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Originally Posted by Freedom
I get this impression as well. I know they have said that they want more "average Americans". Obviously this isn't happening, and I think Nigel's writing shows that this won't be happening.
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A brother once tried to explain to me how when Lee referred to "Caucasians," he really meant "native-born Americans" (i.e., when he talked about the need to recruit Caucasians). In other words, he did not actually intend to exclude other groups, for example, African-Americans. I wondered,
if that's the case, why did he insist on using this word, "Caucasians"?
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Originally Posted by Freedom
I always felt that the FTTA is the "glue" that holds the LC together. If it weren't for the FTTA, I think there would be a serious lack of younger saints. I think what the FTTA accomplishes is that it makes the graduates feel they owe a debt to the LC, and thus they have to stay and participate in the LC. Most who I've seen attend the FTTA recently were pushed to go, they weren't too keen on going. I think the real situation is clear, it is just something LC leadership needs to come to terms with.
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I remember a study session on Ball Rd, during a biannual training, with a few hundred young people present. One of the training brothers (Dan Towle, perhaps? -- I'm not sure) addressing the full-time training graduates in the room. He was asking questions like, why would you not go full-time (as a serving one) if you graduated from the FTTA?
He also talked about those who had met their husband or wife at the FTTA, as if they owed something. He said something along the lines of,
Haven't we found you the best spouse? Can't recall just how he said it. But it seemed pretty brazen, even at the time. And he was going on about it with such an air of significance...