beitrag gary renard

[René]

Damit ich noch bissl mehr an Meinungen habe, an denen ich rumknobeln kann und mich davon ablenken, den Kurs selber auf mich wirken zu lassen!

Was ich aus dem elends langen Bericht herauslesen konnte (habe nicht alles gelesen), war, dass eine sehr oberflächliche "Verurteilung" zu Renards Buch stattgefunden hat - wie auch eine "anmaßende" Zurechtweisung an Gary, wie er sich gefälligst "Aufgestiegenen Meistern" gegenüber verhalten hätte müssen... oder dass "Die Meister", wären sie "echt" gewesen, keine Grammatik-Fehler gemacht hätten...

Der Bericht ist zwar sehr lang, aber in meinen Augen ebenso dünn...

Hier ein paar Auszüge:

One subcategory of smart-ass humor that deserves special mention is the masters' putdowns of Renard. Indeed, their teaching style seems to include a mixture of excessively lavish praise and barbs worthy of an insult comic. One minute they're calling Renard a "luminous," "radiant," "brilliant, "timeless," "inspired," or "cool" student (199, 219, 254, 288, 306), and the next minute they're are saying things like this:
• Pursah: "I knew you weren't as dumb as you look. You know I'm kidding, right?" (47).
• Pursah: "The bodies we project are just a dense as yours, although our brains aren't. Just kidding" (56).
• Arten: "I knew you weren't a dumb bastard. I tried to tell J, but he wouldn't listen. Just kidding" (144).
• Arten: "That high school diploma is finally starting to pay off" (213).
• Arten: "We tried [to heal your mind], but the damage was just too much. I'm kidding" (261).
• Pursah: "You're slow, but you're not hopeless. Just kidding" (285).
• Arten: "Whatever it takes to get a lazy guy like you moving. Just kidding" (304).
As you can see, they usually say they are "kidding" when they put Renard down, as if saying that makes it okay. But does it really? How would you feel if your teacher regularly said things like this to you, even in jest? (...)How do you think your child would feel if you told her, "You're slow, but you're not hopeless. Just kidding"? Normally, such behavior would be regarded as passive-aggressive, even abusive.
The masters even make grammatical errors, such as the following:
• Arten: "[T]he old scripture was very dear to Thomas and I" (25). In this and the "Arten and I" example below, the correct form is "Gast and me," since the two entities are grammatically objects, not subjects. (The quick way to test this is to remove the name and try the sentence with only the pronoun. Obviously, the correct form would be "The old scripture was very dear to me," not "The old scripture was very dear to I.")
• Arten: "Today, you and your friends believe in the existence of a
trilogy-body, mind and spirit" (76). The word "trilogy" means a series of three connected literary or dramatic works, like The Lord of the Rings. Arten should have used a generic word for a set of three things, like "trio."
This stance toward skeptics is at odds both with Renard's own stance toward debunking false authorship claims (which I discussed at the beginning of this article) and with the stance his "masters" purportedly counseled him to take. Renard himself says in his Author's Note in DU, "I leave it up to readers to think whatever they choose about the book's origins" (xiii). And throughout DU, Arten and Pursah give him advice like the following:
• Arten: "What if you don't try to convince anyone to believe anything?" (55).
• Pursah: "[I]f someone thinks badly about what you write, or even if they're just not positive about it, forgive them" (285-86).
• Pursah: "Always remember to let other people have their beliefs" (369).
• Pursah: "Don't disagree with [others]; just say what you know is true in a nice way. Then back off; never confront" (370).
Yet Renard's actual responses to those who doubt his book fall short of this advice. Look at this passage from his "open letter to Robert Perry" and ask yourself how well it follows Arten and Pursah's instructions:
You see (Robert), I'm the one who was there. I didn't see you there. So I've got news for you. My book is true; all of it. It's not, as you have described, a made up book "Like The Celestine Prophecy." That book wasn't true, The Disappearance of the Universe is true. And with the Holy Spirit's Guidance, it's not going away. If you have a problem with that then feel free to e-mail me or call me on the phone and we can discuss this further.
Renard seems to be unaware of just how aggressive these communications really are.

René