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Strange people. They have embraced the ever popular "I am a victim" philosophy to excuse any perceived or imagined problems they may have. Self-help books can be profitable, and I am glad this one seems to have helped them. So many people have struggled through so much, overcome great odds, and these people want to look back at how their parent treated them when they were in the 3rd grade ---- the core of all their problems. They were in a cult? Whose fault was that? Certainly not their own.
ReplyDeleteAnon at 07/28/22 9:28:00 AM, you're a heartless, self-rightous troll!
DeleteWow, 9:28, strange people? How very kind of you. SMH
ReplyDelete9:28. Seriously dude? Is that all you have to say? People have been sharing stories about leaving cultss for decades and if one person is touched enough by a story to not join or to make the bold decision to leave then it was all worth it. Armstrongism made a deliberate effort to silence its members. No one was ever allowed to question the minister, doctrines or any of the asinine beliefs that were irrelevant in the long run.Those days are numbered and the Church of God has its feet held to the fire now. Continue to stick your hearts dinted sand and mock those that share stories, all it does is make you look like a fool.
ReplyDeleteThe process of becoming part of, living in, and leaving a toxic cult is very complex. Those who share a common voyage into this nether world are not monoliths. They are individuals from diverse background, of varying levels of intelligence and stabilities, and what I've learned from all of the experiences shared here, is that we ought to exercise a great deal of sensitivity in our written relationships both amongst ourselves, and with other such people. Our experience might not be their experience. It's not black and white, or good and bad, intelligent or stupid, or any other labels which people commonly use to reduce the situation to strawman territory for the sake of argumentation.
ReplyDeleteThe guy some call stupid may have a near genius IQ, but either acted out of fear, or the titilation of secret knowledge, or a desire to be part if something bigger. Those in the typical victim profile may have already undergone some of life's tragedies, were all beat up when they became aware of Armstrongism, and as they recovered towards realizing that the church was not working, realized that they had unwittingly become victims once again.
I used to hold people in contempt for making a decision to join the WCG as a fully developed thinking adult. But that was from the perspective of one whose parents had dragged him into it. For years, I wondered how seemingly smart people like my parents could be so very stupid. It was an unfair assessment. They never left, and I never developed a relationship with them. They lived and died not knowing me. They just knew the fake personality that pretended as much as possible to conform to the prescribed image the church insisted upon. And, I never dug past the authoritarian asshole images which they projected. Perhaps my family was just everything we see and read here in microcosm. The thing is, we all suffered greatly, whether someome wants to admit it or not, by being part of Armstrongism. Why would anybody torment another former member by applying the "victim" label?
I am thrilled by the current trend of letting people have their say after exiting from a cult. They were denied that opportunity while they were still in the cult, be it WWCG (and its' offshoots), SDAs, JWs or Mormons. What better way to help those exiters begin to put their lives back together or prevent the next innocent one from joining the "one true church" can you think of?
ReplyDeleteTo criticize them now, when they are still trying to figure out what happened to them and how to prevent it from happening again, is a really low blow. I have never been in a cult, but if I had, you would be the type of person that I would be terrified of meeting. Judgmental and mean. That is precisely what they just escaped and your comments don't exactly encourage people to speak up. They encourage silence and suffering alone. Which makes me wonder why you visit Banned in the first place? Have a little compassion. Please.
They claim they think. And they call the Lord’s Holy Days as Jewish Holy Days, completely ignoring what Lev. 13 states. Can’t get dumber than that,
ReplyDeleteLev. 13 regards leprosy…
DeleteI ment Ex 13
DeleteA lot of errors for someone claiming someone else is stupid.
DeleteI really meant Lev 23
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry but these people had psychological issues long before they were ever part of any " cult " as they claim and they still have those same issues they just traded a church for a co-dependent mate . I also found it a little odd that she didn't mind naming WCG as a cult but she never named the other cult she was a part of .
ReplyDeleteDoes the cult tend to call those with psychological issues and/or does it induce or exacerbate them?
DeleteThumbs up! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteAwesome, as Ron Weinland would say.
I think it's both.
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