Posted by Candy on February 12, 2004 at 21:27:00
In Reply to: Re: FCF Benefits from PR/ While Exers Ignored posted by Mr. Don on February 11, 2004 at 06:13:17:
Lucky you Mr. Don to be an apologist for the cult. 'You' made your 'free' choice to join and to leave and so did we you say. Black and white, so simple, you seem to think. Were you ever my CRO? Sounds like it!
Maybe you can't face the pain yet. Maybe just having 'choice' means to you that you were free in your simple-minded journey in the cult.
Like Watchman on Larry King informing us of his tragic choice that was supported by leadership and the "Word" of god-berg, what a sad situation--a free choice he could never live with. He felt it trapped him, compromised him, destroyed his stability and eventually his life.
Didn't the CRo's and other top leadership glory in their faults and sins? Like it was required form for leadership at the top to commit the ultimate act that then shrouded the leaders in a code of, not silence exactly, but rather a self-righteous sanctimonious retelling and fable-making of the sin in a self-promoting and cult-royalty-promoting "gaga" method that left us stupid jerks on the street looking like the peons that we were: In awe of leadership's higher skills at rhetoric.
You sound like leadership material to me. Perhaps the Cro's didn't recognize that in you soon enough. You may perhaps want to look at the movie "Training Day" with Denzel Washington, about a rookie cop who gets 'trained' by a corrupt veteran. You will see how an idealistic young man can be coerced into taking dope, drinking on the job, violence, and general corruption--all the while making the 'correct choices' as dictated by his leader.
It's a study in nuanced and complex and cognitive thinking--not sloganeering and chanting of tired cliches hoping that the bad will go away. Free choice does not always denote liberty!
That's why the cry: Give me liberty or give me death!