In Reply to: you say intervention's called for posted by exer on February 02, 2006 at 11:32:14:
If I am to make myself accountable to you, perhaps it shoudl be mutual!?
I try to help; yes. What do you actually do?
Someone I know from church has, with his wife, a ministry to elderly people and does know Stephen, as "the guy who takes care of that cult leader's elderly wife".
I have made attempts there to be put in touch with SD--it has not happened, yet; I'm still pursuing it. SD has the guy from church buffaloed.
I have gone out to Katy--there, several of Stephen's kids (one at a time, usually) do balooning at the "Books a Million" bookstore, and I have tried to speak to them when I see them.
Actually having a sensible two-way converation with them is far more difficult than you might imagine.
Mostly, I pray for them.
The young fellow I spoke to there a couple of weeks ago, I told to say hello to his Dad for me, that my "handle" on ExFam.org was "OT2", and that I was the "Karate Guy" who wanted to talk to his Dad--next time I'm out there, I'll see if anything looks like it's going to develop, from that.
Stephen would probably take that in a paranoid manner; who knows. It took many, many seeds to turn my head around to how much of my life I was wasting by not thinking for myself; I remember.
I cycle in and out of major depression, as well, and I am curently out of work. I use what resources and strength I have to do what I can, when I can. You don't just criticize; do you?
Sincerely,
OT2 (oldtimerToo)