Well, shut my mouth.  You could knock me over with a feather.  Tarnation.

Geez -- this is kind of interesting.  Well, first we know this wouldn't have gotten onto ELK if it wasn't approved by the powers that be.  We have all kinds of proof that that site is heavily censored, so, darn.  This is amazing.

First of all, as far as I know, this is an absolute first that ex-premies, let alone any "ex-premie movement," have ever made it into the happy face of ELK where acknowledgement of the existence of dissent in that cult is not allowed.  This is a first, I think.

So, this actually says the ex-premies are a "movement" and they are having an effect, the spin of which is that it is getting the doubting Thomases out of the cult, so everybody else will have a higher experience with the Lord.  I guess they were being dragged down in that department by people who persisted in thinking and actually having some kind of standards and values.  Poor dears. 

Mr. Ellis also says that he knows that "not everything in the past was perfect."  Well, this is truly an understatement, but you can't really underestimate even this slight admission.  You know how the admission of even a little doubt in ones mind is the death knell.  

But in the end, we ex-premies are actually doing Rawat a favor, according to ELK.  Get the riff raff out of the cult and let the trully programmed have it, and the lotus feet, to themselves.  More room at the lotus feet, as they say.

I made that same argument to Jonx yesterday, who didn't like it all that much.  He seemed to be upset that all those doubters were leaving the cult when I said we were doing Rawat a favor. 

I'm still kind of amazed by that it was said at all, however.