This is first in the series of blog posts we will be publishing for people to decide if they should be present at upcoming May Retreat....
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May Retreat, an annual fanfare which once enjoyed its own "prominence" in LEF seems to be losing its ground. The leaders of LEF who once had the power to pick and chose whom they wanted to take to May retreat (as the quota was limited!!!) are now pleading and begging people to come to the May Retreat. The rogue family that is now losing its popularity seems to be coming down heavily on the "evangelists" to keep up the number of attendees at the retreat. The number of people each evangelist brings to the retreat might serve as an "annual performance appraisal" for the rogue family to assess the loyalties of these evangelists to LEF (rather to this rogue family). These annual retreats which were boasted of being the "life lines" for the spiritual welfare of LEF people have been on a path of decline for quite some years now. Some May retreats of earlier years are tainted with the blood of some innocent men who lost their lives because of these May retreats. Some families lost their bread winners exactly two years ago and we call them the "Victims of May Retreat." Women have become widows, children have become fatherless and parents have lost their able-bodied sons. However, their deaths were meaningless to many LEF folks as the "GOD MAN" on the top who also joined the land of the dead not too long ago gave a profound reason for the deaths of these 10 men who got killed on the way to Chennai who were going a week ahead of time to get the glorified "BEULAH GARDENS" ready for the saints of LEF to gather. We hear from people who were present in that May retreat that Joshua Daniel claimed that these men died because they disobeyed him and got on a lorry (truck) to come to Beulah garden instead of taking a train. Branding these men who lost their lives as being "DISOBEDIENT" apparently cleared Joshua Daniel and LEF of any kind of moral responsibility for the deaths of these men. We wonder if God himself would simplify the deaths of people like this... Oh well, JD the "GOD MAN" who arrogantly took the place of GOD could get away with any and all kind of nonsense without ever being questioned. In Joshua Daniel's convoluted logic, the deaths of these men were all because these men "DISOBEYED" him. So, here was a powerful message he sent to the people who came to that retreat - "IF YOU DISOBEY JOE, YOU WILL DIE LIKE THESE TEN MEN." The more perplexing thing about this episode was that the numerous "LEF saints" heard JD ramble what he did without a protest. Just like their master, some of these LEF people are dead in their conscience and their hearts are hardened so much that they are not capable of showing compassion even when seeing tragedies like these. This is a classic example that LEF is a "CULT" of highest order. Instead of mobilizing the resources to help the families of the deceased, these LEF rogues philosophized and deliberated the reasons for the deaths of these men. Ironically, the government (that JD railed his entire life as being anti-social) was the one which acted with compassion to announce one lakh ex-gratia to the families of the deceased while JD and the whole LEF community were passing their cruel judgments on top of not giving a paisa to the affected families. Dear readers, kindly recall that this same JD bought a piano for 35 lakhs for his daughter to show off her musical skills for people who come to these May retreats. It is rather surprising that the unfairness of it all did not strike a chord in the hearts of LEF people. How cruel can people be not to be moved by compassion to reach out to these families???
Here is the newspaper clipping to remind some LEF folks, who suffer from selective dementia:
Those of you are getting ready to go to yet another May Retreat, please be reminded that you may be in the danger of being labeled as yet another "DISOBEDIENT PERSON" who deserves to die if for some reason death gulps you down on the way to "BEULAH GARDEN" to join the LEF saints.
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May Retreat, an annual fanfare which once enjoyed its own "prominence" in LEF seems to be losing its ground. The leaders of LEF who once had the power to pick and chose whom they wanted to take to May retreat (as the quota was limited!!!) are now pleading and begging people to come to the May Retreat. The rogue family that is now losing its popularity seems to be coming down heavily on the "evangelists" to keep up the number of attendees at the retreat. The number of people each evangelist brings to the retreat might serve as an "annual performance appraisal" for the rogue family to assess the loyalties of these evangelists to LEF (rather to this rogue family). These annual retreats which were boasted of being the "life lines" for the spiritual welfare of LEF people have been on a path of decline for quite some years now. Some May retreats of earlier years are tainted with the blood of some innocent men who lost their lives because of these May retreats. Some families lost their bread winners exactly two years ago and we call them the "Victims of May Retreat." Women have become widows, children have become fatherless and parents have lost their able-bodied sons. However, their deaths were meaningless to many LEF folks as the "GOD MAN" on the top who also joined the land of the dead not too long ago gave a profound reason for the deaths of these 10 men who got killed on the way to Chennai who were going a week ahead of time to get the glorified "BEULAH GARDENS" ready for the saints of LEF to gather. We hear from people who were present in that May retreat that Joshua Daniel claimed that these men died because they disobeyed him and got on a lorry (truck) to come to Beulah garden instead of taking a train. Branding these men who lost their lives as being "DISOBEDIENT" apparently cleared Joshua Daniel and LEF of any kind of moral responsibility for the deaths of these men. We wonder if God himself would simplify the deaths of people like this... Oh well, JD the "GOD MAN" who arrogantly took the place of GOD could get away with any and all kind of nonsense without ever being questioned. In Joshua Daniel's convoluted logic, the deaths of these men were all because these men "DISOBEYED" him. So, here was a powerful message he sent to the people who came to that retreat - "IF YOU DISOBEY JOE, YOU WILL DIE LIKE THESE TEN MEN." The more perplexing thing about this episode was that the numerous "LEF saints" heard JD ramble what he did without a protest. Just like their master, some of these LEF people are dead in their conscience and their hearts are hardened so much that they are not capable of showing compassion even when seeing tragedies like these. This is a classic example that LEF is a "CULT" of highest order. Instead of mobilizing the resources to help the families of the deceased, these LEF rogues philosophized and deliberated the reasons for the deaths of these men. Ironically, the government (that JD railed his entire life as being anti-social) was the one which acted with compassion to announce one lakh ex-gratia to the families of the deceased while JD and the whole LEF community were passing their cruel judgments on top of not giving a paisa to the affected families. Dear readers, kindly recall that this same JD bought a piano for 35 lakhs for his daughter to show off her musical skills for people who come to these May retreats. It is rather surprising that the unfairness of it all did not strike a chord in the hearts of LEF people. How cruel can people be not to be moved by compassion to reach out to these families???
Here is the newspaper clipping to remind some LEF folks, who suffer from selective dementia:
