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Originally Posted by Freedom
The LC hypocrisy is sad..
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Yes it is hypocrisy, because what the LC condemns others for is like a gnat compared to the camel in their eyes. And it is sad.
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Originally Posted by aron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi
Guanxi largely originates from the Chinese social philosophy of Confucianism, which stresses the importance of associating oneself with others in a hierarchical manner, in order to maintain social and economic order. Particularly, there is an emphasis on implicit mutual obligations, reciprocity, and trust, which are the foundations of guanxi and guanxi networks.
Witness Lee never overcame his native Chinese culture.
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I remember a testimony of a brother named Don Rutledge. He said that the Chinese brothers didn't have much use for him, until they found out that he was "tight" with Witness Lee. Suddenly their attitude totally changed and they became quite respectful, even solicitous of him, because they'd found out his position on the Guanxi network.
Actually there's nothing wrong with this - human organizations build and maintain ''social and economic order'', to quote Wikipedia, this way. This is indeed the proverbial "way of the gentiles"; it's just a Chinese variant. But to think that this is the heavenly way, and all others are fallen, earthly, dark, deformed, Satanic etc is just the most idiotic, self-willed culturally-myopic blindness imaginable. You'd think someone reasonably intelligent like Lee was would pick up on it. But he was removed from any objective critique, and thus the error could grow and grow and grow, until it really was the elephant in the room. It crushes everything in its path, and everyone sits around all day wondering why the furniture is always broken. Is it the materials? The glue? The stitching?
No; an elephant just sat on it. Like the one yesterday, and the day before...