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In Reply to: Re: Letter of apology posted by AndyNoc on November 30, 2009 at 11:55:00:
Like everyone else here, I've been reading these apologies for years. What always seems to be lacking is a sense of personal responsibility.
There is a difference between saying, "I'm sorry you walked in front of my car and it ran you over", and, "I'm sorry I ran you over with my car".
Once someone, or a group, takes responsibility, actions are part of the natural course of action. Doing things that help prevent it from happening again. Helping the victims.
The feeling I'm left with in all of this is that TFI woke up and realized that they were antagonizing a great source of untapped cash. Sympathetic ex-members, who feel guilty about leaving "the Lord's work" behind to engage in a selfish personal life.
The interesting thing to me is that for all the talk about all this "work"... I really didn't see a lot of that when I was close with people in The Family. From where I was it looked like a lot of people hanging around trailer parks. Most of what I saw going on involved a program where they took Family teens on lavish vacations all over the world, giving the impression that it was some sort of outreach for troubled teens. When I had the chance to talk with these teens, they all had parents in leadership positions.
