When I left for good, I felt tremendously guilty for having forsaken "the one true household". After finding GSC and finally coming to an understanding of what really took place, I felt kind of foolish for ever feeling guilty. (But, it was a good kind of foolish.)
For goodness sakes, it was just a a 2 bit cult. Nothing "special" about it at all. There's no reason to ever feel guilty about walking away from a cult. If anything, maybe people who DON'T walk away should feel guilty for enabling the furtherance of the sham.
If anything, maybe people who DON'T walk away should feel guilty for enabling the furtherance of the sham.
That's what took some time for me to understand. By staying with them and "volunteering" my time and resources I was enabling them to do the same harm to others as they had done to me.
That's what took some time for me to understand. By staying with them and "volunteering" my time and resources I was enabling them to do the same harm to others as they had done to me.
Skyrider, waysider, OldSkool, you are all RIGHT!
In Philippians 3:19, Paul wrote about those who were enemies of the cross of Christ, whose example we should not follow, that their end is destruction (loss, waste, ruin), their God is their belly, they glory in their shame, and they mind earthly things.
There is a figure of speech in that verse; the last thing is put first and the first thing put last; that is, the process begins by thinking about fleshly desires instead of spiritual objectives, by becoming proud of things they ought to be ashamed of, by serving their own appetites the way they should serve God, and as a result, all their efforts are worthless and come to nothing.
This is a description of what happened with Wierwille and his organization.
A true reason for guilt is staying in when you know better, not for leaving!
When the scales fell from my eyes, I realized in crystal-clear clarity that LEAVING was my only true option.
There was NO WAY that I could remain in twi and live in their hypocrisy. My rule of conduct, my code of honor
would NOT let me, willingly, succomb to conscious deception and deceiving others. I took responsibility to
assert myself to a higher path of living.
That's why you became free, skyrider, because you accepted responsibility. And I think it was the Lord who took the scales from your eyes in His time. I believe that's what He did with me.
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When I left for good, I felt tremendously guilty for having forsaken "the one true household". After finding GSC and finally coming to an understanding of what really took place, I felt kind of foolish for ever feeling guilty. (But, it was a good kind of foolish.)
For goodness sakes, it was just a a 2 bit cult. Nothing "special" about it at all. There's no reason to ever feel guilty about walking away from a cult. If anything, maybe people who DON'T walk away should feel guilty for enabling the furtherance of the sham.
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That's what took some time for me to understand. By staying with them and "volunteering" my time and resources I was enabling them to do the same harm to others as they had done to me.
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Skyrider, waysider, OldSkool, you are all RIGHT!
In Philippians 3:19, Paul wrote about those who were enemies of the cross of Christ, whose example we should not follow, that their end is destruction (loss, waste, ruin), their God is their belly, they glory in their shame, and they mind earthly things.
There is a figure of speech in that verse; the last thing is put first and the first thing put last; that is, the process begins by thinking about fleshly desires instead of spiritual objectives, by becoming proud of things they ought to be ashamed of, by serving their own appetites the way they should serve God, and as a result, all their efforts are worthless and come to nothing.
This is a description of what happened with Wierwille and his organization.
A true reason for guilt is staying in when you know better, not for leaving!
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Steve
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That's why you became free, skyrider, because you accepted responsibility. And I think it was the Lord who took the scales from your eyes in His time. I believe that's what He did with me.
Love,
Steve
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