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Originally Posted by alwayslearning
This was one of a few off the shelf stock explanations used by Witness Lee & Co. But to use this particular one for the coworkers who were ousted in the late 1980s is really grasping at straws - to say the least.
Bill Mallon, John Ingalls, John So, etc. were at the pinnacle of success (if you will) in the LC system. They were elders locally and senior coworkers in "the work". What would they be ambitious for? The only position higher was Witness Lee's as the global boss over all the work. Does anyone seriously believe any of these brothers wanted Lee's position? Does anyone seriously believe they were stupid enough to think they had the status to realistically claim that position even if they did want it?
Witness Lee and his LSM staffers often gave silly immature explanations hoping their listeners were naive and trusting enough to take them at face value. Unfortunately for the most part they were correct.
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Yes, unfortunately they were correct. The listeners were #1 trusting and #2 naive. Something can be said of an analogy to the children's story"The Emperor's New Clothes".
One of the points I used to emphasize on thebereans.net, if these brothers were SO ambitious as Witness claims and as LSM co-workers still claim, why would they remain for 25 years? If they were ambitious, don't you think they would have exercised ambition to take opver the work while still young men? As it was, after 25 years they were in their late 50's. Much more logical is they were more spiritually mature than their younger co-workers (now known as the blended brothers). Being more spiritually mature, they saw things in the light most brothers and sisters did not see.