty!
Traits such as ego, greed, questionable or actual full-blown criminal propensities, extreme views, racism, homophobia, paranoia, the inner bully or tyrant, misogyny, unrestrained temper, slovenliness, uncurbed sexual activity, poor grooming, excessive partying, substance abuse and dangerous hobbies are just a few of the activities, or in some cases pathologies, which come to the forefront. The harness which made these individuals more effective is figuratively hanging on the wall of the barn, and the horse has gone feral.
If you think about it, it becomes perfectly obvious that in the different personalities we ponder and evaluate here, at some point in time the "real" person came out following their departure from the body which had at one point reigned them in. Even though their previous organization had also been problematic and questionable, it had molded and shaped them, acted as check and balance, and made them more salable. My theory has been axiomatic as it applies not only to Bob Thiel, but also to Ron Weinland, Dave Pack, Gerald Flurry, Don Billingsley, Wade Cox, Rod Meredith, Garner Ted Armstrong, and the guy who started it all, Herbert W. Armstrong. I could also name names from my own secular work experiences, but since nobody here would recognize those names, let's just note that they were present in the embryonic stages of my theory.
I wonder if we here, and our opinions, have some unacknowledged influence on these people. It is certainly possible. They do realize that they are not getting away with anything. In some cases we have become a force to be rebelled against, the enemy to fight. Regardless of our presence, they continue to do their reprehensible deeds. They do not go away. Our testimony is probably most effective in supporting and assisting those who are going away from THEM, their own people who are voting with their butts which no longer warm the seats. That may not reign in the personalities and managerial styles of these "leaders", but it limits their abilities to exploit and enslave the innocents and to ruin their lives. And that's a win!
Considering negatives, you can like someone but not believe them, you can dislike someone but believe them, or you can dislike someone and not believe them.
Bob Thiel evokes the third set of alternatives in most of the people who know about him. If people were mosquitoes, that would be his citronella.
5 comments:
First it was AT&T... now Dr Bob.
Oh, the humanity!
Many years ago when I read some of the articles on the COGWriter site, I was impressed, and Bob had my respect. But then came all his claims and child like reasoning about being a prophet. My opinion of him went down the toilet bowl.
It makes you wonder how many people are there with legitimate doctorates, yet are in fact knuckle heads.
Im writing my congressman. Coinage and currency should now read " IN THIEL WE TRUST" :-)
I have a theory. And I first witnessed it in a secular environment.
There can be an individual who is successful in corporate Americana partially because of his own talents, and partially because of the training and restraints which the corporation to whom he or she is responsible places upon members of their work force. Then, for one reason or another, that individual either resigns or is let go, and starts his own operation. Gradually, once free of the restraints, real self emerges, and it isn't pretty!
Traits such as ego, greed, questionable or actual full-blown criminal propensities, extreme views, racism, homophobia, paranoia, the inner bully or tyrant, misogyny, unrestrained temper, slovenliness, uncurbed sexual activity, poor grooming, excessive partying, substance abuse and dangerous hobbies are just a few of the activities, or in some cases pathologies, which come to the forefront. The harness which made these individuals more effective is figuratively hanging on the wall of the barn, and the horse has gone feral.
If you think about it, it becomes perfectly obvious that in the different personalities we ponder and evaluate here, at some point in time the "real" person came out following their departure from the body which had at one point reigned them in. Even though their previous organization had also been problematic and questionable, it had molded and shaped them, acted as check and balance, and made them more salable. My theory has been axiomatic as it applies not only to Bob Thiel, but also to Ron Weinland, Dave Pack, Gerald Flurry, Don Billingsley, Wade Cox, Rod Meredith, Garner Ted Armstrong, and the guy who started it all, Herbert W. Armstrong. I could also name names from my own secular work experiences, but since nobody here would recognize those names, let's just note that they were present in the embryonic stages of my theory.
I wonder if we here, and our opinions, have some unacknowledged influence on these people. It is certainly possible. They do realize that they are not getting away with anything. In some cases we have become a force to be rebelled against, the enemy to fight. Regardless of our presence, they continue to do their reprehensible deeds. They do not go away. Our testimony is probably most effective in supporting and assisting those who are going away from THEM, their own people who are voting with their butts which no longer warm the seats. That may not reign in the personalities and managerial styles of these "leaders", but it limits their abilities to exploit and enslave the innocents and to ruin their lives. And that's a win!
Considering negatives, you can like someone but not believe them, you can dislike someone but believe them, or you can dislike someone and not believe them.
Bob Thiel evokes the third set of alternatives in most of the people who know about him. If people were mosquitoes, that would be his citronella.
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