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Originally Posted by PriestlyScribe
01:54:00 Small boy with BIG Ball Cap reciting at podium
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Right before this, a man stands at the podium and says, "As you can see, brothers and sisters, there's a lot of need of training and discipline in the Lord's Recovery. We don't do this in a kind of performance, we do this to show all of the young brothers and sisters that training is needed to carry out the gospelizing and truthizing and the YPGs. It requires a lot of discipline and training. And I think that these young brothers and sisters have demonstrated that the Americans have the possibility to be trained and that the Lord's Recovery in America has a bright future."
Before I comment, I first want to point out that this movement started when a young Bible student copied someone else's writing and published it without attribution, as his own. Many were fooled, that some great spiritual giant had arisen. Witness Lee even said that he was shocked when he found out how young Watchman Nee was - he thought he must be a wise old man! But when it was discovered that Watchman Nee was just cribbing Jessie Penn-Lewis, it was waved off, that it was some kind of homage. (try telling that to your 10th-grade history teacher)
Watchman Nee was a clever youth, with an apparently remarkable grasp of the English language. He later spoke at Keswick, and they were amazed at his language skill. So he was able to spin Jessie Penn-Lewis forth and it seemed like he was some kind of mystic. And when it was pointed out, the publisher admitted it but said, Hey, he's Chinese. They do this, you know; to them, it's not stealing.
So the act of appropriation was ignored, the clear warning sign was waved off, and they thronged to hear Nee, and a movement was born. But the seed, the root of it all was self-oriented will of fallen humanity. Everything that followed continued in this line, going right through Arlington Texas in 1987 and beyond.
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Originally Posted by PriestlyScribe
The most disgusting thing about this for me was to see the Trainers bashing the natural desire for boy-girl relationships while at the same time the head honcho of this operation Philip Lee, brother Lee's #1 son, was known by many to have a history of abusing women behind closed doors in the Living Stream Ministry Office!
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Many think that the predations of Lee's sons Philip and Timothy were some anomaly, a thing apart from the other experiences of the Lord's Recovery - but the entire LR existed to just provide a haven for their predations. Everything, all the speeches, the trainings, were there to provide a base, a nest for the Lee family.
One of the YouTube comments says that it reminds him of the Red Guards. Yes, and it should. The whole move, or training, is to create unthinking automatons who'll comply with whatever "flow" or "move" emerges from Witness Lee's household.
The man in the video keeps speaking of a "need". The needs of Lee and his progeny are now placed on the gathered hearers, and in Part Two, as Jake Jacobs gets dozens of naiive and easily swayed teens to pledge their lives to fill those of the Lee family. The man also says that America's youth now has potential, has promise. This shows that he knows that the source of the move, and it's beneficiary, isn't American, but something else. But is it heavenly, or is it rather earthly? If it's from heaven, that's one thing, but if it's cloaked Chinese imperialism then that's quite another. And the way you can tell is, look at the fruit - from the 1920s when Nee copied someone else without attribution, passed it off as his own work, and got away with it, to this very day, just look at the trail of rotten fruit.
There's nothing wrong with being Chinese. The Bible says, "Every tribe and tongue and nation" and that means every single one. But that's not what's being examined here. This is rather to expose cultural imperialism for what it is, a fallen human (satanic control) device and a poorly feigned one, at that. All the traits are there, waiting to be noticed. Once you see them, it's so obvious that it's impossible not to.
And that's what all the shouting slogans and fist pumping and yelling and waving was all about
: lose your face, submit, and don't pay attention to what you're actually doing, or the content of what's being said to you, and implied. The repetition has its purposes, the sing-song inflections, and the charismania is deliberate, and artfully employed. That's the delirium you see in the audience. Controlled frenzy used as a tool of a power-mad demagogue (or demi-god).