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In Reply to: Re: How irresponsible! posted by John Jr. on March 25, 2005 at 14:59:39:
You know, when you write this I can remember thinking this would come way back before I even had children. Or shortly after I had my first one, I can't remember.
It is parallel to Hitler's schools for youth that raised their second generation to be more "pure" and it is most unfortunate.
For one thing, I learned that my gut feeling if it didn't coincide with the group doctrine that it was the devil. It took a lot for conscience to override doctrine and still when I first left I felt wrong.
I cannot imagine what it would be like to grow up learning the bizarre family doctrines of channeling, keys, LJR, etc. that SG would be bombarded with from earliest memory.
I think it will take drastic measures as in some sort of international intervention that has serious consequences to some people, like PS and others, to shake the followers to the core and maybe wake a few of them up.
I read the book "Wild Swans" written by an SG of the days of Mao's cultural revolution and history before and after that. So I know it is possible even growing up in all that to escape that.
One thing that might help is some facts from different generations. For instance, when I was recruited as a teen, having just turned 18, I remember being told we (the youth of that day) were God's endtime army, the cream of the crop. I would be confused about that because I thought inside "Then why are we having babies if it is the endtime?" But of course to voice anything that challenged doctrine or belief was "of the devil".
I read a quote here where Maria is encouraging teens to reproduce and follow the Law Of Love and have children. Yet with the end near, how come the new cream of the crop needs another generation to train to be the endtime cream of the crop? Oh well. Go figure.
What I hope the internet provides is a way to put the puzzle out there and cause SOME to think. Already it is useful to do so much more than could be accomplished without the technology available today.
I am glad for your efforts.
