Posted by an other on December 27, 2002 at 14:23:01
In Reply to: question to "an other" posted by Jen on December 24, 2002 at 10:59:55:
Hi Jen! I just saw this post. To answer your question, now that the Vandari curse has been explained, the other comparisons (re: implants and curse ala Dr. MOreau style) are the many things that people were taught about leaving the family, i.e. : You will harm your children and family by doing it, God can get you wherever you are and destroy you horribly for disobedience, or curses on people that left or people that rebuffed the family. Then you leave and if things go bad it is easy to believe in that magical thinking sort of way that you are the cause of it because you left the family. Or many people prayed that God would kill them if they ever left the gates (of the family). Or the family was encouraged to pray and curse others in situations where the fam was rejected. Or testimonies were published about how others were catastrophically affected because of rejecting the family. Internally we were taught and reinforced with the idea that we were nothing. We were also conditioned to believe that God could kill us if we held back any doubt, any thought that did not fit with family thought, or any actions done by ourselves or others. And I could go on and on...this is just a few examples of internal triggers which can affect us long after leaving the fam.
Also, it is interesting to note that Abner died in the motorcycle wreck due to his own carelessness. (Riding on a bad road, no helmet, and appearing to have been intoxicated with a few other top leaders.) Why then is it that Mo knowingly extolled the virtues of abner in public saying that God took him to "Stand in the Gap" in a place of honor, but the average member was severely dealt with or would have been greatly dishonored? Seems to me, Mo was very corrupt and twisted from the get go. (This as a mild expression about what I think about him.)