A funny thing happened to me the other night - I was on an old premie friends Facebook page where they were discussing the notions of good and bad fortune etc. I normally have a soberly self-imposed rule to resist all temptation to comment on such things but had been out to dinner and had a glass or two. So I made the fatal mistake of posting something like "Prem Rawat once said "I put my true devotees in difficult situations so they turn to me". I remember being very struck when he said this. Can't remember exactly where or when - but  I never forget that. He may have been quoting Shri Hans or something but you know...I didn't make it up! Anyway I woke up next day with the urge to immediately delete my comment, which I did even before my first coffee of the day. Too late! Some guy instantly responded with prefectorial sarcasm: "Unverified quote swiftly deleted. Smart move" - to which I simply responded (although biting my lip) "That wasn't the reason".. because the last thing I could care is whether my quote was verified or not - I just wanted to disengage from a potentially hostile reception.  I thought to myself... yes, this is the paranoid world premies now must live in. All those kind of quotes from the old days have been consigned to some secret vault and any hint of expressing some memory of what Rawat used to say is now met with denial and demands for verification etc. I think that premies now have become so unnatural and defensive that they've surely lost touch with their sanity and humanity. I remember spending years trying to add stuff to Wikipedia to balance the revisionism that premies fought desperately to assert there - and this involved endlessly finding 'reliable sources' for such quotes. Now they feel so paranoid I guess you even have to refrain from expressing your memories of what he said in a Facebook conversation or you will be deleted or overwhelmed with denials unless you can 'verify' your memories of what went on.