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A Failed Experiment

While all 1-Ws underwent a process of disillusionment at AC, this fell
on some more heavily than others. I knew a 1-W who was younger
than most of us and he had a reputation of being a difficult to manage
employee. He transferred from another department to the department I
was in near the end of his two year tenure. I tried to make him feel
welcome but he soon seemed to have conflicts with crew leaders. One
day I was in the Library in the Redwood Building standing at the
circulation desk and encountered his former boss from the other
department. I asked him about this 1-W and what he related startled
me. He said that the 1-W, several months back, had worked with a man
who was from a prominent Big Sandy family and who was an AC staff
employee. They went out on a job and in the course of a conversation
the staff member told the 1-W that Garner Ted Armstrong had had
sexual relations with many female AC students. This was devastating
to the 1-W. His former boss told me further that when the 1-W got back
to the building where the crew was housed, he was so angry and upset
that he was shaking. He said that the 1-W sat in a chair and shook for
some time and the 1-W had never really recovered from this
experience. This was well before Garner Ted Armstrong’s behavior
became known to the media and the lay membership of the WCG. So,
of course, I did not believe the story about Garner Ted Armstrong but
it certainly seemed plausible that this conversation involving the staff
member and the 1-W had happened out as recounted. The 1-W finished
his difficult and turbulent period of service and left. Some claimed that
he had a “bad attitude”. But I believe he stumbled into something dark
and horrific one lonely East Texas evening and was wounded by
it. There was a problem, but the problem was not his, even though
there seemed to be a conspiracy to make it appear that way.

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