Posted by Peace on September 24, 2012 at 16:56:28
We can see abuse all over the world, in many forms and shapes. The same can be said about other issues. Good and bad behaviors exist everywhere and so they do/did in TFI. The rationale that if something exists in TFI should not surprise us if it exists in the population at large.
For example, topics about marriage and individual decisions that have been doctrine in the cult as they trickled down from Berg to the lower ranks. Since sex is so rampant one of the energies that fuel society, nobody should be surprised that the same thing happened in TFI.
Some of us, left because of our own convictions up to the point where we could not lie to ourselves any more. However, others left unwillingly and had to watch their train to happiness go by. Some may have accepted their fate but others appear to be still dreaming about their ideal world.
Well, it seems that TFI has given them another chance to develop relationships back into the fold that had rejected them. All is well for them now. The only price they have to pay this time is their silence.
But there is a great difference between how some random person in society behaves, and how an exmember does something that may even be widely accepted in the general population.
The problem is that if that particular action or view (ideology) was part of a set of toxic behaviors that was a doctrine in TFI, the perticular individual is still unwilling or unable to shed it off. It is still part of that person's life, ideology, and belief.
For example, people share husband or wife, or practice polygamy, or abuse their children, their spouse or their co-workers. All of these things happen in the general population but it is not found at the same frequency as they are found among TFI members - or even among ex-TFI members. I don't have the numbers, just suspicions. The concentration of those particular behaviors, any of them, in an ex-member of TFI indicates some closeness to the ideologies of TFI.
One swallow doesn't make a summer but when we are talking about an exmember, there is a high probability that one of those behaviors, constantly practiced and voiced as if it were the norm... I am inclined to believe that such behavior is rooted in Berg's doctrines.
If you have gotten to read up to this point, please understand that I am not saying these things as being bad or wrong. I am not passing judgement in the behavior. What I am saying is that the behavior, together with the assertive voice is an indication to me that the person is still chained to Berg's doctrines on that particular point. That was the bad seed planted by Berg - but the angels will take care of that in the end.
Peace