I've watched a little of the videotapes, not very much.
My takeaways:
1. All men that I have seen so far. Where are the women?
2. Seems like all the discussion comes from politically conservative standpoint. But we have to consider that the "curator" of this collection may have selected these clips purely on that basis.
3. Gerrit Gong seems to be a go-to guy. Kind of funny. He's a family acquaintance (I don't personally know him at all). State department guy, and then he does all these presentations, and then he becomes a Seventy. He was and is in the circle of trust.
4. Church meetings are boring at every level of the church.
5. One wonders how the presenters and speakers get selected. Imagine how much influence that is, to determine who is making presentations and what they will present.
6. I hope we get to learn more about what sort of diversity there is in viewpoints that are presented to the church leaders.
In other words, these videos are about as exactly as one would expect.
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