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A Failed Experiment

1. If AC was so horrid in your view, why didn’t you just leave?

I was a card-carrying Armstrongite. I was a True Believer. My
feeling was that this was the one and only true church and that if
it was flawed, God would fix that in the future. I continued to be
an Armstrongite for another 22 years after my 1-W experience,
until I came to see the error or Armstrongism. (God never did
bother to fix this system and you will find the same hierarchical,
class system among Armstrongite groups today.)

2. Things could have been worse. You could have gone to Viet Nam.

Circumstances could always have been worse for me. But that is
not the point of this essay. This is a characterization of how I
and others were actually treated and whether or not that comports
with the claim that AC was God’s college, implementing God’s
values.

3. I know 1-Ws who had a wonderful time and AC and never
complained like you.

There was differential treatment among 1-Ws, just as there was
differential treatment of AC students. Well connected 1-Ws or
students were given better treatment and more advantages that the
others. Some 1-Ws were AC graduates. Some had been
undergraduates. They were accorded better treatment and had
fewer complaints.

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