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Originally Posted by Drake
An internet chat forum by design cannot help people navigate out of an experience. That is an artifact of the nature of chat forums. Certainly it can help to know you are not alone through empathy but then something more structured is needed for someone to process out of an experience. I doubt “countless” have been helped as you claim even in an empathetic way. To claim countless are would be an argument from silence.
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Wrong. This forum has helped me navigate out of an experience......more than anyone else has. (P.S. you are really knocking a place that you sure do frequent a lot!) I'm so glad there are people who care enough to stick around here long enough for people like me to finally float in. In fact, it's design is one of the very things that helps so much:
1. ability to pose questions to a wide range of people for variety and depth of response
2. PM for one-on-one specific care
3. you can leave it the second you need or want to
4. anonymity is a protection, if needed
5. anonymity also allows you to ask embarrassing or difficult questions you otherwise may not feel able to ask to someone's face
6. etc. but you get the point
Can you count the number who have been helped? If not, then, by the very nature of a public internet forum where any and many can read, it is "countless".
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Originally Posted by Drake
Yet some, though having “left” the local churches and the ministry that builds them, apparently have never left mentally or emotionally. And the dialogue they have with others who share their experience has not enabled them to move on. So, the threads become “Brady Bunch reruns”, ultimately arriving at the same half dozen blaming complaints (PL, MOTA, Daystar, One Publication, Blended Brothers, etc.) for just about any topic. That appears as a classic description of group think not unlike what we observe in politics as the cause of every ill (e.g. Russians did it).
Drake
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I can't speak to PL or Daystar, but the MOTA, One Pub, and blended brothers are issues that affect and restrict the saints in the local churches TO THIS VERY SECOND. There is good reason for concern to exist about them since they are present realities. There is light outside the local churches and this light is being systematically demonized and kept away from many who are trapped in the LC system but fear for their literal life or safety if they leave ("Did you hear? So-and-so person who left the church a couple years ago died from a head on collision last week" [knowing look and head shake that indicates both parties agree that if that person hadn't left the church to meet with another Christian church then they would still be alive)].
Drake, what do you think about the quotes I posted from One Pub and afaithfulword.org?
Thanks,
Trapped