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Originally Posted by zeek
I did not stand up for my friends, because, they were accused of something about which I had no first hand factual knowledge. I felt very conflicted about this. The allegation itself was left vague in the meeting. What exactly was meant by poisoning was not clarified.
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Originally Posted by Ohio
While at the time, things were not so clearly known, looking back from our present vantage, we can readily discern that WL's many "flows" and "new ways" subtly were designed to bring the entire recovery under subjection.
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Originally Posted by OBW
I think it is because so many had only rumors, and no knowledge, about the things going on in Anaheim.
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I wish I could express this with the clarity it deserves.
Perhaps I can use the excommunication meeting as an example, as a microcosm of a more universal and widespread practice.
In the excommunication meeting the saints were worked up into a fever-pitched frenzy, with the whole meeting up on their feet, pump the air with their fists, and shouting, "IF YOU'RE NOT WITH US GET OUT," over and over again.
But in truth, except for a couple of hands-full at most, most had no idea what was really going on ; they in fact had no clue. They were blind zealots.
They heard "poison" from #1elder, but not what the poison was. They heard "destroy Witness Lee's works," but no explanation. And they weren't even told the identity of those accused ; those they were chanting and pumping against.
They were, just the way Mel Porter wanted them to be : fervent idiots.
And that is a universal machination in Witness Lee's local churches. In it resides the mechanics of a cult : blind zealot followers, that don't have a clue of what's really going on.
Hiding information is a cult manipulation. That's why exists such a thing known as "The Hidden History of Witness Lee, and the Local Churches.