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Originally Posted by Igzy
Fear tends to produce the very thing we fear. An athlete who fears losing tends to lose. A stock trader who fears losing money tends to lose money. A person who fears that he can't make friends tends to have a hard time making friends.
Fear that God is going to judge us for doing something causes in many cases for us to produce the judgment we fear. Sadly, even when the fear is baseless, we can still produce the object of our fears.
I believe this has happened many times to ex-LRCers, and ex-members of other such groups. It's psychological.
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Yes but I also think that in the natural course of life things happen like illnesses, accidents and other negative events regardless of our psychological state. Witness Lee used the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy to connect these kind of events to leaving the LC while in fact they have nothing to do with each other.
Either he actually believed this teaching to be true or he knew it was false and was purposely using it as a scare tactic to keep people from leaving. The former means he was duped and the latter that he was insecure. But either way it demonstrates the undue importance he attached to the LC and himself