That's good that they didn't stay around long. Because part of the teaching was to endure to the end with ML. Enduring is something that most people don't have in them. It's being bred out.
As far as Sam goes, he was a grown man. He just didn't know anyone well enough to trust them to take what you said as truth. He never accepted it as far as I can tell.
Vektek: "By the way, people like me who came in to debate Moreless, had a really good reason for doing so."
Yeah you met your match in who loved debating more than the other. lol
ML was like going into bootcamp, you either had the stuff or you didn't. He would have called you snowflake if the term was popular back then. Instead he called you whiner.