In Reply to: Family sends 'Shadows' against exmembers posted by Reposter on January 31, 2005 at 13:37:03:
I can barely stomach reading this spiritual vomit. The statement that stood out to me, though, had nothing to do with their presumptuous doctrine of spirit helpers. It was this:
"As you are now witnessing, there is a great dividing amongst the peoples of the world‚ as well as My children who have left your side. Soon none will be able to sit on the fence."
TF must revel in the fact that the exer community seems so divided to them. Perhaps we are, e.g., FG/SG; Christian/Non-Christian; believer/unbeliever, liberal/conservative, etc. But I also see many indications that the exer community is far more united in exposing TF's abuses than they may think.
TF, in some of its recent PR spinning, also seems to assume that because the vast majority of the thousands of people who have left TF remain silent about their past, that means they are favourable to TF. As everyone frequenting these boards knows, everyone deals with their past differently, because each person is different and each of their experiences may have been different as well.
I remained silent, to my present shame, for 13 years after leaving TF. Since the most recent tragic events, more people like me have been showing up here and there. People who have been out for several years but have remained silent until now. There are perhaps thousands of exmembers who may never speak up, having found new lives that they don't want disrupted by this madness that is TF. But their silence may just as likely indicate an abhorence of TF, rather than support of it.
One more point on the quotation above: this is a clear example of TF's black and white thinking. One reason they see the exer community as being so divided is because we have all recovered our individuality, which TF sees as a weakness or even sin. We all have our own opinions and perspectives and we like to defend our points of view. What TF sees as division, is in fact, our strength. If we can get beyond the black and white thinking that keeps us divided, our collection of individual voices will be formidable.