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In Reply to: Re: did you witness anything bad posted by boomb ox on July 16, 2009 at 11:20:45:
Where do I even begin?
I saw people being unfairly dealt with by leadership. I saw children being spanked, sometimes very harshly. I saw the Davidito book. I saw videos of semi-nude children dancing. I saw people being coerced into having sex, into prostituting themselves. I was propositioned by a 14-year old. I saw people lying to get money from the public. The list is too long.
Although I was bothered most of these things, I didn't always realize they were wrong, or I was in a weakened state of mind, or was in a bad situation myself, and thus didn't always do anything about it. Sometimes sexual things appeared pure and innocent to me, and if I thought there was something wrong with it, I had been drilled to attribute it to my own dirty mind (unto the pure all things are pure). By the time it was clear in my head that it was all very wrong, I was already making plans to leave. So my answers about what I did or didn't do vary greatly, and are directly related to my position in the home, state of mind at the time, where I was at in relation to my faith in the cult.
How did I realize it was all very wrong? I guess I somehow woke up to a lot of things while still in the cult. I started seeing through Berg's lies. And what I did about it was take my family and leave, and convince others to leave too.
