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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Fair enough observation here. Yet, have you ever taken a moment to wonder why most conversations pivot to such things? Has it ever occurred to you the kind psychological and spiritual devastation these things wreaked upon the longtime true believers of the movement? I can tell you that it is not much different than one spouse finding out that the other is cheating on them. Lot's of emotions come. Most of the time sheer unbelief and total denial. Ask any spouse, even many years later, about how they feel about this trusted person who cheated on them. I think you get the point.
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That's an excellent analogy. Even if it happened a quarter century ago, what would be the response if you happened to tell your spouse over a nice dinner, "
Sweetheart, do you remember that business trip I took back in 1989 to that Vegas conference? I never told you who I ran into ... But it's old history now. Just wanted to come clean. And we all make mistakes. Right dear?"
That's exactly the nonchalant attitude LCers take when corruption at LSM gets exposed. "
Nobody's perfect, eh?" Many of us trusted Witness Lee for many years, through hell and high water, because we were led to believe that he lived a servant's life as the Apostle Paul did. Then one day we happened to learn the proverbial "rest of the story." So, it's no wonder when long-time members suddenly learn the behind-the-scenes truth, and are immediately "poisoned" as loyalists like to say.