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In Reply to: NEW and IMPROVED THE FAMILY posted by Jeb on November 02, 2006 at 23:03:29:
"There seems to be so much hate on these boards."
There seems to be more hatred in The Family's literature. It has not renounced doctrines of anti-semitism. http://www.exfamily.org/cgi-bin/gf.pl?fmt=dyn&t=articles&m=1&s=&r=art/exmem/bergs_anti-semitism.shtml
I am much more loving now, since I learned to stop hitting and abusing my children according to TF's teachings, and espcially since I have learned to love myself nd know that I deserve more than living a life of lying to myself and others.
"Everyone loves to blame someone else for thier [sic] screwed up lives."
Everyone? I don't blame anyone but myself for allowing my life to be screwed up. But now that I'm no longer a member of TF it's not screwed up anymore.
"Take ownership of your life, learn from the past and move forward."
I did, that's why I had to leave. The Family doesn't allow people to take owenership of their lives. I have learned not to be fooled by any more pipe dreams, and I am moving forward by encouraging the public to be aware of the damage a cult like The Family can cause in the personal lives of anyone it touches.
"People are so pissed about rumors and misdeeds, they lose sight of the big picture."
I'm not pissed off about anything. Seems more like The Family is pissed off anyone who has been in their circle dares to see differently and speak up against them. The bigger picture is the con game, pretending you're a loose-knit fraternity of missionaries helping others, when all you're mostly doing is caring about keeping your lifestyle of lying to yourself and others alive.
"People joined the Family of love to spread love."
Yes, and all I learned in The Family of Love was conditional love and fake love, love that you put on like a boy scout on steroids. Most of all I learned not to love myself.
"The Family has matured and done some house cleaning."
There is a difference between repentance and complying with the law because you have to. There is a difference between taking taking responsibility for things you know you were wrong about, and denying culpability.
"They do not hate any lost sheep that degrade them in the media."
First of all the only lost sheep there are, are the ones who haven't left The Family. But why you call people who speak against you Vandari, and say they are paid by the media to lie? Why call them "bitter," "apostates," "backsliders," and so on?
"The family would be sorely miss by the world if anything were to happen.
The world would be a better place without them.
"Just think of all the good you could do with energy it takes to hate."
I used more hate energy in The Family than now. I had to hate my parents, my old systemite friends, the government, the church, anybody who wouldn't listen and tried to stop us, I had to pray curses of death and disease on people who left. Now I don't even want to waste any more energy trying to remember all the hate I was supposed to have in the name of love.
"If you don,t want anything to do with the family thats fine."
Fine. So what's your problem?
"But, grow up and move on."
I did, why don't you move on and leave a life of pretending games?
"Quit being babies on the tit."
Can you survive on your own two feet like a responsible member of society, earning honest wages based on your skills? Instead of milking gullible civic minded useful members of society our of their hard-earned money?
"THere is to many souls to save to worry about a bunch media whores and belly achers."
The Family doesn't save souls. It messes people up the closer they get to them. "Media whores?" Tsk tsk. A lot of hate in you isn't there?
"Everthing you complain about is in the distant past with an church that no is longer around."
I don't complain, just state the facts. There is something called legacy. The past doesn't get wiped away. A lot of what you describe as past is still practised today.
"THat was the Children of God, not The Family."
"Sematic posturing" is the term used by Lord Justice Ward.
"Quit being upset about a rumor from 1975."
You think that's all there is? Some rumour 31 years ago? Why kid yourself?
"Who cares, just you and no one else in the whole wide world."
Pretty much the whole world does. Look at all the worldwide negative publicity you've received in the last 2 years.
