Experiences in South Florida Around 1980

[Plenteous]

Originally Posted by Igzy

Dear Plenteous,

Though I appreciate and respect your instinct to defend your dear father from public accusation, I feel you have zero sympathy for the pain awareness was put through by the inexcusable disciplinary practices of the Local Church movement. This is typical of LC loyalists. They don't give a whit about the pain the movement has caused. That's a sign of fanaticism.

You and I both know what "poisoning" meant in the LC movement. It meant saying something negative about Witness Lee or his teachings. In other words, "poisoning" was to verbally resist the brain-washing of this movement in oneself and others. Calling speaking against Witness Lee "poisoning" is not a subjective characterization--it's a fanatical characterization. Only someone seriously lacking in the ability to engage in balanced, independent thought would put such a thing in such terms.

I don't approve of awaresness' caustic words and I feel he needs to let things go and move on. Life is too short. But your clear lack of sympathy for the suffering this man who Christ died for was put through confirms what I already know about the LC movement. It was about sacrificing many people for one man's vision, and awareness was one of those thrown under the bus for Witness Lee's sake.

Igzy, Awareness is old enough to be my father (at least). I am a young man. It is difficult for me to respond graciously to someone who would recklessly post this kind of venom:

So as far as I'm concerned Dale Jackson is a chump, and deserves is name to be dragged out in public. The fact that he's still in the LC speaks volumes about him, and his lack of sound mind.

If his kids are in the LC I feel sorry for them.

Please read that again.

In a later post, he compares me and my father to schizophrenics. No one invited these vicious attacks. Now, you have said that I, and/or my father, are brain-washed and fanatical and unable to "engage in balanced, independent thought."

All of this is based on Awareness' uncorroborated account of a meeting decades ago.

How am I expected to respond?