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Re: Part III

Posted by Reposter on April 24, 2002 at 20:48:53:

In Reply to: Part II posted by Reposter on April 24, 2002 at 20:47:43:

One Family advertisement for these Retraining Centers, in the same FSM, said you could be sent to "rehab" for being "extremely critical, self-righteous, overly-pushy or uncooperative, etc.". "ETC." soon proved to be a category that included the ENTIRE FAMILY-HA! "Etc," was having a haircut that could be considered "cool" or wearing clothes deemed "too bright". These became "sins" because you were "drawing too much attention to yourself". "Etc." was "thinking" you were somebody. "Etc." was having a carbonated drink, or ice in your drink or, God forbid, sugar. "Etc." was having pictures of your loved ones; having that unauthorized, extra cup of coffee; watching a movie that wasn't on MOron's OK list; accidentally breaking a dish as you washed dishes; teens wanting to skateboard or climb trees; anyone wanting to try something new; getting asthma; not wearing a hat outside; wanting to be alone for a while; etc.; etc.; etc.; etc. These, and myriad more "ETC.'s", were considered by the Family to be -- "just the TIP OF THE ICEBERG brother/sister, that is on the surface, that shows there is plenty more :problems, evil and demons we can't see and which the Victor Program will expose and purge out",

The first graduates from the "retraining program" turned around to help reprogram the next batch of leaders, everyone falling over themselves to prove how "retrained" and faithful "MObots" and "Zerby Zombies" they were (Karen Zerby is Maria's name). Some graduates were commissioned to go back to their home countries and launch mind-mashing, personality-purging programs identical to the one in Japan. The Program was
continually refined and perfected and "graduates" often found themselves going back for a more thorough purging in more perfect programs. Faithy and Magdalene both became repeat students in Victor Camp victims and have gone in for much more retraining in the mental meat-grinder "loving Daddy and Mama" told them to create. Faithy, as well as MO's son Hosea thanks to numerous "rehab's", had the "priviledge" of being ground into mental mush, at the instigation of Mama who views the more charismatic Berg's as a threat to her wallflower personality: as well as, her throne.

MO/Mama first called these brain-busting bases "Retraining Centers" or "RTC's" or "Rehabilitation Homes". Soon these refraining centers became known as the "Victor Program" -- a rehab center where you were sent to "get the Victory" over yourself and you joined the "Attack Team" to attack the "problem" of your "personality" and "demons" created by the program itself.

The rehabilitation camp for Family teens, first called the "Detained Teen Home" was where the Family began to use the term "Victor Program" to describe their brainwashing "Victim Program". This is the one Merry Berg, MO's own granddaughter, helped to launch in Macau and Hong Kong when she became its first victim. Why was Merry Berg, or Mene, sent to her Victor Program? Because she was "dumb" enough to confess to "loving" Mama Maria that she had doubts about MO. Like, why does he get drunk all the time when he doesn't let anyone else drink? And, why does he have such jealous rages when Maria makes love to others but he says we shouldn't get jealous? And, why does he have such horrible nightmares and demonic attacks if really is so close to God? Mama's "loving" response was to accuse Merry of being demon-possessed and send her to a mental and spiritual torture chamber in Macau. There she was constantly..beaten, put in isolation and silence restriction for weeks at a time, tied to her bed for countless exorcisms, and made to confess her "sins" of "Doubting Father David" and of "Pride" until she was literally driven out of her mind and put in a mental institution. Thank God, by a total miracle of God, she is well and thriving today. Others weren't as fortunate, like young Ben Farnsworth, who jumped to his death off a high-rise in Hong Kong thanks to "Mama's" mind-destroying, hope and faith-destroying Victor Program he went through in Macau with Merry Berg and others.

MO and Mama received reports on the "progress" prisoners were making in these mind-mashing rehab centers. He also received video "confessions" from those who were "victors" and had completed their "rehab" program. I've seen dozens of these "confessions" from the videos that the Family gave Ed and myself when we visited them in the Philippines. After just an hour or so of watching person after person confess their faults it all started to sound so nauseatingly similar--watching these now thoroughly "humbled" Family members, looking like they just had a lobotomy, completely prostrate themselves before him in these confessions. In almost monotone sameness person after person would "confess" in detail, their sins and would repeatedly profess how they were absolute "nothings" and "nobodies" and how they owed
"Daddy and Mama" their whole existence. MO and his personal robot creation, "Mama Maria", had literally hundreds of hours of these videos with "victorious" confessions of Victor Program inmates--what a sicko!

In 1991, after much of the Family had gone through "Victor Programs", Mama concocted a way to implement the "Victor Program" in every Family home and called it the "Discipleship Training Revolution" or "DTR". However, because the Family soon came under the glare of worldwide adverse publicity the program was never fully implemented and instead they were forced to relax their grip on family Members with the Charter--something Mo and Maria had to grudgingly do because of this worldwide exposure of the Family's insane practices.--But in recent years, Mama is back at it again, tightening the obedience screws on the Family. What else does she know? After all she's the number one MOron.

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