[aron]

On another thread I was discussing the military, and how American/western cultural practices could be seen in organisational arrangements. Contrast that to the Asian military practices.

I gave General George Washington as an American paragon. He wasn't afraid of strong, independent lieutenants. He never required them to be exactly identical in form, shape and purpose, not having any individual distinctiveness.

Now, occasionally, this got him and the Americans in trouble. Alexander Hamilton comes immediately to mind.

Of course I am being anecdotal. But my experiences in viewing cultures made me think that an American would never have written that footnote in Revelation 1:20. Witness Lee was betraying his cultural schema as he was angling for complete control/domination in the LC. So he "read" things in the text which simply were not there.