In Reply to: Re: testimony posted by MG on October 22, 2003 at 01:03:04:
I don't know what it's like now - probably very similar. After I joined the F. and especially with my ex, he really reinforced this idea that relatives were unimportant. He ridiculed my dad a lot and played down his importance, like he was a useless individual. This was easy to do since he had had a stroke when I was 16 and was in a wheelchair with half his brain paralyzed. When he died, I was in Thailand. We got a call from our neighbor who said that there had been a phone call about my dad dying but we didn't get the message until the funeral was over. My ex was very flippant about it and would still make fun of him saying he was wandering around in the stratus phere somewhere, as if he wasn't good enough to get into heaven. I hate him now for that. The thing that makes me mad now is that my ex has built his kindgom in TF and was able to fly back to visit his mother before she died and has reconciled with his sister after ignoring them all for so many years. He's coming back to the states often now for fund-raising as many F. members are. I'm seeing them more and more. I'm starting to get mad now. The whole thing just stinks. They would have never ever even considered letting me come back and attend my dad's funeral.