How Can This Forum Improve?

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Truth

Ohio, the purpose of attracting current LC members is much more clear to me now. It looks like you would like to provide a forum where current members who have issues with the LC but may not be able to voice within the organization.

I am more or less content with the LC I am in right now. However, I was interested in this site not so much because I have any issues with the LC as it is, but I really like hearing and discussing the other side of the LC history. As a member of the LC, to me it is important to know the truth behind the history.

I think one reason why the LC likes to hide history may be due to the influence of the Chinese culture. Typically, the Chinese (as a nation and individually) do not like bring up the past if it is negative. Instead of admitting to wrongs, they tend to pretend things never happened. Witness Lee was Chinese, I'm sure this hiding thing is very much a part of who he was. Though at the end of his life, he did admit to mistakes he's made publicly, but still very general, no specific details.

Apparently another part of Chinese culture is to protect one's children above all. It was common knowledge among LC workers and SoCal elders that "to touch Phillip is to touch Witness Lee himself." Perhaps WL's most serious error was to employ his profligate son as Office Manager, and then to protect him at all cost. Many a precious brother was sacrificed to preserve the Lee legacy.

I liken the recent scandal at Penn State to what happened at LSM years ago. Like the venerable JoePa, Brother Lee was never himself accused of sexual impropriety, but did orchestrate coverups which allowed problems to go on unchecked for years while more innocent victims were hurt. The facts have now proven that both knowingly lied, and used their reputations to subdue others in authority. Both WL and JoePA used their overly-elevated status of power and authority to silence all who brought sordid accusations against their "house" which in any way might damage their pristine images. In the end both suffered great loss by sacrificing righteousness and integrity for short term gains.

As one writer has said, "Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!", and Another who said, "What you have whispered in secret, shall be shouted from the housetops."