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In Reply to: you make some excellent observations posted by anovagrrl on October 30, 2003 at 07:10:03:
I know that I was pretty low on self esteem when I joined, which is why I joined. I was willing to forsake all and lose my life that I might save it, as His message said, "He that loses his life for My Name's sake, the same shall save it." I knew that I had made a major mess of my life prior to joining the Fam and I was desparate enough, and willing enough, to be taught and trained, reparented. I can see plainly now, thanks to the exmember boards, that I was being rapidly boiled. God have mercey!
I'm not sure just what Karen's pathology is, but she sure strikes me as having been completely boiled now. I think she bought the deception and the delusion, as did we, hook, line, and sinker. After all, he (Berg) was the Endtime Prophet, the David of the End, hearing from God for today. I guess she believes that what she did, she did in love, or for love - just my opinion. Why she continues, well....he's up there talking to her still, I guess.
Mirriam Williams touched on some of the dependent personality dissorder things in her book, "Heaven's Harlots" when searching for herself in her coming out. Aside from her own childhood abuse, she traced some of her dependence imbalances to her mother's modelling. And her dad, well, he was no less abusive, imo, than was Berg. Thank God Mirriam was strong enough to break that generational curse and cycle - good for her. As Dr. Phil said to one of his battered patients on one of his programs, "It's better to be healthy alone than to be sick with somebody else!"
