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Originally Posted by Ohio
From my earliest days in the LC's, I had always witnessed a battle of loyalties, sometimes hidden behind the curtain, sometimes in full battle garb. ...I left during the run up to the Midwest quarantines. We all were forced to make a serious decision. "Choose ye this day whom you will serve!" Actually what each side told me was, "you must take a stand for the truth!" Just another veiled control mechanism . . .
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The same thing was happening in South America. People were forced to choose between two despots: the one in Anaheim CA or the one at Estancia Arvore da Vida. Either way they were expected to follow a man without question. The only question was, which one?
But these culturally-sourced expectations were cloaked in scriptural garb, to hide their true origins. The talk was of seeking "oneness" and "fellowship" and "authority" and "lampstands" while avoiding "ambition" and "deviation" and and "divisions". But it was all about who got to be a certain flavour of Top Dog, if you know what I mean. Who got to be despot and who had to kow-tow. I paid a high price for this realisation, but it was worth it.