In Reply to: Re: james and women posted by Acheick on November 04, 2005 at 01:03:23:
Thanks for pointing it out. It was a good one I would not have wanted to miss! I was thinking about what someone else had written about how Berg and how he would wander around his household naked taking the women at random as he chose. What a complete perv. Looking back it is really hard to believe I was ever in TF. That is what makes me realize anyone could get sucked in. IT just takes the wrong place at the wrong time in life. (A time of vulnerability or crisis- leaving home for college or just young and leaving home, a divorce, an unhappy marriage, a sense of futility or _________-fill in the blank.)
Everyone is subject to vulnerability and there is nothing like more straightforward truth tho snap someone out of delusion. TFI has reframed things over and over again so that people are so used to not thinking what isn't already thought FOR Them that they don't know how to think CRITICALLY. Critical thinking- there is no room for it in the family. I knew my brain had been altered after getting out of the family when I couldn't do the simplest crossword puzzles. It was because my information and thinking was interally provided instead of seeking out my own beliefs based on the outside world around me. Phew. What a nightmare.
As someone else said about the family, it is like that Eagles song "You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave". I can get out of TF but will never be able to totally erase that experience.