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In Reply to: Re: Does anyone know this guy - urgent posted by Visitor on December 17, 2003 at 12:27:18:
Visitor...I think I know him too, but just barely. He looks a lot older now(like all the rest of us). If this was the same guy, that Faithy was harboring then I know him.
Do I know you visitor? Fortunately, most of the time in Peru, I was demoted to being a catacomb. But, I think it was God protecting me and I sure didn't mind. I didn't have to put up with all the bs and having stupid people tell me what to do.
You know it really gets me how unscriptual the whole thing was and is in "the family" . The bible says, "there is no respector of persons-Gal 3:28" yet the tf leadership kept catering to people supposely that would have helped them. Anyone with money, prestige, musician, dignitaries,but, the rest of us were cannon fodder and treated so. I mean how disgracing...sent out to litness...for hours... then giving all the money to who knows where? Watching Jethro drive around in Mercedes and the rest of us having to beg for our food. They must have torn the pages out of their Bible about "no respector of persons".
Most of us earlier ones were very antiSystem, we unfortuntely got out of the system into a worse system. It still dumbfounds me to this day why some of us didn't get up and say something. Shake off the dust of our feet so to speak and leave them. Just before I left the family in Peru in 78, I was with my Peruvian wife and living at her parents home. Deborah called us all to a meeting at Juan Carlos house, she had a pair of sunglasses on and behind her sunglasses my wife and I noticed she had two black eyes. Remember all the corny marriage letters she wrote with DBs approval? God what hyprocrisy! I thought I should get up and say something and leave. But, my wife held me back from doing so, reminding me the last time that I stood up they gave us a purging session then demoted us to catacombs. But, after that meeting that was it for me. It was like an awakening for me, then reality set in, that I had lived a lie for the past 10 years of my life. I can't explain it, but it was like the blinders came off my eyes. It was very shocking.
I can't say that God and his still small voice didn't stop talking to me and telling me to get out of there for years. But, I use to listen to their (tf)bs,"if you have doubts keep them to yourself" and their other bs propganda.
I should tell you of some other things that had happen in the early days and when some abuse began. The seeds of abuse were already there. I was too young, too naive, too ignorant to understand and recognize them.
I don't understand to this day why we had to go through what we did. It took me years to get over it. I don't feel sorry for myself, except for the wasted years that I could have been more productive.
