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Re: Very true

Posted by A Nailer on January 21, 2005 at 23:38:16

In Reply to: Re: Very true posted by Jo on January 21, 2005 at 16:35:07:

You wrote:


You wrote:
However, the lying flies were already there for all to see."
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No. I only heard bits and pieces about Berg, there was no "royal family" at the time, not until around 72 or 73, and I certainly did not know what was going on at top levels. What is wrong with realistically describing the history of the family? Had I known, seen or understood all this stuff I would have run the other way!
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Although the RF appeared officially in 1972 with Deb's coronation in Bromley, it was alwyas there in nice warm living quarters eating egggs and steak with the rank-and-file ate oats and milo.
Maybe you never understood it or didn't have the eyes to see it but it was there all along.


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"We were young, naive and inexpert but we also had eyes and a mind. The roots were there and all of us at that time helped."
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What a crock. I was young and manipulated and used. By the time my eyes opened I had a filter installed from the party line as to how to interpret everything.
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What a nerve of trying to invalidate me! Of course you were used, so was I and hundres and thousands of others, but not by Berg but by his disciples and you were one of them manipulating and being as evil as all of theother Berg disciples.


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"The family may not recognize us as being such an important part but without us they would not have anything now."
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Are you still in? Were you a leader that raped women or molested kids? If so, did you do it because you were attracted to sexploitation of members and that is what drew you in? If so. I agree that without you, they would have nothing now.

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Yes, keep insulting and being obnoxious. You are so callous to abuse that can't recognize when you do it.



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Good for us that we left them to cook in their own sins. But now it is a good time to undo all of that with the truth.
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If you want the truth to be known tell ALL OF IT. And tell it accurately. My comment addresses the fallacious idea that sex was what the family used from the beginning to attract the "free sex" generation when in FACT, early members were drawn by something quite different. Hand holding and dating were not even allowed. People were put together often in unwanted "betrovals". Berg was about control. He taught his core leaders at the time the same. But sex was NOT the attractant for the earliest members, the original exploited youth.
Are you saying what I have said here and in my original post you responded to is not true? Why is there such a resistance to being historically correct?
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This is the only sober statement in your aggresive post. Maybe instead of being so antagonistic and obnoxious you should have asked this first.

Other people have talked about this, you are not the only one. This is not only a point worth addressing but one that is critical in understanding the history of the cult.