Floods Are as Dangerous as Famines

[Anonymous]

People who are starving or incredibly thirsty AND those who are not can die from too much food and water too quickly. In the case of the starving and thirsty, they feel desperate for nourishment, over-indulge when they finally have access and flood their systems – like drinking out of a fire hose. The best approach is to give enough to nourish but not enough to harm, wait just long enough for the food and water to work, then give more. When parched lands receive too much water in a rushing torrent, floods can be as damaging as the previous famine.

I personally would love to have more published quickly by the Church like the historical information that is emerging right now, but think about the flood of new information that nearly drowned many of you here and what it did to you. Take a moment to feel that fear of drowning in the tsunami that opened up in front of you. Do you wish that on traditional members who have not been exposed to all of the information that threatened to sweep you away (and, in some cases, did)?

I don’t wish a flood on anyone, as much as I would want everything the Church is undertaking right now to be available more quickly if it was just about me. I’m rooted fairly firmly right now, and I believe I could ride the tide quite well when it comes to this new approach if things were unleashed all at once – but I’m willing to swim in a more slowly swirling stream if that means fewer people around me drown.

[Anonymous]

Interesting perspective… good reasons other than just the more obvious be patient.

Old-Timer wrote:

Do you wish that on traditional members who have not been exposed to all of the information that threatened to sweep you away (and, in some cases, did)?

No, and that’s the principal reason I refrained from foisting the specifics of my doubts onto others. I’d rather they not go through what I went through but if they do I don’t want to be the cause.

The trickle approach has another added benefit. If all the information came down in a huge glut I might be severely tempted to read a synopsis or high level overview to know what “all that other stuff was” while I was focused on other studies. That overview, depending on the source, might introduce some bias.

I think we have an existing case study for this idea. I’m sitting here thinking how I might have reacted if Jeremy Runnells’ letter to the CES director fell into my lap while I was starting to carefully navigate through my issues. That letter can be a flood of information for people that haven’t already eased themselves into some of the issues it raises.

[Anonymous]

Like I said in another thread, the only people outside of the Trib’s circulation area that would get flooded are us “so called intellectuals” that participate in internet forums. I would put that number at about 2% of the active members of the church. For everybody else they either don’t see it (most) or gloss over it and say “ya, I knew that”

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