Comments on Ambassador Watch: The Angry Armstrong

Connie...it's kind of like driving by a car wr...

2016-02-27T15:57:32.963+13:00

Connie...it's kind of like driving by a car wreck and finding it almost impossible to not want to slow down and crane your neck to see what's happening. Yeah, the Mother Cult's grandbabycogs are growing smaller and smaller, but it's creepily fascinating at times to be tempted to watch the shriveling process.

Personally, my favorite course at University back in the 1970s was "The Social Psychology of Social Movements." And the Armstrong movement has been SUCH a poster child/textbook case for every excruciating detail of what it's like to be a True Believer that it honestly has been fascinating to watch the disintegration take place. My Soc/Psych class was where I first read the books "When Prophecy Fails" (the originator of the term "Cognitive Dissonance") and Eric Hoffer's "True Believer." If one was going to give a Soc/Psych lecture series based on those books now, you wouldn't need to look any farther than the COGs to have every bit of "Case studies" you'd need to illustrate the principles discussed in the books.

"And those derogatives; "homo" and ...

2016-02-27T12:24:22.899+13:00

"And those derogatives; "homo" and "tranny" at the end of your epistle (at first I thought you were referring to old-fashioned radios) are not signs of a class act. Loutish is the term that springs to mind."

"Daddy" is what springs to mind to me. :-) I well remember the sermon Mark's daddy gave back in the early 80s in the CGI. He was on a typical rant about gays, explaining that he was tempted never to go to a buffet restaurant ever again because one of the gay employees might have "sneezed in the salad" and give him AIDS. (That never made sense to me...a cook in the kitchen could just as easily be gay, if that REALLY was an issue...) And then he went on to rant that if he had his choice of how to deal with all the gays in the world, he'd like to "run them all over with a big Peterbilt truck." Yes, that was his choice. I would assume that the average person in the US of that era mentioning big ol' trucks would have said "Mack Truck." Mack Trucks were the standard truckin' cliche. But not ol' Ted. He fancied Peterbilts.

NOT a cool declaration for a man who had admitted not many years before of being a serial adulterer/and/or/seducer of young coeds to the tune of, in his own words, "hundreds." By this time, of course, he had become a New Man, and totally made things right with God about all that supposedly (although not with those scores of women...and their fathers and husbands...). Of course, as it turned out, he never really had done so, and was forced to storm out of his relationship to the organization he'd started, and start all over anew...because turns out he was having a long term affair with a married woman in the local CGI congregation. It is so ludicrous how the Armstrong males could convince themselves that homosexual acts were in some sort of "different class" biblically from adultery...and incest. Even though, under The Law of the Torah both adulterous AND homosexual acts were capital offenses.

Decades from now the Armstrong movement and the an...

2016-02-25T12:57:25.226+13:00

Decades from now the Armstrong movement and the anti-harmstrong movement will be examined by scholars. The shrinks will enter into the fray, papers will be published. Books will be kindled. What will their findings be?

That a group of people can and will fight for truth while others hot-tub themselves in pleasant fallacy and cheap wine. All this over a despotic book about a bronze age god who has sadistic tendencies and ill intent for those who question his authenticity.

In the meantime, several new movements will evolve that are expert at picking pockets, teaching questionable doctrines based on the work of other false prophets of doom. And the world goes on....

Connie, I can't speak for anyone else, but if ...

2016-02-25T08:34:10.129+13:00

Connie, I can't speak for anyone else, but if all the sects of the Cult of Armstrong Mafia disappeared tomorrow, there would still be years of material.

And people to look in on it.

Wow! Ambassador Watch back online, Silenced now b...

2016-02-25T04:19:08.546+13:00

Wow! Ambassador Watch back online, Silenced now back online, Shining Light, Painful Truth etc etc.

It appears that the anti-Armstrong website movement is growing FAR FASTER than 30% a year!

However, Armstrongism is a shrinking universe demographically, and yet information supply is growing. Will there be
an "Anti-Armstrong" information collapse coming similar to the oil glut currently?

Will there be a merger of efforts, creating a 10 Headed Beast Power of Anti-Armstrongism? Will there be an internet
"Place of Safety" where all anti Armstrong information will be blocked?

Sacrafice Now! and internet search and beseech daily. Armstrong Blogs time is short!

Perhaps The Daily Mail has the answer: "The ...

2016-02-25T03:24:54.204+13:00

Perhaps The Daily Mail has the answer:

"The University of Bonn study also found that the angry types had less grey matter in the amygdala, a part of the brain that helps keep our emotions in check."

He probably can't help it -- he inherited it from his grandfather.

It's bad enough to work for such people, but for those in the ICG, you want to be with your ANGRY 'leader'? 2005 LCG might tell you where that could lead.

As we suspected of Armstrongist leaders: Part of their brain is missing.

LNRD, the short answer to your question is... no. ...

2016-02-24T20:38:08.160+13:00

LNRD, the short answer to your question is... no.

Pray tell, is there one you agree with unreservedly?

Is there a splinter group that you with your whole...

2016-02-24T20:18:43.608+13:00

Is there a splinter group that you with your whole mind agree with!

I follow otgosh and nohwa plus other so called disagreeableness.

not in endorse to them or other who come close. Is a pastime to see how they all stumble to be correct.

Mark is just following in the family pathology. A...

2016-02-24T19:47:30.706+13:00

Mark is just following in the family pathology. Armstrongism always was an angry, growling religion. It Is of a dark spirit.

BB