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Originally Posted by Trapped
-Ben said that Benson felt that those who leave the church "never saw the vision in the first place", because if they had actually seen the vision, they would never leave. (thanks for the blame game rather than much needed introspection!)
Anyway, it mostly made me glad I'm not there anymore. They are truly stuck in a time capsule, and I could STILL finish many of the sentences before they did because so much of what is said is just rote repetition of the same old phrases.
Trapped
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Oy vey.
SO MUCH one could respond to here.
I keep thinking of my loved ones who were sitting in these memorial meetings, either physically or virtually. I can't help wondering ... at any point do any of them start to just take notice? Like, "Oh interesting, so much talk about how he followed Witness Lee with such devotion, maybe even more than talk about following Jesus with ardent devotion." {Note: Out of respect for the deceased, I'm not commenting on whether he did or did not follow WL more than Jesus; I can't know that anyway. I'm referring to the reports of his legacy as communicated in these meetings.}
Or what do they, our loved ones, think when they hear these ignorant, logically fallacious, and generalized statements about those of us who left? Since they knew us for so long, can they really agree that we "never saw the vision in the first place"? It's like distancing yourself from the heartbreak of a friend's divorce by saying, "Oh, well, they were never really married in the first place."
I love these individuals, so I don't actually wish them pain, but I DO pray that even if leads to some uncomfortable cognitive dissonance, they might start to compare what they know as true to what they're hearing and, at the very least, entertain the internal questions.