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Originally Posted by Freedom
I have seen older saints who have been around for many years who are now bitter about how things turned out for them. Nobody notices or cares about them anymore. They were happy when the "church life" revolved around them, but now that there is a younger generation, everything is different.
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In any family, a certain amount of this is normal. Life always tends to revolve around the children.
But what LSM did during the "New Way" was akin to Mao's Red Guard Youth movement during the cultural revolution from the mid-60's to the mid-70's. Many former LC members have confirmed this. Here was the movement's stated manifesto:
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Chairman Mao has defined our future as an armed revolutionary youth organization...So if Chairman Mao is our Red-Commander-in-Chief and we are his Red soldiers, who can stop us? First we will make China red from inside out and then we will help the working people of other countries make the world red...And then the whole universe
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The arrogance that the young people displayed to the older saints during the "new way" was often just despicable. Both the young and the old were damaged, many permanently. With the likes of the profligate Philip Lee at the helm I suppose it was understandable.
For example, during the summer 1987 young people's training in Irving, which followed a trip to Taipei, the young people were coached by LSM trainers to taunt the older saints into being baptized, ridiculing them as "old and dead." Our LC had two graduating HS seniors (sisters) attending that training for the whole summer. Unfortunately they were so confused, they returned shipwrecked and left the faith. This happened to many other young ones returning to their LC's, and LSM blamed the problems on the LC's.