Posted by Suggestion on March 16, 2005 at 22:14:02
In Reply to: M.A. thesis interview needed posted by Monika Kosz on March 13, 2005 at 15:05:15:
One reason why your posts have not been answered for so long, is you are probably asking stock questions, instead of having a read around the site to see what the people are about. Your questions seem to be questions of someone not very informed about the nature of this group. It makes it too hard for people to explain.
There are articles on this site that tell the story of how ex-members lived. If you've read any of them, you'd understand how your question don't really apply or seem relevant at all.
Did you know most of us never saw the leader, if you are referring to David Berg?
Did you know that festivals were not always a big part of our involvment?
How do we describe the posters? There were so many!
Abbreviations were used, some can be found in this site's Research and Glossary section.
How we started our day varied from home to home, but there were common themes, like breakfast and reading.
Greetings werehugs, exchanges of internal terms.
New members were love bombed, and only shown the less controversial writings and practices.
I leave the rest of the question to others. They fall in the too-complicated-to-answer or where-do-I-begin categories.
Perhaps you should read more and interact more and return with more focused questions.