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In Reply to: Re: Guilt, guilt guilt posted by archivist on September 11, 2003 at 16:22:12:
As much as some want to make this a generational thing, it isn't. We would be asking the same questions to a bunch of FGs or TGs. In fact, I'm convinced we'd be asking it a lot meaner and rougher.
Our individual experiences are very different. Some of us lived in different locations where the degree of abuse and crime were different. Some left in the beginning, some much later. Some witnessed more than others, and some participated in more than others, i.e. some shoulder more blame than others.
As far as my responsibility and burden of guilt goes, I definitely feel it, but mostly on what I have done to my own children. They have issues to this day, because of being a young child in TF. A few times I did witness brutal spankings and I did not stop it. A couple of times I saw young teens too sexually aware and on the prowl, but I did not witness any sexual abuse or the severe treatments of the VCs. I am guilty of making love in with my children in the same room, but they were small enough not to remember any of this. Of course, I heartily agree with Jules who said that we were guilty if we saw the davidito book and did nothing. I saw that book, but the sexual aspects were never in practice around me, and never saw it enforced by any shepherds. In fact it was a shock when I discovered these sites and started reading about all the horrible things that had been happening to SGs as a result of such publications.
