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[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Ohio

When i went to the FTTT with other elders and deacons, they had some kid come thru the dorm room writing up citations for our underwear drawers while we were gone.

Lee constantly preached his mantra of all LC'ers needing training. At the FTTT he created new standards by which to reinforce this directive from on high. Can't arrange your underwear? You need more training! Now is the time for you to get trained. Sing along with me to the old Bob Dylan tune, "Everybody must get trained!"

Well, they'll train ya when you're trying to be so good
They'll train ya just a-like they said they would
They'll train ya when you're tryin' to go home
Then they'll train ya when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get trained.

Sounds so good, huh? Those folks at LSM must really care for us! Nice to have these good folks caring for our health and spiritual well-being, isn't it?

Actually ...

Their use of young kids to check the elders' underwear models the tactics of Mao's Red Guards. Lee and Son stole the playbook from those old commies and used it where they could get away with it. You want to destroy a society, both old and young at the same time? Then use the young to disgrace the old. In this way, both are irreparably damaged.

This was Lee's stealth motive underlying the "New Way." Whether the FTT Taipei, the FTT Anaheim, or the young people's FTT in Irving. It was the destruction of the order of an established system, which was supposedly built on local church autonomy, led by local elders, "each answering to the Lord," or so the song goes. (Hymnal #824)

This is just part of the glaring contradictions which old LCers must stomach. Back in the cobwebs of their distant memories are the stories of spiritual liberation from those oppressive and deadening denominations. Compare that to the daily regulations passed down from the Blendeds in Anaheim. As The Who's classic song "Won't Get Fooled Again" concludes, "Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss," or probably worse.