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Originally Posted by alwayslearning
I'm not sure the collapse of Daystar had anything to do with the formation of LSM. Stream Publishers became LSM and this could have been for nothing more than marketing purposes i.e. charging a fee for trainings is not really what publishers do but it's what some ministries sometimes do. The word "ministry" gave it a wider range of activities that could fall under it's umbrella.
The big change was leaving LA and moving to Anaheim to set up the "Ministry Station" and all the things that came with it: corporate offices, a training center, printing plant etc. Basically it dawned on Witness Lee and some around him that religion is big business in and of itself. And this enlightening was a process e.g. when they first started charging a fee for trainings you could still take your own tape recorder and tape the meetings. Soon this was nixed and if you wanted the tapes you had to buy them from LSM. Then they came out in printed individual message form and most people bought them too especially if they were on standing order. Then they came out in the "Green Volumes". So basically you were just paying for the same message over and over and over in different formats.
Let it never be said that LSM are not masters of marketing!
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This is a good point relative to the question of this thread. If Daystar had truly been "poor judgment" then you would expect a repentance. Since Living Stream Ministry can be said to have been a result of Daystar, at least in part, then a very enlightening question to the heart of Witness Lee "was the formation of LSM the product of repentance or was it more of the same?" If it is "more of the same" then it supports the idea that Daystar was fraud. If it was repentance then it supports the idea that Daystar was "poor judgment" that Witness Lee then repented of.