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In Reply to: Re: moral dilemma posted by Rocky on December 09, 2002 at 20:48:34:
I don't know what else to say. Two wrongs don't make a right. And right and wrong are matters of perspective. As you can see from recent posts, I have been belittled for having shared about my victimization in the past(though I haven't spoken of it recently, by comparison to how long I have been on line and spoken at all.)
Now you are on board with plenty of compassion for youth, and that is good. I just don't see compassion for adults as being wrong. Especially in the context of recovery from the fam. cult experience. Sometimes the lines can be drawn so hard that it is difficult to know the difference between what needs dismantling and who is doing it. Do the ends justify the means? I think this is reasonable discussion. The Davidito series came out in the late seventies. You didn't read it, or did you have a delayed response to it when you left in 83? And the abuse of women? For that matter, the abuse of men? I came on line with conclusions about who was and was not pro family because of what people told me or wrote about others, sometimes what people wrote themselves. Am I an enemy now because I now know that Ray works with people who have left cults and so it does tend to confuse my previous conclusions about others? I also left (Dec. 82) around the same time you did. But if i am honest with myself, I would have to tell you that I felt like God would kill me and that I was wrong. That was my frame of mind. I am definitely not pro-family, definitely anti-Berg, Maria and Peter.
Some of what is posted over the past few months sounds (to me) almost like an expectation similar to the Chinese Revolution when older people were publically humiliated and ridiculed by youth under Mao. More and more people were found guilty for crimes against the people. There was much corruption in the previous system, but did it get replaced with a better one?
