Two Year Training Testimonies

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Freedom

When looking at the training from the outside, I think you would be hard pressed to find an example besides the training where people are willing to surrender so much of their freedom. Simply put, it's abnormal. Just thinking about it gets me upset. I'm so happy I saw past it all and decided not to attend.

The reason for the excessive legalism was to train these future leaders that their spiritual life and service was nothing without LSM.

In the bi-annual trainings, all the parents and elders of these trainees were constantly reminded of the pitiful job they had done to date, and how much remediation work was needed to be accomplished by LSM / FTTA.

The Great Lakes Area eventually learned that the Trainers used their bully pulpit to poison the young people against the very leadership which had encouraged and financed their attendance in the FTTA. The trainees would return with suspicions directed at their parents, their elders, and the regional leaders, and had serious issues fitting into the church life and normal daily life outside of the FTTA.

[Cal]

The "training" model was something Nee invented and Lee perfected. It's an expression of their domineering natures in the context of backwards mainland China 70 years ago. It's an archaic, extremely flawed model, which produces short-term compliance and long-term stupidity.

The only reason it is still around is because to change it would be to admit something about Nee and Lee wasn't perfect and eternal.

Even the military and most sports coaches have abandoned the strict disciplinarian approach to leadership. There is a better way. Reasonable rules are fine and needed, but rules that exist just to show the trainees that they are being ruled, to break their wills, are abusive.

Every day the LRC becomes more of an anachronism. I feel sorry for the kids that grow up there. They receive a very warped view of life and God.

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Igzy

The "training" model was something Nee invented and Lee perfected. It's an expression of their domineering natures in the context of backwards mainland China 70 years ago. It's an archaic, extremely flawed model, which produces short-term compliance and long-term stupidity.

I understand it was said at a aha moment, when two Leebots were talking :

"Witness Lee goes fishing with a straight hook, you have to want to get caught."

If you go to their trainings you have definitely been caught ... at your own peril.

[awareness]

What happened to the video of the training? I can't find it.

[aron]

Originally Posted by Igzy

The "training" model was something Nee invented and Lee perfected. It's an expression of their domineering natures in the context of backwards mainland China 70 years ago. It's an archaic, extremely flawed model, which produces short-term compliance and long-term stupidity.

This quote is a bit harsh in tone, but useful medicine in that it lets us look at: 1) personality; 2) culture; and 3) effect. All worth considering.

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Ohio

In the bi-annual trainings, all the parents and elders of these trainees were constantly reminded of the pitiful job they had done to date, and how much remediation work was needed to be accomplished by LSM / FTTA.

Seems a lot as the direction Obama's administration is heading in. You don't suppose Barrack learned his craft from LSM do you? I see many a parallel. Publicly speaking positive words, lack of transparency, etc.
Back to the quote of Ohio's, total disregard of parental responsibility. Remediation work is usurping the role of the parent.