In Reply to: Re: Post to Larry Eskridge moved here from Academic board by coordinator posted by OT2 (reposted from Academic) on July 14, 2009 at 19:16:55:
Thanks for the testimony. Back to the JP.
By '74 many disciples had left or were about to leave because of Kohoutek. The original COGs were hardcore foot soldiers while many from the JPs quickly became leaders on many projects and places. The reason was that they at least had some education that the original hippies from the beaches of California didn't.
Incidentally, one current myth in TF is that the problems in TF came because of the hippies, hiding the case that many leaders had come from the JP, or even that "The Letters were the Leaders".
With the RNR in '78 the leaders were picked mainly for their formal education. The result was that the leadership didn't changed as it was falsely advertised in the Mo letters. They were only shuffled around but the original "hippies" of the COG took trusted positions and kept and eye on JP who were not totally trusted but kept their flashy titles.
I don't know what happened later on but my gut feelings is that all the leadership homogenized following crazy Berg's doctrines. The two sides, COG and JP become interchangeable because they were so few with enough smarts. Both groups had finally become one and the same.
Interestingly, when leaving the cult birds of the same feather flocked together, and about the same places (of origin).