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New article by SGA, former FCF staff member

Posted by Webmaster on January 31, 2003 at 06:57:33

WANT HIGHER EDUCATION? GETTING SMARTER AND MAKING IT PAY!

My experience as an ex-Family member trying to make college work.

CHOOSING BETWEEN COLLEGE OR CULT- WHY BOTH WERE UNLIKELY

It's hardly necessary to explain why taking college classes or working for a degree has virtually been impossible for Charter Members of the Family, unless they find some major excuse as to why taking a class might work for the group to in some way achieve its strictly-defined religiously-oriented goals. Even then, as a member born in the group it was difficult for me to get my previous Home members to vote on such an issue as the possibility of outside education, being that the Family's literature was considered "all that one really has to know"...

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