|
In Reply to: Re: FF reports. posted by Laura on August 20, 2003 at 19:47:18:
You just triggered off some bad memories. I lived both in rich homes that did a lot of FFing, and in poor homes that didn't focus on FFing.
In the poor homes, we lived on provisioned goods. These were places where FFing or litnessing was not much of an option. the difficulties we had when dealing with the monthly TRF, and how tyrannical TF had become!! Boogieman Berg wanted 10% of all income, including even provisioned goods. So if we had donated food and clothes and furniture and timber supplies for our school room, we were to send in 10% of the estimated cost of all that. Well that often came to $20,000 worth of goods and we could not resell the supplies just to tithe. Coming up with $2,000 worth of tithe money was impossible, when we lived on $500 cash donations each month. I wonder if Ho sent in several hudred thousand dollars in tithes when Ikea donated a warehouse full of furniture and parts to him in Macau. Somehow I really doubt it.
We were made to feel bad, like we were doing something wrong. You would get that idea simply from reading the letters, like IRFers beware. You got a real clear message, that if you were a TRFer, you were supposed to FF, if you FFed God would bless you and you wouldn't be so poor, and the only reason you were poor was God wasn't blessing, because you were disobedient. Families would arrive from richer FF areas, full of toys like VCRs, cameras, slide projectors, micro-cassette recorders and hundreds of micro-tapes which were very expensive in those days, with the entire MWM series and Boogieman Berg tapes. There was the clear understanding that these families were blessed because they obeyed and FFed.
