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Originally Posted by aron
"It's the life, life, life, that makes me want to shout - Hallelujah!! Praise the Lord!!"
So went the song. Life was pouring in, through our youthful and ignorant enthusiams, trained and manipulated by Lee & cronies. But what happened when the enthusiasms got too extreme? Clamp down time. Beat on a few sheep, and although some will leave, the rest are now cowed into submission. Perfect cult fodder. In Lee's phraseology it was a turn in focus from "life" to "truth".
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Reminds me of the so-called pots and pans era in the LCM (up to about mid-73 I think). Jane mentioned something about it in her book. A lot of utter nonsense. In a regional conference in Dallas, they were shaking green and white pom-poms. Of course those came from the local high school (where I went at the time) and I really thought they were off their rocker. Before the conference was over, John Ingalls (I believe) had put the clamp on that. I actually don't think he had any ulterior motives. But I saw too many things later on that suggested that Lee was generally busy setting things up so that he could knock them down.
Sort of a "Tide Rushes In" thing for you Moody fans except that there it was "I build them up, you knock them down like they were made of clay." In this case the builder was also the destroyer. The ultimate abusive parent.