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In Reply to: Re: Forget the infighting and get on with life posted by Jay on August 24, 2002 at 22:56:24:
the family has done is an issue that I strongly diagree with your comparisons on. Firstly, "persecuting" the family is, IMO the wrong choice of adjective. "exposing" the family for the sakes of those within as well as without is more accurate. Much has been written about these goals, and not all that post here are participants, only those who choose to be. Secondly, there is no inflated ego involved in this endeavor as it is largely an anonymous undertaking of people that were never high profile people within the family. No individuals are looking for 15 or more minutes of fame. Much pro-active discussion has taken place here with gathering of resources for people who want to leave the family, as well as postings about real life stories of families torn apart because of the family. Thirdly, this board has a focus, from what I understand that caters to people who have left the family without an intact religion or faith. This is largely a result of sex abuse, and other abuses within. Not because of free crappy food, or whatever. There was far too much discomfort and denial of self while top leaders thrived, in spite of a largely intelligent group of young people that had joined. There was no lack of work within either. That said, I hope the top gets chopped and the family members learn to be independent missionaries, or go about normal lives with help as needed. I want to support people in whatever way I can that want to get out. That is another goal. There are good articles, and so on here, which is increasingly unavoidably available to current CMs and FMs, and often what stops them is fear of disaster (due to family programming) and fear of surviving and getting started on the outside. I have no queen or king, and for that, I am truly grateful.
