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In Reply to: Berg: "It’s like Hart stuck a knife in my back and twisted it" posted by Reposter on March 09, 2005 at 01:19:03:
Seeing that quote brought back some pretty weird memories. Yes, I was probably the first person to report the non-fitting Heavenly City to Berg. His "revelation" had just come out and he was still excited about it, and our Home was reading an advance copy of his Letter, so I got the full blast of his anger for doubting him. But I wasn't the one who first noticed that the measurements didn't jive. Another WS staff member, Jonathan Firstfruits, pointed it out to me, and then I brought it up to Berg.
I had pointed out to Berg that if you use the KJV word “furlong” and translated it into miles, then the pyramid was too big. But I showed him how if you went back to the original Greek and did measurements using the actual word “stadion,” and multiplied that, then actually, the pyramid DID fit inside the moon. (Yes, it actually does fit, just like Cinderella's shoe in the glass slipper.)
Fool that I was, I was trying to “confirm” Berg’s Letter, showing him that it actually worked a different way. For that Berg called me a "leering demon", yet only a year later, a Greek brother wrote him the exact same thing, in places almost word for word what I had written, quoting him the original Greek, and by then Berg had cooled down and moved on, so they printed that brother's letter in a FSM and Berg told him "Great job, son!"
Another interesting detail: when I was a kid, I had won a World Book encyclopedia set on a TV game show, and I had that set with me at the time in WS. I hate to say it, but I was probably unintentionally responsible for triggering Berg’s bizarre ‘Moon’ Letters. BEFORE he got his “revelation,” he had come out with loads of Letters about the pyramid city and how it was sailing toward Earth. It was inside that round crystal Sea of Glass, not the moon, remember?
But I was looking through my encyclopedia one day and noticed that the size Berg had given for the pyramid was almost identical to the radius of the moon. I didn’t do the exact math at the time, but sent him a photocopy of the moon picture and a pyramid in the Sea of Glass drawn beside it, and pointed out that they were almost the same size.
Berg' “moon revelation” came out a short while later. Funny how these things happen.
