bait and switch
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lesley ®

10/17/2023, 18:33:03
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The thing that I was wondering in my first post is does it matter what the person behind the mask is actually like.

In my personal experience of men behind masks I can answer that easily, yes the hell it does.  

It is harder to make the case where it is a figurehead, the guru is not personal to me, we never even shook hands, well he waved a hand in my general direction when I first queued up to kiss his feet and cupped my ear.  

If that witch doctor points the bone it is real trouble whether you earned it or not so from an individual perspective as well as for the whole tribe it really depends what sort of a person the witchdoctor is in how well they will all fare.

The fact remains that Rawat promoted himself as The only One and Only for everyone on the planet, that is what we fell for - it is a bait and switch to say he is playing the role rather than actually being your one and only.  How many of us would have said yes to him saying I will pretend to be the living messiah so you can imagine you are interacting with the most important person in the whole world to you - and all I want for this onerous task is some miserable slaves, the odd mansion and a few planes.

Of course it matters the hell for those slaves what sort of person he is. 

How much does it matter to the premies who don't interact personally with him other than to be in the audience at his stage performances?  

So yes the other thing I was thinking of in making that post was how those premies tend to rely on the idea that what Rawat is like in private doesn't matter, and yet that strikes at the heart of what we believed in the first place - that he was the god of love - messenger from our very creator, Our Saviour in truth, is his anger to be feared or trusted - how righteous do you need to be, he is present in every moment.

Let's follow Aquinas round the corner and accept it says a lot about the man behind the mask just because he wants to wear it.  

I'd like to be able to say no, if it not personal, just a witch doctor on a stage that you see every so often then it doesn't matter what the man is really like in private.  But I can't help but have this feeling maybe it does...

Well just for a start it comes with believing what he says on that stage, being affected by the group experience as if it is all from him and being influenced in what you do by what he wants.








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