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In Reply to: Re: Interesting Gen-X article posted by Oldtimer on September 20, 2006 at 00:46:01:
I made a list of when we received some of pre FFing letters. If you remember FFing was officially introduced to us through the overall membership through the King Arthur's Nights series in early summer '76.
The dates on the letter indicate when Berg wrote it the letter, not when it was sent to the overall family. Where I was, once the letters "Birthday Warning" and "Old Bottles" had been published, even the 'babes' got the hear the new wine.
I have a photographic memory, so I can remember the time and place I first heard these letters.
"MOUNTIN MAID!"--MO December 27, 1970 GP N0.240 --Inspired by contemplations in Israel
(But it wasn't published for the overall membership until summer '73.)
"ONE WIFE"--MO October 28, 1972 GP No.249
(Overall family members didn't get this until summer '73.)
"REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN"--MO June 20, 1973 NO.250--GP
(We received this one that same summer, '73.)
"WOMEN IN LOVE"--MO December 20, 1973 GP No.292
(We received this one in early '74.)
THE "ALL THINGS" TREE--Scriptures selected and edited by Stephen & MO NO.302A--DFO--March 21, 1974
(This was sent out about the same time as "Women in Love", in '74.
"THE LAW OF LOVE!"--Another Letter on "ALL THINGS"!--MO March 21, 1974 NO.302C--DO
(Also came pretty much right away after it was written, in early summer of '74)
This was this letter, because of the illustration of the 'sister' on the cross with the nail in her vagina, that gave my conscious almost enough of a shock to plan to leave the family. But I had met my future wife at this time, and I brainwashed enough in believing that 'God's End-Time Prophet' wasn't going to get it wrong, "I will not lie unto David" ...so as James P. says, I compartmentalized my misgivings.
So I think that any of us who were around in '74, had a pretty good idea of what the 'doctrine" of sharing was about, even though FFing and sharing weren't practiced by most of the overall family membership until the RNR in early '78.
