In Reply to: Re: Thoughts about choice (slightly revised repost) posted by AG on February 18, 2004 at 10:18:43:
Now, this is a first class testimonial! I hope it is preserved for posterity. AG, you have obviously spent a lot of time processing your experiences and your candor about it is refreshing and educative.
I have a question, if I may, because it addresses one of the stereotypical attitudes in The Family: When you had the opportunity to be that shepherd's second concubine and rejected it, you said that you had other stuff you wanted to do in TF as God's servant...
Forgive me if this is too intrusive but I am trying to see not the specifics of that "stuff" but where they were coming from. Was that stuff distilled from TF indoctrination or from you?
I kind of think most of us had a combination of the two types of input (personal inventory and TF's indoctrination) but by learning how we made specific choices at turning points might be helpful to understand those choices, and maybe even learning about those turning points, where were they. I suspect that we don't necessarily have the same critical decision points even if we walk the same path and face the same phenomena all along.