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Originally Posted by Truth
You are so right about older saints filtering out the nonsense. This doesn't apply to just older saints, but many of the younger ones as well. I have a hard time believing that every saint actually agrees with every comment that WL and LSM leaders ever made. Most don't want to cause trouble, however, so they just ignore what is said and move on.
Actually I witnessed this often in the FTTA as well. The ones who could not filter had a hard time in the training and eventually left.
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I think most have learned to filter out the nonsense to a certain extent, but at the same time, they aren't willing to ask the very questions that leaders need to be pressed to answer.
I've seen people come into the LC and initially have a change for the better. It seems there is the tendency to let that experience be defining for the rest of their time in the LC. So if somewhere along the line someone starts having negative experiences in the LC, it's easy to just refer back to their initial positive experience and attempt to ignore the negative, thinking that the LC was instrumental in producing a positive experience. It makes it hard for people to leave.
Most people can only ignore concerns for so long. It would seem to me that LCers who have lasted a long time are either there for the social aspect, or maybe have managed to avoid most of the politics.