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Originally Posted by rayliotta
No kidding. Funny how you leave out these 30 or so years of history when you make statements like, "I was in the LRC, what authority did I allot to WL? I cannot think of anything."
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That's because what happened in the LRC in general did not affect me. I left Irving to go to Odessa, a home meeting that grew into a church in someone's home which then grew into a church in a meeting hall. I left when they were just unpacking the boxes for their first "book room".
I moved from there to New Hampshire where once again it was just a home meeting, only smaller.
A year later I flew from there to Taiwan for the FTTT where I stayed for the next 8 years. I lived in Taiwan even though my Chinese was at best rudimentary, so I didn't have any dealings with the book rooms. I did occasionally visit the Hall 1 book room but I could never find anything I was interested in.
I came back to the US in the Fall of '95 and had a very difficult two years before I left. So although I was in the LRC for 20 years, I didn't see what it was like in the US until the last 2. But even so, I didn't buy any LSM books during that time and we didn't use the LSM books for morning watch, we just used the Bible.
Some people say that my experience was unique, how would I know how unique it was? I speak from my experience, what else can I do?