Will the F. survive?

Posted By: MG
Date: Tuesday, 9 July 2002, at 7:32 p.m.

I thought I'd post up here because things get lost at the bottom sometimes.

No, I never said anything about predicting an imminent collaspe of the F. I agree with you it isn't something easily predicted. That book sound interesting. I have a daughter still in the F and she has been in WS adminstration type stuff for a long time, her faith and convictions that she's in God's Will waver not, and there are many just like her. I believe the Lord honors those motivations in spite of how wrong Berg was about a lot of things, and how wrong Maria and Peter are about a lot of things still.

I see it like this, as with all the "moves of the Spirit" that the F's had over and over again these past 30+ years, there were prophecies about these "moves" predicating mind boggling-grandiose-unimaginable success that never came to pass.

Recently in the F there has been countless prophecies about the F gaining 100,000's of new "activated" members, and attaining financial success that the Family has never known. There were even prophecies in '94 that the F was going to become a world "financial power". But the fact is, right now today many Family members live a hand to mouth existance. We had a F missionary from China come to stay with us a few days because she could not even afford the youth hostel. She has a daughter she'd like to visit in Africa before her daughter goes to work behind the scenes in WS, can the Family pay a trip for her to visit her daughter before her daughter goes to an unknown location? No! The F has been a financial flop in more ways than one. Of course they say the Lord's hands are tied and He can't bestow those blessings on them because too many F members have compromised their obedience.

At any rate these bombastic success stories simply don't come to pass, they never did, not with Berg and certainly not now with Maria. One of Maria's first flops after Berg died was the "Who Said They're Dead" books, and the incredible worldwide success they were going to be once they got published, there were all kinds of prophecies about it, and Maria was just so excited about it... the pubs don't say whether or not she almost peed in her pants. But what happened, it turns out that they would have been in big legal trouble and faced law suits publishing some of the "Who Said They're Dead" messages. Not to mention that one of the messages was from someone who hadn't even died yet.

I think, the Family will continue to manage to survive with a certain amount of very limited success here and there, by some Family members that do "make a difference" in their local areas. But the results they are having is really zilch compared to what Peter and Maria have predicted.

Now that the SG's are having there own children, who are not getting a chance to go to real schools and get quality education, it won't be long before they have another crop of angry young people leaving them, wishing they could have had more opportunity and preparation for the real world.

So no family collaspe in that sense, but no success story either. These are my predictions, but Yogi Berra makes sense.

Indian dahl? We ate so much dahl sometimes because we out of money, I don't really miss the dahl. However I do miss some of those other dishes we would get now and then when we ate out.