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Re: Taking the money & running

Posted by kinda gentler on August 25, 2004 at 18:55:57

In Reply to: Re: Taking the money & running posted by DA on August 24, 2004 at 22:59:52:

Okay, penn was in a top leadership position. I assume it took years to get there and in those years was a series of breakings, humiliations, programming? I don't know. I think it is GREAT when people close to the top come out and speak against THE top. It is the head of the snake that needs to be targeted to stop the insanity. imo, it is self defeating to have a chasm between generations. Not all FGs were perps. Many were clear victims too. MANY were endlessly sent on the road to raise funds raise funds raise funds with short breaks of rest. Many women were turned out that did not want to be, REALLY believing it was right from God in spite of the pain. MANY FGs felt trapped by the fear factor and presentation of God as hitman in the sky ready to strike whoever stepped out of line.
NOW THAT WE ARE EXERS, MUCH could be accomplished by united efforts whether divided efforts by FGs and SGs or united efforts. In the family it is CLEAR that we were pitted against each other and even ourselves. Go to any board and see how we can tear at each other and criticise each other. That is part of collateral damage of having been in the family for any length of time, or having been raised in it.
So I am GLAD for people like Penn and Ricky that are goal oriented and EXERS. And I don't blame ANY current family member that utilizes funds or any resources to get out. The anger at people would be better served aimed at specific child molesters, ones OWN parents or FG overseers that were abusive and at the top of the group, maria and Peter instead of categorically misdirecting that anger towards all FGs even those that are exers for years now. Perhaps other hush-money people have not stepped forward that could offer much info. to bring down the queen of shit if they did not feel threatened for simply having been recruited as a youth without knowing the nature of the beast, or growing up into the org that it devolved into and having held some key position.
Some SGs do not understand that there are VALID REASONS that some FGS feel as angry as they do about their own respective losses. AND THEY ARE MANY.