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Originally Posted by rayliotta
And yet you've shared your experience of long hours building the Irving meeting hall, and years as a trainer at the full-time training in Taipei, etc. I understand that you were far more independent than most, but at the end of the day, the reality is that you've spent half your life absorbed by Witness Lee's system, and helping promote this system. Heck, even your moving to Taiwan in the 80's in the first place....
You might not think you were promoting Witness Lee's system, but isn't that what the full-time training is? It's a religious school for a religious organization, just like any denomination's seminary program. Well, except, of course, theirs is a living training, not a dead cemetery, you know. Aside from that.
Stepping back to see the forest, your life might seem just a little bit like my own -- way, way too influenced by a certain little man from China.
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Both are valid viewpoints (the one inside the forest and the one from outer space looking at the forest), in fact I gave two viewpoints in my analysis. But to say that WL was an invisible force affecting my entire experience is, in my opinion, disrespectful to the triune God.
The idea that WL should be given credit for the building of the Irving hall to the exclusion of those that gave money, time, labor, hospitality, etc. is, again to my opinion, disrespectful of the saints. I had no contact with WL, I did have contact with RG and the other brothers that did build it. I think it has a lot to do with your heart. If you were in Irving because of WL then yes, he had an influence on that decision which had an influence on your experience. I know that in my case WL did not factor into my decision to go to Irving. He did factor into my decision to go to Taiwan, but not on my decision to stay.