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Originally Posted by aron
I think the reason LC meetings are boring is because all spontaneity has been stripped away. Everybody is afraid to say anything not in the 'script' that Headquarters has put out.
At one point the LC meetings were quite local. In the Jesus Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s you had all these young people, who were allowed and even encouraged to function in the LC meetings. . . .
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The LRC meetings are boring because the content is boring.
In the 60s and 70s, at least we had an exciting form to wrap the lack of true content in. They had all these Jesus people who were ready (and allowed) to make the meetings exciting. So much so that we swallowed hooks with ruber worms on them to believe all kinds of nonsense and become aligned with a movement of error.
How did Americans buy into a Chinese movement? Like so many, they were seeking spirituality and there is something about Eastern things that seems spiritual. The phrases had enough use of spiritual talk. It had an "elevated" lexicon of terms.
They
are convinced that saying it better makes it better. And if you can get a bunch of excited hippies to spice-up the meetings . . . .