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Originally Posted by aron
My point in raising the whole 1960s social dynamics, which was so excellently put forth in Casci's testimony, is that the counter-culture was just another human culture. It rejected the "square" box of conventional culture, but it created its own box. Maybe differently shaped, but a box nonetheless. The counter-culture was a human reaction to human activity, which activity was of course largely a reaction to other human activity.
WL sold us that WN wasn't simply reacting to dormant Protestantism on Mainland China, but that WN's Little Flock was wholly a move of God. But it wasn't. It was merely another human reaction; Martin Luther had reacted to the RCC, the Brethren reacted to Luther's failings, and WN reacted to the Brethren. And so forth.
This perhaps touches on the problem of human behavior: we are unstable. One day long hair is in fashion, and short skirts. The next day it is short hair and long skirts. Back and forth we go. I made notice of Oprah Winfrey on another thread, how she lost weight and had a party on national television when she again could wear her old jeans. I watched it and felt, "She will gain it all back again." Why? Because the reason she gained the weight in the first place was still there: instability. The fact that she had a special show to celebrate her weight loss indicated unmet need. Up and down we go.... the roller coaster of life. I picked on her because she is one of the more successful people in the past 20 or 30 years, publicly. She went from nothing to a multimillionaire. But the instability remains, and the lacks.
Anyway, God was there, in the Jesus Movement of the 1960s. No doubt. Also in the LC variant of the Jesus Movement. Those glorious meetings were really glorious. But it also involved the move of humans, not just WL but you and me, and the instabilities and contradictions inherent in those actions. We reject culture, and rightly so, but we create a "new" counter-culture, which is merely more culture. So the "new Christ" of the LC was simply more of the same. Christ is always new, but our "new Christ", as a reaction to someone else's "old Christ", has the seeds of oldness built into it. Sooner or later they will appear.
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My my my I liked that quote! How we enjoyed the ride for a few years. It was fun, enjoyable. We had a dozen pretty good guitarists, one tremendous pianist, and electric base. What more could you want? We sang "What a happy day" a thousand times. But where was the reality? WL was so bent on changing 'truth' to 'reality'. Confidence scammers always hit what they're selling insisting it's not what it appears.
When problem after problem occurred, it was just hidden so the scam could ride on as our brother Phillip Lin so nobly wrote. And in my area it is pretty well still hidden to quite a host.
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