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Malcolm Wesley WREST
Dear Oerlikon,
Thank you for the news...is there any reason that you know of, for this occuring?...(an adjustment to falling numbers, etc?)
Like zeuszor wrote earlier, they are simply trying to cover their own backsides (legally speaking), so that they can further escape accountability. A cunning move indeed.
There is no more mandatory tithing or statistical reporting either,and they can have sex with outsiders now.
Anyway, I haven't read all of the "Reboot Series", but from what I have read so far, there is very little left of a "group". Note that they will (now) only tally membership numbers of either 16-year olds and up (with parental permission) or 18-year olds and up.
They even give the numbers: There are now less than 5,000 adults of all former membership levels (FD/MM/FM). I suspect that before the year is out, there will be far less than that. If this "reboot" was to expand their membership levels, I think they will find the reverse to be true. Then again, maybe they are going into semi-retirement and don't really need the growth. I am sure Zerby & Kelly have all of the money they need to go into a fashionable (and permanent) retirement, much like Dave and Cherry McKay.
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The cult has traveled this road before. More than once in the early days they sent everyone home. More than once they've changed their name. More than once they changed their rules, doctrines, etc. Maybe they're going down this road a bit further than they ever have before, but you can never trust deceivers and liars.
They call this a reboot, which strikes me as hilariously stupid since everyone knows that when you reboot a computer you are merely restarting it, and continue to use the same old operating system. Maybe they will claim, or already have, that they haven't just rebooted, but have installed an entirely new operating system, but I would say that that's nonsense too. No matter what cosmetic or structural changes they make, at the core it is still the same old corrupt belief system.
They've been planning on this for some time now, and Zerby announced at the CESNUR conference last year that major changes were coming to the Family. The "Reboot" was finally ratified and made official late last month.
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