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In Reply to: Re: Leaving the cult posted by Joseph on February 03, 2004 at 22:53:09:
I like grayscale exposés, one thing the Family experience left me with was an allergy to seeing the world in black white terms. IMHO Joseph's explanations illumine some of the many shades gray that are involved in this picture.
The lies that I believed when I was a Family member are clear to me now, these I can easily judge in black and white terms. However when I was still in the Family, and very half heartedly so for those last years, none of that was clear. Even after I left, it took some time and honest "soul" searching before I realized what a sham and despicable charade that is still being carried on by Zerby and Kelly and people like Grant.
Having the boards to come to had a lot to do with getting the Family out of me. When I think about it, I remember my first posts, anti-Berg but not yet venting, there was a real feeling of exicitement, even danger, with tinges of trepidation, but what a charge and how liberating it was to click, upload, and to see a part of me, my experience, online. And then there was this growing excitement as I'd go back to the boards the next day to participate in more interaction from the rest of the exmember board community.
I've evolved a lot, and I still am, at my own speed.
