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Rhetoric... Vitriol... Exposure... Vindication... and the audience?

Posted by MG on October 07, 2002 at 00:59:07

It is often said that many current F members read this board. I hope that's true. Whether it's many or few, some of the F members that do come here have questions in their minds about what to do with their lives, and what would they do if they left the F. They have legitimate doubts about the GN's and about a lot of what they've believed for years on end. As we know, these doubts are not an "attack of the enemy" to get them "to leave God's highest Will" as they've been taught.

But I wonder if the language we use sometimes isn't counter productive for this kind of reader. Most of the time we are writing to each other, an ex member community, and in our passion to express our feelings we get vitriolic. For example: calling the stipend that DB said Mother Eve should get "hush money".

To the F member we've been branded as disgruntled detractors, tools in the Enemy's hands to bring harm to the God's Work, God's Kingdom and His messengers. I have 2 daughters and one is still in the F and she said to me, "Why should I read what Davidito wrote about Berg and his mother. He wants to see every adult Family member thrown in jail, and all our children taken away." That's how they look at us ex-member-internet-message-board-posting-world-citizens. --She of course never read what Ricky wrote but she that's what she was told that he wrote. (After hearing that, I read again what Ricky wrote and he never said that anyway, but he sure did do a good job exposing Berg, his mother, etc.)

What do others think: Should we expose the unconfessed crimes, the hypocrisy, the false doctrines, and the overall weirdness of F leadership without excessive vitriol? Sometimes we need the therapy of screaming in pain about some of those things in our past and how can that be done without the passion of no holds barred language.