Not dumb, Ms. Zerby (not Mrs. is it?)...Repost from movingon

Road to Commitment (the date is 7/1996)

157. Grandpa touches on one of the things that you have been misled about for a long time, and which, sad to say, you have spread around and misled others in as well. One of the excuses that you've used for your actions is that it's because of your upbringing…
162. In fact, through your sample and the things you've told other young people, you've as good as said that what Dad and I have been preaching about in more than 3,000 Letters doesn't work. Because whether you intend it or not, the impression people get is that if it didn't work on you who were right there getting the sample firsthand, then how can it work with anyone else?
163. The way many people interpreted your actions was that you were saying by them that, "The Letters aren't really true because they didn't work on me. There must not be enough in those Letters to make our young people happy, satisfied, fulfilled and fruitful, because it hasn't made me that way!"

The SGAs got it right in another post...TF should think more of where the fruit comes from, them, the tree, their teachings.The sooner one dumps that, the better.

They can't stand to be told, that they were wrong...nooooo not them, the very elect...