On 10/18/2014 12:38 PM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
He would then get his drugged out, sleepless zombies together, haul
them out to the desert at 2 AM,
>
/You are incorrect - Lenz did not "haul" anyone out to the desert. After
paying him $1000 for the map to the secret meeting place, Lenz would
drive in his own Porsche 911 to the event - all the others were on their
own. That's why it would be such a challenge - to park 200 cars in a
desert parking lot designed for only twenty - now that's complicated. /
>
and maybe dance around, and then ask, "What did you see?" He would
wait until someone volunteered that he was
flying/invisible/transformed into light/godlike, and then simply
agree. After this "evidence" was presented, others would agree that
they had seen it too - very 'witches of Salem', only in reverse, so
that those in attendance, self-deluded themselves into "seeing" all
sorts of miracles, from "Zen Master Rama, The Living God". Lots of
peer pressure.
Lenz was also a master at pitting his "students" against each other -
This is why Barry thrives on conflict, vs. discussion. This is why he
keeps tiredly bringing up these fake "supernatural" events - He can't
believe, yet, that he, along with many others, was duped, exploited,
and abused. Horribly abused. I can imagine Lenz making cruel fun of
Barry, publicly, as he did with anyone he perceived as the slightest
threat, and Barry trying to laugh about his own, open castigation and
shaming, from a man he respected, and possibly loved, and then having
to pony up serious cash, for another month, of doing more of the same.
For years. Makes me shudder, the damage that was inflicted.
