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the truth about Zerby's mind and influences...

Posted by TOM JONES/THE BOOK on January 30, 2006 at 21:51:15

In Reply to: Hiding evidence & the truth vs. recanting & recalling (2nd Try) posted by Researcher on January 22, 2006 at 10:24:38:

She had a formative experience as a teen reading the literary classic TOM JONES (not the singer).

While not a easy read (maybe she's not such a numbskull after all, and fully complicite and responsible for every atrocity in the FAMILY), it does shed light on Zerbes' mindset.

He, TOM JONES, was a rascally rogue with the mythical-ever-loving-good-heart, (like Zerby imagines of Berg? like the hand-picked leadership Zerbes' idealistically surrounds herself with?)

TOM JONES enjoyed a libertine life; some incest, some whoring, at one point he may be screwing a woman who could be his mother, running, all kinds of scandel and what not, but of course, in true romantic, utopian fashion it all turns out right in the end.

A fantasy for dreamers--a primer for an idealistic cult leader who cannot discern good from evil and the real from illusion.