The Asian Mind/The Western Mind

[ACuriousFellow]

Originally Posted by TLFisher

"If you're not here for brother Lee and his ministry, you might as well not be here."
True quote, but paraphrased.

Conversely, many not only believe you should leave if you aren't there for Lee's ministry but also that there is no other ministry. There's nothing else out there.

(Timestamp ~ 1:36:46) If it’s attacking the Ministry, I wanna read the Ministry even more! *amen* Because wha-what else, wh-what’s being offered to me as an alternative? What else am I gonna do? Where el- where else am I gonna go? What’s my direction? If you take away the church life, if you take away, you know, being in the process of being formed as, as the army and building up the wall, what am I gonna do with my life? There’s no purpose in my life. I have found the purpose in my life *amen* And I’m not going to be deterred from this purpose because someone got offended.

A quote from a brother in The Lord's Recovery who was commenting on Jo Casteel's letter during the "Special Fellowship at the 2019 July Semiannual Training." .

I feel that while as a whole many Asian cultures lean more towards the community over the individual as opposed to Western culture which values the individual over the community, there is still very much a lot of "group think" that can be found in both cultures. For instance, the "group think" of Asian cultures is that the community is more valuable than the individual, and if you stand against that you are generally shunned or ignored. Conversely, in Western culture the group think is that the individual matters more than the community, and if you stand against that you are usually ignored or shunned. When one side looks at the other, they may be led to believe that communities have no value in the West and that the individual has no value in the East.

This is interesting food for thought to me.