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Originally Posted by kumbaya
I understand- I would just think they would take the members feelings into consideration when making decisions.  |
I thought so too. Little testimony from my last days in the LC back in 2005. I was a deacon working with the elders for years. A new "leader" had been sent to town from our Cleveland headquarters, and he soon wanted to completely shake up the meeting structure. I pushed back on these changes citing feedback I had from the saints directly. He over-ruled my concerns while the other elders remained silent.
Later on I privately talked to him. At that point I had already stopped meeting with the elders, so he was somewhat at ease with me. In a statement I will never forget, he told me, "
sometimes we need to shock the saints." I felt by then that some of the saints had frankly been
electrocuted.
His attitude was callous, and something I had become familiar with for many years -- leaders in the LC
never take the members' feelings into consideration when making decisions. The
only feelings they take into consideration are those of their boss at headquarters.