Who can forget those sickeningly sweet Feast films that used to be produced as slick propaganda to keep the members "excited" about how amazing the "work" was, but were nothing more than slobberfests of love for Herbert Armstrong? The cult mentality was in full view for all to see.@misterdifficult #cults #CultSurvivor #WorldwideChurchOfGod #armstrongism #wcg #wwcg #comedy #satire ♬ original sound - misterdiffiCULT
This makes me gag to see this again. How could we have been so stupid to swallow this tripe? Many of those guys in the Feast films went on to be ministers in the splinter cults.
ReplyDeleteWe proved the power of brainwashing. The CIA could have learned a lot from the WCG cult.
DeleteIt is a well known documented fact that the CIA conducted mind control experiments in American type religious cults..... Nck
DeleteWell the music in those days was better than people in their underware singing "rap." The nation has truly slid into the gutter.
ReplyDeleteAw, 10:57! I hope you're not one of those guys who thinks the "c" is silent in rap! Couldn't you even get behind "Funky Cold Medina" or "Insane in the Membrane"?
DeleteAnd what's up with this "underware"? That sounds like corning ware, which would make it kind of hot for clothing. I don't believe in wearing anything that cooks my 'nads.
I remember the early years in Big Sandy when WCG had two services each day and we rushed out to the car to drive to Gladewater or Longview for a fast lunch, then back to the big metal sweat shop to fight to stay awake with a full tummy during boring sermons with sweat trickling down into our butt cracks. One time GTA admonished us to eat lunch at McDonald's and add what we saved with that cheap lunch to the afternoon offering. Then he walked out through the side door to board his limo. Aw, those were the days!
ReplyDeleteFilms should have been titled "UNDER THE WORK"
ReplyDeleteinstead of "Behind the Work"
I remember those feast videos quite well. At the time I was well aware how incredibly idealized and fake all of it was, and I speculated that those goody-two-shoes performers were as carnal as I was in real life. We bought a few of the VHS festival tapes and the kids occasionally watched them at home. Our kids were rather small at the time, but they did enjoy Big Beak, so I guess a bit of good came out of it. They actually met the guy who played Big Beak at Vail one year. To them it seemed as if he had celebrity status.
ReplyDeleteThe feasts had their positives and negatives. The travel in the early years was something not all of our classmates in school got to do. If you had to be in a cult, you'd need a periodic opportunity to charge up the old batteries. As a kid, it was nice to know that your peers were having to deal with the same parental problems. I have to say that I was shocked to hear that some kids would deliberately cut loud farts during their 40 lashes. Man, if I had done that, my parents would have been off to the nearest barber shop to see if they could buy any of the old razor strops! (Not kidding! This was actually threatened, but for offenses other than letting gas)
ReplyDeleteI admit I enjoyed ‘Behind the Work’ etc etc and of course the Young Ambassadors.
ReplyDeleteOh my. Those were the days.
Indoctrination, absolutely, but I admit I was oblivious to what was happening and these ‘productions’ only served to reinforce doctrinal ‘purity’ in the masses, ha ha.
I was a ‘believer’, as I don’t doubt many of us were. Our faith was genuine in Christ and for myself I believed this is where God desired me to be as one of His children. In spite of all that has transpired that doesn’t negate what Christ did for us or our faith in Him. It’s just that Armstrongism for all its faults, of which are many, was simply for me at least, a vehicle and a home in which I was placed to grow and mature. The rest is history as they say. And Armstrongism and its daughter churches are fading rapidly into obscurity.
I look for forward to their demise.
Now, if only what happened in wwcog happens within the JW world………..one can only hope and pray……
Dave Pack certainly isn't helping COG to seem attractive at all.
ReplyDeleteYoutube: Dave Pack to name the two witnesses........ and what will he rant for the next 5 days about the "coming", the eclipse, abib 1, "on track", "inarguable", blah, blah.....
ReplyDeleteThanks Marc in advance for posting his rants for our entertainment.....
Why doesn't Dave just take a shortcut, & name 2 Jehovah's Witnesses
Deletehe can pick Venus & Serena
or 2 of the Wayans Bros.
there you go, Davy-wavy easy peasy you snooze you lose
Those young people singing praise to their Kim Jong Un leader, yet it's this same man who robbed many of them good portions of their youth with his 1975 lie.
ReplyDeleteIt's sickening.
Long before the Vegas mantra came into play, way back in the '60s, and due to its anti-traditional Christian practices, and anti-survival teachings, the general rule for members of WCG was "Whatever happens in Armstrongism stays in Armstrongism."
ReplyDeleteAfter all, if you wanted the protection the church was going to give you and your family in the place of safety, you had to protect the church at all costs, and often take one for the team.
And that all went out the window when Al Gore caused a higher level of freedom of speech by inventing the internet. Darned ol' Democrats, anyway! What do they think this is, a democracy or something???
Of course you despise the feast of tabernacles films NO2HWA. You still do.
ReplyDeleteDude, at 2:12~
ReplyDeleteDespise? When you see that word, automatically you must dig deeper and discover the trigger which causes that emotion. Could it be that the films present a false picture or portrayal? Like they are sugar coated? (Although not with perverted white sugar!)
Are the people in the films incredible, Academy Award caliber actors and actresses in the GTA mold?
Could the despisement be the result of understanding that the Holy Days from Torah have been fulfilled, and are no longer required under the New Covenant? That second tithe was about agricultural increase, and that church members should not be required to further impoverish themselves by taking that extra 10% out of their family budget when they could be purchasing clothes with it, or moving to safer neighborhoods? There is a litany of other issues which accompanies this, like job loss, negative impact on education due to missed school, and long trips in old, insafe vehicles.
You choose the word "despise" when a better descriptive might be "righteous indignation".