Reply #27: Unfortunately, Jerry boy wasn't able to overcome

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the same mental/spiritual gotcha that stands in the path of every person who aspires, in their young career (if they ever did) to do great good. At some point, as power, money, and influence begin to accumulate, the user of these resources comes to think of himself as the source of the wisdom and creativity that is being channeled, rather than the conduit. Christ, himself, explicitly warned against these obstacles and required his followers to behave in a way that minimized their hold on them. Even in the group that followed Jesus very closely, the same snags served to so uproot them that they became apologists, rather than actually powerful. At that point it became all about the magic show and has stayed that way ever since.

In his desperate search to become the thing he says he is, the clear thinking, beautiful minded person with such wonderful ideas for the benefit of humanity becomes the very evil against which he originally was pleged to fight. At that point, humanly enough, he is now totally blind to what has occured. So sad.