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In Reply to: Re: I think you're missing the point posted by porceleindoll on August 22, 2002 at 17:20:25:
Okay, here I go with an opinion, but don't worry folks, it is just an opinion! I think that at a Bulletin Board it is hard to express what you are wanting to say because you don't have a back and forth exchange, or any way to see/read body language, etc. IMO, the family preys upon vulnerabilities. We all have those. They choose people who are useful (youth, "kings" nd "queens" that are of value either for their services or protection/references.) I believe in religious freedom, but I also believe in the freedom to expose fraudulent religions. Did I believe the Family was "bad" when I was in it? No. I thought I was the one that was bad for having negative thoughts. That is how I was trained. When I joined I didn't even know there was a Mo until later. What I have against the family is the same, perhaps that you have against pedophiles.
As long as there are people at the top who call themselves the Endtime Shepherdess, or King and Queen demanding allegiance from those who have been under the influence of groupthought for years,they are one step away from passing out the Kool-Aid. I will be against it. Do I want to see every individual in the family roasted? No I want to see them free, except for the predators and the keepers of the doctrine. I feel this way because of my experience and my losses within the family. My choices were not so good when I entered, but my impression was that I had found an idealist bunch of young people with an enthusiasm for something that mattered. I didn't really have to cut off ties, I had already done that by leaving my home state and wandering into the pit of excitement and cutting edge (of shit, it turns out) of life in L.A. on the streets. It was very scary, but better than where I had come from, in some ways. Now, for my recovery, it is important for me to let out my anger and hurt towards where it came from. In part, it did come from Family experiences, and many were horrific. I do not expect you to understand this viewpoint. But I wish you did, probably because I admire you and your posts are always stimulating. Wouldn't this be a board where I could let it out? And isn't freedom a two way street? The right to be in an organization, and the right to expose it?
My hope is to offer support to others who want to get out or have gotten out and feel really raw. I am agnostic at most. My "faith" did not come out intact after my experience within either. I was 18 when I joined, a legal adult. But I don't feel like it was anywhere near being just a simple "choice" to get out. Hope you don't mind me posting to this, as it was not addressed to me.
