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A Failed Experiment

After the 1-W Program, I was a loyal WCG member for another 22
years. My 1-W experiences were something that I archived away. But
occasionally something would stir all these memories. Most often the
evocative event was encountering a faculty member, administrator or
student from AC who had been contemporary with me. It is interesting
that typically when I encountered such people, they still treated me like
a 1-W – a sort of non-person. It was as if I had been put in a certain
place in the hierarchy at AC and that this was a permanent and
irrevocable decision. So to many people who know of me, I will always
be a 1-W.
Nobody will be able to document a formal policy that would underpin
what I have written here. The mistreatment of 1-Ws cannot be blamed
directly on the Ambassador College Big Sandy Administration and the
WCG ministry of that time. I would imagine that their attitude towards
1-Ws, if they had one at all, was one of indifference. But their
culpability is to be found in the creation and nurturing of a system that
produced these behaviors naturally. This was the natural outcome of
Armstrongism and in this outcome can be seen the failure of the
Ambassador College experiment.

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