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Originally Posted by OBW
Therefore, I think that the quoting of irrelevant verses is often part of a ploy to establish credibility at the moment. Sort of a magician's trick to get you looking at what he wants you to look at so that you will not notice the error that was slipped in and instead just accept the new teaching.
And so many times the points weren't even worthy of making. But I think that is one of the tricks. Make strange point after strange point stick and eventually they won't even balk when it should be blatantly obvious that you have lied to them.
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Given the amount of material that LCers typically cover in meetings or trainings, there isn't time for them to verify everything even if someone had the desire to do so, there is just too much thrown at people. There is usually an implicit trust in the assertions being made simply because an outline lists numerous references.
When I attended some of the LSM trainings, we had our group study sessions, and a few times we actually tried to go through some of the verses listed in the outline. The goal was to try and to make sense of the points using the verses referenced. What always seemed to happen is that we would get stuck on a point and never finish the outline.
I always assumed that it was because the study group was just not good at getting through things. Obviously, there was too much material to get through in the first place, but it also seems like the real reason that we got 'stuck' is because none of the support we were looking for actually existing in the first place. It was a wild goose chase trying to make sense of what the outlines were actually saying.