No, you were implying/inferring/extrapolating that I had made a statement...which, functionally, is a re-statement...that I clearly had not made.
Here is an additional comment I have re: your most recent post on the "Shooting Stars" Thread.
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showpost.php?p=557953&postcount=241
Lakey, I would think that in my thousands of words I have posted on ESMB regarding El Ron and the CMO that what should be abundantly clear is
my "Take" is that El Ron handed the “keys to the Kingdom” for four reasons; Protection, Extortion, Enforcement and Execution with Blind Obedience, Graven Fealty and Wonton Willing-ness in the Performance Thereof.
Of course, I am certainly not the "Holy Grail" when it comes to El Ron so you are very free to analyze whatever you wish about Hisself...but I'd appreciate it if you could refrain from misquoting me and putting words in my mouth, devining "real" intents "behind" what I've said and "explaining" my "thoughts" and "meanings" to others for me. Face
Face, I read and reread the lines above which I highlight in blue plus I looked up the word "fealty" and now I get the gist of what you were saying there.
At the time I read it, it did not register with me as your opinion of what Hubbard had in mind as far as
who he was going to give the reins of power to when he was ready to die. To me it told
why he would turn them over or the qualities which he was looking for in a successor but it did not tell me who.
Certainly, yesterday, when I read installment #11, I did not remember a word of your earlier quote nor did I remember what your position was on LRH's turn over of power to a successor.
I did remember well that he first sent Mayo a long letter appointing Mayo as the head of tech and he appointed Bill Franks and then at the live meeting at the Palladium auditorium in 1986, which I attended, I saw that he turned over the reigns to not DM but to Pat Broker. Therefore, I have been confused ever since as to how DM came to power, particularly if LRH wanted that to happen or not.
When I read your recent post, the passage which Veda quoted above influenced me to speculate on my own that perhaps LRH did want DM to lead the church. That is why I came away from your post feeling the way I did.
Anxious not to offend you, I reread what I wrote and found one sentence where I had put words in your mouth so I quickly corrected that sentence and made it my own thought. I feel that was an honest mistake which I made and since I corrrected it quickly when it came to my attention, I thought it was no big deal.
As far as this comment you made, "you are very free to analyze whatever you wish about Hisself...but I'd appreciate it if you could refrain from misquoting me and putting words in my mouth, devining "real" intents "behind" what I've said and "explaining" my "thoughts" and "meanings" to others for me."
I admit that I did put some words in your mouth briefly but I caught my error, reworded the passage and publicly apologized for my error. Other than that one transgression I don't believe that I did any of the other items which you mentioned above.
Everything I said, other than the opening clause of my new Item #4, was just my own analysis and a factual report on how I came away feeling after I read your post. I agree with you that the best thing to do is to just move on from here.
Lakey